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The same person who was trying to make a right turn into the bar from the left lane.
I had some douche ask me if the person I was discussing was just smart or "seattle smart"
Fucker wouldnt shut up about the cultural superiority of cascadia. Like every other nazi spending his moms money...
Fucker wouldnt shut up about the cultural superiority of cascadia. Like every other nazi spending his moms money...
Something along those lines is desperately needed here.
you've said too much
Don't know exactly what it is about people around here but there doesn't seem to be an ounce of common sense in this place. A few weeks ago I saw a woman with an armful of bent up beer cans trying to straighten them out so the would fit into the hole cut in top of a bin lid. I walked over and lifted the lid for her so she could toss the bent up empties. In what I assume was an attempt to defend her intelligence she told me she had a PhD in biology.
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It's all big cities. Manhattan probably the worst with SF a very close second and kind of in its own league. Berkely is its own universe, literally. Only difference with cALiFoRnIA™ is that the whole state below 3k elevation acts like that, and then again above 6k elevation.
(not seattle but you'll enjoy)
I was in bellingham a few years ago and was walking up to a grocery store with a single shopping bag full of trash I'd accumulated from sleeping in the back of my truck, camped out at various bike trails for a week. Right as I threw it in the trash can outside some bat crazy bitch starts tearing into me about how I should be ashamed at myself for not throwing away my trash at home and that doing what I was doing was disgraceful and what was wrong with the world. I clapped back, called her an arrogant cunt, explained that this trash bag represented an entire week of trash not sitting on the forest floor she probably has signed pictures of hanging in her parlor and that next time, to avoid offending her on a sidewalk, I'd be sure to dump it all in lake whatcom. Given I definitely look like a homeless dude on road trips, you could just see the gears spinning as we stared at each other for like 40 seconds before she actually apologized. But as she did, she made the little hand wave away from herself and just said, "well, my mistake"
Every time I come up your way, I still like to heckle an old girlfriend who lives on vashon by saying "hey I'm in seattle" while seeing a friend in Kirkland, just to hear her go "uh, that's not seattle"
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It's all big cities. Manhattan probably the worst with SF a very close second and kind of in its own league. Berkely is its own universe, literally. Only difference with cALiFoRnIA™ is that the whole state below 3k elevation acts like that, and then again above 6k elevation.
(not seattle but you'll enjoy)
I was in bellingham a few years ago and was walking up to a grocery store with a single shopping bag full of trash I'd accumulated from sleeping in the back of my truck, camped out at various bike trails for a week. Right as I threw it in the trash can outside some bat crazy bitch starts tearing into me about how I should be ashamed at myself for not throwing away my trash at home and that doing what I was doing was disgraceful and what was wrong with the world. I clapped back, called her an arrogant cunt, explained that this trash bag represented an entire week of trash not sitting on the forest floor she probably has signed pictures of hanging in her parlor and that next time, to avoid offending her on a sidewalk, I'd be sure to dump it all in lake whatcom. Given I definitely look like a homeless dude on road trips, you could just see the gears spinning as we stared at each other for like 40 seconds before she actually apologized. But as she did, she made the little hand wave away from herself and just said, "well, my mistake"
Every time I come up your way, I still like to heckle an old girlfriend who lives on vashon by saying "hey I'm in seattle" while seeing a friend in Kirkland, just to hear her go "uh, that's not seattle"
Sounds about right. I assume that anonymous passive aggressive letter writing is part of the local high school curriculum.
What could an Evergrande debt default mean for China and beyond?
Will Chinese authorities allow Evergrande’s creditors to suffer major losses, or intervene in some way?
Other people saying in more detail the thing I keep saying
truthout.org
“We have a housing market in which prices only go up. And, therefore, housing has become an investment asset for corporations, hedge funds, real estate investment trusts and pension funds. Housing has become an investment for global financial actors, and has more in common with the stock market than it does with shoes.”
Ultimately, however, Rosenthal doubts that reform will do the trick.
