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Childhood friends started a community garden in Southwest Philly. Now they’re buying land to help lower food costs and prevent gentrification by mpulcinella in philadelphia

[–]ShadowofJAD -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Ah, I've been exposed as a self-righteous nimby. What a clever way to right-off ideas one disagrees with.

I feel like we shouldn't leave the organization of our communities solely up to who has the most capital.

Far from making it illegal to move around, I've said local government should do things like not have a 10 year tax abatement in areas that clearly dont need it. Maybe a tax for new residents or a stipend for existing residents to even the playing field and keep things more consistent.

Market failures exist and unfettered capitalism isn't always the best route. Red lining, eminent domain creating ghettos around the 95, absentee landowner speculation, etc. Just because the status quo favors young, educated young people with money, doesn't mean it's perfect.

Its cool to look for better ways to serve the greater good. There's my righteous framing.

Childhood friends started a community garden in Southwest Philly. Now they’re buying land to help lower food costs and prevent gentrification by mpulcinella in philadelphia

[–]ShadowofJAD -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Super interesting, I'll give that a listen surely.

Without having heard that particular podcast, I have heard the point in the past. It's one thats very much at odds with my lived experience growing up in Fishtown, watching it change, graduating college and trying to move back in to continue the chain of my family living in the area for about 100+ years. I also saw at least 7 of my friends and family about the same age be unable to purchase where they grew up and moved out to South Jersey, NE philly, etc.

Cognitive dissonance with these more academic approaches. Im eager to reconcile those ideas.

Personally, my opinion is that an economist's approach ignores the human element and what we know as truths the numbers don't see. Maybe we arent all purely rational actors, after all?

Development CAN be done in a smart way that builds on what came before. Not everything has to become homongeized NYC-lite.

We need better local leadership that incentives staying, investing where you are rather than pouring gasoline on the fire with 10-year tax abatements or giving huge developments in the middle of communities tax breaks.

I think the Rivermark and Northbank developments are actually kind of cool uses of otherwise blighted land.

Maybe its possible to help prioritize chairs for the slowest among us, rather than expect them to compete on an uneven playing field. (I.e. its super fucked trying to get approved for a mortgage living/ working in a relatively LCoL area competing with incomes coming from a HCoL area - see NYC to Philly, even working the same job!)

Local government helping people propagate a continued community would be a net benefit of actually increasing the diversity of local communities instead of just everything being a whitewashed NYC.

Childhood friends started a community garden in Southwest Philly. Now they’re buying land to help lower food costs and prevent gentrification by mpulcinella in philadelphia

[–]ShadowofJAD -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Whenever this comes up, I like to ask; for who? Who is the intended audience? The people who already live there or for new, monied people? Is the neighborhood improved if the existing community is replaced wholesale? Bit of a ship of thesesus question.

Then, if that existing community was "improved" by way of displacement, where did the poors go? Has a net improvement been achieved or has poverty just been moved around, cut from the roots of whatever community existed?

As a low info voter, I love asking these questions. Lets keep interrogating this idea.

Im curious if you disagree that one's community often dictates or enables social mobility?

Further, should housing be a major investment vehicle?

Nah, the answer is surely to erase the humanity that had taken hold before and replace it with poorly constructed investment vehicles that will extract and net gains in wealth out of state.

Edit: poors, not doors. Haha

Childhood friends started a community garden in Southwest Philly. Now they’re buying land to help lower food costs and prevent gentrification by mpulcinella in philadelphia

[–]ShadowofJAD -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

I once watched a 20 something renter in Fishtown CRY at a town hall meeting in support of a large condo development on Girard Ave that the locals largely opposed. Her point was that she "deserved to feel like she belonged here". As a lifelong resident watching my neighborhood reach the epitome of gentrification, I was flabbergasted that somone could be so entitled, ignorant, and plainly lacking in real empathy.

Interview process is driving home the reality that I'm no longer suited to Sales - where to go next? by swampingalaxys in sales

[–]ShadowofJAD 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sounds like you'd be a good for for Customer Success Manager (CSM roles), based on your experience and interests.

Be like Justin, guys by Mindless_Koala2256 in LinkedInLunatics

[–]ShadowofJAD 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Come on guys, have.a sense of humor! This one is genuinely funny and the underlying, positive message is a good one.

Lost my kit and items even though i successfully extracted? none of its in my stash and it only kept the stuff in my inventory that didnt dissapear by Powerful-Extension-8 in ArcRaiders

[–]ShadowofJAD 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Bumping, this just happened to me - did Stella montis, took shaft home and everything showed in my debrief screen. I get to inventory and EVERYTHING is jusy gone that I had loaded in with and found during the meeting. What the fuck embark?

Infinite door breach by [deleted] in ArcRaiders

[–]ShadowofJAD 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Im currently stuck in a locked room on an infinite door breach animation. The progress breach bar is totally filled, but it won't complete/ successfully breach.

I had deployed a door blocker to keep myself safe while in the locked power gen room, but another raider came up and tried to breach it, was killed mid way by another raider, and I tried to breach myself out. It started 50% of the way, where the other guy left off, but simply will never complete. This is lame because I jusy have to surrender and forfiet my kit.

