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This was supposed to be c/traingang, so post as many train pictures as possible.

All about urbanism and transportation, including freight transportation.

Home of train gang

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Trainposts highly encouraged

Talk about supply chain issues here!

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LANDLORDS COWER IN FEAR OF MAOTRAIN

"that train pic is too powerful lmao" - u/Cadende

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[–] WhyEssEff@hexbear.net 106 points 2 years ago (2 children)

guy who mugs people: god it’s so easy to make money

[–] wtypstanaccount04@hexbear.net 32 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Mugging sounds like a more difficult job tbh

[–] Comp4@hexbear.net 26 points 2 years ago

Mugging can be dangerous and is at least a physical activity.

[–] huf@hexbear.net 2 points 2 years ago

mugging is not comparable, because the police arent on your side. mugging-while-being-a-cop (civil asset forfeiture) seems like a similarly easy way to make money though.

[–] wopazoo@hexbear.net 31 points 2 years ago

new tagline

[–] CrispyFern@hexbear.net 56 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Landlords normally: "it's just so easy! My tenants pay for everything, I dont even have to work!" smuglord

Landlords after being called out by a leftist: "this is a very difficult job, I barely make a profit. Without me you would be homeless. All my money goes towards mortgages! (Equity? What's that?!)" boohoo

[–] Hello_Kitty_enjoyer@hexbear.net 10 points 2 years ago

I MEAN WHO ELSE WOULD LORD THE LAND????

[–] DragonBallZinn@hexbear.net 42 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Socially acceptable welfare queens.

  • There is no way he laid down even a drop of paint himself.

  • This reinforces how it is cheap to just be rich in the first place. You need to have money in order to do any of that and then "earn" the money. If he gets a loan, then it's even worse because it's just his tenants paying for all of it. Real soft-hands shit.

[–] viva_la_juche@hexbear.net 40 points 2 years ago

Showing this tweet as exhibit a at this dickheads execution trial

[–] Rom@hexbear.net 39 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Sounds like his tenets should redacted-1redacted-2

[–] WafflesTasteGood@hexbear.net 39 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Not pictured: Black mold in the walls, sagging floors, questionionable electrical work.

[–] Hello_Kitty_enjoyer@hexbear.net 11 points 2 years ago

we're always missing him

[–] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 33 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Cop and landlord seem to be the hot potato "professions": you get a lot of money at the expense of being hated by everyone and being acutely aware that the worse things get, the more well-deserved danger you'll be in if and when shit pops off on a large scale.

[–] Saeculum@hexbear.net 10 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Do cops get a lot of money? I wasn't under the impression it's a particularly well paid job, it's not in the UK at least.

[–] AlkaliMarxist@hexbear.net 19 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I think they're comparatively well paid for people with no skills or qualifications who sit down most of the day.

[–] MayoPete@hexbear.net 4 points 2 years ago

They get a shit load of benefits and special benefits just for them in many cases.

[–] da_gay_pussy_eatah@hexbear.net 19 points 2 years ago

Cops in America make a lot of money in a lot of places, especially considering the "qualifications" for the job.

[–] emizeko@hexbear.net 8 points 2 years ago

Alameda Police Department is offering new recruits a $75,000 signing bonus – the highest in the nation – on top of a $113,654 starting salary

https://www.ktvu.com/news/alameda-police-struggles-to-recruit-new-officers-despite-highest-in-nation-signing-bonus

[–] Adkml@hexbear.net 7 points 2 years ago

In the US you can abuse the shit out of overtime.

It's why you see 12 cops at a traffic stop, if a call goes out in their neighborhood they can trundle over in their plain clothes and shoot the shit and bill 2 hours of overtime.

[–] Tachanka@hexbear.net 26 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I've seen old brick buildings have this happen to them. Apparently they don't know you're not supposed to paint brick, and that it's dangerous to the structural integrity of the building.