“This system can’t be fixed,” Rosenthal said. “It can only be overthrown, transformed and replaced.”
YIMBY Movement Is Not the Answer to Housing Crisis, Grassroots Activists Say
The answer to the U.S. housing crisis is simple and widely adopted elsewhere: more public housing.
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“We have a housing market in which prices only go up. And, therefore, housing has become an investment asset for corporations, hedge funds, real estate investment trusts and pension funds. Housing has become an investment for global financial actors, and has more in common with the stock market than it does with shoes.”
Ultimately, however, Rosenthal doubts that reform will do the trick.
“This system can’t be fixed,” Rosenthal said. “It can only be overthrown, transformed and replaced.”
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China Evergrande contagion concerns rile global markets
Growing fears of China Evergrande defaulting rattled global markets on Monday as investors worried about the potential impact on the wider economy dumped Chinese property stocks and sought refuge in safe-haven assets.
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it's shocking that the US media is just now starting to talk about this. there is no WAY they're pulling back and surviving, shit they're literally giving away buildings to creditors now in lieu of payment, an blowing up other buildings to reduce the supply of housing in oversaturated areas.China Evergrande contagion concerns rile global markets
Growing fears of China Evergrande defaulting rattled global markets on Monday as investors worried about the potential impact on the wider economy dumped Chinese property stocks and sought refuge in safe-haven assets.
this Wednesday and Thursday is going to be extra spicy.
I think it has been on the radar for a while, just starting to see the impact here. But why worry eh? Wasn't like the US mortgage shit affected the rest of the world. And if it does surely just will screw over the rich and the little guys will be able to pick up cheap homes.
WE ARE A MERITOCRACY BASED ON THE LIBERATION OF CAPITALISM AND EAGLE BATTLESHIP LIBERTY DROOOOoooooooollllll
The pod that used to be on Division was awesome. It's an apartment building now.
www.catlinspeak.com
The ups and downs of Portland’s food cart pods — CatlinSpeak
“We got known as a place to go to get incredible food...We created a buzz that literally didn't just happen here; it happened world wide,” said local food cart expert Scott Bachelar, who is known as the “Mayor of Food Cart Town.”
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Back to back stories in my news feed this afternoon.
Growing number of older adults can’t afford to live in Colorado
Colorado ranked first for housing instability in the U.S. in midsummer, with more than a third of survey respondents 65 and older expressing “slight confidence” or “no confidence” that they could m…
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Growing number of millinials and gen x preparing to behead some motherfuckers.
What if they are those fuckers, too?
in every generation, there are divisions
lots of zuckerberg age people want some cesar scalp
Yes, I knew that.
You can still go Cesar’s restaurant, my attorney says they have some of the best beef Wellington around. I like to pronounce Cesar salad the Spanish way.
Hmm, I heard rumors that Ted Cruz invented it the second Trump was elected. Which might as well have been in Tijuana, as he obviously likes his vacations.
Its fun to watch a mature country actually do something
Berlin Votes on Whether to Expropriate Corporate Landlords
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Don't think the constitutional court will let this pass and I don't see how this will help in the medium term. That same coalition passed their cap on rents a few years ago to disastrous results, lowering the rents of the kind of well off hipsters that increasingly populate Berlin and are more than happy to stay in their cheaper apartments now, while pricing lower income families out of the rent market without making any difference on the supply side. That law was also declared unconstitutional and it looks like the current coalition just got voted out.
All the while Berlin keeps a defunct airport the size of an entire district right in center of the city for urban gardening and rollerblading, but god forbid someone suggests the city use at least part of the available space for apartments.
