Arthur Blessitt did this wheelie cross thing for decades.
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Arthur Blessitt did this wheelie cross thing for decades.
They need to make the tote bag straps longer, at the very least. Give me something I can actually access while it’s hanging from my shoulder.
Karen Bass letter voice: now we *really* don’t need SB 79
This is true! That said, be prepared for the fact that libraries will not have DVDs for the streaming exclusives. That’s on the streaming companies’ greed, not the libraries. I say this not to convince you to keep streaming, but to prepare people not to go “whaddya mean you don’t have x show?”
Shorter term, I keep wondering what happens if (when?) the eye of racist Sauron gets turned on the ol’ Valley of Heart’s Delight. What happens if there’s a push to “Americanize” the tech workforce?
What school’s/district’s stats are those? FUHSD?
Me in 2003: After several years of Kumon I swear to never put my own kid through it. Me in 2025: He’s three. Is it too soon to enroll him in Kumon?
Why pay more in taxes when you can spend all your money here instead?
If only this still existed… en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peninsu...
What the heck is LA County’s malfunction?
I say it again: Get in Loser We’re Urbanizing California
I think people in media view actual journalists being targeted as good and natural. That it’s a measure of their impact. However, opinion people are not expected to provoke violent passions so Kirk’s death feels like a rupture to media elites b/c you’re not supposed to take opinion seriously.
I’m over generalizing for sure. I think we agree that most of HS math can be passed without developing intuition. I do think most of the (relatively few) adults who know this stuff probably had it reinforced through tertiary education where they were required to use both trig and stats.
Pretty sure any actual grown ass adult who still remembers that cos^2(x) + sin^2(x) = 1 also knows what standard deviation is.
TBH I don’t think people turn to pseudoscience and accept poor reasoning because they took calc instead of stats. Most adults have next to no recall of K-12 math beyond basic arithmetic. I don’t think prioritizing one HS class over another changes that.
People joke, but President Camacho had a realistic view of his country’s problem and sought counsel from the smartest man in the world on how to solve it. Trump is a far worse president by any measure.
It wasn’t until I visited New Hampshire in the early 2000s that I learned that 1) fireworks were a thing you could just buy some places, 2) a thing you could buy in a store next to a dog racing track, 3) that there was still (?!) dog racing in America.
I think he really benefited from editing and having to stick to a word count, neither of which he had once he went to Substack. The writing got worse, people tuned out, and he seemed to get resentful.
This is the second anti-redistricting mailer I’ve gotten in a week. A lot of money is being spent to lie to CA voters about their choice, that redistricting is radical and against “our” values, when it might be the only thing that can pull us back from the brink.
Tom Clancy’s Naked Lunch
I still chuckle over Brooks titling his post-divorce book The Second Mountain.
I mean, I love a good trash-talking tech expose as much anyone, but Clegg joined Facebook/Meta in 2018 when he was over 50 years old. He can’t claim to have been an innocent who didn’t know their game.
Funny how no one ever seems to have this sort of epiphany about Silicon Valley before their stock vests.
It was great. In retrospect, I understand the problems a lot of Sierra fans had with it, but it was so immersive. I remember it crashed once and feeling very shaken up by being back in my living room!
I watched my cousin play through this one when I was ten. I couldn’t stop watching though the whole game was nightmare fuel to me.
King’s Quest VI. I dare anyone to attempt to make it through the catacombs in KQVI without wetting themselves at least a little.
What’s more interesting to me is that that actually happened in Atlanta: CNN started there when cable was still relatively rare. More knowledgeable people than I can if that made a difference to their approach.
IDK what to tell you. This is a single thread on a single social app. It’s hardly the internet. If you don’t like it you can just block it.
The thing is the media isn’t an immutable force of nature. To some extent, people outside New York just seem content to let others tell their stories (or not). There’s plenty of people with enough money in the Bay to keep a media operation going even without revenue. They just don’t.
