Numberone

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[–] Numberone@startrek.website 5 points 1 year ago

In the book "Highrisers", which is about the Cabrini-Greens housing developement in Chicago, there's a short section talking about how certain buildings were turned over to the tennents in a management capacity. It didn't fix all of the problems, and it didn't save Cabrini-Greens, but it did have some measure of success over beurocratic management by CHA, which was a joke. (FWIW I read this several years ago, so take it with a grain of salt)

That model has stuck out in my mind since. Why not have a simple budget for each building and let the work of maintenance be managed by the people who live there, with resources from the appropriate housing authority. The US is so fucking paternalistic about poverty and the people living in it. We build huge beurocracies incapable of truly scaling that then result in obsene waste like shown above. With some management some of that could be put on tennents, with them keeping some of benefits as well.

[–] Numberone@startrek.website 14 points 1 year ago (4 children)

FUCK YOU I WON'T DO WHAT YOU TELL ME!

[–] Numberone@startrek.website 2 points 1 year ago

Haha! Over my head. Sorry

[–] Numberone@startrek.website 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Cricket shill here. I've had cricket for years, it's affordable and has good perks like free roaming in Mexico and Canada. It's just an MVNO of ATT last I checked, so if ATT went down cricket would too.

[–] Numberone@startrek.website 3 points 1 year ago

I like how you add error bars to your statement. More people should post like that.

[–] Numberone@startrek.website 4 points 1 year ago

People withholding their vote from a bad candidate. Yeah...THAT'S the problem with the US😂.

I mean, if there were a single issue to decide a vote, seems like entheusiastic genocide support would be high up there. But what do I know...

[–] Numberone@startrek.website 9 points 1 year ago

But it's cute and instagrammy when the israellis do it, not mean and warcrimey like when the Russians do it.

[–] Numberone@startrek.website 5 points 1 year ago

It seems like with that level of militancy they've got some pretty powerful class consciousness.

[–] Numberone@startrek.website 4 points 1 year ago

I mean we had literally 9 kings to provide strong leadership. MAGA!

[–] Numberone@startrek.website 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Oh sorry for the fake news then. I'm out of the loop. I've seen your username a lot in the past and assumed. I knew you'd left Risa, I didn't realize it was the whole startrek.website. Sorry it came to that, I appreciated your content! 😁

[–] Numberone@startrek.website 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Stamets provides a lot of the content on the startrek.website server, and apparently beyond. They're very active and I appreciate what they do fwiw.

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