Baseball was a secondary goal in the construction of Dodger Stadium. The primary goal was to get rid of a bunch of brown people who lived too close to downtown for whitey to handle.

When you understand that, the giant parking lot makes tons of sense.

Excuse the overdramatization, but it feels a lot like Frodo going to the Grey Havens. They did something great and now their reward is to disappear forever and be well taken care of.

I’ve worked for tech companies in SV and I’ve never seen a developer without a MacBook.

Yeah I don’t expect there are many tech employees working with Windows Thinkpads.

When asked if he was sure that Albion couldn’t be copyrighted due to its historical context, he replied: “I don’t know if I’m honest, I don’t really know… I hope so. I mean you would think that the responsible person I should be, I would’ve spent the last six months in lawyers’ offices…”

Bold strategy, Cotton.

Right. But Caltrain has had multiple full shutdowns over the last couple of years during the catenary installation. If they aren’t able to maintain the tracks with that much shutdown time it’s worrying.

I was in SF this past week and took Caltrain down to Redwood City and back. I rode one of the express Baby Bullets, which is as fast as the diesel-electrics go. (The electric trains were sitting there at 4th and King, mocking me.) Let me tell you, I do not know how they think they can run HSR on this track in the state that it’s in. This is far and away the bumpiest ride I’ve ever had on Caltrain, and I used to commute on it twice a day for two years. I’m actually concerned about the state of the track. It’s great that they’ve run the wire, but I anticipate strict speed limits if they ever get the high speed rolling stock up from LA.

The issue, to be clear, is not who makes the surveillance cameras. It’s the surveillance cameras being installed in the first place.

Alarmism about Chinese surveillance cameras is missing the forest for the trees.

If you have an older coin-op washer in your building you can usually look up the model number and either buy a master key or learn the default programming code to set the price.

the impetus to improve the infrastructure will be stronger if conditions are worse

don’t chicken-and-egg yourself out of densification

The people who post this meme often do not want for-profit housing development of any kind.

If traffic gets bad enough people will make different decisions.

Yeah these 5 over 1s really ruin the neighborhood character of my suburban strip mall state highway hell.

Leave them as derelict auto body warehouses tyvm.

“more and more people are saying it”

Here’s why this story is fake:

They could lose their liquor license for not verifying that the person under the cat head was the person on the ID.

Yeah. Your bars (handlebars) are attached to your head set and head tube by your stem. The stem should have some bolts on it you can undo. Once they’re gone you can remove the bar. Then it’s just a matter of getting a new one that’s the right diameter and sticking it back in.

Bikes are great. Anybody can fix a bike and there are tons of replacement parts all over. If this repair is too daunting you could always take it to your local bike shop to ask for advice, or, if you live in a cool town, there might be a “bike kitchen” around, which is usually a volunteer-run org that helps folks fix their own bikes and often has used parts bins for cheap replacements as well.

Best of luck!

Good news is that bars can be cheap and easily replaced.

that sign is obviously photoshopped in…

For context: In the US, CBP can search your phone without a warrant if you live within 100 miles of a border or coast (2/3rds of the population).

The researchers conclude that the EU should use its strong bargaining power due to the single market to induce the Chinese government to abandon the most harmful subsidies.

This is their advice? Make the technology for the green transition more expensive rather than enact your own subsidies?

Capitalists are going to burn this planet.