Itβs cool to read the biography of basically any self-made person prior to 1980 and get to the part where they arrive in the big city and rent a cheap room in a boarding house/residence hotel for a few dollars a week, a form of housing that basically doesnβt exist anymore.
dandelion georgism π°π
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Urbanism, housing, transit, safety, and law. Views are mine alone and also definitionally correct.
Harlem
Joined April 2021
- It never got the traction it deserved, but one of the all-time Takes on here was βthe insurance industry is collapsing because itβs not issuing new policies in my neighborhood, which is a place called Lava Zone 2.β
- Fully grown man floating in a vat of Tylenol-infused amnion, experiencing four hundred thousand autisms per second, directing American transit policy like a Guild Navigator from Dune.
- Explain to me how it is that France burns itself down every time the government levies a tax or tries to raise the retirement age to thirty four, but every single French election is Michèl Bleumbourg 50.00001 / Girl Hitler 49.99999
- Again, treating βguy with an IQ of forty,β βguy who has a panic attack if he eats sprinkles,β and βguy who really likes trainsβ as the same condition is the root of like 80% of the problem in autism discourse.People who say this about autism have exclusively dealt with the high functioning autist, who perhaps has a revulsion to wearing socks. When I was first teaching in public school I had a 4th grade autistic student who regularly wet himself, could not speak beyond moans, often hit
- Replying to @Velvecute and @phi_latosDiscworld dwarves slur for humans is βbiggaβ π
- The ads on here used to be for. Like. Verizon.
- Replying to @EuphoriToriI think there was an even better one in the comments. βI know a trans guy who only eats vegetables. Why? Because he was a her before.β
- Replying to @DolphinMossadThink how much great art we would have missed out on if βrent a crappy room in the West Village while you work on your novel and wait for your big breakβ hadnβt been an option. Cheap housing is what gives creatives time to create!
- Replying to @bilbosfootcombPeople say itβs impossible for the Amish to have no cancers no measles, no diabetes, and no allergies. But anything is possible through the power of lying.
- Replying to @atlanticesqueYour friend in nonprofits: I work for the Community Family City Thrive Alliance Foundation, which works collaboratively with key stakeholders to develop outreach strategies for employing justice-impacted individuals at dog parks in food deserts. Our main donor is Qatar.







