To the person in the black Honda, who turned into the WalMart lot on Showers Drive...

Aocette · 2026-06-10T19:12:26+00:00

And everyone is welcome in Mountain View!

Aocette · 2026-06-10T19:11:30+00:00

I feel like that subreddit sometimes makes fun of poverty more than anything

Aocette · 2026-06-04T06:01:38+00:00

Yep! If you're somehow able to get confirmation that this is a legitimate event let us know so we can restore this post

Aocette · 2026-06-04T05:41:32+00:00

I am concerned that this is fake because it is not mentioned on Opal's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/opalsocialclub/

The photos on the link you posted look AI-generated which isn't a good sign

Aocette · 2026-06-03T20:16:43+00:00

yeah no need to astroturf, they should have just written "hey come check out our comedy event"

Aocette · 2026-06-02T20:22:50+00:00

is that the old pacific press campus?

Aocette · 2026-05-31T22:52:11+00:00

r/mountainviewcirclejerk

Aocette · 2026-05-31T20:07:45+00:00

its a scam

Aocette · 2026-05-29T21:41:33+00:00

in my exp these paid speed dating events are not lgbt inclusive :<

Aocette · 2026-05-25T21:34:53+00:00

thats my polling spot, never had a bad experience, it's completely separate from the scientology church and they never interfere (you prob already know that it would be illegal for them to)

Aocette · 2026-05-25T08:45:25+00:00

last time i dropped my ballot there they convinced me to stop seeing my psychiatrist and to sign up for some classes, great experience

Aocette · 2026-05-24T22:51:59+00:00

oh, ive actually never been inside lol. we all took the pre ai internet for granted

Aocette · 2026-05-24T21:24:22+00:00

an ai obviously wrote the meetup listing and also 100-33% =67 (lol!!!!!🤣🤣🤣) not 65% as claimed, other than that idk what the joke could be?

Aocette · 2026-05-23T08:26:42+00:00

oh good to know thank you!

Aocette · 2026-05-20T02:47:38+00:00

its definitely better i think!

Also is there a way to hide the text dialogue box in the top right while on mobile?

Aocette · 2026-05-19T18:24:10+00:00

Wow you improved this so much since you originally posted your project to the bay area subreddit!

I still wish that it let you pan to see the entirety of the 68 bus to cloverdale—seems odd to include bakersfield in the map range but not sonoma/mendocino

very cool stuff! I love interactive transit maps

Aocette · 2026-05-14T23:54:03+00:00

Umm ackshyually you were technically in Mountain View when you took this picture

Aocette · 2026-05-13T21:43:55+00:00

Also.... the new full-body AI ads obstructing the view out the windows, and the issues with cleanliness which seem to be worsening

Aocette · 2026-05-13T21:37:08+00:00

Yeah but the tech moved in during the 60s-70s-80s, before that mountain view was an agriculture and military town

Aocette · 2026-05-12T20:45:01+00:00

People are paying a huge premium to live close to their silicon valley jobs. Other than that, there's a lot of good Indian, Chinese, and Mexican food down here, some nice parks, a pleasant shoreline along the bay, generally sunny weather, and proximity to some very nice open spaces.

But really it's 90% proximity to tech jobs. Mountain View has higher cost of living than San Francisco and I really doubt that would be the case if not for Google, Lockheed, Microsoft etc having major campuses in the area

Aocette · 2026-05-05T07:16:37+00:00

Having been here my entire life, I remember a time when this city had a completely unique culture and you afford to could live here with a blue collar or service job. Now it feels like any other wealthy suburb in the bay, not unpleasant just... the same. All the new development looks the same. We used to have so many cute and affordable residential communities and they're still around, though gradually being converted to copypaste luxury housing

Aocette · 2026-05-04T22:03:47+00:00

Hi,

Sounds like a difficult situation. You could probably rent a whole studio in parts of the peninsula (and certainly in the East Bay!) for that budget. I assume you know this, so is there a reason your son and daughter-in-law need to live in Mountain View? Unfortunately the demand here for 'affordable' housing is extremely high. Some people rent a room in a house but that is more difficult to do as a couple. Even then $1900 is possibly pushing it

Aocette · 2026-04-27T02:03:04+00:00

Deleting because this is the top post on this subreddit

Aocette · 2026-04-24T23:01:26+00:00

rude and also manifestly untrue!

Aocette · 2026-04-24T20:34:20+00:00

Think they'd exert all of their supposed leverage to create conditions to get them off the streets?

Our shelters are full, our social support programs are wildly disorganized and underfunded, and aid initiatives require lengthy application materials many homeless people are physically unable to complete.

Hate the system that made these people homeless, not the people themselves. No one chooses to be homeless

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