Oh man I KNOW you know more about American politics than more than 50% of Americans. (The rest of the world is forced into knowing! Americans don't "have" to know. Yeah.)
I knew that guy just did portraits Like That because the Guardian did this full photo spread on all his portraits. Originally I thought it was by the guy who did Temporarily King George as some kind of lost soul in hell with a sad butterfly representing karma, or Diana, or the environment, or something.
Finally, no building more houses is not the answer (making the component of home ownership that promotes rental income is one part of the answer)
We've lived in this same apartment for like 20 years now and I don't even want to think about how much we'd paid in rent with absolutely no equity or whatever it's called building up. But Seattle, having rejected low-income housing (the waitlist is now FIVE YEARS LONG), and also rent control (landlord lobby is like the fucking Mob here), AND tiny houses, has now seized upon -- those giant dorm-like ten-story buildings that are all studios with a shared kitchen and bath and you have a microwave in your room and a great view that blocks everyone else's! They're for, like, tech bros and aging single guys who drink out of flasks at nine in the morning (there's one next to us and I have seen this happen enough times, it's like the ground is cursed because that was a halfway house before they renovated it). Eight hundred dollars a month and up (and up), for one room. This will fix EVERYTHING.
Anyway rn I'm hypomanic because I apparently convinced myself I was taking my mood stabilizer, antidepressant and anti-OCD med while not taking them, the way I would stay up all night in college trying to study and would start dreaming I was studying as my brain desperately tried to fix the twin problems of extreme sleep deprivation and no midterm paper. Ideas fizzing and popping! Jokes abounding! Literary ambitions rising!....oh. Whoops.
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I knew that guy just did portraits Like That because the Guardian did this full photo spread on all his portraits. Originally I thought it was by the guy who did Temporarily King George as some kind of lost soul in hell with a sad butterfly representing karma, or Diana, or the environment, or something.
Finally, no building more houses is not the answer (making the component of home ownership that promotes rental income is one part of the answer)
We've lived in this same apartment for like 20 years now and I don't even want to think about how much we'd paid in rent with absolutely no equity or whatever it's called building up. But Seattle, having rejected low-income housing (the waitlist is now FIVE YEARS LONG), and also rent control (landlord lobby is like the fucking Mob here), AND tiny houses, has now seized upon -- those giant dorm-like ten-story buildings that are all studios with a shared kitchen and bath and you have a microwave in your room and a great view that blocks everyone else's! They're for, like, tech bros and aging single guys who drink out of flasks at nine in the morning (there's one next to us and I have seen this happen enough times, it's like the ground is cursed because that was a halfway house before they renovated it). Eight hundred dollars a month and up (and up), for one room. This will fix EVERYTHING.
Anyway rn I'm hypomanic because I apparently convinced myself I was taking my mood stabilizer, antidepressant and anti-OCD med while not taking them, the way I would stay up all night in college trying to study and would start dreaming I was studying as my brain desperately tried to fix the twin problems of extreme sleep deprivation and no midterm paper. Ideas fizzing and popping! Jokes abounding! Literary ambitions rising!....oh. Whoops.