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obsessed with the fact humans successfully made computers to do math so now we are making computers worse at math
Fuck it, Urbanism hot take night, none of you bitches actually know what gentrification is
Those dilapidated warehouses being demolished and turned into a restaurant or an apartment complex is not gentrification
No, that man with a metrosexual haircut wearing airpods on the bus is not gentrifying your neighborhood, he is a person, not the American socio-economic landscape
@clearancecreedwatersurvival You'd be surprised how many people fail to grasp this
Like people will see affordable housing being built and say "Gentrification" because it's a 5 over 1 and has modern architecture
@timelineman-of-titors-edge A 5 over 1 is this bitch, the most hated architecture in the nation:
They are incredibly cheap to build apartment buildings with the current building codes. They are called 5 over 1's because they are 5 floors with wooden frames over a concrete base
Shout out to someone finally getting the point of this post
Corporate landlords raising rents to push out the local family owned grocery store because they know demand will be higher for a trendy coffeeshop now that a historical migrant neighborhood is getting popular with college students is gentrification. But the issue is the landlord raising rents, not the college students looking for a place they can afford to live. The college students would probably also like there to be a local grocery store that they can afford to buy stuff from. Putting the blame on the other working class people who are trying to scrape by and find a place they can afford is just buying the landlords excuses for why they're raising rent. Gentrification is driven first and foremost by landlord and developer greed. The people moving to find a place they can afford to live are just the consequences of allowing market logic to manage our housing, they'll be pushed out just the same when those landlords decide the neighborhood is in demand enough that they can raise the rents to target tech professionals instead.
“Judaism is like Christianity without the New Testament or Jesus” I’m going to explode u with my mind
Christianity is like Judaism if you stripped down all of our holy books and texts to just the Torah, renamed it, translated it differently, interpreted the text drastically differently, added a sequel, and also now there are three gods but they’re also all one g-d, and then developed as a completely separate culture for hundreds of years, with completely different holidays, customs and religious ceremonies.
Also, historically, Christians have been the oppressor class to Jews in almost every part of the world since it’s inception. Of fucking course they’re two drastically different religions and cultures.
You know, an interesting tumblr transformation that's happened gradually, and which I've seen no one talk about: ask-culture has essentially dropped off to nothing.
By which I mean, asks used to be WAY more of the tumblr economy. They used to be more common to send, and receive, and see. They were integral to the collaborative, forum-like behavior of old tumblr communities, not even to speak on the HUGE number of ask-blogs that used to exist to only be interacted with in ask-form.
I'm not saying this in a vying-for-attention way but instead in an observational way: I used to get way way more asks in like 2015, even with a fraction of my follower count. I wonder if it's due to the homogenization of social media sites? There's a lot more of this divide between "content creator" and "consumer" instead of just a bunch of peer blogs who would talk to each other. "Asks" aren't really a thing on twitter, are they? And as I understand it, the closest thing to an "ask" on instagram or tiktok would be a creator screenshotting some comment and responding to it in a new reel or video or whatever those content mediums are. Are asks just too tumblr-specific? Is that aspect of the site culture dying out as more and more people converge to using all their social media sites in the same way?
it's probably from assholes making asks a minefield of trolling/harassment for years with no real blocking ability, which turned people off from allowing asks on their blogs so as a whole the site moved away from it
but now that we do have better blocking, we should try to revive it.
Reblog if your ask box is open.
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