If they've been spending $3 million/year on Twitter ads, are they that bright in the first place? I've literally never made a single buying decision that had anything to do with a Twitter ad. Ever.
I use adblockers, however ads also work in a less obvious manner. For example why do we see ads for expensive watches on magazines, or why do companies make cute Christmas adverts which don't show any product.
>In 1986, the city implemented a ban on cruising to address gang violence, crime, and traffic-related accidents. But San Jose’s primarily Mexican American lowriding community has suffered the consequences of the ordinance, which many say facilitated discrimination.
This is a crock. The ordinance affected only stretches of San Carlos Street and Santa Clara street and was implemented because the resulting gridlock rendered downtown businesses utterly inaccessible (even discounting rampant crime). The entire rest of the city (and county) was open to them, even Stevens Creek Blvd.
It's going to be very interesting to see this conflict revitalize if the so-called Google Village west of Market St. ever happens. Right now, downtown is mostly a ghost town at night anyway.
This is a crock. Since AirBnB has no search filter for "Show price with fees", it encourages hosts (literally every superhost in my searches on a recent trip) to show an artificial rate and then a "cleaning fee" upwards of 50% of the base rate.
Having your home demolished for a development project in China used to be like hitting the jackpot, because it meant your cheap old property will often be exchanged for expensive new apartment(s) in addition to massive cash compensation. There’s literally a nascent social class in China called 拆迁户 (relocated households, roughly) known for getting ridiculously rich overnight. A shitty old family home in the right place in Shanghai could net you something like $10-20m, for instance.
I heard that compensation has been vastly scaled back since a year or two ago, but I don’t know the details.
