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deckgibson posted:ironically the only wealthy demographic for whom this isn’t true is gentrifiers who are the group (after developers) that activists hate the most Not really? The issue with gentrification is that it pushes the non-wealthy people and their business out of their own neighborhoods because the people moving in like the location or the charm of the older building but don’t actually want to live around poor people and poor people problems. They may not hole up in a gated country club but it’s also not a legitimate engagement with the community. If it wasn’t it wouldn’t be gentrification.
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deckgibson posted:love the constant threads on nextdoor asking when the police will "do something" about poor people existing and saying that the police in <insert neighboring town> aren't so "politically correct" Love to move into a neighborhood for the character and immediately try to get it all replaced with whole foods and more wealthy white folks.
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May 10, 2019 23:47
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Main Paineframe posted:when people talk about "home values", they're not using it to refer to the monetary value of their house. they're using it to refer to how white and upscale the neighborhood seems. since those factors often have a big impact on housing prices, due to the fact that economic segregation has replaced direct racial segregation, "home values" is a convenient euphemism to fall back on There's a lot of this, to be sure, but there are plenty of people who do care about the value of their home because it's basically the only wealth they have. If you wipe that out they have no financial security and feel trapped in a home they can't get rid of if their circumstances change, because now it's worth less than they paid for it. So they go looking for something to blame and it inevitably falls on the easiest target, the minorities or homeless or whatever the easy scapegoat is in their area. It couldn't possibly be urban blight due to hollowed out and dying industries, or racist zoning laws and gentrification pushing minorities out of their homes and into new areas seeking lower costs, or subsidized suburbanization causing white flight and leaving some some neighborhoods to rot with no tax base...those things aren't as visible and obvious as the black couple next door. It's just another incidence of late stage capitalism creating and leveraging economic insecurity to keep working people divided.
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Sep 8, 2019 16:39
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Shipon posted:i'm surprised employers don't try to get non-competes made illegal because they have far more to benefit by being able to poach employees from other companies than they do by companies being able to leash their employees like that, but then again i guess most bosses are powered by petty spite and a feeling of being able to exert power over others so Replacing an employee costs a significant amount of money, even more so when you’re talking about someone who has institutional knowledge or skills that might confer an advantage to a competitor.
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Nov 20, 2019 07:51
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Laterite posted:the poor companies No, of course not, gently caress them. But that's why non-competes exist, because it's economically advantageous if a company can prevent you from leaving right up until they decide they don't need you anymore. For some reason the self-evident superiority of the free market isn't quite so evident when it's a labor market and the workers are free to move about it to their benefit.
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Nov 20, 2019 09:33
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A Big Fuckin Hornet posted:They aren't paid well at all, but that doesn't matter when you love what you do Cops are paid really well once you account for all of the scam overtime they accrue for sleeping in their cars or standing around with 12 of their cop buddies while one of them harasses a homeless or cheating on their spouses while on the clock.
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Dec 18, 2019 20:00
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Laterite posted:why are these extremely wealthy people using uber at all? i would assume they'd either rely on one of their surely countless unpaid sycophants or that there's some sort of off-book equivalent, not randomly selected driver from the public uber pool. B list actors aren't private chauffeur wealthy.
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Jan 6, 2020 21:02
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CharlestheHammer posted:this isn’t even the only thread that is defending her. Who defended her?
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Jan 12, 2020 19:00
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22 Eargesplitten posted:See, there's a valid use for cameras replacing mirrors. There was a VW hybrid concept (as in there were a handful of functioning road-legal vehicles, not a cool shell over a Golf body) that got triple digit MPG that used them. That was so they could remove the side mirror bulge and have better aerodynamics. That thing is just ugly and does the same drat thing as a normal mirror, including adding to the air resistance of the car. They are an option (not available in the US) and do reduce drag relative to the physical mirrors. Not enough to be worth the expense and maintenance and the fact that they are probably functionally worst than mirrors, but the profile is a good bit smaller than the physical mirrors so the arent completely pointless.
