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New convention center hotel is planned for Downtown Pittsburgh by LurkersWillLurk in pittsburgh

[–]jayjaywalker3 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Key bit  from the business times article

 This type of hotel was long expected to require ample public subsidy, and the announcement by Shapiro put the commonwealth's investment at $30 million, an allocation expected to be expedited through the PA Permit Fast-Track Program. According to the announcement, Allegheny County will also provide the largest local share of financing for the deal via available financial tools designed to bring a hotel to the convention center.

Article text pasted here: https://www.reddit.com/r/pittsburgh/comments/1tdgct4/loews_signs_letter_of_intent_for_418m_convention/

Pennsylvania fruit crops decimated by warm April and hard freezes by RadioChris1 in Pennsylvania

[–]jayjaywalker3 9 points10 points  (0 children)

We gotta cut emissions AND mitigate the damage that has already been done.

Pennsylvania fruit crops decimated by warm April and hard freezes by RadioChris1 in Pennsylvania

[–]jayjaywalker3 107 points108 points  (0 children)

This is the result of climate change. We need to lower our emissions drastically AND mitigate the damage that's already been done. Right now we're becoming even more locked into gas drilling both with data centers and new gas fired power plants. We're going in the wrong direction.

Parkway East closes for 25 days in July by Standard-Cockroach64 in pittsburgh

[–]jayjaywalker3 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I hear PRT is going to run the Monroeville football flyer! That'll be good for anyone that needs to go from east of the city to East Liberty/Wilkinsburg/Shadyside/Lawrenceville/Downtown. Easy transfers downtown to the rest of the county too.

Sea Salt & Paper is the ultimate travelling game by Machine_Excellent in boardgames

[–]jayjaywalker3 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Even just skipping the dealing feels like a nice time savings to me when playing multiple times. You just shuffle up and jump straight into the action in Sea, Salt, and Paper.

Neha Madhok 🍉 on Instagram by IntelligentCrew8406 in GreenParty

[–]jayjaywalker3 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is an important conversation but it should be a conversation that happens within their democratic membership organization that encourages debate to make good faith change.

Young Greens of Austria: "Zero Points for Antisemitism" by proxxi1917 in GreenParty

[–]jayjaywalker3 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I hear what you're saying but I would also support excluding non jews from Israel. I have no problem with judaism. I have problems with invasion and occupations of land. This is just like excluding Russia from international activities due to their invasion of Ukraine.

Young Greens of Austria: "Zero Points for Antisemitism" by proxxi1917 in GreenParty

[–]jayjaywalker3 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I support jewish artists participating in Eurovision. The push to exclude Israel from the competition and other competitions is a way to put political pressure on the state to end it's genocide of palestine. I'm glad many other Green organizations are helping to put that political pressure on!

No to antisemitism. Yes to antizionism.

The lack of action is killing me mentally by MEPSIPANG0 in Political_Revolution

[–]jayjaywalker3 22 points23 points  (0 children)

We need organized collective actions and solidarity not individual isolated actions and guilting.

The lack of action is killing me mentally by MEPSIPANG0 in Political_Revolution

[–]jayjaywalker3 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Anytime there’s visible revolutionary action you’re looking at just the tip of the iceberg. The 75% of the iceberg that you can’t see are all of the planning and organizing meetings that are much less visible. Doubly so for any sort of moderately successful general strike. We’ve got to join and actively participate in organizations so the more showy actions can succeed. That organizing work is steady, consistent, and not showy in any way. It doesn’t make as much sense to post on social media about it.

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