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Here is the new and improved How to Find a Party - a weekly roundup of what's happening in consumer tech, media, and new internet I hope you like it 🪩👁️

How to Find a Party - 001

All things consumer tech, media, and new internet.

www.howtofindaparty.xyz

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@_johnsonator

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we still live in a sprawling car dependent petro state. i do not care about jeans.

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Wearing jeans is bad for Earth, study finds — and yes, even just once

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Chinese planning is living in 2055, US planning is still in 1955

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I can see how so many professionals get radicalized against taxes. You live in an expensive city with rampant homelessness, transit barely works, and doing anything requires a 1000 step process. But 10k-20k is still getting pulled from your pay. Where is the societal return?

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"Economics is fake" is the liberal arts version of a STEM bro complaining about how his English class is "useless".

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@magneticksara It feels like everyone got their concept of small towns from Lifetime Christmas movies. Like grow up 🙄

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If you need a car, it’s not a city.

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real cities new york chicago philadelphia boston san francisco dc end list

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4 years

Gentrification is the movie villain. Single family zoning is the actual villain.

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@shu_b0x Everyone who has a problem with Keith Lee has problem with accountability, which is why their business is flopping.

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@meakoopa @twtrlssanna The Church of England has no theological basis for existing. Idk why gays getting married is where they put their foot down

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5 months

A lot of you need community, not a partner.

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@iHad2GoGetit

6 months

Unpopular dating opinions that would get you in this position???

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As a former suburban teen, my friends who grew up in the city had the space to explore and master their interests to a degree that I didn’t have the access to do. So no, they didn’t go to cocktail parties, but they had the opportunity to be accomplished artists and have a…

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People will be like, "the suburbs are so boring for kids" as though they think the modal teenager in NYC and LA is spending their time at cocktail parties and gallery openings and living these interesting lives that teenagers in the suburbs are missing out on

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Babes it’s a big suburb. Easy to comprehend.

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1 year

@lingerie_addict Why is she letting the lady on the TV screen shame her though? Marie doesn’t know her. Do people not know how to think for themselves?

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2 years

@perdricof Explains why the movement has been more focused on calling out minor issues rather than changing anything systemically.

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@always_Joan And goofy American girls are still moving there thinking they’re going to get a k-drama fantasy 🤭🙃

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No one should be begging for money in the subway with the amount of taxes I pay. Public housing and shelters shouldn’t have mile long waiting lists with the taxes I pay. There should be single payer healthcare by now with the taxes I pay.

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@folatianacici That’s a possibility. What they did was a HIPPA violation, I think.

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1 year

Glass Onion is about how mediocre white dudes stay scamming y’all in plain sight and how everyone is programmed to prop him up, especially in tech. People don’t hate this movie because it’s inaccurate, they hate it because it’s a perfect encapsulation of the problem.

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It’s not inherently conservative to want the government to be more cash efficient.

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2 years

That’s a picture of 1-2 regular sized trains worth of people…

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@teslaownersSV

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Traffic takes so much of your life. @boringcompany tunnels will solve horrendous images like this and give that time back.

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@OrangePaulp Venus retrograde strikes again

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@youdoingtoomuch Such a missed opportunity. She meant so much to the Disney Channel generation. Would have been a perfect full circle moment

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@Stop_Hammerzeit @PopBase I literally wouldn’t have seen it if they cast her in the lead as originally planned

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1 year

I love that Tokyo is a city that isn’t afraid to be a city. Americans are way too obsessed with inserting pastoralism in the most inappropriate settings and it holds our cities back.

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2 years

If the car was invented today and was pitched to VCs, it would be an automatic pass. The economics don’t work. The only reason that it exists today is because the government subsidizes all the infrastructure.

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@_johnsonator

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@TribTowerViews @night_brain_ They never actually unlearn American exceptionalism, they just become contrarians of it

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Suburbanites take more from NYC than they contribute. They want nothing to do with the city, while feeling entitled to constant access on their terms and want the rest of us to be grateful for their presence. No, they crowd the sidewalks, kill pedestrians and cyclists, and…

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New York’s MTA is suspending new construction contracts as lawsuits against a congestion pricing plan threaten the agency’s ability to pay for needed infrastructure upgrades

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@_johnsonator

2 years

Everyone who preaches about “people power” always neglect to mention that the “people” are homeowners profiting from underbuilding.

