#city economy

[my-financials]

Investment Opportunities in Major Cities Around the World

Major cities around the world offer a variety of investment opportunities, from real estate to stocks to businesses. These opportunities can be attractive to investors because they offer the potential for high returns and growth. However, it is important to carefully consider the risks involved before investing in any city. Here are some of the most promising investment opportunities in major…

[hussyknee]

Once I stopped wheezing, I went looking for what inspired this tweet. Apparently anyone consistently ripping into Biden and telling anyone why he's trash is "voter suppression". Liberals have all lost their goddamn minds.

[petitesmafia]

random thought but just picturing the silence after the Meursault prison break finally ended…Chuuya and Dazai just standing there like so. is someone gonna come pick us up or

Dazai: squat down Chuuya: why Dazai: I’m tired lemme get on your back Chuuya: ??? I’m tired too Dazai: my frail legs…and oh! a headache…I feel faint…I wonder whose fault that is… Chuuya: be so fucking fr

Chuuya, yawning: I’m gonna fly first class back I need to sleep Dazai: hey Chuuya: you don’t have your passport with you bc your ass was in jail LOOOL Dazai: hey Chuuya… Chuuya: oh so now it’s “Chuuya” and not “dumbass” huh Dazai: I was just kidding…you booked first class for me too right…hey…

Chuuya: book your own fucking flight or ask doc glasses Dazai: I don’t have any money Chuuya: tbh when do you ever have money Dazai: Ango always puts me in economy Dazai: Chuuya…you and I are destined to take this journey home together Chuuya: can you let that go

[aro-bird]

Okay, for aro awareness week, I need you all to start recognizing that:

NOT EVERYONE IN THE ARO COMMUNITY IS FROM THE UNITED STATES OR EUROPE.

Please, when we're having discussions about aphobia, allonormativity amatonormativity, and other issues for the love of god STOP PRETENDING THAT WE DON'T EXIST AND LISTEN TO US!

We aren't just your token aros that exist in the other side of the world just for you to prove that we are everywhere or whatever point you're trying to make, we are living, breathing human beings and members of the aro community and we deserve respect and to be remembered not as a point in your discourse but as equals.

I am sick and tired of people just assuming that everyone in the community is either from the United States or Europe and only centering those voices in the discussion. We exist too.

[goshyesvintageads]

Toyota Motor Sales USA Inc, 1971

[anna0826]

Vienna night scene

[reasonsforhope]

"Of South Korea’s countless kilograms of annual food scraps, very few will ever end up in a landfill. This is because of two reasons—the first is that it’s been illegal since 2005, and the second is because they have perhaps the world’s most sophisticated food waste disposal infrastructure.

While representing a significant burden on the economy, the food waste disposal nevertheless produces ample supplies of animal feed, fertilizer, and biogas that heats thousands of homes.

As the New York Times’ John Yoo and Chang Lee reported from Seoul, South Korean cuisine tends to lend itself to creating food scraps, since many staple dishes come with anywhere from a few to a few dozen sides.

With the culture erring on the side of abundance rather than restraint, many of these small dishes of tofu, kimchi, bean sprouts, and other bites would be tossed in the landfill if it wasn’t illegal to do so.

The government put the ban hammer on it because the mountainous terrain isn’t ideal for landfill construction.

Instead, restauranteurs and street hawkers pay the municipality for a sticker that goes on the outside of special bins. Once filled with food scraps, they are left on the road for collectors in the morning who take 90% of all such waste in the country to specialized collection facilities.

At apartments and among residential housing areas, hi-tech food waste disposal machines are operated by a keycard owned by residents under contract with the disposal companies.

Once taken to the recycling facilities, the food is sorted for any non-food waste that’s mixed in, drained of its moisture, and then dried and baked into a black dirt-like material that has a dirt-like smell but which is actually a protein and fiber-rich feed for monogastric animals like chickens or ducks.

This is just one of the ways in which the food scraps are processed. Another method uses giant anaerobic digestors, in which bacteria break down all the food while producing a mixture of CO2 and methane used to heat homes—3,000 in a Seoul suburb called Goyang, for example. All the water needed for this chemical process comes from the moisture separated from the food earlier.

The remaining material is shipped as fertilizer to any farms that need it.

All the water content is sent to purification facilities where it will eventually be discharged into water supplies or streams.

While one such plant was shut down from locals complaining about the unbearable smell, many plants are odorless, thanks to a system of pipes built into the walls that eliminate it via chemical reaction.

It’s the way South Korea does it. Sure, it costs them around $600 million annually, but they have many admirers, including New York City which hopes to implement similar infrastructure in the coming years."

