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▲ 1 r/religion

American here. I really want to join a faith that practices good works, but how many religions provide social safety net programs because the US government isn't adequately providing these programs?

"Faith without works is dead." James 2:26.

I agree with that.

But I started thinking: how quickly would I get frustrated being a member of a faith group that provides safety net programs because our government isn't adequately providing these programs?

Healthcare provided by religious organizations, like Catholic Charities, is a perfect example of this.

What are your thoughts?

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u/Extreme_Qwerty — 1 day ago
▲ 2 r/washingtondc

At the age of 60, I'm thinking of moving back to the DC area, 35 years after living there last.

How is the job market, especially for educated older people, after Donald Trump took a chainsaw to the federal workforce?

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u/Extreme_Qwerty — 9 days ago
▲ 163 r/pittsburgh

Fancourt Street and Penn Avenue, 1950. Located between present-day Commonwealth Place and Stanwix Street, this entire area was cleared in 1952 for Gateway Center and Point State Park. Fancourt Street was eliminated entirely.

u/Extreme_Qwerty — 12 days ago
▲ 703 r/pittsburgh

Passenger on the Monongahela Incline in Pittsburgh in the early 1880's.

Passenger on the Monongahela Incline in Pittsburgh in the early 1880's. The photo was taken by Pittsburgh photographer, S.V. Albee. Built in 1870, the Monongahela Incline is the oldest continuously operating funicular in the United States.

u/Extreme_Qwerty — 13 days ago
▲ 35 r/pittsburgh

I'm in Westmoreland County, close to Allegheny County and a woman slept in her car next to my house last night. No big deal, I figured.

She seemed functional last night, and I figured she'd leave today, but when I went to pick up trash in my yard, and kind of take a closer look, she was still there.

She rolled down her window and yelled at me, calling me a bitch, when I said hello to someone I knew walking by. I think I woke her up. She leans on the horn every now and then.

Nicer car; back seat full of stuff, she seems like she may have money.

I don't want to call the police, mostly because they'll take her off to one of the truly shitty MH facilities at Forbes Hospital or Westmoreland Hospital who really don't do anything to help people with MH issues.

What to do?

Edited: She's gone; she may be back later -- but the big question is: who do you call in a situation like this? From my experience with minor MH issues, the mental health resources on this side of town are ABYSMAL.

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u/Extreme_Qwerty — 15 days ago
▲ 1.4k r/pittsburgh

The Union Bridge was one of Pittsburgh's last wooden constructed bridges, built in 1874 and demolished in 1907. The colorized photo shows the bridge around the year 1900.

The death knell for the privately owned toll bridge was a major flood which occurred in 1907.

The flood severely damaged the bridge but local officials had been wanting to demolish it for years before that. The bridge didn’t provide sufficient clearance for large boats to fit underneath it on the Allegheny River.

The people who used the bridge were inconvenienced until 1915 when the Manchester Bridge opened.

Disclaimer: This image was digitally restored and colorized using AI-assisted reconstruction tools because, unbelievable as it may seem, photos from 100 years ago often fade over time.

Some missing or damaged portions of the original photograph required interpretive reconstruction to provide a realistic visualization of what the bridge likely looked like in real life. The image was posted for educational and illustrative purposes to help viewers gain a better undersanding of what life was like in the Pittsburgh of yesteryear.

This is social media, not a peer-reviewed historical journal, forensic lab, or session of the Supreme Court.

u/Extreme_Qwerty — 16 days ago
▲ 141 r/pittsburgh

Exposition Hall, located along the shore of the Allegheny River near Pittsburgh's Point, was one of the city's main attractions when it opened in 1889.

For the next thirty years it was the scene of many major events, including the annual autumn expo, which featured exhibits from across the nation.

From the 1920's, until the final Exposition building was dismantled in 1951, the site was used as the city's auto pound.

In 1885, the Western Pennsylvania Exposition Society, commonly called the Pittsburgh Exposition, proposed building “a place of great social gathering where ideas and goods were exchanged freely.”

Organizers were determined to have a venue that offered the feel of a County Fair with the mystique of a World’s Fair.

In 1951, the structures were torn down to make way for the development of the 37 acre Point State Park.

u/Extreme_Qwerty — 26 days ago