They’d better invite the rest of the Beeboverse’s heroes to the wedding, like they did with Barry and Iris’.

I like how the show retcons/mutates Gary in a “Well-ish” kind of way. He’s still the same true Gary just remutated in a different form that fits with the theme of the season. They somehow found way to retcon to where you can say “that explains everything/that makes no sense from the previous seasons/eh sure why not”…

I just watched Zari’s self-titled first episode last night. Like Spooner, Zari was not much looking to make friends or join a team, but the combination of the sheer coolness of the opportunity to become a time-traveling superhero, and get some help with her particular issues, was hard to resist.

Why is Elon Musk hosting SNL anyway? Did Zuckerberg, Gates, Bezos, Jobs etc. ever get invited to do this? I do not understand this choice. Large check to Lorne Michaels? 

Would they like a sketch about a man in his late 40s who in pathetic desperation at his oncoming mortality keeps trying to make himself relevant by appearing at pop culture events/shows and marrying a woman who keeps acting like but I have to keep reminding myself isn’t actually 17, because I’d be happy to write that…

Something something false flag. 

I think the book really suffers from being told entirely from a single POV. Mal, who is supposed to be one of the couple main characters, just... disappears for 2/3 of it. Then shows up as it’s convenient for Alina. And while it’s a little weird how little the Crows interact with the main plot, they’re a welcome…

to be fair, i doubt she had any kind of choice in the matter.

Just checking in to mention I created this account name years ago specifically to comment on how Mike Huckabee praised Duggar as a ‘good Christian’ after he was outed as a serial pedophile. Huckabee specifically didn’t try to deny that Duggar did it, and he seemed genuinely confused to find out that some people…

They can’t. And if they try, the companies have far more money to sue than Florida can afford.

Or the “modern” luxury apartment buildings going up everywhere in major cities that are usually less than half occupied because no middle class American can afford $2000 for a 1-bedroom and foreign investors bought all the unites up already anyway.

I had the same thought. I cleaned up and sold a mid-century chair that the previous owner had left in the basement of our house, so I presume that is self-gentrification.

This is a crappy argument. You think name brands should be accessible to all? Why? It’s not important. I think good food should be available to all and I still find nice stuff in Nyc at thrift stores that I do not resell. As I have been doing since the 90's. One can still find nice not off brand things. 

Unfortunately there is just SO MUCH churn in fashion you can’t deplete a Goodwill of clothing even if you wanted to.

I worked at a thrift store for years, and almost all of our resellers were low income people. It’s a lot of work for a small margin, and frankly if you’re already affluent it would not be a good hustle.

“Thrift store gentrification describes the phenomenon of affluent shoppers who voluntarily buy merchandise from second-hand clothing stores like Goodwill and Salvation Army. When those same shoppers resell that merchandise on Depop or Poshmark at significantly higher prices, the prices at thrift stores then rise to…

Wouldn’t that affect primarily people who thrift shop not out of necessity, but out of preference? In your area, are you saying there are no usable clothes that aren’t snatched up, or that all of the desirable clothes are snatched up?

“What I’ve learned on TikTok is that I can’t shop at thrift stores because I contribute to the gentrification of thrift store prices,” she says. “But I also shouldn’t shop at fast places like Forever 21 because they use child labor sweat shops.” She can’t afford high fashion either, and can’t shop from Amazon because…

Seems like if you’re buying clothing at a thrift store because you can’t afford to buy it new, this business of re-selling probably doesn’t affect you at all. There’s plenty of stock and the prices are still substantially lower than buying new. I generally buy clothes (and everything else) used, if I can, because I am…

This is dumb. I assume next they’ll claim antiquing is “garage sale gentrification.”