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indigi posted:to me it seemed like there’ll be a dedicated train that only goes end to end with shorter/slower “local” lines that make individual stops That would require a modicum of urban planning and common sense so it will absolutely not happen
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Failed Imagineer posted:My dude have you ever heard of penthouse apartments Or also any city or even medium to small town where there are heights and low ground of some sort?
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Up-town girl, she's been living in her equitable, economically just and fair town world
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Bear in mind that the Burj Khalifa, their last vanity project, is 29% empty.
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that would be a decent occupancy rate for those new super-skinny skyscraper condos in nyc but they can't stop building them
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Shame Boy posted:Up-town girl, she's been living in her equitable, economically just and fair town world "Uptown" usually means north though, not... higher up
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the white hand posted:that would be a decent occupancy rate for those new super-skinny skyscraper condos in nyc but they can't stop building them The question you have to ask yourself is whether occupancy rate is more important than prestige. And you know the answer to that
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Failed Imagineer posted:"Uptown" usually means north though, not... higher up uptown usually means away from the coast or the river
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Failed Imagineer posted:"Uptown" usually means north though, not... higher up drat gottem! how does it feel to be absolutely owned by this correction, my guy? what an absolute blunder. get wrecked
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E:^^^° kthe white hand posted:that would be a decent occupancy rate for those new super-skinny skyscraper condos in nyc but they can't stop building them That fucken stupid new Manhattan skinnyscraper that's just south of Central Park, every time Im walking around and I see its stupid nonsensical profile and remember it exists I have to lol
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The Chairman posted:uptown usually means away from the coast or the river I was trying to think of examples since it's not really used in my country, but my brain was just defaulting to Manhattan
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Failed Imagineer posted:E:^^^° k They're all ugly as sin and total garbage and even the stupid rich dont want to live in something that's basically a spagetthi noodle in a gale
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F_Shit_Fitzgerald posted:Well poo poo, if life is so unfair to our precious job creators then maybe they should "go Galt" and gently caress off to their own libertarian desert paradise. Or have infrastructure, since that is someone else problem that I make tons of money using. No wait, we'll have it so everyone owns their own slice of the road so you get a toll booth every quarter mile as ownership changes
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grass toucher posted:the laffer curve is a miracle of modern mathematics in that it's the only known curve where there's a continual negative slope from one point to another equal point.
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Failed Imagineer posted:E:^^^° k 420 park or whatever? that owns because it's falling apart so fast that the dozen idiots who live there have repeatedly had to move out for up to 18 months at a time due to water/sewer/electrical damage. the design is literally a trashcan. not "hah hah that's funny it looks like a stretched out trash can", no, the architect proudly shows off the trash can that inspired the design. one of the most expensive apartments illegally logged thousand year old protected cedar trees from japan for their handrails it's just an exquisite blend of all your favorite capitalist excesses.
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While that one is also awful, I meant the even stupider 111 West 57th Street/Steinway Building tower, which is the width of a bowling alley despite being the 4th tallest building in NYC. Its the stupidly skinny building that won't stop swaying!  The gently caress is this poo poo https://twitter.com/mrwtffacts/status/1513590089351409675?t=5wYfw8wg4NT1wjw-zgfhVQ&s=19 Failed Imagineer has issued a correction as of 23:37 on Jul 26, 2022 |
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^^^^^^ Lol that's one ugly chopstick so there's some insanely stupid poo poo going on here with "air rights" and turning unused square footage into altitude. blal bla bla a block can only have so much square footage so A) you buy what your neighbors don't use and B) you make your building stupidly small as possible so your square footage per floor is low and C) you make a bunch of useless floors with 50' cielings as "equipment rooms" because those don't count and then you can sell one penthouse condo for a half billion dollars because for 6 months it's the tallest one in manhattan (until the next tower gets built) also you don't have to tell the planning board how tall your building is going to be until it's built for arcane reasons also you do all this while stepping over the homeless to build a building that's 5-10% occupied at best. e: corporate casket did a video on 432 park which is just full of "ok so they're getting ripped off to the tune of 15k a month but also 15k a month isn't really much money for them so i don't know who to root for" but the whole building being a trashfire from start to finish is completely worth watching. imagine having more money than most families will see over 15 generations and you still have to walk up 70 flights of stairs to go home because the landlord can't keep the elevators working https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Gjfs_KjAH4 Harik has issued a correction as of 23:50 on Jul 26, 2022 |
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by completed do they mean "they stopped working on it" because you can see through it.