I'm all for the city doing something about affordable housing, but I think they'd be more effective if they shortened the ludicrously long approval processes for new buildings and started using the money they don't have to build affordable apartments themselves.
what's in the old terminal building for the airport?
please don't say rollerblading
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please don't say rollerblading
Deutsche Wohnen & Co enteignen on Instagram: "Wir hören von den Gegner:innen des Volksentscheids immer wieder die selben "Argumente". Was denkt ihr? Fallen ihnen bis zur Wahl noch ein paar Standpunkte ein, die noch nicht hundert mal widerlegt wurden? Wenn ihr mutig seid, dann könnt ihr hier nochmal checken, wie viele Punkte Giffey, Czaja, Lederer, Jarasch und Dregger bei unserer Podiumsdiskussion am 14.09. bereits abgehakt haben: https://fb.watch/84om3jMb-Y/ #dwenteignen #Volksentscheid #Bundestagswahl #Abgeordnetenhaus #Superwahljahr #Berlin #Miete #RechtaufStadt #Vergesellschaftung #WirSindMehr #StadtFürAlle #KeineProfiteMitDerMiete #Mietenkrise #Mietendeckel #Mietenwahnsinn #Giffey #KaiWegner #Czaja #Jarasch #Lederer"
770 likes, 8 comments - dw_enteignen on September 20, 2021: "Wir hören von den Gegner:innen des Volksentscheids immer wieder die selben "Argumente". Was denkt ihr? Fallen ihnen bis zur Wahl noch ein paar Standpunkte ein, die noch nicht hundert mal widerlegt wurden? Wenn ihr mutig seid, dann...
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sex Dungeon, duh
Figured it would be a fecal museum...
ramstein in the radio, poop on the walls, the echos of leather crackin.......
definitely rollerblading
don't even know why I asked
definitely rollerblading
don't even know why I asked
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The popularity of Rammstein can be blamed almost entirely on the United States. Airport is empty save for the occasional exhibition, still a classic piece of architecture worth preserving.what's in the old terminal building for the airport?
please don't say rollerblading
Deutsche Wohnen & Co enteignen on Instagram: "Wir hören von den Gegner:innen des Volksentscheids immer wieder die selben "Argumente". Was denkt ihr? Fallen ihnen bis zur Wahl noch ein paar Standpunkte ein, die noch nicht hundert mal widerlegt wurden? Wenn ihr mutig seid, dann könnt ihr hier nochmal checken, wie viele Punkte Giffey, Czaja, Lederer, Jarasch und Dregger bei unserer Podiumsdiskussion am 14.09. bereits abgehakt haben: https://fb.watch/84om3jMb-Y/ #dwenteignen #Volksentscheid #Bundestagswahl #Abgeordnetenhaus #Superwahljahr #Berlin #Miete #RechtaufStadt #Vergesellschaftung #WirSindMehr #StadtFürAlle #KeineProfiteMitDerMiete #Mietenkrise #Mietendeckel #Mietenwahnsinn #Giffey #KaiWegner #Czaja #Jarasch #Lederer"
770 likes, 8 comments - dw_enteignen on September 20, 2021: "Wir hören von den Gegner:innen des Volksentscheids immer wieder die selben "Argumente". Was denkt ihr? Fallen ihnen bis zur Wahl noch ein paar Standpunkte ein, die noch nicht hundert mal widerlegt wurden? Wenn ihr mutig seid, dann...
Not sure how good your German is, but that bullshit bingo is hardly some gotcha mic drop.
My german sucks, I got like 12 words on that card. I just like the concept.
Every airport is different in terms of layout and architecture but seems like wasted space. Wasn't implying tearing it down or anything, but figuring out a way to use it.
That's not how I took it at all. Shouldn't be hard to find use for the airport buildings that still preserves them. It's been called the mother of all airports for good reason and I wouldn't sacrifice it for apartments just due to its historical significance.
The giant space around it containing the runways is another matter. Berlin already has tons of parks and green inside the city, and you could keep a large chunk of open space and still built tons of apartments there.
It really is a huge piece of land, with the airport buildings only occupyin the north western corner.
Maybe I was a bit harsh, but I'd wager that Berlin hipsters are about as irritating as Tahoe second home owners.