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cuntwrap--supreme · 5 months

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My favorite quarry has been closed, which sucks because it's a great place to let my dog swim (her favorite thing to do). I finally remembered to look up what's going on. The city is spending 6mi to make it bougie. It's a fucking 100 year old quarry. It's purpose is for trashy people to go get wasted and jump off the 200ft cliff and die. They're completely paving over the entire thing and adding in, like, concessions and bathrooms and shit. And I'm normally ok with improvements. Bathrooms are definitely something I like to see at parks. But these aren't normal bathrooms. It's a bunch of single stalls that cost probably 20k each to build when you could also just build a normal toilet for 5k.... The whole project reeks of waste. Meanwhile, I'm out here driving on roads so piss poor that I've experienced better driving conditions in Mexico. I've driven on washed out country gravel roads that don't jostle me around so much. My car is so fucked from how bad the roads are. There's also a growing homeless problem because we're rated one of the least affordable cities in the nation due to TN having beef with paying much more than $13/hr but your average rent here being $1600/mo. But that's ok! We'll continue ignoring all that and spend a whole fuck ton improving a park (and by that I mean stripping it of everything that makes it cool). I can't do math to save my life, but I know for goddamn sure I'd do a hell of a lot more to actually improve shit than the argument for why this quarry needs to be destroyed. I'm just waiting for them to announce it's $10 a day to park, too.

#the cities are built for cars yet we're making them hostile to cars now #bad roads. paid parking literally everywhere.#the other quarry nearby is charging either $5 per day or $25 a month to park. my gsmnp pass is $40 annually. why so much for a city park???#we love to act like we're this nature lover's paradise then make it impossible for the poor to enjoy those nature spots #the place i went hiking today overlooks the city and there's talk they're paving that over too #there are too many homeless people who sleep there and it makes the city nervous #like. good. y'all's poor planning is why a lot of them are sleeping in the woods. i hope they gnaw your faces off.#city approves housing price increases. people become homeless. city complains about the homeless and makes their lives worse.#but no. we gotta have floating platforms and brick walkways and fancy toilets. that's a good cause #with 6mil you could purchase an old warehouse and turn it into stidio apartments for the homeless #you could pay people to fix the roads #you could purchase materials for teachers so kids aren't getting one of the worst educations in the country #but 200k in bathrooms that will probably get locked at 6pm so scary homeless don't use them. that's what we really need.#i hate it so much #useless spending is good when you're creating jobs #but this is a year long project. meaning it's not creating many - if any - jobs

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