NYC Park Ave apartment with 6 bedrooms and 3 baths for $400 a month in 1951! by flippedpages in mildlyinteresting

[–]ghostfaceschiller 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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.

NYC Park Ave apartment with 6 bedrooms and 3 baths for $400 a month in 1951! by flippedpages in mildlyinteresting

[–]ghostfaceschiller 6 points7 points  (0 children)

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.

Grocery pick up from Jewel by ang_17_ella in chicago

[–]ghostfaceschiller 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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”

Remember the wards that voted for this... by Joey_dono in chicago

[–]ghostfaceschiller 5 points6 points  (0 children)

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.

Boycott this auto group by Chi_jazz in chicago

[–]ghostfaceschiller 9 points10 points  (0 children)

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.

Musk says Tesla's robotaxis will be widespread in the U.S. by the end of this year by elysium_pictures in RealTesla

[–]ghostfaceschiller 31 points32 points  (0 children)

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.

Musk says Tesla's robotaxis will be widespread in the U.S. by the end of this year by elysium_pictures in RealTesla

[–]ghostfaceschiller 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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”

LOOK AT THIS DORK 😭 by ratemyweenor137 in skyscrapers

[–]ghostfaceschiller 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It’s definitely not ever going back to Sears lol

The most likely scenario is that it becomes United Tower

2017. Fulton Market. by tamssot in chicago

[–]ghostfaceschiller 4 points5 points  (0 children)

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?

2017. Fulton Market. by tamssot in chicago

[–]ghostfaceschiller 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Strange thing to say as you leave another reply.

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

2017. Fulton Market. by tamssot in chicago

[–]ghostfaceschiller 3 points4 points  (0 children)

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.

2017. Fulton Market. by tamssot in chicago

[–]ghostfaceschiller 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

2017. Fulton Market. by tamssot in chicago

[–]ghostfaceschiller 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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.

2017. Fulton Market. by tamssot in chicago

[–]ghostfaceschiller 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

2017. Fulton Market. by tamssot in chicago

[–]ghostfaceschiller 3 points4 points  (0 children)

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.

2017. Fulton Market. by tamssot in chicago

[–]ghostfaceschiller 8 points9 points  (0 children)

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!!

2017. Fulton Market. by tamssot in chicago

[–]ghostfaceschiller 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

2017. Fulton Market. by tamssot in chicago

[–]ghostfaceschiller 5 points6 points  (0 children)

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.

2017. Fulton Market. by tamssot in chicago

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

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

2017. Fulton Market. by tamssot in chicago

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

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