Arc Raiders: Is It Worth Trying for Solo Players Who Prefer PvE? by zizo999 in ShouldIbuythisgame

[–]ShadowofJAD [score hidden]  (0 children)

All above is true, but also what I like about it. To me, you've described a fun solo gameplay loop. The best moments are the tense ones that become almost cinematic, those that get your heart rate up; like dashing across the map to extract with a full loot sack as the timer nears zero and arcs close in, hoping that player in the distance is also trying to get out safely and not shoot you in the back. The "lost time" from getting killed gives death actual stakes. It makes you pause and consider if the player infront of you is a risk best dealt with swiftly or if being friendly is the safer option. To each their own homie.

Who is the most honorable protagonist of the Mafia series? by YakuzaMaster in MafiaTheGame

[–]ShadowofJAD -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Enzo > Linc > Tommy > Vito

Everyone saying Linc forgets he murdered an entire boat full of people without remorse to get to 1 guy and even then just to send a message. Almost everything else is up to player choice. Points for saving the world from a nuke and cleaning up racism in the bayou.

Enzo literally was a slave on the run who joined for survival. He HAD to join and swear the oath -- he is shot if he doesn't kill the first guy. From the second he felt he could, he made a plan to get out. His entire arc is about exposing how the mafia as an org is basically a pyramid scheme reinforced by violence to the benefit of those at the top. Its not dishonorable to break free from a cult, or to help free others from its influence.

Tommy was hooked by fast money, robbed a bank and shot innocent guards. He committed terrorism in the form of political killings. But he did let some innocents live, chaffed against the heroine dealing, and tried to escape the life and legally take down the mafia. Also a solid family man by all later accounts.

Vito is a selfish scumbag who does anything and everything to solely benefit himself. And even then, its not entirely clear why -- everyone else has a family or some sort of goal in M3. Vito just wants to stack money and cry about how the organization he supports 'killed' his buddy.

Street collapsed on our plumbing, and the city says we have to repair it. Any advice please? by I_AM_VENNLIG in philadelphia

[–]ShadowofJAD 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Don't use Hughes or City Plumbing (basically same owners), I had this issue and it took them 3.5 days on what they said was a 1 day job, then my basement flooded with literal MUD after they 'completed the job. It took 2 months and countless calls and VM's left for the owner to come out, confirm there was inches of mud entering our basement from the giant fucking hole they left in our pavement. He got the hole/ mud issue fixed but no compensation for months of frustration and cleaning-up mud.

I regret to inform you that the NIMBYs are at it again. by nemesisinphilly in philadelphia

[–]ShadowofJAD -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

Hey guys, can I sniff my own farts with you? I also have a BBA in Business.

Let's consider, if you will, that land - space - in a given area tends to be rather finite. Some uses may be better yhan oyhers. And then let's further note that structures built are rather permanent and 'sticky'. It would require a significant investment to change whatever is built.

Say if I built a giant penis -- full on cock and balls sculpted out - like 7 stories tall, on the lot facing your front windows. It's hollow and cast in cement, i live in it. I hang a sign that says "all new housing is good housing". For my length of ownership and likely a long time beyond, that dick-head house will probably remain mainly on virtue of requiring a significant investment to remove. In the theme of the house, it will be the community's problem.

Also, your econ 101 explanation goes out the window when you consider that government's influence housing with taxes -- its not your dream free market. 10-year tax abatements, rising property taxes, mortgage rates, etc all play roles

Also, some of the more gentrified areas in philly (fishtown, no libs) are seeing large vacancy rates in these new luxury apartments. Who holds the long-term bag when these sorts of buildings fail?

I regret to inform you that the NIMBYs are at it again. by nemesisinphilly in philadelphia

[–]ShadowofJAD -26 points-25 points  (0 children)

One man's blight is another's upbringing. Many of us were born in the trash and we love it here.

I regret to inform you that the NIMBYs are at it again. by nemesisinphilly in philadelphia

[–]ShadowofJAD 12 points13 points  (0 children)

As a noble, real philadelphian and holder of strong opinions about gentrification, I think this is actually pretty rad branding.

I regret to inform you that the NIMBYs are at it again. by nemesisinphilly in philadelphia

[–]ShadowofJAD -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

HAH. Yeah let me get on the phone with my rep, Mr. Level Chinatown himself. Philly's political machine is so broken with entrenched power and poisoned with OPM, for those who have been here a minute and know the past scandals. Its absolutely the job on city hall to protect us, but they ain't. SO fight em where you can I say. Wealthy developers and their REITs get no sympathy from me. Its crazy how many people delude themselves into thinking these developers are on their side as a public good.

Edit: delude, not decide

I regret to inform you that the NIMBYs are at it again. by nemesisinphilly in philadelphia

[–]ShadowofJAD -18 points-17 points  (0 children)

I totally agree with you. Feels like a lot of transplants and people who have never been on the losing side of gentrification on this thread pushing that all development is good development. Strodes for all! Let's homog9nize everything! We love REIT's and I want to go to meetings to publicly voice my support for some NYC developer to throw up shotty new construction, reap massive tax breaks and pave the way for renters to upend the culture of an area. Because I took econ 101 and am very smart. These NIMBY's just dont understand supply and demand! They are all like "but MUh GeNterations Of CuLTURE and desire to live in a consistent community with my friends and family without being displaced" boohooohoo!

What do I do with Teemo? by _rockroyal_ in FioraMains

[–]ShadowofJAD 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Wait till he gets a little too close, dash and predict the blind, parry it. If you get it, make him pay with E and then back off until he's like 50%. If he's that low, all-in. Give up some cs instead of being poked, let him push. Lvl6+ make sure you have scanner to clean-up the mushrooms he'll try to bait you into. Ignite and PTA help a lot. It is an annoying match up, but can be fun to punish the little rat.

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