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Anime Schoolgirl
Nov 28, 2002

Post pointlessly about the hotbed of fentanyl not related to the other main threads in the forums here

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triple sulk
Sep 17, 2014



it's bad, op

Alan Smithee
Jan 4, 2005


A man becomes preeminent, he's expected to have enthusiasms.

Enthusiasms, enthusiasms...
armpittsburgh

mormonpartyboat
Jan 14, 2015

by Reene
poopburg

Alan Smithee
Jan 4, 2005


A man becomes preeminent, he's expected to have enthusiasms.

Enthusiasms, enthusiasms...
nothingpitsburger

paul_soccer10
Mar 28, 2016

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
stenchburg

Anime Schoolgirl
Nov 28, 2002

mormonpartyboat
Jan 14, 2015

by Reene
[pitts burg pizza is a butt with a fart ocming out

Quotey
Aug 16, 2006

We went out for lunch and then we stopped for some bubble tea.
TRUMP

mormonpartyboat
Jan 14, 2015

by Reene
pittburg.avi where its thrwoing up into pitssburh and then eating the shity piza and throwing up again

Ragtime All The Time
Apr 6, 2011





pissburgh!

Relevant Tangent
Nov 18, 2016

Tangentially Relevant

Copy/Paste because that's all the effort this terrible city deserves.

Robert Plant posted:

Also ban Pittsburgh posting and reward Philadelphia posting

You've given me an excuse to post Pittsburgh pizza.



They go through multiple tons of cold cheese every day, because Pittsburghians are hosed up.

Defend this Pisssburghians, I dare you.

Duscat
Jan 4, 2009
Fun Shoe

Peanut President
Nov 5, 2008

by Athanatos
Stop dumping your raw sewage in the loving river you goddamn trashfucks. We need that to drink :argh:

Troy Queef
Jan 12, 2013




Relevant Tangent posted:

Copy/Paste because that's all the effort this terrible city deserves.


You've given me an excuse to post Pittsburgh pizza.



They go through multiple tons of cold cheese every day, because Pittsburghians are hosed up.

Defend this Pisssburghians, I dare you.

this is a horrible pizza, and I should know, I live in St Louis.

Chokes McGee
Aug 7, 2008

This is Urotsuki.

Peanut President posted:

Stop dumping your raw sewage in the loving river you goddamn trashfucks. We need that to drink :argh:

turn on yr monitor (the sewage are your posts)

the bitcoin of weed
Nov 1, 2014

i want to post that, i think it was jacobin? article about how Pittsburgh has been """remade""" from an industrial center into a tech center about a dozen times since 1900 to drum up publicity for the city doing the same poo poo it always has but that's too much effort for this thread

OldAlias
Nov 2, 2013

Relevant Tangent posted:

Copy/Paste because that's all the effort this terrible city deserves.


You've given me an excuse to post Pittsburgh pizza.



They go through multiple tons of cold cheese every day, because Pittsburghians are hosed up.

Defend this Pisssburghians, I dare you.

this is “Ohio valley” style

maskenfreiheit
Dec 30, 2004

the bitcoin of weed posted:

i want to post that, i think it was jacobin? article about how Pittsburgh has been """remade""" from an industrial center into a tech center about a dozen times since 1900 to drum up publicity for the city doing the same poo poo it always has but that's too much effort for this thread

it's a lie there's coal smoke and men in monocles, no need to come drive up the already obscene rents

get that OUT of my face
Feb 10, 2007

pittsburgh is a hospital and university city these days so it's seamlessly transitioned from blue- to white-collar. most of the people who worked in steel mills moved across the country and that's why the cancer that is steeler fandom spread and metastasized

fabergay egg
Mar 1, 2012

it's not a rhetorical question, for politely saying 'you are an idiot, you don't know what you are talking about'


what horrors their lurk, beyond the wilds of pennsyltucky...

the bitcoin of weed
Nov 1, 2014

get that OUT of my face posted:

pittsburgh is a hospital and university city these days so it's seamlessly transitioned from blue- to white-collar. most of the people who worked in steel mills moved across the country and that's why the cancer that is steeler fandom spread and metastasized

ah here we go

quote:

By the late nineteenth century, most manufacturing had moved outside Pittsburgh. All but one of the sprawling steel mills that once defined the city were in the suburbs. So were the glass, aluminum, and chemical factories, the massive Westinghouse plant, and the coal mines that fueled the mills.

Meanwhile, industrial firms and industrialists reinvested their surplus profits into the city. Even then, Pittsburgh boasted many of the features its boosters celebrate today: hospitals, universities, research labs, banks, corporate headquarters, museums, and leafy elite neighborhoods. For decades, only New York and Chicago had more Fortune 500 headquarters.

Factory relocation, the trademark of globalization, allows firms to pit cities and counties against each other and increase their profit margins. Pittsburgh businesses were among the first innovators of this practice. US Steel moved toward markets and transportation on the Great Lakes, Alcoa sought out electricity and proximity to the aviation industry in the western United States, and Westinghouse followed cheap and compliant labor down South.

You might think that disinvesting in manufacturing would disrupt Pittsburgh-based businesses, as their profits came from production. But there was no reason stuff needed to be made in the area, especially if companies could do it more cheaply elsewhere. Pittsburgh’s business community reimagined the city as a corporate center where white-collar workers would orchestrate and finance manufacturing that took place somewhere else.