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the apartments aren't meant to be lived in they're meant to be an investment account
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Shear Modulus posted:the apartments aren't meant to be lived in they're meant to be an investment account yeah but don't investment accounts have to have a floor and walls?
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or is that oldschool thinking and these are apartment futures that they're investing in now
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Harik posted:laffer curve is a miracle of modern mathematics in that it's the only known curve where there's a continual negative slope from one point to another equal point. that sounds a lot like bad math, to me. In fact, a lot of economy does. must be some sort of coincidence.
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Harik posted:by completed do they mean "they stopped working on it" because you can see through it. Tbf I think that's a construction shot but honestly I wouldn't be surprised because these towers are just the modern Western equivalent of the giant stone currency of the Yap islanders
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Harik posted:^^^^^^ Like just live in a hotel at that point. There are so many nice loving hotels in midtown alone. You could try a new one every week. I guess it really is a case of money meaning nothing to them Harik posted:by completed do they mean "they stopped working on it" because you can see through it. That's for wind I'm pretty sure. Yes, it's all very very stupid.
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Arsenic Lupin posted:Bear in mind that the Burj Khalifa, their last vanity project, is 29% empty. I recently learned the Burj Khalifa isn't connected to any sewerage system so before dawn every day there are dozens to hundreds of sewerage trucks carting off the waste
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Harik posted:by completed do they mean "they stopped working on it" because you can see through it. Every few floors are basically empty breezeway
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJuqe6sre2I Not sure if this guy's been linked yet, but his videos are informative with just enough dry sarcasm to be funny. His Anarcho Capitalism videos are fun too.
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Shame Boy posted:What a weird twitter account, it mostly seems to be him obsessively pointing out completely useless levels of detail about Orlando People are very weird about Disney for some reason. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIRO-t1cUik I guess consuming DISNEY is a major part of people's lives?
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spacetoaster posted:People are very weird about Disney for some reason. I grew up and still live in central florida, believe me I am well aware of Disney Weirdos
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I'd love for every possible disaster to hit Disney World when the park is at record attendance. Solve a lot of problems at once.
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There are far too many people who base their entire personality and individuality around "Liking Disney" and it is the creepiest drat thing when you have to interact with them. I had a coworker like that recently and they were SO EXCITED for the latest stars wars or guardian of the galaxies and he'd just go on and on about how great all the new rides looked. He absolutely loved that EPCOT was tearing up all their old stuff to replace it with [Disney Brand] THE RIDE and wouldn't shut up about it for like a week too 
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Failed Imagineer posted:While that one is also awful, I meant the even stupider 111 West 57th Street/Steinway Building tower, which is the width of a bowling alley despite being the 4th tallest building in NYC. 
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I hope they had to google "what building does canada really like"
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That's such a lovely saying, maybe it's punchier in Arabic
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starkebn posted:I recently learned the Burj Khalifa isn't connected to any sewerage system so before dawn every day there are dozens to hundreds of sewerage trucks carting off the waste Sewerage system is a tautology.
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greazeball posted:I want to see the maths on going 170km in 20 minutes, presumably with a couple stops along the way However, for funsies: Serak posted:In reading this, I think what they are ACTUALLY claiming is that there will be a high-speed rail system that theoretically could achieve a speed of ~500km/h, not that you, a resident of LINE could actually ever travel end to end in 20 minutes. Which is bullshit, but at least remains in the realm of... err... 'physics'. Eh it'd be fine.
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Brought to you by the people who invented the Euthanasia Coaster
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That's so much cooler than a suicide booth
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