The 'Pieces of Shit' thread

[Iommic Pope]

Speaking of the dude, read this earlier. Interesting take on the whole thing.

http://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultur ... -the-point

That was a good article.

You guys are fucked.

[popvulture]

Right? I mean, there's no denying that the guy's a phenomenal shithead, but he's also mighty convenient for a lot of people.

[Iommic Pope]

Yeah, that article really highlighted that fact.

[futuresailors]

Speaking of the dude, read this earlier. Interesting take on the whole thing.

http://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultur ... -the-point

http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz ... d-per-cent

[futuresailors]

Speaking of the dude, read this earlier. Interesting take on the whole thing.

http://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultur ... -the-point

http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz ... d-per-cent

[popvulture]

Haha yeah the New Yorker really seems to be on fire these days... they've got quite a bit of an Onion-y thing going on here and there.

[D.o.S.]

http://justink.svbtle.com/open-letter-t ... lice-chief

I know people are frustrated about gentrification happening in the city, but the reality is, we live in a free market society. The wealthy working people have earned their right to live in the city. They went out, got an education, work hard, and earned it. I shouldn’t have to worry about being accosted. I shouldn’t have to see the pain, struggle, and despair of homeless people to and from my way to work every day. I want my parents when they come visit to have a great experience, and enjoy this special place.

This guy has been an SF resident for three years.

This reply, though, is 110% gold.
https://medium.com/@EdnaMiraRaia/open-l ... .qtcwlit8j

A) You’ve been here for three years, meaning you don’t know a whole lot about what’s been happening in San Francisco because you don’t know what it was like before you got here. And when you got here, you didn’t care to find out because you moving here was not about discovering a new city, it was about entering a new world that was going to cater to your every whim. Yes, we the people of San Francisco who have been here for decades, are catering to your new lives. Those who are not in tech have become servants to those in the tech industry. Realize that.
You writing an open letter assuming you know anything about your community is a crock of shit because your community is one of self-important techies and ping-pong gathering friends who like wine bars and love to have everything handed to them with a disposable waste of a garnish and a cloth napkin. Go fuck yourself.

B) The tech industry swept into San Francisco just a few years ago around the time you did and people who suddenly had $10,000 a week incomes did not think twice about paying a $9,000 rent in the Mission and the Tenderloin, some of the dirtiest neighborhoods in the city. Landlords got greedy because you all said, “yea sure, I can afford that, it’s only one week’s worth of my income.” You lacked common sense to determine the apartments weren’t worth that much and didn’t have the decency to consider that the rest of the city couldn’t afford it. So suddenly an apartment that cost $1200 went up for the average person to $2500, $3500, $5000, and up and up. We could no longer afford it. Those who could salvage enough money from their deposits to put money down on rent in Oakland, did so. Those lucky enough to have rent control stayed out of spite. Those who had neither ended up on the street. Now rents are so high for everyone, not even businesses can survive. All of people’s favorite local restaurants, theaters, community centers, toy stores, churches, venues and especially long-standing bars have closed due to this. And what about all of those fires the last two years that burnt down businesses and were replaced by wine bars? To quote you, “I’M WILLING TO BET THOSE WEREN’T COINCIDENCES.”

[spacelordmother]

Aside from the absurdity of someone talking like they know shit when they are so new they barely know anything - how is it the tech industry's fault that landlords are opportunistic? And if in connection local business is getting tanked isn't it the city's duty to step in an enforce controls rather than support a bubble that will eventually (and assuredly) implode?

[Iommic Pope]

I think that comes down to the "Baby Huey" argument (see Steve Fisk's interview in Hype for the full deal).
Or just google "mining and regional Australia" for an idea.

[popvulture]

http://justink.svbtle.com/open-letter-t ... lice-chief

I know people are frustrated about gentrification happening in the city, but the reality is, we live in a free market society. The wealthy working people have earned their right to live in the city. They went out, got an education, work hard, and earned it. I shouldn’t have to worry about being accosted. I shouldn’t have to see the pain, struggle, and despair of homeless people to and from my way to work every day. I want my parents when they come visit to have a great experience, and enjoy this special place.

This guy has been an SF resident for three years.

This reply, though, is 110% gold.
https://medium.com/@EdnaMiraRaia/open-l ... .qtcwlit8j

A) You’ve been here for three years, meaning you don’t know a whole lot about what’s been happening in San Francisco because you don’t know what it was like before you got here. And when you got here, you didn’t care to find out because you moving here was not about discovering a new city, it was about entering a new world that was going to cater to your every whim. Yes, we the people of San Francisco who have been here for decades, are catering to your new lives. Those who are not in tech have become servants to those in the tech industry. Realize that.
You writing an open letter assuming you know anything about your community is a crock of shit because your community is one of self-important techies and ping-pong gathering friends who like wine bars and love to have everything handed to them with a disposable waste of a garnish and a cloth napkin. Go fuck yourself.

B) The tech industry swept into San Francisco just a few years ago around the time you did and people who suddenly had $10,000 a week incomes did not think twice about paying a $9,000 rent in the Mission and the Tenderloin, some of the dirtiest neighborhoods in the city. Landlords got greedy because you all said, “yea sure, I can afford that, it’s only one week’s worth of my income.” You lacked common sense to determine the apartments weren’t worth that much and didn’t have the decency to consider that the rest of the city couldn’t afford it. So suddenly an apartment that cost $1200 went up for the average person to $2500, $3500, $5000, and up and up. We could no longer afford it. Those who could salvage enough money from their deposits to put money down on rent in Oakland, did so. Those lucky enough to have rent control stayed out of spite. Those who had neither ended up on the street. Now rents are so high for everyone, not even businesses can survive. All of people’s favorite local restaurants, theaters, community centers, toy stores, churches, venues and especially long-standing bars have closed due to this. And what about all of those fires the last two years that burnt down businesses and were replaced by wine bars? To quote you, “I’M WILLING TO BET THOSE WEREN’T COINCIDENCES.”

Yep, I've heard friends who live in SF say as much... the general gist is that it's become a playground for young techies who can and do get everything they want, and that it's really just awful. Sounds like my nightmare.

I've lived in two places like that now... Williamsburg for 7 years and now Austin for almost 10. It's so bad here that I can't fucking WAIT to leave.

So, a bit off topic but related. OY.

[Faldoe]

Austin is like that too?

[repoman]

Meh. I lived in SF for 6 years. Starting in early 2000s. Yes...areas becoming gentrified, and those areas were shit holes. Ever have to clean shit off your house because people literally shit on your house? Like they stick their ass on the side of your house and shit on it? Yeah...had to do that more than you'd think. Wake up at night because some guy is having sex with a hooker outside your window and then throws the condom on the side of your house (next to the shit). Yep. Street fills up with trash and garbage because not many people living there really cares about keeping the neighborhood clean and not being a dick every week? Areas that get gentrified are areas that are largely unappreciated by the people living there...until they see its being valued by people with more money than them. If people didn't want to throw money at the neighborhood to live there, people would be complaining about how crappy their neighborhood is. Then other people come in and suddenly theres all this pride about having lived there for a long time. It's nonsense 90% of the time. I think gentrification is a good thing.

[D.o.S.]

PIPING HOT TAKES HERE! HOT TAKES! COME AND GET 'EM!

[psychic vampire.]

Yeah, let's just keep killing homeless people, black and brown people, and poor people, or putting them in prisons, it is really their faults for not being born rich, having access to good education, experiencing hardships, and not "pulling themselves up by the bootstraps" in the failing hellcorpse of late stage capitalism.

"Oh, you lived here 55 years? Well I have money so get the fuck out."

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