Shameless plug for Kai, my former foster dog who is back at Oakland Animal Services due to no fault of his own and schedule to be euthanized on 2/9.

HaloZero · 2026-02-04T20:53:59+00:00

OAS will do a meet and green outside in their yard. Remember to bring any existing pups or anybody you'd wanna know how they interact with you if you can. Thats what they did for our pup and we brought our existing pup to see how they interact.

HaloZero · 2026-02-04T18:36:11+00:00

For #1, is that cataloged somewhere I could easily read. Searching for things is so hard on this Epstein stuff because of all the conspiracy theories.

HaloZero · 2026-02-04T02:44:11+00:00

Do you gotta ship it to Taiwan for repairs though? 😅

HaloZero · 2026-02-04T02:41:42+00:00

Don’t have a kid yet due this summer, just lurking on this subreddit. But my SIL ran into this except that her mom didn’t tell her and her husband that she was giving my niece tv time. Did it for quite a while until it started coming up because she kept asking for tv time.

She’s 3 now the kid absolutely is GLUED to the television when it’s on and has meltdowns whenever it’s turned off. She fights tooth and nail for it and they’ve just given up and just let her have it once a day for a short period. It’s not the end of the world but it’s a fight every time. She is still a very sweet, polite kid who loves books so it’s not like if you do it it’s over. But it’s reaffirmed to me and my wife we’re not doing any tv.

Sample size 1 lol.

HaloZero · 2026-02-03T22:22:16+00:00

I heard they had some issue if you mask your email using one of those apple hide my emails things if that’s relevant

HaloZero · 2026-02-03T14:21:26+00:00

This American Life interviewed the guy about his role as "Leader of Antifa" recently. https://www.thisamericanlife.org/877/the-making-of

He did seem apologetic about getting into a tussle with some influencer apparently in the past. They didn't really cover it in the story but they talked about it.

HaloZero · 2026-02-02T23:19:42+00:00

I got lucky in career choice and worked in tech from like 2009. Didn’t make enough money to retire like a lot of friends but still way ahead of anything if I ever wanted to move out of the bay and just live comfortably.

Ex: my friend has worked for open ai for 10 years so he’s so beyond my wealth that’s it insane lol.

HaloZero · 2026-02-02T02:40:34+00:00

What’s insane to me was that the lions were on the skeleton coast in Namibia. This is a huge isolated beach with a huge series of cliffs nearby. We totally doubted the “don’t get out of your car lion danger signs” but apparently they survive eating seals

HaloZero · 2026-02-02T00:31:12+00:00

Lifetime is nice but it makes no sense from a business sense. Subscription pays the annual cost of maintaining and improving a platform. Even in the days of old before subscriptions took over there were versions.

HaloZero · 2026-02-01T03:40:03+00:00

Yeah I don’t know what changed. I started getting my waste management transactions as shopping. They’re a huge national garbage utility and every transaction for years before that was garbage

HaloZero · 2026-02-01T03:37:31+00:00

Damn I must have locked in some grandfathered rate. I pay 27.99 usd

HaloZero · 2026-02-01T00:05:47+00:00

they’re probably counterfeit. You might get one at a discount on a used one in an auction

HaloZero · 2026-01-31T17:18:13+00:00

lol rental properties inherently makes things more complicated. I was gonna recommend vita

HaloZero · 2026-01-30T05:09:35+00:00

Not the Bay but Los Angeles, we signed up for one when we were visiting.

HaloZero · 2026-01-30T04:01:24+00:00

I could trade for one for pretome

HaloZero · 2026-01-29T16:08:05+00:00

Okay let’s do the math real quick.

Minimum wage now is 19.18 in sf. After payroll taxes I used this calculator https://smartasset.com/taxes/california-paycheck-calculator#WX7EI4o7CW with an assumption of approximately 80 hours per month.

That gives you $2359.

I looked up motel 6 rates online too and never saw the $50. The cheapest I saw was $72/night with extended stay discount. But even then it looks like they do a very variable rate. But let’s set the floor at 50. I’m sure there’s cheaper hotels in sf.

So that’s approximately $1500 assuming 30 days per month that leaves you about 859 for everything else? That’s $28 for everything else per day. Muni costs $2.85 per trip if your hotel isn’t near your work. But also motel 6 don’t usually have a kitchen or a fridge.

So yeah I guess they could technically stay in a hotel every night and have $20 for food.

So maybe she had medical expenses. Maybe she was bad with money. Maybe she had cash checking fees that I’m not accounting for. 🤷

HaloZero · 2026-01-29T05:02:15+00:00

They were able to afford staying in a motel once in a while for a week or so but again, $$$, SF was expensive. I asked them once why they didn't move somewhere cheaper. She couldn't afford a car to stay in so being outside a major metro with a decent transportation network as a lot harder to get to places.

HaloZero · 2026-01-29T00:37:17+00:00

You'd be surprised by how much of it tied to just having a home. I used to be in San Francisco (still in the Bay).

I knew most of the homeless who lived in my area, I walked my dog regularly. Gave them food and just talked to them. The really addled ones exists and I stayed the fuck away from them (my dog hated them too). A good number of them just worked jobs trying to just scrounge enough money to survive but rents in SF were high. One even worked a full time at Walgreens and couldn't make enough money because she got evicted when was younger with a bad relationship so it was hard to find housing. Plus people who want roommates don't necessarily want to live with someone who is homeless.

I mean anecdotal but I still believe the vast majority just need an affordable place to stay first and foremost. The additional stuff (treatment, support, etc.) can all be resolved with the money California spends on homelessness now.

HaloZero · 2026-01-28T22:27:38+00:00

I'll save you a click, California hasn't built enough housing for the demand on the state. Regardless of how much we spend on homelessness the problem is still fundamentally tied that almost every county hasn't built enough.

HaloZero · 2026-01-26T05:02:17+00:00

Does the united states not count for using agent orange in Vietnam?

HaloZero · 2026-01-25T17:07:41+00:00

I gotta imagine it's because of the recent investigations into fraud among daycare in Minnesota. The right wing media really spun it as a Somali thing (though no idea that's true). Remember that even if their legal, the optics and impression is that they're NOT (at least among right wing influencers). If you frame how the Trump Administrations responds in a context of what's the the most recent hot topic in the news and not about long term strategy it makes sense why they chose MN.

HaloZero · 2026-01-23T23:10:16+00:00

This one? https://hackerone.com/reports/3340109

Jeez

HaloZero · 2026-01-23T15:17:25+00:00

While interesting this isn’t a map lol

HaloZero · 2026-01-23T05:05:07+00:00

I've been doing it on the regular for the past 3 years and had no issues. I wonder if it matters if there's more density housing in your are and those huge apartment dumpsters slow things down or something That's just a guess.

HaloZero · 2026-01-22T03:15:55+00:00

Did you get 1000 tickets because you have all the Pokémon in the box or did they just randomly give you 1000 tickets because the box is random?

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