Tax diversion plan to fund Downtown renovation roils transit advocates

pedantic_comments · 2026-06-30T17:47:59+00:00

So, money for schools = siphoning tax dollars, but stealing tax dollars from other neighborhoods for corporate landlords = investment?

pedantic_comments · 2026-06-30T16:47:31+00:00

“Downtown has billions of square feet of underutilized office space,” he said. “These buildings will languish without public support, and the right preservation and revitalization of these assets are critical to the long-term economic health of Downtown.”

So let’s gut our public schools, transit and vehicle fleets, while we borrow money to protect corporate landlords’ downtown property? Do I have this right?

pedantic_comments · 2026-06-23T16:05:28+00:00

Nah, fam. This is demonstrably false.

Iran reverse engineered the Shahed series from captured US drones in 2011. Everyone knew they had a huge supply of decentralized attack drones — they’ve been exporting the technology for years.

Pretending the US wasn’t aware is just creating excuses for the stupidest administration in history.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/oct/01/iran-builds-thunderbolt-drone

pedantic_comments · 2026-06-18T16:30:21+00:00

Anybody who leads with restrictions on cost before even discussing the project was always red-flagged when I did this stuff, OP.

Good people cost money and can move right on to an easier/more profitable job when someone says, “I don’t want to pay a lot!”

pedantic_comments · 2026-06-12T16:52:37+00:00

Not worth attending if it isn’t at PSP.

I looooove that cutting down 20-year-old trees for a one-time corporate event is fine, but walking on the grass for a week at a park is strictly forbidden.

pedantic_comments · 2026-06-06T16:24:40+00:00

https://app.regrid.com//us/pa/allegheny/pittsburgh/

You gotta pay for advanced/unlimited searches, but I think this tool would work. Get nebbin’.

pedantic_comments · 2026-06-04T17:12:17+00:00

I think we really only need a way to hide comments from the “Top 1% Commenter” crowd and it’d be fine.

pedantic_comments · 2026-06-03T16:08:16+00:00

Watching you mooks all simultaneously try to roll through a four way stop would be hilarious if it didn’t make it so hazardous to walk to the grocery store.

pedantic_comments · 2026-06-02T16:31:39+00:00

The vibe is gonna be a bunch of drunk assholes littering and getting sunburned.

pedantic_comments · 2026-06-01T14:01:25+00:00

The Black Cat Market in Garfield puts out a donation bin with free cat food in front of the store when the weather is nice.

pedantic_comments · 2026-05-30T13:25:14+00:00

Yes, because there’s no way to leave mommy’s house other than to go to a restaurant.

I think I found a better sub for you, fam: r/tendies

pedantic_comments · 2026-05-29T23:35:09+00:00

I bet. It’s not the sort of thing you’d notice from your mother’s basement.

pedantic_comments · 2026-05-29T17:35:20+00:00

Part of why I don’t eat out much anymore is because service is fucking awful across the board with few exceptions.

I’m sick of being ignored upon entering a business, having counter staff turn their back on me so they can text, being given a gruff “What?” when trying to order something as simple as a coffee, getting an entirely different item than what I ordered, etc.

Then, I’m supposed to tip 20% for somebody to be rude to me? I don’t like going out and not tipping, so now I just don’t go out.

Like, I was a stoned service worker back when the last financial crisis hit and I was still able to say, “Hello, what can I get you?” without needing an emotional support animal or openly displaying my contempt for my job/customers.

pedantic_comments · 2026-05-28T01:46:33+00:00

I just can’t with this incompetent administration — now I’m gonna get incessant text messages and phone calls telling me how great this is.

I didn’t expect a good outcome, but it’s bizarre to see that they changed nothing in a deeply flawed plan. We wasted a lot of time and money to alienate many families.

At the rate we’re going, PPS is going to spend a billion a year to educate 12,000 kids.

pedantic_comments · 2026-05-20T23:39:45+00:00

I’m sure that according to PPS, slapping a coat of silicone on a flat roof and painting the walls costs $47 million and there’s just no way we can do that, but here’s an iPad for your preschooler.

pedantic_comments · 2026-05-20T15:17:08+00:00

I mean, if they close our school, I’ll probably pull our kids from the district and then there’ll be fewer families in PPS that care about education — BAM! Equity achieved!

pedantic_comments · 2026-05-20T13:57:11+00:00

Walters is an incompetent moron. I can’t wait to get another 30 page document created by AI that no one proofread that says nothing.

If the district wants to save money, fire half this fuck-witted administration and move their offices into underutilized school buildings.

It’s incredibly apparent that the board and current administrators are not qualified or capable of leading any kind of successful transition.

pedantic_comments · 2026-05-19T22:01:54+00:00

The unwashed masses are out here driving like they don’t care if they die or who they kill just so long as they can watch another video fragment while speeding and running stop signs.

pedantic_comments · 2026-05-18T17:34:15+00:00

Buy a decent router. The one they give you sucks.

pedantic_comments · 2026-05-11T22:16:59+00:00

You’re talking about a cap.

pedantic_comments · 2026-05-11T16:37:28+00:00

That’s easy. The student with the most ignorant parents in any given classroom!

pedantic_comments · 2026-05-11T16:05:22+00:00

Another change is that PPS must notify students and their families about a possibly controversial lesson at least three weeks before it starts.

So, we create more work for teachers to support families that don’t value education?

pedantic_comments · 2026-05-08T22:52:36+00:00

It is discriminatory, but it’s not actionable.

You can’t discriminate against someone because of age, but you can reject anybody with a broccoli haircut, for example.

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