• inshallah2 [none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    In our current bizarro world reality I've been trying really hard not to make Onion jokes. But fuck me - the first few sentences could be directly from the Onion...

    The online listing for a $1.5 million home in Mountain View advises potential buyers that “opportunity knocks for your own design and creativity" and to “bring your architect, builder, and your imagination.” But there’s also a stern warning: “enter at your own risk.” That's because the home is being sold as a charred shell following a fire three years ago.

    • hahafuck [they/them]
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      3 years ago

      Its way worse now even than it was in 2018. Literally completely fucking unlivable. 10,000 people living in cars and its gotta be more than that in tents

      • inshallah2 [none/use name]
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        3 years ago

        How are things in East Palo Alto? I think at one point they had the highest per capita murder rate in the nation.

        What an insane country the US is.

        • hahafuck [they/them]
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          3 years ago

          Last I checked? Still poor, still got the old look to it. But its changing. Last time I was there I saw a guy smoke meth while walking through the mcdonalds drive through but there's so many companies there, its on the way to fucked