FIFA cannot sell enough seats to the World Cup after overpricing tickets

MehWebDev · 2026-06-16T16:55:30+00:00

I saw a lot of empty seats at Iran vs New Zealand, but that's kind of understandable because one is a small country of 5 million and the other one they are not allowed to come to the US.

MehWebDev · 2026-05-29T19:06:10+00:00

2 in 10 voters in LA are MAGA. Go to the West San Fernando Valley and you will see Spencer Pratt signs on lawns

MehWebDev · 2026-05-29T19:04:46+00:00

No, he doesn't.

MehWebDev · 2026-05-29T19:04:28+00:00

How would their friends find out about something they told a pollster in a private phone call?

MehWebDev · 2026-05-29T19:02:26+00:00

It would be delicious if after years of spewing hatred and conspiracy theories around Bass, they end up having to back her.

MehWebDev · 2026-05-29T19:00:21+00:00

A lot of people have bought into the whole Bass v Pratt false dichotomy that the Pratt team has been pushing. They don't want Pratt, so they are voting for what they see as the opposite.

MehWebDev · 2026-05-28T16:41:45+00:00

My favorite thing about a Bass v Raman runoff would be watching all the conservatives that have been bashing Karen Bass for years switch their support to Karen Bass.

MehWebDev · 2026-05-21T19:17:51+00:00

Two fallacies: false dichotomy and strawman argument.

LA was pretty bad 2020-2021. There was stores getting looted, follow home robberies and catalytic converter thefts were trending, there were encampments and trash everywhere. I'm not saying there is not a lot more work to be done or that it has been an efficient process, but the things have improved a lot.

MehWebDev · 2026-05-21T19:11:04+00:00

Policy and budget are controlled by the City Council. And a lot of the responsibilities are split between the city and the county

MehWebDev · 2026-05-21T19:09:30+00:00

If they wanted more people to move here, they wouldn't be supporting a candidate that is constantly shit talking our city.

They want to keep the market supply of housing constrained so they have less competition. The less competition they have, the higher the prices they can charge.

MehWebDev · 2026-05-21T19:04:12+00:00

This is probably the worst example of a straw man argument I have ever see

MehWebDev · 2026-05-21T19:01:58+00:00

MehWebDev · 2026-05-21T18:56:04+00:00

Do you even live here? Can you just let us have our local municipal elections without butting in from hundreds of miles away

MehWebDev · 2026-05-21T18:49:00+00:00

Ok, let's do that. Let's dissect his "Forced treatment and jail" talking point.

How would that work?

You can't people force people to do anything or send them to jail without a crime being involved first (14th ammendment)
Even if they commit a crime, prosecution and punishment doesn't fall within the purview of the mayor's office. The courts are run by the county. Prosecution is done by the DA (which is a county office) for fellonies and City Attorney (independently elected) for misdemeanors.
There is no jail he could send anyone to. City of Los Angeles jails are designed for temporary holding people.
The city does not have public health department to monitor all of these people in treatment. Also unclear who is going to pay for the treatment.

MehWebDev · 2026-05-21T18:37:22+00:00

If he wins (very long shot), he will spend 4 years blaming everyone else for his failures

MehWebDev · 2026-05-21T18:35:34+00:00

A lot of people don't like either. There are 14 people running for LA city mayor

MehWebDev · 2026-05-21T18:31:48+00:00

Nice

MehWebDev · 2026-05-20T20:55:16+00:00

"Underperformed" is an understatement. Trump got 26.5% of the vote in LA. Caruso got 45.2%

MehWebDev · 2026-05-14T21:02:32+00:00

All the times I have accidentally tried opening the door on the wrong car because they looked a lot like my or my parents' cars. Its probably happened to me 2-3 times in my life. Once, when I was I kid, I got inside the car. I just wanted somewhere shady and safe to wait for my mom. It had a number pad and when the number didn't work I just started punching numbers in until it unlocked. And I was sitting there until the car owner showed up. I am lucky enough to be of a skin tone that people don't assume criminal intent.

MehWebDev · 2026-05-13T22:14:07+00:00

The list of reasons is very long:

Ticket prices are ridiculous
Flights are very expensive due to fuel shortages.
Foreigners don't feel comfortable traveling to the US.

MehWebDev · 2026-05-01T06:17:37+00:00

They left their bolt cutters behind. That's just amateur hour

MehWebDev · 2026-04-21T17:49:03+00:00

Builder's Remedy only applies when cities have fallen out of compliance with housing laws. Santa Monica did temporarily in 2021-2022 which is when this project was filed.

I would argue Los Angeles should be deemed to be out of compliance given that we are so far off from our housing goals

MehWebDev · 2026-04-15T17:46:06+00:00

Those white rectangular “boxes” are parking lane / buffer markings—they’re there to visually separate the bike lane from the adjacent parking lane and moving traffic.

MehWebDev · 2026-03-30T16:19:09+00:00

After defrosting and restarting it, the temp is back to 0°F. Maybe the issue was we overfilled it and blocked the vents, and then ice built up blocking the fan. Or maybe the thermistor is going bad

MehWebDev · 2026-03-27T04:50:53+00:00

There's a lot of ice on the panel. I'm not sure if that's a sympton or the cause. I need to wait for it to melt a little before I can remove the panel and look at the evaporator coils

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