roseweird posted:i already live in a closet sized room and share a kitchen and bathroom with 5 other people and we share our hot water supply in the winter and our electricity in the summer with another 5 people downstairs and 3 more in the basement. rent is at least half my cost of living. if all the rotting brick-faced poured concrete buildings on my block were pushed into a central housing complex with communal kitchens and baths it would be a considerable improvement.
what's your rent
How Soviets spent their money, from the end of the 1950s through the 1980s.
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For many years, the cost of things like electricity, telephone, and rent did not exceed one tenth of the family budget. Approximately 60 percent of that budget was spent on food.
The price of basic foods were unchanged for many years . The socialist economy was based on a centralized system of distribution, and not on market mechanisms. Where, when, to whom, and at what price any product would be sold was decided by the party and the government. For example, at one time, by a resolution of the Central Committee and the Council of Ministers, Thursday was declared a "fish day": on that day, cafeterias did not serve meat.
Clothing, shoes, and household appliances were disproportionately expensive given a monthly salary of something like 120 rubles. Shoes, for example, cost 70 rubles, and a man's suit 180. Clothing and shoes, like household appliances, would be repaired many times. The reason was not only the expense: even when people had money, it was often impossible to buy good clothing, furniture or appliances: they simply were not being sold in stores.
The attraction to material niceties and the urge to possess things was called "consumerism" and "petty bourgeois behavior," ethical categories that, it was assumed, were alien to the builders of a Communist society. But a portion of the urban population, including people who lived in communal apartments, were by the 1970s living comparatively well. These people could afford to buy and knew how to "get hold of" consumer items that were not merely necessities but, in the Soviet mindset, were associated with a lavish lifestyle: furniture, carpets, fine glassware, a color television. But even those people who could spend their own money on such luxuries as a private apartment, could not always do that because of limitations, imposed by the regulation of the housing supply.
I could probably fit like 10 roseweirds in here, at 650 a piece I could be a rich man in no time (but I am above material concerns)
could still fit like 4 newyorkers downstairs, though.
Perry is a published author, whose novel Les Dessous Du Dessus (Below the Top) was published when she was just 17 years old.
According to an author's profile page, she studied biochemistry and psychology at the University of Ottawa, earning a BA in 2006. At the time she was said to be working on a second novel.
In April 2000, she was the partial subject of a Derniere Heure magazine article about the challenges facing gifted children in Quebec schools. Perry's mother Nathalie Perry, was quoted in the article which discussed Axelle -- who at age 9, had an IQ of 147.
im gonna leave some parenti truthbomb in here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfDnQPtijjc
mustang I expect a reply of no less than 1500 original words by friday.
until then, show the rest of us you take learning seriously and dont post until then
roseweird posted:650
come to Jackson, MS. you can almost afford a duplex in the most dangerous of our gentrified hipster communities for that much
Superabound posted:roseweird posted:650
come to Jackson, MS. you can almost afford a duplex in the most dangerous of our gentrified hipster communities for that much
dude you gotta be the rhizzone's local correspondent to the unfolding of the glorious lumumba programme. nobody except the mxgm is even talking about it
stegosaurus posted:dude you gotta be the rhizzone's local correspondent to the unfolding of the glorious lumumba programme. nobody except the mxgm is even talking about it
the worst road in the country is being fixed. they passed a 1% tax to fix even more roads. water is still undrinkable.
innsmouthful posted:i wish pruitt-igoe were still around so i could live in it
i only just found out it was designed by the same dude as the WTC, talk about a bad track record as an architect
Superabound posted:roseweird posted:
650
come to Jackson, MS. you can almost afford a duplex in the most dangerous of our gentrified hipster communities for that much
jackson has 'hipster communities'? is that like the block around a starbucks or something
social democracy wins this argument i guess
Superabound posted:stegosaurus posted:dude you gotta be the rhizzone's local correspondent to the unfolding of the glorious lumumba programme. nobody except the mxgm is even talking about it
the worst road in the country is being fixed. they passed a 1% tax to fix even more roads. water is still undrinkable.
perhaps it is no longer possible to die
Superabound posted:stegosaurus posted:
dude you gotta be the rhizzone's local correspondent to the unfolding of the glorious lumumba programme. nobody except the mxgm is even talking about it
the worst road in the country is being fixed. they passed a 1% tax to fix even more roads. water is still undrinkable.
the revolution is finally here
Ironicwarcriminal posted:jackson has 'hipster communities'? is that like the block around a starbucks or something
of course we do. liberalism and brokenbraindedness have been constant throughout all civilizations and cultures. and down here in the bibble belt it is even more paramount that they band together to ensure their survival
The city of Jackson, Mississippi seems to have far more than its share of the problems typical of many municipalities: urban decay, a shrinking tax base, rampant crime and a citizenry plagued with indifference.
Other cities can usually trace the source of their difficulties to such mundane matters as corrupt politicians, an inept and unresponsive municipal bureaucracy or social strife, and while Jackson does have these to deal with in abundance, at least one person thinks the city’s difficulties are due to a deeper, more sinister element: a volcano.
This volcano itself is located some 2900 feet beneath the capital city, its dense core forming one of the most prominent structural abnormalities found on gravity and magnetic surveys of the state, showing tightly wrapped contours of increasing gravity and magnetic deflection like a crowded bull’s-eye. The position of Jackson’s downtown district above the throat of an extinct volcano seems to be unique. If the Jackson Volcano were to ever vent itself in the future, a very remote likelihood since it hasn’t been active since T. Rex ruled the earth, the Mississippi Coliseum would be ground zero.
Bernadette Cahill, in her book Over the Volcano: An Inquiry into the Occult History of Jackson, Mississippi, maintains that the volcano’s dense core affects not only physical aspects of the locale such as gravity and magnetism, but it also generates a negative well of psychic energy that continually saps the city – its spirit of place as well as the spirits of its citizens – of positive and essential life forces. She also hints at even more malevolent aspects, tagging the volcano itself as a gateway from Hell that provides entry for evil beings from another plane.
So the next time you feel like griping about your bathwater being muddy or your daily commute being delayed by an exploding sewer, don’t bother calling anyone up and griping about it, just take a deep breath and blame it on the volcano.
It’ll save you a lot of frustration.
edit: most there are mlm and there is a lot of fighting between mlm people and mtw people
Superabound posted:i like to pretend that all the constant rodeos and livestock shows they host in the coliseum and surrounding fairgrounds are just a cover for ritual animal sacrifice to appease our personal Volcano God
I'm partially related to Jefferson Davis and I know for a fact that he was an initiate to the left hand path and dabbled in black magick and alchemy. Old Miss even has some of his sinister grimoires that are only available to select faculty.
Superabound posted:i like to pretend that all the constant rodeos and livestock shows they host in the coliseum and surrounding fairgrounds are just a cover for ritual animal sacrifice to appease our personal Volcano God
lol over the weekend they found 1000 bodies buried in unmarked graves next to the hospital in the spot they were building a new parking garage. the city decided it would be too expensive to move them so theyre just going to leave them there and build it somewhere else. i will honestly be surprised if they decide that its worth the cost to even put the dirt back on top of them
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/02/09/mississippi-medical-school-graves-found/5320995/
"There are probably thousands more bodies that we've never seen," said Lampton
...he said. "They identified them as Confederate trenches. They are actually Union trenches. They also put cannons there that are actually Spanish-American War guns, and they're pointed the wrong way. Other than that, they got everything right."