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@rafaelshimunov

2 years

My mentions today by “civil rights” and “housing rights” advocates after I said what YIMBYs really are: a paid-for astroturf front by billionaire developers to trick triple blue states into thinking we don’t have people power to dictate how we are housed.

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@PopCrave Cancers do not know how to stay single lol

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This is the dumbest most insensitive shit I read all day. SVB isn’t some shadow agent of Big Tech and VC, they supported hardworking founders, affordable housing, agriculture among other things. My TL and texts are filled with people who are scared. Regular working people won’t…

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@JuddLegum

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Venture capitalists should not be bailed out by taxpayers

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People always ask why I want to be a VC and not a founder. Guys, I’m not built to be a mom, I’m more of a cool aunt.

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@glossykayla @Les_Diabolique @damnitshim @T_mka_ I think that’s the point. Black women weren’t her competition. Even then famous Black starlets at the time (that weren’t video vixens) tended to be skinny.

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@_johnsonator

2 years

Comparing a pro-housing movement to a violent white supremacist group? This is the liberal version of conservatives saying that wearing masks is the same as slavery or some shit

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@katewillett

2 years

I am absolutely dying about @damienISgoodmon ‘s nickname for YIMBY’s , “the Proud Boys of Real Estate.” Encapsulates it perfectly

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@princessaiomii Not surprising given her mom is Ms. “Get Your Ass Up and Work”.

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2 years

At this point anyone who says that eliminating car-centered policy will hurt low income people, I will assume is a classfisher.

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@_johnsonator

4 years

This is why anti-density = anti-climate.

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@_johnsonator

3 months

Apartment buildings exist to house people. Not to look pretty. It’s wild how these people think they’re pro-poor while openly prioritizing style over HOUSING PEOPLE. It’s like if American Psycho took place at a nonprofit.

𝕯𝖎𝖑𝖉𝖔 𝕭𝖆𝖌𝖌𝖎𝖓𝖘 🎾💦

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NOTHING EVER CHANGES

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It was a mistake for society to treat education as a careerist commodity and not a means for self-improvement. As a result, we have a generation of academics who lack the quantitative skills to contextualize their theories and technologists who aren't media literate.

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Gentrification takes that aren’t grounded in an analysis of land use patterns and its role in racial inequality 👎🏾🤢🤮

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3 years

[THREAD] I hate how DC liberals talk about the SW Waterfront/Wharf. It represents everything that liberals/leftists constantly get wrong about housing and urban development.

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@_johnsonator

10 months

Blocking sunlight is good, actually.

NIMBY Patrol

@NimbyPatrol

10 months

What's your most controversial YIMBY/Urbanist/Housing/Transit opinion that you'll die on a hill for?

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1 year

@lingerie_addict The funny thing is that a lot of wealthy people rewear clothing until its unwearable.

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@_johnsonator

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Some of you don’t understand the phrase “cheap for a reason” and it shows. Major cities are expensive, in part, because they are the opposite of what most of America has to offer. Browbeating people into living in communities with incompatible ways of life isn’t a solution.

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NYC is expensive because our zoning codes haven’t been updated since 1961, forcing unnaturally low density and making it impossible to build more housing to accommodate everyone who wants to live here. It’s expensive to visit NYC because there aren’t enough hotels to serve…

menace of color 🦂

@lareinanegraa_

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Yall hate being told tourism is bad for locals in other countries and it’s funny because we see the effects of tourism on local populations here in the US all the time. NYC is a tourist city and has always been more expensive than most areas in the US. Coincidence? Nope

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@TByrne75 This was considered “curvy” in the 2000s

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One of the main reasons why I’m such a staunch YIMBY is because I understand that not everyone is born into their best life - some of us have to build it. Hinging everyone’s residence on their hometown is effectively subjecting people to their personal hell. And that is…

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@_johnsonator

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@stillnotziora The more I learn about Drake, the more I understand why Diddy swung on him.