Nothing is stopping you in the rest of the world from ignoring us and yet you choose to be here and engage with our “psychodrama”
Transit poster: The success of Caltrain electrification should be replicated statewide. Southern California elected officials (probably): But what if we didn’t and just built one more lane?
Essential background information for those not in the know.
Lol, get in line. San Jose has nearly twice Atlanta’s population and is the center of the most dynamic and politically consequential sector of the US economy over the past three decades and I doubt even most Californians could place it on a map.
It’s giving
I’m sure a new city manager will sort out their problems.
A debater, yes, a Yalie, no. She went to William & Mary.
Preach. It seems to me that being a Democrat in CA simply means one is serious about participating in politics and says next to nothing about one’s actual beliefs. If you really want to understand the ideological landscape you have to look at how people vote on ballot initiatives.
price_is_right_sad_trombone.mp3
SV should look like Tokyo, change my mind
El Camino Real at San Antonio Road isn’t in this image. I’m told that’s basically Manhattan now.
I worry that, if successful, these publisher-led challenges will also doom fair use. I don’t know how exactly, but since we no longer really have a Supreme Court that respects either precedent or the letter of the law I am confident a rationale can be found.
I think this is a much more compelling reason for retaining current patterns of industrial urban land use than gentrification. It just points to the need for the intervention of higher levels of government. IMO, Single family zoning is too tough of a nut to crack at the local level.
I mean, yes? But also, you seem to be trying to have it both ways. Are industrial districts undesirable, or are they sacrosanct resources for blue collar employment? I would say that the environmental quality of such areas is unlikely to improve unless they become residential areas.
I think you are confusing cause and effect here. Generally, waterfront and warehouse districts in US cities were redeveloped in the late 20th century only after they had already lost their original economic function due to containerization, the run away shop, long haul trucking, etc.
Oval Jerks
For real. It’s bad that anything that isn’t actively earning someone money is just treated as part of a blob of information to be mined at will without attribution. This has also led to a lot of other media, especially “outdated” software, to only being kept alive through piracy.
Copyright law most strongly protects creative works that don’t draw on factual information - that, in theory, “anyone” could compile (sorry historians and social scientists). It’s much easier for images, even crappy snapshots, to qualify for this than non-fiction text.
Exactly! Probably goes without saying, almost all two-income households in the area would be ineligible for the cheaper rent, but would be unable to afford to have children without two incomes. Not a great position to be in when you’re starting out in life!
The school district in the city I work for just constructed a bunch of such housing and there’s been very little uptake because there is a huge income cliff above which the subsidy disappears. Would’ve done way more good to have just made the whole thing open and market rate.
Strongly evocative of the Chrysler Pacifica. Unlike the Lucid Air, which strongly resembles a late model Chevy Lumina.
And just like that another Cupertino landmark is scheduled to disappear. Next thing you know they’ll be knocking down the rat-infested Whole Foods!
Fingers crossed 🤞
In my experience, ardent wrestling fans are the first to tell you that Hogan sucked. It’s not even a point of mild controversy among them.
The Invention of Brownstone Brooklyn by Suleiman Osman planted the seeds of YIMBYism in me.
Tbf Stanford is more Romanesque than Spanish Revival, but some of the newer buildings are giving “Macaroni Grill.”
Two plus centuries into modernity what most people perceive of as artisanal production is simply mass production that occurred in a factory that’s longer open.
This is why the Mamdani city-run grocery store proposal that all the savvy policy folks seem to hate resonated with voters.
Visitors to NYC invariably think the normative living-in-NYC experience is walking two blocks to Zabar’s when it’s actually more like a 90-minute bus ride with two transfers to a Key Food with dodgy refrigeration.
If you aren’t rich actually living in New York is an exhausting slog. The charming urbanism drops off quite fast once you get east of Fort Greene and even basic amenities like supermarkets are scarce and overpriced compared to the Bay.