The region’s image as polluted, decrepit, and working-class was inimical to this new vision. Executives, engineers, managers, and their wives no longer wanted to live in the Steel City. Beginning in the 1950s, business leaders started telling the story of a “valuable man” who left Pittsburgh for New York or Los Angeles because he could not face life in the region. Pittsburgh had smoky air and lacked cultural refinement; its slums were “a hurt to the eyes.”

quote:

The oddest part of the story of the new Pittsburgh is that it always ends up back where it started. An industrial city miraculously transformed into a center of the tech economy in 1956, 1963, 1985, 1999, and 2016. Perhaps the most telling instance came in 2009, in the midst of the financial crisis, when the Obama administration brought the G-20 to the city because it was “a model for turning the page to a twenty-first century economy.”

The Pittsburgh passion play keeps running because it presents a very useful myth: that capitalism can creatively transform cities for the common good. A closer look at the region reveals that this is far from true. Pittsburgh’s revival benefits the few, not the many. Doctors, bankers, and engineers find prosperity within the city, as they have for more than a century. But outside and within the city limits, residents suffer from the same (or worse) poverty, racial injustice, and environmental degradation as anywhere else in the United States.

gently caress pittsburgh, the original gentrified shithole

get that OUT of my face
Feb 10, 2007

i'm still blaming the recent tech boom on san francisco. jerry falwell was right, that place truly is sodom and gommorah

The Ol Spicy Keychain
Jan 17, 2013

I MEPHISTO MY OWN ASSHOLE

Relevant Tangent posted:

Copy/Paste because that's all the effort this terrible city deserves.


You've given me an excuse to post Pittsburgh pizza.



They go through multiple tons of cold cheese every day, because Pittsburghians are hosed up.

Defend this Pisssburghians, I dare you.

what the gently caress is this

cuntman.net
Mar 1, 2013

pittsburgh

cuntman.net
Mar 1, 2013

not meant as an answer to that question by the way im just posting pittsburgh

Mia Wasikowska
Oct 7, 2006

get that OUT of my face posted:

i'm still blaming the recent tech boom on san francisco. jerry falwell was right, that place truly is sodom and gommorah

its been weird and depressing seeing the associations people have with places like san francisco and seattle (rightfully) change with the tech boom. i blame libertarians

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

the bitcoin of weed posted:

ah here we go



gently caress pittsburgh, the original gentrified shithole

lol

Pittsburgh had smoky air and lacked cultural refinement

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

The article owned since it explained the random pockets of Steeler fans in the USA.

etalian has issued a correction as of 13:42 on Nov 4, 2017

General Dog
Apr 26, 2008

Everybody's working for the weekend
Pittsburgh is one of the nicest cities I've ever visited, and I don't know why you'd try to eat pizza there.

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

General Dog posted:

Pittsburgh is one of the nicest cities I've ever visited, and I don't know why you'd try to eat pizza there.

I guess you haven't been to many cities in your life.

get that OUT of my face
Feb 10, 2007

i heard that pittsburgh has everything that you could want in a city, but there's only one of each thing there

Zas posted:

its been weird and depressing seeing the associations people have with places like san francisco and seattle (rightfully) change with the tech boom. i blame libertarians
at least seattle has a socialist in city council, may have another one after local elections next week, and implemented progressive laws like an immediate $15 minimum wage and reduced public transit fare for poor commuters. san francisco has none of that. i hope the bubble bursts even though it probably won't any time soon

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

All the positive media spin is just a trick to convince people to willingly move to a rust belt city.

get that OUT of my face
Feb 10, 2007

is that guy who would constantly post about pittsburgh being the best city in the world banned? i'm sure the people trashing it would make him furious

etalian posted:

All the positive media spin is just a trick to convince people to willingly move to a rust belt city.
i heard that from a person and not through media hype. i have no interest in visiting or moving there

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

Pittsburg and other rust belt cities basically have the Ohio.

Anyone with education and ambition has probably already fled for better prospects in coastal cities.

Pittsburg is basically the same disaster as what happened to Detroit/Camden but on a smaller scale.

maskenfreiheit
Dec 30, 2004

etalian posted:

All the positive media spin is just a trick to convince people to willingly move to a rust belt city.

you merely adopted the fentanyl cloud - i was born in it

etalian posted:

Pittsburg and other rust belt cities basically have the Ohio.

Anyone with education and ambition has probably already fled for better prospects in coastal cities.

Pittsburg is basically the same disaster as what happened to Detroit/Camden but on a smaller scale.

Pittsburg is the end of the BART

spell it right ya jagoff

Squizzle
Apr 24, 2008




maskenfreiheit posted:

you merely adopted the fentanyl cloud - i was born in it


Pittsburg is the end of the BART

spell it right ya jagoff

pigsburt

maskenfreiheit
Dec 30, 2004
i will admin that primantis is a scam

like trying to get your cousin to eat a bug, we've been getting you idiots to eat slaw and fries on stale bread for inflated price

Darkman Fanpage
Jul 4, 2012
aaaaaaay go penguins

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Sheng-Ji Yang
Mar 5, 2014


Relevant Tangent posted:

You've given me an excuse to post Pittsburgh pizza.



They go through multiple tons of cold cheese every day, because Pittsburghians are hosed up.

Defend this Pisssburghians, I dare you.

what the gently caress

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