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@_johnsonator

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@keatingssixth The ones I date are on the right side of the issue. They’ll be the main ones dragging their own. I don’t have to say anything

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@_johnsonator

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@_Zeets I think part of the problem is that southern right-wingers (rural bourgeoisie) dress themselves up in working-class stereotypes to obscure their class affiliations to those of us in the North, so they can continue their reign of terror on actual working-class southerners.

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@_johnsonator

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The hottest guys are always on public transit

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@_johnsonator

3 months

Manhattan would have more cool people if the city would just build more housing. Creatives tend to have less money and will live where it’s cheap. You can’t be surprised that generic looking people are taking over when the average rent is almost $6000.

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Chloë Sevigny on NYC: "The athleisure and the dogs are taking over, and that’s really unfortunate. Everybody’s in Lululemon and has a fucking dog and it’s driving me crazy. I’m sorry, dog lovers. There are too many of you."

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@EmiliaMarc10 I believe this. NYC paps aren’t known to be aggressive. Which is why celebrities like hanging out here when they want a more low key experience compared to LA.

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@glossykayla @EST9190 @Les_Diabolique @damnitshim @T_mka_ Not by 1990s/2000s Hollywood standards. Yes, non-celebrity women have had booties forever, but they weren’t the “it” girls.

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@consequence Hope she has those notifications turned off.

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@_johnsonator

2 years

Cars have set civilization back. I will die on this hill.

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@_johnsonator

2 years

Men have the audacity to not know basic economics and assume that I’d still be interested in dating them.

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@_johnsonator

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@KristyT You can tell that she’s hurt 😞

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@_johnsonator

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@Chrissssssw People don’t realize that anyone who doesn’t speak in a neutral TV accent is treated like they’re dumb

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@_johnsonator

2 years

If we're ever going to solve the housing crisis, the US is going to need more walkable cities. Unwalkable cities will need to be upzoned until they are walkable.

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@_johnsonator

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@MrsBundrige I say these two

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@_johnsonator

2 years

@JoshuaOgundu Shark Tank is full of Boomers who invest like Boomers. Once I started really getting into VC, the show got boring

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@_johnsonator

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@keatingssixth Same. I always thought she looked like regular af.

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@_johnsonator

2 years

All this will do is: 1) Increase housing discrimination (landlords not being able to evict will force them to filter for “good” tenants in the beginning stages) 2) Take more units off the market, especially on the bottom end (capped rent < renovation costs)

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@PippengerHarlo

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heres how to end the housing crisis 1) universal rent control 2) ban evictions 3) tax the rich to build public housing

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@_johnsonator

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Sweet Magnolia's is playing my life with this cliffhanger. Season 2 needs to come out tomorrow. The suspense is killing me. #SweetMagnolias

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@the_transit_guy Ms. Monroe would like a word lol

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@ArmandDoma Just send her to jail already, god 🙄

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@notcapnamerica The most racist client I had from my consulting days has Black grandchildren.

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@_johnsonator

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@TheOmniZaddy @nikicaga And “pennies” is very inaccurate. My cleaner makes approx $100k annually (I did the math).

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@_johnsonator

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This is what @IDoTheThinking @daguilarcanabal and all YIMBY activists in CA be talking about.

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@_johnsonator

2 years

The best insights I see on this app almost always come from sex workers. They never miss.

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@botticellibimbo

2 years

the strip club is sadly a leading indicator and i can promise y’all we r in a recession lmao

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@KiaRichards_ It’s embarrassing, everyone else gets beautiful aspirational stories and we get this embarrassing shit

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@_johnsonator

2 years

How Left-NIMBYs see themselves:

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@_johnsonator

2 years

If your leftism requires denying sorely needed shelter because some guy is making a buck off of it, then your leftism is about your ego.

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@_johnsonator

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Tbf, fatphobia in the urbanism community is a problem. But weight loss isn’t the only reason that walkable communities are ideal: - Lower transportation and utility costs - Less carbon emissions - Less natural resource extraction - Universal mobility esp for poor people,…

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Walkable cities is a dogwhistle for fatphobia.

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@_johnsonator

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@tyrakeshae @TyCole_ All of them? Good?

