…but why
local hunger games construction almost complete
Submitted 10 months ago by ReallyKinda@kbin.social to [deleted]
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Cruxifux@lemmy.world 10 months ago
nxdefiant@startrek.website 10 months ago
Berkeley wants to turn the park into housing and I guess they hope the wall will keep protesters out.
gnate@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Surround the park with shipping containers, and done! It is now 100% dystopia appropriate housing!
blanketswithsmallpox@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Berkeley wants to turn the park where homeless people are staying into housing for homeless and undergraduates… While refreshing 60% of the park.
Why are people upset about housing homeless and undergrads?
EndlessApollo@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Negative one downvote?
PopShark@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Yeah wtf haha
crsu@lemmy.world 10 months ago
If you ever notice construction is stalled in your city, it’s because it’s a racket.
They low bid the contract.
They take contract.
Work stops because they didn’t ask for enough money.
They’re already there, it’d cost too much to fire them or move their supplies and equipment. They know this so they drag their feet until the client pays more.
Construction begins again.
driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 10 months ago
I work in construction insurance, protecting the government and investors against construction companies that do this. Our underwriters study the project, the construction company history and everything related and we qoute a price that the construction company should pay even before the government or the investors transfer anything. If the construction company or the project fail for any reason we take control over the project and find a new construction company to complete it. After that, our lawyers go after everything owned by the construction company and their executives to try to recoup anything we can.
throw4w4y5@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
fucking based.
fidodo@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I’m curious about your opinion on what the reason that construction takes longer and costs more in the US than in other countries is.
Shialac@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Every public construction in germany ever
kshade@lemmy.world 10 months ago
The law really need to be changed when it comes to this stuff, I’d rather take the inefficiency or even corruption than this (also inefficient and corrupt) nonsense.
ericisshort@lemmy.world 10 months ago
The shipping containers make it so much more dystopian, and calling it “The People’s Park” is just bad writing, even for schlocky YA fiction.
LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
Even more dystopian if you know the park’s history
ericisshort@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I do, but I was writing from the perspective that it was invented for the Hunger Games.
hikikoma@ani.social 10 months ago
So this is why all the third places have dissappeared, greed? Man, fuck this dystopia.
AutistoMephisto@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Exactly. Parents tell their kids to go play outside, without looking at the “outside” they’ve created.
deegeese@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
I cannot wait until they finally pave over that violent shithole.
People’s Park supporters have their heads so far up their asses they can’t smell the meth’d up rapists that have kept anyone else from enjoying this “park”
SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 10 months ago
New paintball arena just dropped.
_number8_@lemmy.world 10 months ago
interesting hunger games is having such a cultural resurgence given how shitty everything is. i love the series but christ every scene is dark and depressing
effward@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Didn’t a new Hunger Games movie just hit theaters? I assumed most of this stuff was a result of their marketing campaign…
nixcamic@lemmy.world 10 months ago
It’s probably not that. People just like to reference things that are culturally relevant.
xor@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
it’s all a direct ripoff from a japanese book and movie…
blightfight@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Nah, they’re different genres. Hunger games is a power fantasy. Battle Royale is horror.
Feirdro@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Feels prescient, at the moment
LemmySoloHer@lemmy.world 10 months ago
May the odds be ever in your favor.
Crow@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Gives me infamous vibes.
Crack0n7uesday@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Kowloon, the walled city…
Retrograde@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Nope, just chuck testa with another realistic dead shipping container wall
Creddit@lemmy.world 10 months ago
People’s Park was a major local landmark with a long history that is well known to students, faculty, residents, and alumni. It had become a home to otherwise homeless people whose existence was inconvenient for the university’s expansion plans and an eyesore to arrogant passersby.
The park’s history includes both civil and violent disobedience, including against the university itself.
It would not be surprising to hear that, whatever is built on this lot, it is subsequently destroyed by an act of arson or other vandalism.
I am surprised they are taking the risk and making the investment at all. IMO it would have been safer to just buy some of the private properties surrounding the park instead, even at a premium.
BananaOnionJuice@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
A handful of Molotov’s at night once a week during construction can make it very expensive to build something.
PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Sugar will completely eliminate concrete’s ability to cure. A single pound of sugar can destroy an entire truck of wet cement.
Not that I’m advocating for it. But it’s laughably easy to sneak onto a site with a hardhat, safety boots and a vest, and sabotage active construction.
MapleEngineer@lemmy.world 10 months ago
They’re going to molotov concrete and steel?
Cool.
Cool cool cool.
sxan@midwest.social 10 months ago
I low-key wish I could put you and @deegeese@sopuli.xyz in a jar and shake it.
In the nicest way.
deegeese@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
It’s a controversial local issue and in my lifetime I’ve seen local opinion shift from strongly anti-University to now mostly in favor of development.
I credit this to the original activists dying of old age, combined with a younger generation that has never known the park as anything except a place where people overdose in tents.
Creddit@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Haha, their take is pretty charged but it’s valid imo.