-via Good News Network, June 15, 2023

[gabriestat]

true detective: the long bright dark / disco elysium: jamais vu (derealization)

[imaginal-ai]

"Making Ends Meet"

[violent138]

Not that I think losing crime is bad, but it certainly would be interesting to explore the financial consequences to a massive city like Gotham where crime does pay for half or more (of everything) and drives the local economy, as partly illegal shipping for gangsters also moves legal products to buyers. Or that working for mobsters is stable enough to feed families.

As Batman succeeds and dismantles these power structures and pseudo industries, what happens to the city? Is there even a way to disentangle all of it from the corruption that runs it (seen when Jim Gordon has to hire cops investigated by internal affairs because they've all been investigated).

Would Wayne Enterprises just have to fill in all the gaps? WE shipping, catering, et cetera to replace lost jobs and income? Or would Batman have to reckon with the fact that he can't shut down everything? At least not as bluntly as he does.

[t4tails]

some ppl get so defensive over bruce wayne being a "good billionaire" like bro batman isnt real and hes not going to climb his way out of the comic book to fuck you

[vomitspit2]

omfg it’s almost midnight here and i have to get up for work at 5 AM but let me compose at least some of my thoughts …

ok idia x robot girl! reader … hear me out 🥺

someone he creates to cure his loneliness of companionship in a tender way that ortho just cannot do; ugh i’m imagining a plain head just sitting on the desk, stripped down to the metal and skinless; him asking which eye color you like the best until it lands upon yours;

the midnight conversations as he builds a body; the pining from the reader (is it actual pining or are you just scraping the edges of desperate self perseverance so he doesn’t trash you like the other models); kind of dream-like transition between adding each body parts (like imagine yourself lying in a tub of ink — cheeks, nose, lips, a slight peel of your forehead visible — and eventually it all drains down as more and more body parts are added);

the first very touch of human flesh upon you; the cracked polystyrene blinks that you give with twitchy eyelashes; you siphon your romantic tendencies between a messy mélange of gritty 18+ hentai and victorian romance novellas; idia pours his damned and tormented soul into making you perfect for him and you pour yourself willingly into the image, designed just for one man <3

past midnight edit:

BRUH TO THIS SOnG

yeah to this fuckin banger

((past midnight edit again: there are really only two ways you can go with robot main characters: the building process or the robot being oblivious and thinking they are human (Ex Machina or Twilight Zone) i enjoy both sooo much))

[the-great-gullon-incident]

what are your thoughts on the elvin economy?

(sorry for it being so broad)

General opinions? It’s pretty clear Shannon didn’t think it through very well and was just trying to add something to make the lost cities have more utopian elements, but most authors don’t think about their worlds economy so it’s not a big deal for me and it’s mostly just a fun thought experiment to try and make it function semi-properly.

General headcannons?

Elves don’t know shit about how human money and inflation works and Della was taking a wild guess about the exchange rate which is really about 1 luster = 75 dollars

Birth funds are only activated once you manifest an ability

A big chunk of your birth fund is spent on building your house

Most businesses work on commissions

Foxfire and Exilium are the only public schools(government funded schools), so if you don’t get accepted into Foxfire you’ll either go to Exilium, not get an education or your parents will have to pay for a private school

There is a large class disparity Sophie doesn’t know about since her elven connections are almost exclusively nobility.

Gnomes do almost all the hard labor in this world in trade for a safe place without fear of orges or other species taking worse advantage of them.

The elves main export to the other species is luxury items and gnomish produce.

[foxirori]

Waiting for gas to get expensive enough that the city-job people stop buying the country.

Suburbs should be more dense, rural should mean farm country, public transportation should be literally everywhere and suburbs walkable.

Also for god sakes, cap rents with a ratio of wage rates / inflation. Make being a landlord a service, not a paycheck. If they suddenly sell the properties they can't afford, guess wwhahaaaaat, house prices will drop!!

But seriously!! Get out of the back country! I will build from scratch or rebuild your lame McMansions when they're abandoned.

Please, I just want to be able to have a garden (without city toxins) and a tiny house, is that too much to ask T_T

[buffetlicious]

When for an appointment in the morning and it ended early so I proceed to the nearby coffee shop to have my brunch at the Economy Rice (菜饭) stall. From the numerous dishes on display, I chose crispy prawn rolls (虾枣), chicken & black fungus and stewed potato slices to go with rice.

On the way to the MRT train, I spied on the gorgeous confections at Paris Baguette and couldn’t resist the temptation to not eat dessert. Gotten the Blueberry Yogurt Tart (S$9.50) which is topped with glazed blueberries and red chocolate pearls. The light purple yogurt mousse is tangy sweet with marbling of blueberry compote and the sponge cake gave it substance.

[autumngracy]

End of an era, lads