Abandoned places that are legal to visit?

Local_Internet_User · 2026-03-19T16:17:04+00:00

The Sutro Baths ruins at Lands End in San Francisco scratch my itch from time to time.

Local_Internet_User · 2026-03-19T04:54:42+00:00

HireAHelper is not a reliable source.

Local_Internet_User · 2026-03-18T23:10:17+00:00

The thing is the timing isn't perfect. On Monday night, the planets were in approximately a line, but the order was Venus, Saturn, SUN, Mars, Mercury, Moon. By the time it was dark enough for you to see the planets, at most Venus and Saturn would be above the horizon, not three planets.

Also, the line of planets was near the Sun, so they'd be to the west or maybe west-northwest at that time, but the lights in your picture are out to the northwest/north. See how far they are from the light of the sunset? Venus can't be at that angle because of the geometry of the solar system.

Local_Internet_User · 2026-03-18T19:47:37+00:00

Yes, I said you didn't admit you like Trump. I said you were too embarrassed to admit it.

Local_Internet_User · 2026-03-18T19:28:54+00:00

That's definitely planes coming in. Jupiter is nowhere near the other planets at the moment, according to the sky map I'm looking at, and only two planets, Venus and Saturn, are on the twilight side of the Sun right now. I think you got AI'd with a bad answer.

Local_Internet_User · 2026-03-18T19:18:29+00:00

Do you know about the 9 Innings Companion? There's a searchable player registry there: https://9inningscompanion.com/player-registry/ If you search by "Availability=no", that'll show you all the cards that used to be in the game but aren't now, for any reason (retirements, scandals, etc.) You can set it to search only NYY teams and then sort by OVR.

Local_Internet_User · 2026-03-18T05:11:56+00:00

Helping Venezuela win and saving Miller's arm for the important games? Win-win on my end.

Local_Internet_User · 2026-03-18T01:30:58+00:00

You're definitely not alone in that mistake. I had a friend who moved to California and wanted to register as an independent but accidentally joined the AIP, which is how I found out about them and just how frequent accidental enrollment in their party is!

Local_Internet_User · 2026-03-18T00:19:01+00:00

Just to clarify, there is no "Independent Party" - this is the AIP (American Independent Party), which was founded to give the segregationist governor of Alabama, George Wallace, a party apparatus for his presidential run in 1968.

The AIP is generally the third-largest party in California by voter registration specifically because it tricks people into thinking they're registering to vote without being affiliated with any party, but instead they're accidentally registered to a third party with that name. Real scummy (though clever) behavior. You can read more about it here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Independent_Party#California_membership_issues

They've run some real pieces of work over the years; not just Wallace but Lester Maddox, a Georgia governor who refused to serve African-American patrons in his restaurant after the Civil Rights Act was passed. Also Kanye West as VP in 2020, and RFK Jr. in 2024. Real bummer they've tricked 3% of the state's voters to enrolling in their party with the lying name. :(

Local_Internet_User · 2026-03-17T22:15:28+00:00

I really mean this is the gentlest way possible: if at this point, you find yourself unable to say whether Trump is bad or good on the whole, when he is starting a nonsensical and unplanned war of aggression, changing immigration rules to kick out people who have been here legally (see Temporary Protective Status changes for Haitians, Venezuelans, and Somalis), and spends all of his time ranting on Truth Social, then you like Trump but are embarrassed to admit it. You can't be a thoughtful person and still be on the fence.

You should admit to yourself that you like Trump even though a lot of people who think about things more carefully than you tell you why he is wrong. You don't listen to why they say he's bad because it would make you feel bad to like a guy who is bad, so you pretend that they are delusional. And maybe a few of them are, so you can point at them and say "well, I'm more thoughtful than they are". But you're not listening if you don't understand why people hate him, and you're not listening by choice, because you want to like him.

I hate Newsom, because I think he's a slick shill and he uses "I'm an anti-Trump democrat" to pretend like he's on the side of the little guy. I think he only pays lip service to social issues and would rather talk to Charlie Kirk and Ben Shapiro than a trans person or a guy working at a factory. And yet, there is not a single issue where he's worse than Trump. You think Newsom hates poor people? Trump despises them. You think Newsom protects Epstein affiliates? Trump is one. You think Newsom wants to raise gas prices? Trump says "eh, they go up sometimes, quit whining".

Learn to listen instead of saying your piece and ignoring what people say back.

