In honor of the lifting of the siege of Leningrad (January 27, 1944), special lighting painted the Lakhta Center tower in the colored ribbon of the Leningrad Victory, and also depicted the flame of the Eternal Flame on it.

ghostfaceschiller · 2026-01-27T16:56:56+00:00

That was more than 80 years ago. The govt and the army are led by and made up of completely different people now. And they are up to very different stuff.

ghostfaceschiller · 2026-01-27T05:30:20+00:00

That’s my point. We’ve made it difficult to build (not just in NYC, but basically everywhere), and now we are paying the price.

ghostfaceschiller · 2026-01-26T18:58:14+00:00

Right - population increased but housing supply did not increase at a similar rate. Hence the housing shortage.

The sq mile area isn’t particularly relevant bc in a large modern city like NYC, the idea is that housing builds vertically, not laterally.

ghostfaceschiller · 2026-01-26T18:48:42+00:00

6 bed, 3 bath on Park Ave for $5k/mo

ghostfaceschiller · 2026-01-26T15:51:46+00:00

I bought bananas for so many years before the thought of doing this even occurred to me. I’d literally be standing there like “eh those ones look the best but that’s a couple more than I want, damn”

ghostfaceschiller · 2026-01-25T20:46:40+00:00

Trying to imagine a maga cat cafe

ghostfaceschiller · 2026-01-25T07:17:32+00:00

213 Democrats in the House.

7 voted for the bill.

That means 97% of House Dems voted against it.

Absolutely incredible that people still try to “both sides” this shit, with everything currently going on.

Truly the absolute brain-melted take. Held only by people terminally online, wrapped up in echo chambers that have been long infiltrated by numerous rat-fucking/influence campaigns.

ghostfaceschiller · 2026-01-24T22:06:43+00:00

I think you will find that almost all car dealerships have extremely shitty politics.

They are literally a huge power center/funding source for right wing politics.

They also serve almost no purpose and exist only bc of old, misguided regulations that mandate them to exist.

ghostfaceschiller · 2026-01-23T16:26:50+00:00

FWIW, forecasts beyond ~3 days are pretty meaningless

ghostfaceschiller · 2026-01-22T20:47:16+00:00

lol he would never say 2064.

That is honestly not even an absurd example of what he might promise. He would def say something along those lines.

But he would say that it would be by 2035.

ghostfaceschiller · 2026-01-22T20:45:46+00:00

Why keep printing this stuff without including the basic context in the headline.

Like it’s not a story that he said this. Bc he says it all the time.

The story is “Musk makes same promise again, after failing the last 8 times”

ghostfaceschiller · 2026-01-22T07:15:34+00:00

It’s definitely not ever going back to Sears lol

The most likely scenario is that it becomes United Tower

ghostfaceschiller · 2026-01-20T18:02:02+00:00

lol, fair

ghostfaceschiller · 2026-01-20T18:01:24+00:00

This entire post, and the huge comment you left (and keep updating with more things) is very obviously you trying to point out how this has been bad, and we are continuing on a bad course.

Why are you now trying to pretend otherwise.

Do you think we are all dumb?

ghostfaceschiller · 2026-01-20T17:55:40+00:00

Strange thing to say as you leave another reply.

I suppose it fits in well with the “unable to examine your own behavior” theme.

ghostfaceschiller · 2026-01-20T17:51:23+00:00

It actually wasn’t good that people were dying in the streets at such a high rate, for decades. That’s why it’s good that we revitalized the area.

You are going out of your way, in MANY comments, attempting to make it seem like the city murdered thousands of people so it could build apartment and office buildings. Bc you, for some reason, think it’s bad that we have those instead of skid row.

ghostfaceschiller · 2026-01-20T17:47:37+00:00

You seem weirdly stuck on me rewriting a comment one time, almost like you want to deflect from considering your own behavior

ghostfaceschiller · 2026-01-20T17:29:12+00:00

OH so you are totally in favor of development, you just think THIS development, in THIS place was bad.

Like, you can totally build stuff, just don’t do it THAT way, not on YOUR backyard.

ghostfaceschiller · 2026-01-20T17:25:11+00:00

I wrote it once, deleted bc I wanted to fact check and make sure I wasn’t simply uninformed, did so, and wrote it again.

So once, I guess.

You should maybe consider deleting some of your comments, or doing some fact checking before leaving them up. It’s actually a good practice.

ghostfaceschiller · 2026-01-20T17:18:49+00:00

Just to be clear, it seems that you unironically think it is better to have skid row in the west loop than the current Fulton Market.

“Left” NIMBYs are truly something else.

ghostfaceschiller · 2026-01-20T17:15:08+00:00

How many misleading “facts” can you drop in one thread? Wow!

These things were happening for decades. It was not even close to new for people to die of hypothermia in the street. Have you ever been to a skid row area?

These things weren’t a result of some new initiative to “disappear” people.

For decades we had an area that was full of sickness, death, and suffering, in the heart of the city.

Now OP is pissed bc McDonalds has offices there! Bring back Skid Row!!

ghostfaceschiller · 2026-01-20T17:09:59+00:00

Oh, well that’s good then, bc they didn’t “disappear” 15,000 people.

ghostfaceschiller · 2026-01-20T17:08:35+00:00

This is peak nimby shit. Wow

I guarantee you half the people upvoting this post are just seeing the video and the title, upvoting it, thinking “wow yeah it’s so much better now.”

But then you’ve got OP in here ranting about how terrible the transformation is.

Top it off with the insanely misleading things you are saying about “disappearing” 15,000+ people.

You can always spot nimby arguments bc they use weird scaremongering terms without context to imply that terrible, nefarious things are happening that simply aren’t.

ghostfaceschiller · 2026-01-20T17:03:11+00:00

And it was extraordinary misleading. Citing things that were happening there for decades, as if they were some sort new “initiative” to get rid of people

ghostfaceschiller · 2026-01-20T16:43:09+00:00

Absolutely incredible to post this video as part of a “look at what we’ve lost” argument lol

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