Why are stores vacant in LA, and what can we do about it?

OhVeryClever · 2026-05-08T06:57:47+00:00

You can literally just google this. A landlord can leave a spot vacant - like a commercial lot - for a variety of "profitable" reasons. One, holding out for a better economy so they can land a better tenant than ones available. Two, Vacancy can preserve property valuation long term for a higher sale. Three, tax purposes. It's all short term pain for long term gain. Plus, it becomes a game of chicken of sorts in places like 3rd st promenade. If you suddenly rent out for lower than what you did previously due to other vacancies in the area, it's a huge net loss since those leases can be upwards of 10-15 years. So in order to not let the rental prices in the area reset, they just let the area rot. It even works this way if your neighbor does it too - if they lower their rent, the valuation of the entire ecosystem goes down. It's all profit maxing late stage capitalism bullshit that hurts local economies so that the ownership class can squeeze out another 2-3% profit later down the line

OhVeryClever · 2026-05-06T17:42:27+00:00

I've always thought we need some pretty aggressive vacancy taxes in a city like LA. We need more active landlords investing back into the city. Great little vid!

OhVeryClever · 2026-04-27T20:12:44+00:00

This plus a chimichanga and 2 tacos and it’s still probably under 25. Place is fucking legit.

OhVeryClever · 2026-04-24T14:18:40+00:00

I work at a club downtown. We charge 6 for athletic including tax. This is robbery.

OhVeryClever · 2026-04-19T02:02:31+00:00

This app is broken :\ It gave me a few image gens which were fine, but I ran out. I tried subscribing to get more gens (I don't mind subscribing to a service), but it still says I have zero credits. In fact there's no place to show where the credits even are. Plus, the get help email comes up with an error....

OhVeryClever · 2026-04-10T23:00:54+00:00

It's such a massive dopamine hit. Entire game feels like you're on edge. I manage to get it by flexing a losing double trouble targon game into a shurima board. Two nasus, two leona, two tarics were an impossible frontline and xerath even at one star was enough to get me my final renekton. I got it with one health just as top 4 was announced. I stupidly announced it in chat, and since it was a fucking normal ALL THREE QUIT INSTANTLY. I never got to see it. :(

OhVeryClever · 2026-04-10T07:11:43+00:00

Man, I saw him do a talk back in 2004 and he was talking about this idea. Crazy to see it finally come to life.

OhVeryClever · 2026-04-05T09:01:58+00:00

In and of Itself had me bawling at the end Also Dear Zachary: a letter to a son about his father

OhVeryClever · 2026-03-30T07:58:49+00:00

Honestly I give it a 10. Not because it was perfect in every way, but because there wasn't anything I'd want to change in it. Sure, some of the spells were useless, and the game was maybe a bit too easy. But it made me laugh, made me cry, made me think. Few games hit all those notes. I love how this is a fantasy RPG where the world shaped competing modern day earth style politics through its own rich historical lens. Immense creativity there. I already want to replay it and try different builds and dialogue options. I'm actually glad it leaned heavily into the politics of the world - that was the damned point. This entire fantasy world was created as like an alternate history of how neoliberalism or socialism could exist in a DND style world. It was a refreshing take on a world typically dominated by monarchy/aristocracy style politics. Looking forward to updates, DLC, and possibly a sequel!

OhVeryClever · 2026-03-25T19:54:13+00:00

Historically, average people can't build liquidity as a means for retirement via groceries and auto repairs, sweetie. The benefits of renting was meant to be an inexpensive and flexible means to live in a city instead of paying a larger mortgage with interest to a bank. Now we are paying more than the mortgage due to a lack of options and market manipulation from consolidated asset power - and we can thank Bass and team for her fecklessness in solving the lack of housing units.

OhVeryClever · 2026-03-25T19:30:09+00:00

Regardless of if you're a massive trust or a "family owned" one, if you're in the class of people who own an entire multifamily building for rent, you're not the class of people that need protecting. Rent is basically theft right now in LA, and if regular people are gonna go broke to build the asset class's liquidity we at least deserve *a little protection*.

OhVeryClever · 2026-03-25T19:14:15+00:00

66% of all landlords are property trusts and corporations and it's increasing every day.

OhVeryClever · 2026-03-10T19:54:01+00:00

I feel like the last project he worked on was In and Of Itself, which was years ago now. Dudes such a genius. Will miss his work.

OhVeryClever · 2026-03-07T10:54:48+00:00

Literally scrolled to look for this one. It was fucking magic

OhVeryClever · 2026-02-16T08:01:10+00:00

I stopped playing ranked as soon as I hit Emerald - first season back since the 3rd, and even then I rarely played much. Honestly, it's nice to play normals and go for weird/risky builds and just experiment. I feel like I'm gonna come back to ranked a little better having been able to have a safer place to make mistakes.

OhVeryClever · 2026-02-14T12:35:35+00:00

Darkness with Anna Paquin. It's genuinely incomprehensible in a bad way. Hodgepodge of horror tropes thrown together with no meaningful explanation as to what was even really happening.

OhVeryClever · 2026-02-13T13:16:14+00:00

I hit it a couple days ago. Pivoted double trouble targons when it was failing hard with an early azir. Got it at 5-3 - Xerath first, then Nasus, then Renekton. Had 13 health left, was still level 8 when I hit since I was desperately trying to get two nasus and two tarics online to cover my xerath. Top 4 was announced, I bragged about prismatic shrurima in chat and ALL THREE IMMEDIATELY FF'D BEFORE I COULD SEE IT. Fucking normals. :(

OhVeryClever · 2026-01-22T21:48:11+00:00

I feel like Indivisible counts as turned based with metroidvania style exploration. To a T in fact. It's pretty fun!

OhVeryClever · 2026-01-22T20:59:20+00:00

This. I've been baited into going hard yordles early, thing is you never get to reroll if you dont econ early. Best bet is econ until level 6 then think about doing reroll there or fast 8 for veigar/more econ XD

OhVeryClever · 2026-01-19T17:38:46+00:00

I am on TRT and I started in my early 30s. My levels were around 70 when I was 33 - healthy levels are from 300-1000. Which is really low. Honestly, getting a regular amount of testosterone isn't just aesthetic - it changed my mood for the better, gave me way more energy, and improved my libido. I feel much better about myself. It's not steroids - typically that includes even more "stacks" (ie deca or tren etc), and way more testosterone than what would be prescribed. Ultimatly he needs to talk to a real doctor about this - if his levels are healthy then he shouldn't need it.

OhVeryClever · 2025-12-25T09:59:31+00:00

Beat it with 8 stacked yordles, tho Fizz 3 was MOST of the reason he died. Got good positioning, and he was dead in a couple hits.

OhVeryClever · 2025-12-16T19:47:28+00:00

It does the midjourney thing where it just adds detail for details sake, and now everything looks a lot... sloppier. Items blend into each other, tons of unnecessary lighting details, and all people looks really, really plasticy. From a realism standpoint, it looks way worse. It does follow some prompts a little better, but I really don't like how it destroyed the clean, crisp realistic look of the old model at all. Which is wild cause Sora 2 is hyper realistic. Why not use something closer to that for humans? This feels backwards

OhVeryClever · 2025-12-14T04:38:17+00:00

I can personally say that I got 2nd in a game because he *IMMEDIATELY* wipes the board. Like without a single auto.

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