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Jan 21, 2020 23:56
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Lambert posted:In plenty of cars, you can't open the doors when the power is out. This is not some Tesla specialty. That's why having an emergency hammer in the car at all times is a good idea. This isn't true. The vast majority of cars out there still have some mechanical method to unlock and open the doors.
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Jan 23, 2020 22:50
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Lambert posted:I do. There's no mechanical release for locked doors in many non-Tesla cars sold on the market today. The rear doors on the Model 3 do not have a mechanical release for the DOORS. Locked or unlocked, it doesn't matter, they require power to function. That is not standard at all. Also, in many cases, especially on German cars, where there is no separate switch or lever to unlock the door pulling the handle the first time unlocks the door and the second opens it.
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Jan 24, 2020 03:36
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ate poo poo on live tv posted:I mean, I'm not going to tell you you can't live on the coast, but you shouldn't be bailed out when a hurricane destroys your home. You are of course welcome to move to one of the other millions of non-coastal square miles in the country. The wild fires can be prevented with a competently managed federal forestry service controlled burn program, which is non-optional. There are also lots of poor people who live along the gulf coast who have no other options but to keep living there and I’m not sure denying them insurance coverage is going to help them suddenly not be too poor to move themselves and all of their family members and relations somewhere else. Also, you know, the coasts are where the jobs are.
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Sep 9, 2020 00:11
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ate poo poo on live tv posted:Poor people already don't get payouts from insurance, so please stop using them as an excuse to continue unsustainable living. They do, it’s just usually far less than it should be and requires a lot of time and energy. Of course you have no idea what you’re talking about because you haven’t actually spent any time in any of these places.
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Sep 9, 2020 06:49
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Thanatosian posted:Very open to other solutions. What the gently caress is your idea? I’m sure you can find a happy balance where we let Dauphin Island sink into the abyss but don’t abandon cities with large populations of poor black people to the flood waters and then tell them to get hosed when they lose everything.
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Sep 9, 2020 06:54
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Platystemon posted:“Ancestral homes” doing a lotta work here. Do you think everyone who lives in flood prone areas of the gulf coast is a recently arrived gentrifier? Many of the poor people there have been living in the same places for generations. They have deep roots and social support networks.
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Sep 9, 2020 16:40
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ate poo poo on live tv posted:Then they have no need for hurricane insurance since obviously their houses have been fine the whole time. you’re extremely stupid
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Sep 9, 2020 20:24
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Thanatosian posted:We should definitely do things that help these people as much as possible, but "do nothing and let them keep rebuilding until their homes are permanently underwater and they are well and truly hosed" seems much worse than "give them money to help them relocate somewhere else, while converting their land to something that will help mitigate further erosion and hurricane damage." Nobody suggested doing nothing, most of these posts were a reaction against the dumb guy saying you shouldn’t be able to get insurance against hurricane related damages. Helping people rebuild in a safer way post disaster is the opposite of that. Main Paineframe posted:it's not like the ocean is gonna stop trying to reclaim these areas if you quote Marx at them enough A lot of these areas are being depopulated because business has deemed their inhabitants less important than commerce. Not in the global climate change sense, but in the very specific ways that dredging for pipelines and canals in coastal wetlands has dramatically increased the effects of storm surge, and the ACE manipulating waterways has turned formerly fairly safe areas into flood zones and the economic choices inherent in building a levee system that HAS to force water somewhere and shockingly that place ends up being where poor black people live, and redlining allowing wealthy whites to acquire all of the high ground in the city for their own homes and so on... So yes, we’re going to have to reckon with the human costs of these decisions and that’s probably going to involve some amount of strongly encouraged migration, but saying “gently caress these people, they should have known better than to live in a flood zone,” is so callous and stupid it beggars belief. Besides, where do you plan to send them that isn’t going to be completely hosed by climate change in a few decades?