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@_johnsonator

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@sam_d_1995 Honestly there needs to be a new branch of the left that’s more pragmatic, data driven, and outcome centered. No perfomative wokes. No dirtbag “left” fascists. No LARPers. Just normal people who want everyone provided for.

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@_johnsonator

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I made a Google Form and collected data from 143 VC interns. I wrote a blog post about my findings, but here is a summary of what I learned... 🧵

I Collected Pay Data from 142 VC Interns, Here are the Five Things I Learned

The results may surprise you

howtofindaparty.substack.com

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@_johnsonator

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@lacalma3030 @Beymonce Yup. Shia is doing the same thing with converting to Catholicism

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@_johnsonator

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Gentrification isn’t an aesthetic, it’s a market distortion caused by nationwide oversupply of single family housing and an undersupply of multi-family housing.

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@_johnsonator

2 years

@KatenCheyenne @AshleeCartier @Rav3yn And baby trapped her too

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@_johnsonator

9 months

@ULTRAGLOSS Switch Bridgerton with Devi. The Rapunzel character in Tangled is a smart ass and the actress who plays Devi can do that well.

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@_johnsonator

4 years

Gentrification is a policy and market failure, not an aesthetic. Gentrification is a policy and market failure, not an aesthetic. Gentrification is a policy and market failure, not an aesthetic. Gentrification is a policy and market failure, not an aesthetic.

DCist

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New research uses Google Street View to look at "indicators of gentrification" in D.C.

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@_johnsonator

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I will never understand why homebuilders making money from housing people is more offensive than homeowners directly profiting from homelessness and displacement via hoarded capital gains. Make it make sense 💀💀💀

Joe

@htown_Joe

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YIMBYs are useful idiots for rich capatalists. Eg, @yhdistyminen , who celebrates developers profits bc they house people. What ill-conceived nonsense! What about the builder who make housing LESS affordable? E.g., the guy who recently tore down 4 historic bungalows on my block /1

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@_johnsonator

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Nuclear take: I think NYC VC culture holds the ecosystem back. There are too many ex-bankers and who bring that buttoned up, overly concrete culture to the space, making it hard for out-of-the box founders to succeed. So all we get is a bunch of forgettable SaaS and FinTech…

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@_johnsonator

2 years

Going to a city and complaining about how big the skyscrapers are is like going to the beach and complaining that the ocean is too big

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@_johnsonator

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@eddunkle Okay, Karen

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@_johnsonator

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cities are places to live. not treaty treats for making a bunch of money. takes like this give tech a bad name.

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@_johnsonator

7 months

Can non-Indigenous people stop comparing themselves to Indigenous people pls? Getting priced out of your neighborhood, however unfortunate, is not the same as mass genocide. You sound like Republicans that compare minor inconveniences to slavery or the Holocaust.

James T Carter

@JamesTCarterII

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Who’s behind the Yimbyland account, the ghost of Andrew Jackson?

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What annoys me about this student loan forgiveness debate is how it conflates high income people with generational wealth with high income w/o generational wealth. Those things are VERY different.

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@_johnsonator

4 years

“You interrupted me and I would like to finish” - Every Black woman in Corporate America at some point

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@_johnsonator

10 months

@SANRIOJORDY @eastmusic__ Anything by Coi Leray if I’m keeping it a buck

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@_johnsonator

6 months

@TheBaddestMitch Trevor and Chloe have the same energy 🙈

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@_johnsonator

11 months

@notbrittani Because we are a tasteless, tacky people who insist we have the best taste. Delululemon.

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@_johnsonator

4 years

I need us to stop viewing gentrification as a stand-alone issue and more of a symptom of decades of exclusionary zoning.

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@_johnsonator

2 months

@arckayngel In reality women are upset because it happened to them and want to prevent others from suffering the same consequences.

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@_johnsonator

2 years

What gets me about wealth inequality discourse is the hyperfocus on billionaires and the failure to notice or even blantant support of more common sources of inequality, such as land ownership and property/zoning laws exclusively serving the interests of land owners

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@_johnsonator

11 months

@spencerheckwolf @amoralorealis The anti-Asian comments are coming in hot in the mentions.

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@_johnsonator

1 year

What unpopular urbanism opinion will land you in this position?

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