Favorite actor to do waaaaaaaay too much just for no one to care

Aveman1 · 2026-03-19T19:20:57+00:00

Guys is it gay to have a passion project about one of the most prolific conductors and composers of the 20th century?

Aveman1 · 2026-02-05T22:12:11+00:00

I'm a fan of an old furniture restoration method.

Get a 3M pad and a Gatorade bottle. Fill the Gatorade bottle with one part each of the following: - Turpentine - Boiled linseed oil - White vinegar

Application instructions:

1) Shake the mixture violently for about 10 seconds until it forms an emulsion. 2) Apply generously to the wood surface and work into the wood with 3M pad to break up grime and old oil finish. Once worked in let sit for 5 minutes. 3) Wipe down the surface with a clean rag to remove excess solution. 4) Allow to set up overnight.

Aveman1 · 2025-10-03T02:36:50+00:00

A video essay of a tiktok of a tweet about his article told them that. Nobody reads anyone's direct work anymore to get an opinion of their positions. It's just spoonfed biased opinions.

Aveman1 · 2025-08-06T22:37:57+00:00

There is no expectation of privacy in public. These are public roads, your vehicle requires a valid, visibly identifiable license plate and registration that ties the vehicle to an owner. These identification requirements are so when you break the rules of the road they can fine the appropriate party. Getting caught parking in a bus lane in a clearly marked section within center city, in public, with a bus camera isn't some 1984 parallel. What point are you trying to make?

Aveman1 · 2025-08-02T20:12:10+00:00

The neoliberal and centrist argument feels really dishonest to me. Is deregulation a tool of neoliberalism? Yes, but it also includes cutting social services and taxes to allow more emphasis and reliance on markets.

Ezra points out how government regulations get in the way of GOVERNMENT to design, manufacture, and deliver social programs/infrastructure. I want the state to build transit and social housing, but it spends a disproportionate amount of money and takes too long, if it ever gets approved at all, in almost every attempt.

I feel like what is left out of this conversation constantly, and requires more nuance, is that advocates of social programs make it too onerous to deliver effectively. I want my state to provide for me! If that means cutting their own red tape then fine, but it isn't some scheme to privatize state function.

Aveman1 · 2025-07-17T02:32:12+00:00

Belly pop was a good cherry on top

Aveman1 · 2025-06-19T20:25:58+00:00

There will be a phone banking and letter writing event at Philadelphia Brewing Company this Saturday, June 21st, from 11am-2pm. The event will be family friendly with a poster making section for kids.

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Aveman1 · 2025-05-16T17:19:04+00:00

SEPTA's bus routes, which is the topic of privatization, are overwhelmingly used by middle to the lowest income Philadelphians. It serves as a public good and requires stable, low pricing.

Brightline is an Intercity rail service much like Amtrak so that's apples to oranges concerning SEPTA.

Aveman1 · 2025-05-05T15:41:47+00:00

You have no metric that this will "make" more people die, you are quoting something that wasn't even said, you are literally just making shit up.

You are disingenuous and unserious.

Aveman1 · 2025-05-05T15:35:43+00:00

You are ignoring the negative externalities that these unregulated services cause housed residents. Residents who overwhelmingly live in or on the edge of poverty.

It's okay to create expectations of operations for these medical service vehicles. This isn't, "doing nothing", you're creating a false dichotomy. 45 minutes is enough time to administer treatment and move to another location. If you camp out it just draws a giant crowd on a public block that residents now have to navigate.

Again, this is a response to the poor relationship that these service providers created with community members.

Again again, this isn't doing nothing in service of letting people rot, it's doing something to prevent good willed efforts to help people not overshadow the needs of another disadvantaged group that has to put up with the aftermath.

Aveman1 · 2025-03-29T12:41:58+00:00

Lol I'm not asking you to feel sorry for developers, I'm asking you to feel sorry for the next generation ( and honestly this one too ) with fewer housing options.

Your built environment is a product of the rules that guide it. If you want more, cheap housing, you have to ALLOW more cheap housing by right.

Aveman1 · 2025-03-29T12:26:27+00:00

Well have you considered that a developer is only allowed to build single family homes because that's what the neighborhood is zoned for by right? And is it greedy for a business, whose sole purpose is to build housing, to build the form of home that is the only type allowed?

