More real estate doom and gloom
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I haven't bought a pass since 2015 when those assholes took over the mountain I used to ride at. They fuckin ruined the place. And the towns, many of the families.....
amy winehouse put on some weight....
when i hear @Changleen talking about a living wage....and living with dignity....and other assorted things....
and all the cheap labor needed for his green utopia....
and all the cheap labor needed for his green utopia....
My ‘green utopia’ doesn’t have cheap labour, old man. It doesn’t have billionaires either.
then you are fucking fooling yourself.
Nope, you just have no imagination.
Employee Plus parking pass is 1850.00 and yet it only gets you a discount at some sites.
hahahaha. how about yeah, price all the workers all the fucking way out, then none of the douches can go there anymore hecause there's no one to serve them and eventually it all goes back to backcountry dirtbagville? it's not like other than tahoe there's *more* snow coming each year....shut it all the hell down.
the idiot who wrote atlas shrugged had an interesting idea but was too dumb to realize which end of the spectrum is more powerful
One of the more disgusting sides of this is that the place is going to end up a lot like jackson. Where only the most desperate people take jobs in these places......and are far more easily exploited. Like agriculture...
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if You read atlas shrugged as a satire it makes more sense. Those desperate people will eventually fuck that place up like in atlas shrugged. Doing a shit job or trying to unionize and get medical and bringing the whole house of cards down.
Literally the only book I've ever read where I just grabbed a bunch of pages between my fingers, flipped over them and never read them, and felt like I never missed a thing. Rourke what's his nuts big long diatribe where he says the same three things for, I guess was like 40 pages
There's always someone to exploit, in order to maintain whatever it's called that we maintain these days. When they run out, they just get conditions inflicted on vunerable people to make them more desperate. The american dream I think they cage it as.
You can hear that exact tone when jerome powell talks about increasing unemployment. Literally against the mandate for the existence of the FED.
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I listened to it on cd. It was 50 discs. One whole disk was on smoking cigarettes. Another whole one on a dam sex scene. I swear it’s a boomers hand book to making complaints and solutions. “We built the world and don’t want it to change, nobody wants to work anymore, I’m taking my ball and going home, he who dies with the most toys wins. We’ll save it by making money”. Complete with infrastructure collapse and trains crashing. It is oddly devoid of guns though.Literally the only book I've ever read where I just grabbed a bunch of pages between my fingers, flipped over them and never read them, and felt like I never missed a thing. Rourke what's his nuts big long diatribe where he says the same three things for, I guess was like 40 pages
There's always someone to exploit, in order to maintain whatever it's called that we maintain these days. When they run out, they just get conditions inflicted on vunerable people to make them more desperate. The american dream I think they cage it as.
You can hear that exact tone when jerome powell talks about increasing unemployment. Literally against the mandate for the existence of the FED.
You should write book reviews.
No really, that's pretty spot on
You guys are better men than me. I was late teens / early 20's and I think I maybe got a third of the way before the library got it back. It is not very often I gave on a book, usually toughed them out hoping for something, but nope, not that one.
It's garbage.
You're just smarter than the both of us.
I read that when I was about 20. I've learned to quit on shitty books since. I wasn't smart enough back then.
“There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs." ― John Rogers
I've read Atlas Shrugged 1.5 times. First was in High School, thought it was terrible, but I finished it. Later in life I thought I might take another crack at it, figuring maybe I just hadn't understood it or had missed something by way of being too teenager-y to "get it". Got about half way through before I realized "Nope, this book just sucks." Pretty sure there is still a copy of it in the house somewhere.
i had to read some rand book in high school. it was hot garbage, and i told the teacher so. she almost failed me. fucking boomer.
I don’t think I could have read it as a teenager or even as a physical book. But while driving having someone read it to me is different. Plus audio books arnt cheap like me. I will admit I liked that it was a vision of the future from a women that while a tabbaco addled fantasy wasn’t all flying cars and robots. I don’t recommend it to people.
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I'm just going to call it the Idiotarian's Guide to Building a Redoubt from now on.
Kind of like the end of that movie "Don't Look Up"
I have read (nearly?) all of Ayn Rand's writings. She is not a good writer by any stretch. "We the living" kinda informs one on how she turned out to be so fucked up in the head, though.
Anyway, I have also read basically all of Heinlein, Philip K Dick, much Tolkien, etc. for context.
Anyway, I have also read basically all of Heinlein, Philip K Dick, much Tolkien, etc. for context.
Yeah, they get all pissy when you call them out for the shit they've invented surrounding some story or book. It basically becomes religion, where you can see any meaning or story if you try hard enough or rationalize it. Sitting here after the fact trying to 2nd guess the author's works is generally BS.
Yeah but have read Iain M. Banks and Ken McLeod?
Short version when it comes to literary works is that, if it's start point was from an ideological place (pretty much any ideology) then it's gonna be pretty horrible if that one is different to your own.
Or maybe, like in “A Modest Proposal”, she was just trollin’ errybody.
Yeah, that’s what I wanna think.
Got ya!
That she would die sucking off the government teat she so claimed to despise? That is a message that definitely appeals to a very specific voter block in this country.
This is one way to force redevelopment.
I know you hate it but other than the complete lack of public space for anything but hiking for sierra club dipshits.....I do kinda love your town.This is one way to force redevelopment.
After a neighbor went to City Hall in January to complain directly to Mayor Ted Wheeler, the city boarded it up. Yesterday, the building burned to the ground.
Lots of plausible deniability and/or culpability to go around…either side, there were disgruntled folks.
LOL, the city boarded up a place people were living so motherfuckers burned it down. There's no two sides. It's portland. It wasn't insurance fraud. It was portland showing up. California should take notes.
Portland police only do it when it might actually kill people. This looks different.
Exactly, the squatters could say (blame that)it was insurance fraud/ outmaneuvering the squatters, and the owners can and will just say it was the squatters That burned it down. Or, perhaps, a conspiratorial merging of the two.
Either way, the developers likely win!
Either way, the developers likely win!
always
but I don't think the squatters need plausible deniability because no one will ever know who they are
portland went pro about 4 years ago
Still waiting to see if that funky house across the street sells.
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