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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Yes. I know this with certainty. Cause I know someone who would. Namely me. And I am NOT a hipster. I'm a hippie. Big difference.
edited 7th Jun '13 9:58:38 PM by deathpigeon
Nostalgia is shitty justification for language policy. Nobody has the right to preventing their old neighbourhood from changing over 20+ years.
Share it so that people can get into this conversation, 'cause we're not the only ones who think like this.The Harlem + hipster franchises example is one that has very real and horrible consequences for current residents of the area. Those kinds of establishments aggressively moving into poor areas tends to be a herald of dramatically rising property values, which forcibly uproot poorer residents as landlords charge more.
A sudden preponderance of Spanish signs in main town areas can indicate the opposite, which can still have negative consequences — by catering to lower-income demographics (as recent immigrants often are), property values drop over time, followed by public services as everyone but the businesses targeting that demographic are driven off, and crime will likely increase in the area.
It's very much an issue where any change at all is likely to screw people over unless great care is taken to ensure otherwise. The "proper" way to bring in immigrants or improve a poor district is one that pulls the lower part up to scratch via work training, startup support for local businesses and such, whether the poorer folks are the newcomers or the old guard — but naturally, that's not the priority of the larger businesses that engineer these changes.
edited 7th Jun '13 10:21:05 PM by Pykrete
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Yeah, all neighborhoods change. Like, my town used to have this really good fancy restaurant I loved to go to, but it's gone now cause the owner died and his son didn't want to continue the family business, and there was this awesome mexican breakfast place near where I lived, but I no longer live there, anyway. And there's been stuff added and stuff gone. Some good some bad. Nostalgia is rampant in some places and I sometimes wish things would be like they used to be. But I also sometimes wish I was back in Kindergarten. I'm not going to go and change policy or make things like they used to be.
Yeah. Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Skype, AOL, Facebook, Apple, Verizon, Paltalk and You Tube are keeping tabs on your emails, documents, video conversations et al under PRISM. They can see you typing even when you don't send anything, like the Google documents where you can have people look at you as you type a story and help you edit.
Not the standard conversations, from what I know, though.
edited 7th Jun '13 11:03:55 PM by Sledgesaul
Well, "pushing people out" can have various meanings. A resident can feel driven out without anyone ever actually ordering or asking them to leave.
For example, if I used to live in a dorm because I liked its being quiet, but then one year a bunch of new freshmen moved in and turned it into a party dorm, and I moved out because I didn't like the noise...was I pushed out?
edited 7th Jun '13 10:39:18 PM by GlennMagusHarvey
Well it was the NSA and the FBI that put them up to it.
This is a great article if you need information on PRISM.
edited 7th Jun '13 11:08:14 PM by DeviantBraeburn
Everything is Possible. But some things are more Probable than others. JEBAGEDDON 2016I have never heard of Paltalk. But Google's supposedly got a good record on defending personal information. Not quite sure about the others. *shrug* But yeah I'd be more worried about what corporations do with your information than the government. What with corporations having such an influence on the government.
Sometimes I wonder if by the time someone who understands the technology now gets into government the tech will have advanced beyond their understanding, forever leaving us with a sense that the law simply can't catch up to tech ever.
Anyway, this probably isn't a case of anyone lying so much as phrasing the truth a specific way and being unable to tell all.
@Glenn; a dormitory typically isn't a permanent residence so I don't think that's really a good example. Most people expect their neighbors to change there.

Ah I see how that could make one uncomfortable.