I was trying to respond to the comment I've copied and pasted below. Apparently Lemmy never lets you delete misplaced comments
So, projects? I would love to see a solution to home prices and the inequality they create but I think projects have been shown to work out poorly in the US.
Insurance companies have been trying to leave these markets for years. They know what's coming. This is just the beginning.
Who's ready ready for the American Dust Bowl II. Except this time instead of the dignity of a suffocating cloud of dust, wide spread crop failures, and good old fashioned starvation we'll have.... Let me look... All that plus fox news!
I hope misery and suffering are as cool as all that post apocalyptic fiction has led me to believe.
I swear to God it's like my countrymen saw a rap video shot in the projects when they were young, and now think the crack epidemic was the fault of public housing.
Using kwaloon walked city is disingenuous AF. Kowloon was a shanty town left to its own devices, governed neither by the British or the Chinese due to a quirk of geography and diplomacy. Kowloon (the walled city area now a park, not to be confused with the neighborhood) was never built to any sort of plan.
At it height kwaloon had 40,000 people living in it. In hong Kong alone there's now close to 10million, most of whom live in apartment buildings. It can work. It does work. Every day.
I swear to God it's like my countrymen saw a rap video shot in the projects and now think the crack epidemic was the fault of public housing.
As opposed to the suburban sprawl we have now? Every lawn fertilized, every driveway 2.5 cars? Or the shanty towns?
It turns out building housing is as easy as building housing. I would absolutely live in one of these if they were correctly managed. A half a billion Chinese people can't be all that wrong.
When you're thinking of brutalist structures you have to keep in mind the architectural world they were coming into. How the world had rarely seen such, flat, pure surfaces. We take them for granted now, every box building ever built owes something of itself to brutalisim.
But in the wake of WWII, I think it made a statement that things done in this building are done in a modern way. No gargoyles, no baron von-fuckpants, none of the old world trappings.
This little orange fuck puppet of ours is just seeing what other dictators are doing world wide and hopes to emulate. Xi wants Taiwan, Putin is getting a chunk of Ukraine, Netanyahu gets Palestine.
Our little oompa-lumpa needs Greenland to think himself an equal of these dickbags.
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I've been trying real hard not to spend money on a bread machine.