
healthcare bureaucrat in philly, v adhd, orthodox jew, ect ect, im love my wife
it turns out that the transporter can actually poof you suddenly like you were just edited into reality, but in the same way that japanese cameras require shutter sounds, it's just good space etiquette to have a warning that someone is appearing. so the episode is just 45 entire minutes of a someone at starfleet command looking at the history of transporter effects and thinking about where they can innovate and maybe people will like a sort of a remix of the robert april era effects that nostalgia cycle is on trend and they have to deal with the bureaucracy of bosses who want the color or the sound of the transporter effect to be more "commanding" or "friendly" or "diplomatic" and it can't be too similar to non federation transporter effects for legal and military reasons and they have a special setup which can simulate the eyes and ears of different species to see how it appears to non humans and they're up all night trying to get the right number of sparkles and they've got gigaquads of files labeled shit like "transporterFXfinalfinalfinal.holo"
it really is!!!
This is a really good piece of investigative reporting about how landlords are using techniques like warehousing and price-software to get around supply and demand in order to raise rents even when a city's adult population is shrinking faster than it's growing.
I'm generally in favor of building more housing but this is an important demonstration of the housing market is incapable of self-regulating and in fact housing being a market commodity is always detrimental to neighborhoods being both affordable and livable. Building more market rate housing doesn't increase supply and lower rent if landlords don't actually list all their vacant apartments or collude to raise rents all together despite there being an increased supply. Regulation of the market and building public housing, at minimum, is necessary.
This article definitely explains why Philadelphia rent still somehow skyrocketed when all the university students who usually fill most of the housing in its fastest gentrifying neighborhoods were sent home and told not to live in the city.
I was going to say "how is it legal for them to collude on prices like that" until I realized oh, oh it's not in nearly any other industry lol
so much of this countries issues stem from the fact that housing is a utility that is treated and seen as a commodity which is just fucking bonkers.