Broad Museum and Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles, CA Olympus 35RC
Scanned some negatives. Storefront, Ukiah, CA. Olympus 35RC
Quite a shift from 50+ years ago when cars were relatively cheap, but also didn’t last long. A typical American sedan from the 60s rusted out in the humid parts of the country after about 10 years. I think that’s why only California seems to have much of a hot rod/low rider/scraper culture.
Vibes rule everything even when it comes to major purchases.
I’m talking people who rent. $3000 rent + $1000 car payment < $10,000 mortgage payment (if you even make enough to qualify)
To live in the US is to be routinely scammed and cheated by our elites out of the good things enjoyed even by people in much poorer countries, let alone comparably wealthy ones.
Unfortunately, this is a thing in much of California too. Every rinky dink ding bat in the Bay Area has a row of Teslas and Land Rovers parked under it. If no one is ever going to give you a mortgage may as well get the car you want.
These things. It was somehow life-changing to be able to record and repeatedly play back 1.5 seconds of the world’s worst quality audio. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yak_Bak
Cucumbers starting to come in
Zillow about to be inundated with shacks in the Dakotas that NIMBYs can use as evidence that there’s no affordability crisis.
Okay, but where’s that wall San Jose was supposed to pay for? sf.curbed.com/2019/2/11/18...
Ugh, former not the latter
We’re supposed to understand that the sheriff is an avatar of capitalism and is properly considered part of The Man but that the deputy is a humble working stiff. Thus the speaker is a pains to clarify that he shot the latter, but not the former.
I would bet money that no one staffing this tabling event has so much as thought about daycare in at least two decades.
The theories are complementary because AirBnB explains why there is no parking in high vacancy areas. Checkmate YIMBros.
Any traces of respect I had for much of the current Democratic leadership evaporated months ago, but the rhetoric deployed against Mamdani still managed to stun me.
Give it another year or two 🙃
Congrats to Zohran! As a left-wing desi millennial from New York I couldn’t be prouder!
I’m confused. I thought these people didn’t like shade.
That’s not to say that the 2008 crash didn’t profoundly harm lots of older people, but if you had economic stability prior to it I think you are more likely to still have a belief in the fundamental fairness of our economic system that us millennials by and large never developed.
The inflection point might well also be “were you, personally, economically established on or before 9/15/2008?” (i.e. when Lehman Brothers crashed).
He’s Muslim, which for US media overrides his being Indian. Strangely, this the same media that seems to unquestioningly accept that Tulsi Gabbard is a Hindu.
Does anyone have a theory as to why NYC grocery stores are so bad? No other major city I’ve lived in seems to have it quite so bad.
Just remember at times like this: Something wrong? Call Anh Phoong!
Pretty cool
What DOGE is doing is abhorrent, but it’s worth reiterating that it’s also part of a larger project to sell people tech that they probably already have.
Seems like you can do 99% of what people current do with gen AI with 40-50 year old Unix utilities, likely with greater reliability and certainly with fewer resources.
Lawrence and ECR feels right to me. However if you only consumed NY-based media you would have the impression it’s SOMA.
William McKinley statue is surrounded
Strong sign game today in San Jose
No individual can solve this issue, but as long as some people are paying far less in tax than their neighbors it would be nice if they didn’t also stymie new housing so that the rest of us can catch a (much smaller) break.
The popularity of something doesn’t automatically make it fair or just. I hope you enjoy the benefits myself and all the other renters make possible for you.
The barons of medieval Europe and the masters of the Cotton Kingdom also thought they lived in fair and just societies.
There’s plenty of models of cooperative ownership of large residential buildings, just not in CA for the past few decades. As many following this thread would doubtless tell you condo defect liability basically ended multi family housing for ownership. cayimby.org/blog/defecti...
It’s such a tough situation. My best to your family as you navigate it.
I get the predicament of older homeowners, but it’s just doesn’t feel great to be treated like unwashed riffraff unworthy of having an opinion because I was born too late to buy in the community in which I live and work. Not saying that’s how you personally feel, mind.
So you’re saying it would suboptimal if the city manager had to drive the Dumbarton twice a day?
I especially love how it has a whole “government salaries” section on its website.
