Baseball was a secondary goal in the construction of Dodger Stadium. The primary goal was to get rid of a bunch of brown people who lived too close to downtown for whitey to handle.

When you understand that, the giant parking lot makes tons of sense.

Hypocrisy hasn’t been a gotcha for Republicans for decades. You at least got to give it to Democrats for learning this lesson.

In the worst way possible and in defense of the worst policies, of course.

Excuse the overdramatization, but it feels a lot like Frodo going to the Grey Havens. They did something great and now their reward is to disappear forever and be well taken care of.

I’ve worked for tech companies in SV and I’ve never seen a developer without a MacBook.

Yeah I don’t expect there are many tech employees working with Windows Thinkpads.

When asked if he was sure that Albion couldn’t be copyrighted due to its historical context, he replied: “I don’t know if I’m honest, I don’t really know… I hope so. I mean you would think that the responsible person I should be, I would’ve spent the last six months in lawyers’ offices…”

Bold strategy, Cotton.

Showing all the balls by immediately coming out to say no to Medicare for All, yes to the border wall, and yes to genocide.

This is the shit you like to see? Or is it perhaps that you believe in nothing and care only about aesthetics?

Someone explains what this means to me, a dumbass.

Tearing down the properties has reduced their local property tax base and also no doubt reduced the values of the properties across the streets as well. It’s creating a downward spiral of local tax revenue while no doubt increasing state maintenance obligations.

Decisions like this are why small towns like this are going broke. They make themselves easier to drive through and tear down the properties that constitute their tax base.

City or state would have had to pay to buy the properties anyway, though. Then the money spent on the widening could easily have been spent to modernize and update (or otherwise improve) the buildings.

The issue, to be clear, is not who makes the surveillance cameras. It’s the surveillance cameras being installed in the first place.

Alarmism about Chinese surveillance cameras is missing the forest for the trees.

Except if the side of the truck says “U-Haul” or “Home Depot” people understand you’re not the kind of asshole who buys and drives a fuckoff huge truck every day of the week.

Here’s some cool stuff our looser rules and more reasonable costs used to allow but we got rid of all of that so don’t worry.

They had really extensive plans in 1984 that accomplished amazing things. And then immediately got rid of them after the Olympics.

https://la.curbed.com/2018/6/7/17419270/olympics-2028-los-angeles-1984-traffic

Shot better from 3 than from 2.

That’s my 🐐

Mt. Moran. Grand Tetons National Park in Wyoming.

If you have an older coin-op washer in your building you can usually look up the model number and either buy a master key or learn the default programming code to set the price.

the impetus to improve the infrastructure will be stronger if conditions are worse

don’t chicken-and-egg yourself out of densification

The people who post this meme often do not want for-profit housing development of any kind.

If traffic gets bad enough people will make different decisions.