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[ratgod-deactivated20211130]

i dont think thats how u do it

[samueldeats]

Steven Universe is one of my favorite shows currently running; I couldn’t help but to do some fan animation for it!

If the GIF above gives you any trouble, you can watch a video up here: https://youtu.be/jCTZ-DB7blc

[activia-farts]

[snoden-deactivated20150621]

*is in hell*

me: it’s hot satan: it’s the heat

[roastedpepper]

*wears pajamas all day* *showers at 10:30 pm* *changes into new pajamas*

[fakenewsjunkie]

Stephen Colbert dances to Get Lucky by Daft Punk with Hugh Laurie, Jeff Bridges, Jimmy Fallon, Bryan Cranston, Jon Stewart, Henry Kissinger, Nick Cannon, and Matt Damon.

[mrsmookie]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[jossisgod-deactivated20160625]

Are we sure he’s taking over for David Letterman and not for Ellen DeGeneres?  This is fucking hysterical.

[insanely-smart]

Because this was perfect.

[mssissypooh-deactivated20160618]

Too perfect for words!

[ruinleon-deactivated20150409]

[hyponova]

[sasaq]

[jessehimself]

[catbountry]

Mangling other languages on t-shirts because they’re cool is one of the greatest cross-cultural phenomenons ever.

[ikimaru]

how many more time s

[fuks]

Some dystopian shit goin down at Subway

[mooncactus]

if you are a young thing i have one piece of advice for you:

being enthusiastic and happy about things you love is more important than being apathetic and snide. you will go so much farther in life spending energy on and talking about something you love than wasting energy on only complaining about or making fun of something you don’t. 

don’t focus on mocking others for being genuinely excited about something. focus on the things and people you love. 

[eldestsiblingsyndrome]

markiplier + text posts part 1 | part 2

[cheezaybiscuits-blog]

Watch out for the puberty truck

[warfatacheridesagain]

No fair! I just got nerdier looking when I got old, how come Mark gets to get hotter?!

[toytowns]

improving places w/o gentrification:

invest in infrastructure. fix the roads and sidewalks

invest in fixing up the buildings people live and work in

plant some trees and/or put in a public park

tear down condemned buildings and replace them with new ones of the same type

make programs that allow the people already living there to invest in new local businesses or start their own

put in mom and pop grocery stores

[atomictiki]

#1 don’t jack up rent of the very people that make the neighborhood what it is

There is a very depressing blog called Jeremiah’s Vanishing New York which is all about these legendary institutions being gutted and replaced with faceless condos or empty storefronts in NYC.

It’s both fascinating and sad (I don’t recommend binge reading)

[painfulelegy]

Unfortunately, everything you listed there sans the last 2 will result in effects similar to gentrification still. Investment in infrastructure and quality of life results in property values increasing. This also means increased property tax, and often will result in landlords increasing prices to maintain/increase profits.

The real important factor regarding preventing gentrification from happening either requires you to rent control property to keep prices affordable for their work conditions, or to improve the work quality of those living there, as to allow them to afford the increases that come with the neighborhoods improving.

Like this is the big thing about gentrification as a whole: improving a community itself increases the demand for others to want to live there, which alters prices, and allows for the snowballing that happens. This is exacerbated when rich moguls come in and try to invest in a burgeoning housing/property market and end up outcosting those that live there. Honestly, gentrification is one of the few reasons I would support government run businesses; as you have government installations pay people living there to improve locations and install stores; then they fund local development of those stores until a proper local owner group can be determined and the store can survive without support. It’s self investment cycles, but it’s hard to do and to convince people its worth doing for communities that aren’t their own.

[toytowns]

for me fixing up buildings and streets is more of a safety thing like ‘fix the foundation’ and ‘update heating/cooling that saves energy and money’  and ‘fix the street lights’

ideally you would get the local government to fix up the most basic: potholes, sidewalk cracks, etc

then have the people vote on what to improve in their buildings

and yes rent control is also an important aspect! at least lock in the rent for 5 years during development so the people who already live there can remain and outsiders may want to move in and contribute to the remodeling

but of course this would never HAPPEN because governments…especially small local governments…tend to not be able to (or want to) do much

[painfulelegy]

Oh, it definitely is similar; but doing so can still affect property values. A good example of this is in certain areas of los angeles. Regular property damage and crime rates keep property values down; as do safety hazards. The risk of living in the area means others are more desperate to push their property even if the general city is more optimal. By fixing up those types of infrastructure issues, it makes the area as a whole more valuable. The same premise applies to fixing up standard housing. Just taking a house from a shoddy, worn down mess to a safe structure drastically increases its value, and similar premises apply to general conditions of property; especially in relation to the quality increase that comes from the amount of fixing up that is needed in worn down areas.

But yeah, the issue with govt stagnation really prevents any of this from being able to be done in a way that results in healthy improvement of the area, including improved health and educational opportunities.

[toytowns]

the worst part is these areas were likely not born worn-down

these areas were probably virtually abandoned by their local governments and they became this way over time

and this kind of suffering could’ve been prevented

to top it all off trying to remedy this neglect can still cause suffering!

[softurl]

there’s like… a really bad idea of what gentrification looks like here, as if it’s this passive thing that just HAPPENS if a neighborhood becomes safer, and not something aggressive pushed by corporations and privileged individuals. 

gentrification is not an “oopsy, guess your rent just skyrocketed 300%! sorry, there’s a park in the neighborhood now!” it’s completely meditated. it’s greedy landlords making thought out choices and looking for loopholes to evict longtime residents paying lower rent, it’s the pre-gentrifiers criminalizing the cultures already in place in a neighborhood, it’s wealthier people accepting absurd prices like $8000/month for a 2br because they can afford it. it’s your local mom n pop spot no longer affording the rent because of that landlord, it’s whole foods taking over half the block, it’s original residents unable to afford to shop in their own neighborhood anymore. 

neighborhood improvements like a park or a community garden, or a grocery store with decent options, these don’t organically lead to the above. it’s not “if a then b”. what the hell

[actualshonenprotagonist]

The fact that landlords are able to rent out unsafe, energy inefficient, run-down properties to begin with is a sign that there is something wrong with the system. NYC has had a housing shortage since the 1840s, and local officials have been in a constant battle the whole time with landlords over building codes to ensure that the latter don’t build deathtraps for those who can’t afford to negotiate. The current boom in luxury high-rise condos is even more sickening, because a lot of those units are just sitting there empty cuz not enough people can afford them.

[audkoch-deactivated20190602]

A Theory of Relativity / Tommy Shepherd and Billy Kaplan (Young Avengers) / by Aud Koch

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Illustration of this meta idea:  that Billy’s powers are the manipulation of energy & matter and Tommy’s powers are the manipulation of time & space.  I’m gonna start calling these two the quantum physics bros!