surrealchemist

surrealchemist t1_ixun81p wrote

Reply to Anyone know anything about this chip thingy I found? by JesusSaves002

There are companies that will make up custom poker chips for you. A company I once worked for, run by psychopaths, rented out a country club and hired a company that had gambling tables like blackjack and poker and chips with the company name on it. They made us gamble to see who would get bonuses like a trip to vegas and I won an iPod Touch or something.

Maybe some judges or somebody play poker a lot.

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surrealchemist t1_iua95p2 wrote

Reply to comment by twinkcommunist in Another building bites the dust... gentrification is real out here. by Towers_Oh_My27

There are other types of housing though the city can encourage. Things like renter co-ops, low income units, non-profit housing. They can put caps on rent if they wanted. The recent push to put extra tax on vacant properties is good as well if it can prevent landlords from sitting on a unit to wait to replace it with a higher rent tenant.

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surrealchemist t1_iu9irut wrote

Reply to comment by TenzeFiyer in Another building bites the dust... gentrification is real out here. by Towers_Oh_My27

Landlords and property owners don't make things look nice to make it nicer to live there. They make it nicer to justify charging the rent. If you just keep letting more and more in without any pushback then the other landlords are going to look at the market and start raising it as well because the whole average gets thrown out. Then it just spirals. There isn't much push back because people just see construction and new shiny things and think its good because it looks pretty and you can go to a starbucks or whatever.

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surrealchemist t1_itwet7d wrote

Reply to comment by black_stallion78 in Rendering Revealed for Affordable Housing Project on Newark’s 11th Street | Jersey Digs by 66nexus

Its the same woman that owns IHOP franchises and that Urban Vegan and southern place. I just wonder where someone gets the money to start up a business like that, her parents came to the US first before her and her brother left I think so they must have been cooking something up (no pun intended).

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surrealchemist t1_ituza74 wrote

Reply to Light Rail Today ~5.30PM by reputationStan

The light rail doesn't share tracks with anything else, so unless it crosses a street I am not sure about signals... maybe signal for a car ahead. I think them working out frequency and all that with more people going back to work/school might have more to do with it. Plenty of people probably decided to move to the suburbs or other places along public transit during the pandemic as well.

Still doesn't look as bad as when I used to take the light rail home after working downtown and a hockey game let out. Just picture the car filled with drunken people in red jerseys chanting and spilling beer on you packed in like sardines.

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surrealchemist t1_ir1tggq wrote

Reply to comment by hufflepufffpufffpass in Turning a Newark ‘no-man’s land’ into a residential neighborhood by Kalebxtentacion

Yeah they are built to optimize return on investment and not to fit in with the character of the city. They are everywhere too, so cities are just starting to look the same anywhere there is a commuter rail or highway. Saw similar all the way down to Florida on a train trip, and then just cookie cutter houses along the highways down there. Lots of capital and people just crunching numbers to figure out where to build.

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