[–] SuperZutsuki@hexbear.net 27 points 2 years ago

Painting brick is an unhinged move anyway because brick is a timeless look

[–] came_apart_at_Kmart@hexbear.net 19 points 2 years ago (1 children)

huh, TIL

If you are considering painting bricks on a building built before the 1940s please don’t do it, and I’m not just talking about design aesthetics. Historic bricks are softer than their modern counterparts and the lime mortar commonly used before the 1920s is extremely soft.

These softer masonry materials were design to breathe and if they can’t breathe you are setting yourself up for a world of hurt. When you use a sealer or paint brick of this age you often trap moisture inside which can lead to efflorescence and eventually spalling which is when the face of the brick is pushed right off the body and the brick quickly disintegrates into powder.

You may think I’m trying to scare you and you’d be right. I have restored many brick buildings where large chunks of the brick are spalling and the structure is falling apart from applying incompatible paints and coatings to the brick. Everything from masonry sealers to layers of latex or oil paints trapped moisture and the bricks slowly ate themselves up from the inside.

[–] keepcarrot@hexbear.net 7 points 2 years ago

This is what happened to that apartment last year, yeah?

[–] TrashGoblin@hexbear.net 20 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[–] Mokey@hexbear.net 16 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I feel like if your broadcasting to a ton of people potentially thousands, you should be a little more responsible with your "jokes." They're never jokes either, theyre just mad they got caught.

I also mean this for "lefties"

[–] dannoffs@hexbear.net 13 points 2 years ago

Lmao, he claims to be a 2.5 handicap golfer. I say this as someone who peaked as a scratch golfer 12 years ago, almost everyone who is single digit or better is a turbo chud.

[–] emizeko@hexbear.net 20 points 2 years ago
[–] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 15 points 2 years ago (4 children)

If there were enough supply and competition in the rental market, this would never work. This kind of post would be made to the sound of a laugh track, they'd sit on their empty apartments, their property values wouldn't go up, and they'd eventually come back down on their pricing. Instead, even if you don't get tenants, you can still make money on property values going arbitrarily upwards. At that, large real estate holdings (like apartments) are increasingly held by a handful of small players that obviously won't compete against themselves, so they just charge whatever they want, which raises the ceiling on what the little guys can charge, too. We have a trailer that family is staying at that, honestly, the fair price to rent it is $5-600/mo + utilities; like properties are going for almost twice that, and spare rooms in my city start there. It's because of how little choice and opportunity we have in housing that the system can be this exploitive. Sometimes, it's dizzying how much needs to change, but it must be done or things will just keep getting worse.

[–] combat_brandonism@hexbear.net 26 points 2 years ago

If there were enough supply and competition in the rental market, this would never work.

Famously elastic supply, housing.

[–] HexBroke@hexbear.net 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Sometimes, it's dizzying how much needs to change

I think this instance will cope mao-aggro-shining

[–] MayoPete@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

What is to be done? lenin-sure

[–] LesbianLiberty@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

Sometimes, it's dizzying how much needs to change, but it must be done or things will just keep getting worse.

Everything under heaven is in utter chaos; the situation is excellent red-sun

[–] Utter_Karate@hexbear.net 14 points 2 years ago

Zach raised our rents by $1000/month. All we did was CENSORED

CENSORED is so easy.

[–] HumanBehaviorByBjork@hexbear.net 13 points 2 years ago

minecraft apartment

[–] JohnBrownNote@hexbear.net 11 points 2 years ago

gui-better wow housing equitability is so easy

[–] Tachanka@hexbear.net 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 8 points 2 years ago

The Landlord Special strikes again

[–] Hello_Kitty_enjoyer@hexbear.net 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

What I dont get is why you would broadcast this

I can understand why someone would want to be selfish and make passive income on rental properties.
I can't understand why you'd smugpost about it on twitter, using your real name no less

[–] italktothewind@hexbear.net 5 points 2 years ago

they're probably selling some course or something on How To Get Rich Quick. so these posts serve as advertising