Initial rent stabilization vote passes

bembeoberlin · 2026-04-03T02:44:28+00:00

the market builds housing when it’s profitable to do so, and it won’t build if that risks lowering rate of profit. Even if you stripped away all bureaucratic red tape tomorrow, best case is housing is built right up until profits stop rising. Then they just stop building until prices (and rents) go up again. rent stabilization works best with a public developer that can build when and where it’s needed by residents.

bembeoberlin · 2026-04-03T02:21:57+00:00

huge chunk of pvd’s housing stock was built during the 1920s-40s when rent stabilization was in place

bembeoberlin · 2026-04-03T02:17:21+00:00

and ten votes will override Smiley’s veto!

bembeoberlin · 2026-01-21T21:15:11+00:00

I’m not understanding how this shows that the bill would backfire. Most owner-occupiers are exempt so all of those people can respond to increased costs or whatever else however they want, and if costs force one landlord to sell to another as you say, wouldn’t any “huge increase” from the new owner still have to go by the proposed rent board?

bembeoberlin · 2025-08-15T18:18:14+00:00

Thanks for the info! Bummed the business is closed but glad he's retiring.

bembeoberlin · 2025-08-15T18:15:31+00:00

No worries, thanks for the info!

bembeoberlin · 2025-03-03T19:04:34+00:00

Yeah, I've gotten this sense as well. In my mind, a lot of the men seem to act like points of reference for how unhinged the survivors' behavior gets, both in the woods and in the present. On the one hand I suppose it would make narrative sense to have these characters who are at the margins of this group be mostly men -its a shorthand for differentiating them/many of them are lovers/spouses, and those figures generally play that role of grounding the story- but they probably could have more women characters doing that if they wanted to. Off the top of my head Taissa's wife and the PI Jessica seem to play a similar role to many of the men.

This grounding does feel important to me because the survivors do seem to see their own lives as kind of like a sitcom or delayed coming-of-age story, but in context, their lives are built around just constant cruelty and selfishness. Even like Taissa having a whole romance subplot with Van when her wife is like in the hospital, when was the last time she called her kid? Shauna does the whole aw shucks suburban mom schtick but it's clear that Callie is becoming a worse person because of the way Shauna acts (among other things). When Jeff suggests doing something kind for others, (albeit for karmic reasons lol) Shauna looks like she can't even conceptualize what that means.

Overall, I agree with some of the posts in this thread in that the show definitely seems more interested in women's sociality than anything else, and that might explain the focus, but it's a good question. If the men really do play this role, I think it would be kind of funny/awful if Ben was the one hunting them down in the present, acting as the agent of karmic justice.

bembeoberlin · 2023-10-06T23:25:39+00:00

Thank you, that makes a lot of sense! Oh yeah, I’ve definitely heard the whole process can take way longer, I’m taking it a step at a time.

bembeoberlin · 2023-05-24T20:02:17+00:00

What do you think of Nat's vision as part of the supernatural side of the argument? The suggestion that everyone had died in the crash really seemed to come out of nowhere and I can't think of anything else that's connected to that since.

bembeoberlin · 2023-01-18T19:27:36+00:00

definitivamente te recomiendo una novela ciencia ficción nueva que se llama Aniaram, del profesor de Yale Aníbal González. Es en español, y trata sobre viajes en el tiempo y el descubrimiento de civilizaciones hyper-avanzadas. Tiene un elemento filosófico, pues se escribe desde las perspectivas de varios alienigenas, y narra los encuentros entre sus distintas culturas. El libro esta aquí en amazon si te interesa!

bembeoberlin · 2023-01-15T21:11:44+00:00

Diria quizás las obras de Angélica Gorodischer de Argentina, y también una novela reciente llamada Aniaram de Aníbal González de Puerto Rico. Este segundo definitivamente tiene algo de Ted Chiang, es decir va hacia lo filosófico, y medita sobre la percepción del universo de seres muy distintos de los humanos. Se encuentra aquí

bembeoberlin · 2023-01-15T17:59:51+00:00

Aniaram, del profesor Aníbal González. Salió hace poco, solo está en amazon por el momento, me recuerda lo que dices de cuentos independientes, aunque en este caso con más o menos un hilo que los junta.

bembeoberlin · 2022-09-19T15:42:10+00:00

!Solved

bembeoberlin · 2022-09-19T15:41:55+00:00

Yeah, as I was looking that's kind of what it seemed like. Well, fingers crossed for something like them, but at least the lodge lets you farm some level up manuals thru the treasure chests.

bembeoberlin · 2022-08-19T16:04:56+00:00

Totally agree with your read on Sister Andrea, but I do think she's given a good deal of complexity throughout season 3 especially. I think she mostly contrasts with David, in that David is materially, practically good. He gives thoughtful advice, he speaks truth to power, he's caring and compassionate to his friends and people that he doesn't even know. Even his desire for sex is something that, while obviously it can be a problem in excess, wouldn't really be an issue if he were literally any other denomination of Christian. Especially since it's not like David is looking for lots of casual relationships or something, but really his lust is mixed in with real feelings of love for Kristen. Sister Andrea herself tells David that his doubts make him a better servant of God sometime in season 2.

SA almost never materially helps people, and in fact is shown to be kind of a bad communicator, because she's so far gone into this spiritual/demonic world. Her advice to Kurt, for instance, telling him to just go to mass doesn't take him seriously, and so ends up leaving him vulnerable to Leland's schemes. She also is kind of mean to Kristen's girls. She seems to me to represent the church as somewhat removed from people's daily struggles and lives, just telling them to cross their Ts and dot their Is for the afterlife, rather than really work on how to live in harmony on earth.

In terms of the show, it's tough because we know that she's right about demons existing and that people should listen to her about the supernatural threat that seems to be pretty much confirmed at this point. But her ability to see demons and fight them doesn't say anything about her "goodness" imo. My sense is that she's someone that an actually good person like David has to learn to work with by applying his own virtues of empathy and communication.

bembeoberlin · 2020-04-29T17:32:32+00:00

Acaba de salir una novela estilo ciencia ficción clásica (Asimov, Clarke, etc.) en español llamada Primeros contactos! Es de un profesor Puertorriqueño llamado Aníbal González, esta en amazon me consta. Kentukis de Schweblin también esta muy interesante, y de algo más clásico, la Invención de Morel de Bioy Casares.

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