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Sep 9, 2020 21:26
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Mameluke posted:I wish that guy had been armed. AFAIK castle doctrine exists in Illinois Laws like that only apply when it’s a white person shooting someone who mistakenly walked onto his front lawn, they aren’t there to help poor people murder their terrorist landlord and his debt collection private army. He’d have either ended up murdered in cold blood with his killers going free, or he’d have been thrown in prison forever.
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Sep 18, 2020 22:30
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ate poo poo on live tv posted:Well killing those that are forcibly removing you from your apartment is the only way to not be removed out of your apartment. If you have a "less violent" or "better" way to not be kicked out of your "goddamn apartment", please share this divine knowledge with those in need, it will be much more beneficial then being a scold mod on a dying internet forum. in your scenario his is still removed from his apartment, it’s just in a body bag
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Sep 20, 2020 06:33
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somewhere around 5% of households have a million plus in assets which is, uh, a much smaller number than the percentage of middle aged or older homeowners What an incredibly stupid idea to have
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Sep 25, 2020 06:44
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Peanut President posted:I'm really glad that the something awful intellectual elite fell for a troll that loving obvious, no wonder biden won the nomination with such geniuses like y'all running around I don’t think that’s why Biden won the nomination.
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Sep 26, 2020 07:45
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Thanatosian posted:Except most people are still watching plenty of streaming on their phones. It hasn't gone down. I mean, it was a stupid idea anyway but a pandemic where everyone is working from home or flat out unemployed isn’t the best environment for a mobile only streaming service focused on high production value content that can be consumed in short increments in between the tasks in your busy day.
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T-man posted:you also have to realize that there's a massive glut of """"legtimate"""" capital that's just going to get taxed or inflation'd down, which is of course utterly unacceptable. Even if every dollar had a full pedigree, you can still get massive investment by, say, the Saudis with even the dumbest idea. (corporate tiktok (which was just corporate vine)) WeWork, a company that became a tech unicorn by using extremely advanced ai/ml technology to uh, buy and then rent out office space...? YOLOsubmarine has issued a correction as of 05:14 on Oct 23, 2020 |
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Oct 23, 2020 05:08
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Marx Was A Lib posted:I always figure there's an element of class struggle in the computer toucher spite, and I sympathize with that. I try not to take it too personally. There is that, and also that a lot of people who make good money doing computer poo poo have no class consciousness whatsoever and think that their work is truly many times more valuable than a teacher or a retail worker or janitor and that it’s only right and good that they make many times more than those people.
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Nov 1, 2020 18:14
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someone should throw this thread in the garbage, or the planter, or wherever
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Nov 6, 2020 03:38
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Someone needs to trap Rahm in a Saw style puzzle box where he has to learn to code a single page app within 48 hours or his skin is flayed off. Also the skin thing happens either way.
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Nov 7, 2020 05:15
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The Nastier Nate posted:nothing about stop buying avocados gotta read the replies to get all the hits
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Nov 18, 2020 03:14
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Flesh Forge posted:lol at the state of journalism in this garbage can country The Post doesn’t even attempt to masquerade as serious, unbiased journalism though.
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Apr 28, 2021 03:11
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VideoTapir posted:A Good Start it’s going to turn out to be entirely psychosomatic, brought on by the stress of being evil people doing evil things in service of an evil empire
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May 14, 2021 04:59
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indigi posted:it does decrease its value, that's what living in a place does. if the owner let it go unrented, barring acts of god/natural disasters it would retain its original value. no broken mirrors, no scuffed walls. I’m not necessarily disagreeing with your larger point, but abandoned houses absolutely deteriorate.
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RBC posted:how does she expect someone on unemployment to pay 3500 a month in rent lol She had multiple units, based on her “all of our renters” comment.
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Jul 27, 2021 16:28
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Thanatosian posted:The amount of corruption that goes on in the open is loving insane, even for our capitalist hellworld. Everyone on the Olympics is doping, I don’t know why you singled out the Russians in particular as if there’s something especially egregious about their overall performance as a team.
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Palladium posted:what happens when policies are determined by subreddits of western cities I don’t think the policy makers in a city of 6000 people thats 300 miles from the nearest population center are basing their decisions on Reddit.
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