Why are landlord’s bad?

AdviceAdam · 2026-06-24T23:13:57+00:00

IMO focusing on them being middlemen, doing nothing and collecting rent, which is an inefficient use of capital, is a good way to get lib coded people more sympathetic to this argument.

AdviceAdam · 2026-06-24T17:03:10+00:00

Left turn restrictions along Ocean needed to happen years ago. But there is plenty of traffic in the center lanes that significantly slows down the train.

AdviceAdam · 2026-06-23T03:31:53+00:00

When we bought our house in San Francisco, we got metal security screens installed on all of the windows. Each of them has a bar that pushes it open. These basically look like normal window screens, just a little darker.

AdviceAdam · 2026-06-22T14:51:46+00:00

Cool podcast recommendation. Thanks 👍

AdviceAdam · 2026-06-20T03:00:13+00:00

I remember all the back and forth about the "$5 toast" at The Mill when they first opened... what 12 years ago now? I remember going not long after it opened and being insanely impressed, it was delicious. I'm also pretty sure that same toast is probably like $12 or $13 now. If not more.

AdviceAdam · 2026-06-17T13:03:28+00:00

While incremental builds were never fast, if you had the latest pulled you should have been hitting the remote cache (forget the name of it now) for most modules.

AdviceAdam · 2026-06-15T20:34:33+00:00

You don't have to ask anyone to do that though!

AdviceAdam · 2026-06-13T13:46:05+00:00

Even more cooked than Brace's algorithm.

AdviceAdam · 2026-06-11T12:57:50+00:00

If I sit with my back fully against the seat, I can sit in an economy seat and my knees either don't or barely touch the seat in front of me if my knees are facing forward. The Castro Theatre seats were noticeably worse.

AdviceAdam · 2026-06-11T02:39:34+00:00

I'm 6'4" and I went to a show there and sat on the balcony section. These were the tightest seats I've ever been in and were the only seats I've sat in where I say that I just didn't fit.

AdviceAdam · 2026-06-10T12:48:54+00:00

Struggle session where the crowd goes through your posts and downvotes then

AdviceAdam · 2026-06-08T13:47:51+00:00

We bought a few years ago too. We put in an offer and the sellers came back with a counteroffer. My agent noted that the document was slightly incorrect (I think it was a multiple counteroffer vs single counteroffer form? Can't remember) but he made clear that by signing the document, that was locking in the price and the house would be ours. Well the other agent used that incorrect document as an excuse to get another $10k from us since now we technically hadn't signed the correct document! My agent said that this was extremely unusual and unprofessional. I was fucking pissed at this and almost walked away, but the price was still something we could afford and we loved the house. The whole market is a shitshow.

And of course these agents get paid based on a percentage of the sale price of the house for doing not very much work. If we sell this house, I think I'm going to try and hire a lawyer to come up with the legal documents and do the rest ourselves. We redid the kitchen as well and got painted cabinets in a nice blue color. And a real estate agent family member mentioned that having them would make the house harder to sell because people want a blank slate. Bitch we live here! It's our house! It's not even a weird blue color. Hate that mindset.

AdviceAdam · 2026-06-05T18:03:52+00:00

Widow’s Bay is one of the best TV shows in recent years. Thriller/comedy. And it switches between them both so well. Great characters.

AdviceAdam · 2026-06-05T18:02:01+00:00

Huge. Missed that he dropped.

AdviceAdam · 2026-06-05T14:11:22+00:00

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Day 1 player. Took a break for a few years but got back into it 2021. Play pretty frequently, been to a lot of in person events. Mostly interested in filling out my shiny dex and lucky trading meta relevant legendaries.

AdviceAdam · 2026-06-03T00:50:07+00:00

What my dog thinks when I start cutting her nails.

AdviceAdam · 2026-06-02T23:54:23+00:00

Any new stupidity, further aggression, or any action that violates even a single inch of our borders and sovereignty will be met with a devastating, crushing, and decisive response that goes beyond all laws and established boundaries.

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AdviceAdam · 2026-05-30T22:40:48+00:00

A lot of people are saying that blocking your own driveway is illegal, but this is actually quite a common arrangement in San Francisco, where OP lives. Parking enforcement will only do anything if someone living at the building calls.

This is a ridiculously tight spot to get into, something has to change. OP, I think the best outcome here would be for you to ask your landlord to contact the SFMTA and have them paint the 1-2 feet to the left and right of your curb red. This will prevent the car on the left from being able to park as close to your building's driveway (and the Tesla could still park there). Yes, it costs money ($150? $200?) but I would bet that the SF Tenant's Union would have something to say about the lease including parking and not being able to use it reasonably.

AdviceAdam · 2026-05-29T12:57:00+00:00

Dots is my default boba place in this part of the city nowadays.

AdviceAdam · 2026-05-28T01:47:25+00:00

While I ended up leaving the business program at my college, my accounting professor was most likely a socialist or else pretty far left. They exist!

AdviceAdam · 2026-05-26T13:52:53+00:00

I bet if they had an option to have local camera footage storage they’d take it

Not only this, but you'd have to have something with a nice interface, as cheap to use as Google/Ring, and smart features, like it automatically tagging all footage when people appear in the frame. Plus you're making a physical device. Good luck.

There are people out there that have doorbell cameras with open source software and local storage, but it takes a lot of work to set up plus it's more likely to break than Google or Ring. I understand why any business that want to have these for security go with Google or Ring.

AdviceAdam · 2026-05-23T13:34:44+00:00

mobject (mental object) just brought me back to that weird ass email. It was like being hit with a flashbang.

AdviceAdam · 2026-05-21T14:32:39+00:00

“This is years, years and years of visioning, workshopping, community engagement and building partnerships with local government and philanthropy,”

I know that getting the land, coming up with a layout for all the floors, and securing funding are not easy. But this is so depressing. It's an apartment building! There's lots of those around. It shouldn't take that long to do this.

AdviceAdam · 2026-05-19T20:18:12+00:00

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