They never message back ☹️
#graffiti
@catsalad "I'm in a rush now but our situations are different" made me CACKLE
@dramypsyd @catsalad self-awareness AND empathy, give me their number!! 😅

@catsalad

I learned a lot about this when I was taking pictures of murals and graffiti in L.A. Painting over graffiti is a big business, funded by the city. They use bad paint in part because the whole plan is to keep painting over it periodically and in part because if they used good paint then they wouldn't be creating a new business opportunity to paint it over again.

@richpuchalsky @catsalad
The wonders of capitalism...
Making money with a problem will make the problem never go away... It's just exploiting an "infinite money loophole"
@LunarMelody @richpuchalsky @catsalad it's like somebody heard about the broken window fallacy and thought "hey that sounds like a good idea!"

@draeath

Oh yeah, if you're fixing windows for the city because the city is spending $11 million a year on fixing them because they believe in the Broken Windows Fallacy, it's just common sense to use bad glass.

An article about the $11 million. Bonus: actual mention of broken windows theory as motivating it

https://beverlypress.com/2024/08/graffiti-taggers-confound-cleanup-efforts/

@catsalad @ShadowJonathan On first reading 40-45° sounded like a bit more than "warming up slightly", but then I realized it's fahrenheit.

@catsalad

In Ann Arbor, someone chalked a bridge pillar to say "painting over chalk is not good stewardship of public funds".

@catsalad "our situations are different" 🤣

@mariashanle @catsalad

graffiti is the advertising of the poor

@catsalad

Maybe they did message back but used latex paint?

@jetton @catsalad according to Watzlawick, you cannot not communicate.
@catsalad I gotta friend who buffs, he lays up his block letters alternating between a matte and satin. Can just make out the tag when the light hits it just so.
@AlexanderMars @catsalad This is the greatest thing I've heard in a while.
@catsalad “I posted to your wall but you left me on read. I know you saw it :(“
@catsalad Something tells me we are entering the golden era of long-form graffiti.
@catsalad Someone needs to use a red Sharpie to correct "way TOO cold" ;)
@catsalad Choose the good color (German, but language skills not necessary):
https://youtu.be/XwP4JZMzLhY?si=w2ho7hSjzYvJS5pr
x3-Classix: Polizei in der Hafenstraße | extra 3 | NDR

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@catsalad marker person can talk but paintover person, having themselves turned into a function, cannot.
@catsalad Excellent alt text, thank you! I'm not visually-impaired apart from minor age-related issues but I'm terrible at paying attention to details in images and had missed seeing all the problems with the paint job. 😄