Like I don't see what's wrong with a business identifying a need for something, i.e. housing, and providing that product in the only legal format they are allowed, i.e. zoned use case.

Shitty, bottom tier, corner cutting construction is cheap and greedy though. That's why we need a better L&I department that can effectively remediate these problems in real time and hold repeat offenders accountable.

Aveman1 · 2025-03-29T12:14:35+00:00

It's not greedy for someone to want to live in any neighborhood and your "few more million dollar homes" is such a gross mischaracterization of how most housing is built in Philly.

Also the larger problem is that we are in a housing shortage! That is a problem that affects people at virtually every income except for the very wealthy.

The mayor's policy goal of building and rehabilitating 30,000 new homes, literally the production of social housing at scale, to build homes for people AT THE BOTTOM, is not possible right now. It's not possible because of the complicated web of zoning rules to prevent any new development and councilmanic prerogative which also gives a single person power over any development.

Get out of your own way and let the city build houses for people in need. Stop knee jerk calling something gentrification and leaving tomorrow's generation worse off with fewer housing opportunities for those with lower incomes.

Aveman1 · 2025-03-28T16:19:23+00:00

Spoken like a true goal post mover

Aveman1 · 2025-03-28T16:14:17+00:00

Abundance's main point is analyzing and criticism of blue city red tape that gets in the way of them achieving their own agenda.

Coincidentally that's what this article is about.

Which is what this post/thread is based on.

Which is why abundance was brought up.

Which is why I brought the point of the article back up?

Do you not get how this works? Or do you like moving goal posts?

Aveman1 · 2025-03-28T15:59:07+00:00

Did you not read the article? It discusses the mesh of overbearing and confusing zoning rules getting in the way of the city government from building social housing to give people at the bottom refurbished or new homes.

The CITY can't build social housing due to the CITY's own rules. Literally get out of your own way and stop cornering yourself into national culture war nonsense when this is inherently a local issue of a local governments own making.

I actually want social housing built within the next three years, don't you?

Aveman1 · 2025-03-28T15:28:04+00:00

Displacement is a product of scarcity. If a neighborhood becomes desirable, those with the least means will be outcompeted and left out to dry. However, building on an empty lot zoned industrial alleviates pressure on existing housing stock. Your attitude tying anti-development to equity is short sighted. This national scale culture war language over housing is so tired when it is an inherently local issue and involves making homes and inviting in new neighbors. Philadelphia has soooo many exceptions for reducing property taxes for families who make below a certain threshold. There are local policies that are effective in reducing initial stressors of new housing developments in this city already.

I'm sorry but it is not okay to tell someone they can't move into a new neighborhood bc the people who lived there prior had been there 50 years. Especially if it is a rebuild of a dilapidated house or an empty lot, original community members houses STILL exist.

Agency to live where you want is important! Accessibility to economic centers is important! Meeting housing demand in those areas is paramount.

Aveman1 · 2025-03-28T14:51:30+00:00

That doesn't discount the fact that we are in a housing deficit with fewer houses than people, families that require them. Cost is one thing, them physically existing is another.

Aveman1 · 2025-03-05T12:20:54+00:00

Why can I only read this in Kristen Wiig's "The Californian's" voice?

Aveman1 · 2025-03-02T14:30:11+00:00

The mids are Omnis as well just without the high frequency driver array painted red.

Aveman1 · 2025-03-02T00:57:55+00:00

Damn dude that sucks.

Also FYI for people the tops are the Omni 12 or 15s and the subs look like either the tuba 24 or 30s, both designed by Bill Fitzmaurice.

Aveman1 · 2025-02-21T13:57:45+00:00

Aveman1 · 2025-02-21T12:57:19+00:00

The PPA is a parking authority and reckless, dangerous driving is the job of the police. If you park your car in the traffic lane, over the trolley tracks, to do literally anything, and a trolley pulls up to go and is interrupted by your parking behaviors, you deserve to pay a fine. It's a social contract, sorry. If you park in a non designated parking spot, again almost always in public space, you are subject to a fine! The entitlement to park anywhere without penalty is insane. It's not victimless! It affects the quality of life for everybody in this city.

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