I’d imagine that’s typical of cities that have declined due to white flight. The cities are bled of resources and are largely abandoned politically while the money collects in the surrounding suburbs so middle and upper middle class people can enjoy the benefits of the city, like a night out to restaurants or sporting…

Sure why not--just using Philly as an example. NYC doesn’t need Amazon, there are a lot of other places that would benefit tremendously from it. 

I’m not sure that’s true, I was one of those kids and eventually left too. I actually like Philly a lot, and think it has a lot of potential, but just about everyone I know who lived there (and I did for like six years) eventually either 1) moved back to the suburbs, or 2) moved to a larger city for more opportunity.

Nah, you’re not. Your city is literally bleeding educated young adults. A big problem is that there just really isn’t that much opportunity, because outside of Comcast, Aramark, Urban, the hospital systems, and  the handful of big law firms in the area, there isn’t much industry in Philly. There aren’t enough large…

Should be expected. I mean, as the article points out, there’s clear friction between Activision’s model of printing money with annual release schlock, and Blizzard’s model of producing polished, groundbreaking, titles that define genres and build customer good-will and loyalty in the long term.

Actually, a city like Philly is exactly where Amazon should head.  Go somewhere that is starved of industry and bleeding educated young adults. Build it in middle America, build it in a dying city, give people a reason to move to those places. We need some decentralization of industry in this country. 

Just do away with this ridiculous “Greek” nonsense altogether.

It’s Albany...the Mayor really doesn't have control over the MTA

I dunno, I've lived in NYC for 24 years and I've never not been able to get a MetroCard if I needed one...seems like a lame excuse.

Lol—for real, that is some baaaaaad cosplay.  Whatever though, I’m not mad about it, but I also have no interest in listening to it.  I do find it hilarious that K-Pop/J-Pop have found such big audiences here, at least among certain...demographics.  Like, this is the same trite, hackneyed shit big label music has been…

That level actually turned me off of Scholar, I don’t think I finished the rest of it--it wasn’t well designed, it was just incredibly, incredibly cheap. 

Lol...and what are you doing? Thanks for the paternalistic defense of all us colored folk. So preoccupied over bullshit. 

*sigh*

Yeah, except it seems like the owner’s point is to very explicitly take a side.

Bitch, you aren’t president of anything. Sit down. 

Yup, it’s in anachronism. May have even been necessary to get civilization to this point, but that kind of superstition is just silly in 2019. 

Agreed, but it’s not our place to facilitate regime change around the world.

How do we pay for it? Nationalize the petrochemical industry.

I think it was a good thing--he could have kept it to himself sure, but instead he chose to confront this really fucked up racist impulse he had publicly and honestly. We don’t need to call him brave for doing that, we don’t even need to celebrate it in any way, but what we shouldn’t do is excoriate him for it.  We…

While her rationale is totally absurd, I kind of do agree with her conclusion.