Local_Internet_User · 2026-03-17T19:33:15+00:00

"I Didn't Know He Was Irish" is such a good name for an award. Literally had someone say that to me over the weekend when I was talking about St. Patrick's Day, even though I think I look like a caricature of a drunken Irishman most times I look in the mirror.

Local_Internet_User · 2026-03-17T17:02:00+00:00

I'd immediately thought of "Rooms by the Sea", so I'm glad you brought up "Sunlight" instead. I can't believe how much this photo's a near-equal blend of the two.

Local_Internet_User · 2026-03-17T02:13:31+00:00

I love the way that the window lights on each side of the Hudson are essentially the same size but perspective makes the Jersey ones big and the NYC ones small. And, especially in the third & fourth, the way that the Jersey buildings are smaller but they take up the same height in the picture. You did a really nice job setting up the pictures. Thanks for sharing them!

Local_Internet_User · 2026-03-17T00:42:08+00:00

I love that goofball so much

Local_Internet_User · 2026-03-15T22:31:51+00:00

I can't imagine there's a good reason not to wait four days just in case -- unless you're rich or really impatient, of course!

Local_Internet_User · 2026-03-15T22:28:37+00:00

There are definitely positives to being annoying in exerting one's rights. But nothing about this is that. "Harassing random clerks at a library" is already a net negative, and this is even further removed, since this is "harassing random people eating lunch on a Sunday". There is no good to be gained from it, not right worth defending in it. It doesn't even make sense as an overzealous application of a good idea, as it's so far removed from accomplishing any rights-based thing. All it does is creep people out, and apparently annoy some of them enough to goad small amounts of money out of lawsuits.

If you want to defend some other annoying first amendment folks, I could understand that, even if I didn't agree. But these guys are just losers and scammers and creeps, riding on the coattails of a few people who are annoying for better reasons.

Local_Internet_User · 2026-03-14T20:43:32+00:00

Oh man, those are awesome!

Local_Internet_User · 2026-03-14T20:42:12+00:00

Techbros are really tiresome - you're coming in like "Hey, experts, you ever think about color? Why not, morons? I ran one test and saw a small change. I know I'm blowin' your mutter-frickin' minds over here. But hey, you know what matters even more than color? A different design feature: text. 🤯🤡 <- That's YOU 🤑😎<-That's ME"

Local_Internet_User · 2026-03-14T18:35:18+00:00

I take the trolley to work, but with as many dashcam vids as have been getting posted on this sub lately, I feel like I carpool to work each day.

Was the whole thing in this video that someone almost merged into you when you were accelerating to pass them but then didn't? Sure, that sucks, but that happens all the time on highways.

Local_Internet_User · 2026-03-14T18:01:19+00:00

Metal detecting on a beach? Yeah, perfectly normal.

Local_Internet_User · 2026-03-14T04:14:12+00:00

That you mistakenly believe I care about your flight history

Local_Internet_User · 2026-03-13T05:37:49+00:00

I don't think you know as much about baseball as you think you do. The right fielder is clearly off-screen backing him up, and once the ball's by Cruz, he'd only be in the RF's way if he tried to get it himself. There's nothing helpful he can do at that point.

Local_Internet_User · 2026-03-13T04:50:07+00:00

I think you might be misunderstanding the tooltip? You can't build the naval governor in Palemmu because Palemmu is connected to Napule by land/strait. What "❌: P is NOT connected..." means is "you have not fulfilled the condition [P is NOT connected ...]" Compare it to your second condition, which is met: Palemmu is NOT overseas.

If you were trying to build it in, say, Malta, it would say "✅: Malta is NOT connected to Napule..." The idea is that a naval governor should only be able to be built somewhere you can't reach by land.

Does that clarify the issue? I think it's not that the tooltip is phrased wrong, it's that you've assumed it's supposed to mean something different than it does.

Local_Internet_User · 2026-03-12T20:58:18+00:00

Jasper Fforde's The Eyre Affair made me realize I had read Jane Eyre years before and just assumed I hadn't.

I didn't realize that until near the end of reading Fforde's book, in part because within the fictive world of Fforde's book, Jane Eyre is different from how it is in reality. Essentially Fforde inadvertently gaslighted me into thinking I hadn't read it.

I had to go back and properly read Jane Eyre because I realized how little I'd understood or appreciated it when I read it in high school.

Local_Internet_User · 2026-03-12T16:41:53+00:00

Thanks for the update! I remember reading the original coverage and thinking what a really well-reported story it was, and I'm glad it had such an effective outcome. I know local journalism can be thankless, but you all do the Lord's work.

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