{"id":178194,"date":"2019-02-11T21:15:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-12T02:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/02\/11\/we-are-living-in-bizarro-world\/"},"modified":"2019-02-11T21:15:00","modified_gmt":"2019-02-12T02:15:00","slug":"we-are-living-in-bizarro-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/02\/11\/we-are-living-in-bizarro-world\/","title":{"rendered":"We Are Living in Bizarro World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that gentrification in Oakland has <a href=\"https:\/\/boingboing.net\/2019\/02\/09\/weed-vs-tech.html\">dope dealers driving out tech startups<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s me watching this and golf clapping after reading these two tweets:<\/p>\n<blockquote data-lang=\"en\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Hearing from tech startups getting priced out of Oakland warehouse space because of soaring demand for indoor hydroponic pot farms. <\/p>\n<p>Yes, because it&#8217;s 2019 and everything is nuts *techies are being gentrified out of neighborhoods by drug dealers*<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u2014 Chris Anderson (@chr1sa) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/chr1sa\/status\/1093959332461330432?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 8, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote data-conversation=\"none\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Same thing is happening with industrial space in LA\/the valley<\/div>\n<p>\u2014 Art Of Coop (@ARTofCOOP) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ARTofCOOP\/status\/1094222394431078400?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 9, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Before you think that we have reached maximum weird, note that we are only (checks watch) 21 months from election day.<\/p>\n<p>Stop the world, I want to get off this chicken sh%$ ride.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that gentrification in Oakland has dope dealers driving out tech startups. That&#8217;s me watching this and golf clapping after reading these two tweets: Hearing from tech startups getting priced out of Oakland warehouse space because of soaring demand for indoor hydroponic pot farms. Yes, because it&#8217;s 2019 and everything is nuts *techies are &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[365,517,393,382,421],"class_list":["post-178194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-business","tag-drugs","tag-real-estate","tag-technology","tag-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178194"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178194\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}