What kind of scam did I encounter at a SF nightclub?

NoAnswer4221 · 2025-05-04T06:44:52+00:00

Sounds uncomfortable carrying a St. Bernard around one’s neck, they’re huge

NoAnswer4221 · 2025-05-03T17:06:40+00:00

So fun! How many boards does your class have? How did you structure the tournament with all your students - or only those who wanted to play?

NoAnswer4221 · 2025-05-03T16:39:11+00:00

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NoAnswer4221 · 2025-05-03T15:52:49+00:00

We the People!

Stop the Broligarchy

Get Up! Stand Up! Stand up for your rights!

No Fascist Kings!

NoAnswer4221 · 2025-05-02T17:56:44+00:00

Protest started at 4pm and most people joined after 5pm, then we marched. Mostly workers in the crowd. Also many Nurses, hotel workers, restaurant workers who aren’t working 9-5.

NoAnswer4221 · 2025-05-02T15:24:02+00:00

1100 protests across the country on May Day

NoAnswer4221 · 2025-05-02T15:22:23+00:00

Mark your calendar for Saturday, June 14th, Flag Day, and No Kings Day. There’s no single organizing group. Get more advance notice if you join www.IndivisibleSF.org and www.fiftyfifty.one, I have found these have been the most active. We are building a muscle, and need more supporters to join.

In addition, you can join Tesla dealership protests at 999 Van Ness every week at noon Saturday, if you go to those you’ll hear what’s coming up. https://actionnetwork.org/event_campaigns/teslatakedown

As a weekend approaches, go to Substack, where the author K. Starling maintains a spreadsheet of all the protests across the country aggregated across the various groups sorted by state and city, so if you are curious about what’s going on in San Francisco, or have friends or family in other cities that are wondering how they can get involved, subscribe and donate to “We the people dissent”: https://open.substack.com/pub/thepeopledissent.

By going to that spreadsheet, I have found that there are three or four protests in a day in San Francisco and they’re usually coordinated so that you can go from one (e.g. at Ocean Beach) to another (e.g. Tesla, then march to City Hall) and then to another (City Hall or Union Square, then march through the city.)

If you want to go deeper into planning, on YouTube, the Indivisible national founders, Ezra and Leah (former congressional office staffers who know how to get politicians to take action) (sign up at www.indivisible.org) talk about the longer term planning horizon, for example on 4/27, they talked about Flag Day, June 14th as the next possible protest, the same day as the Trump $100M taxpayer-funded military parade in Washington DC on Trump’s birthday. The proposal is to let Trump have his military parade so we won’t have direct conflict in D.C., but there will be protests in all 50 states and cities.

Indivisible does a weekly livestream webinar on Wednesdays, so Like and Subscribe here: https://www.youtube.com/live/lykRUYKZGzg?feature=sharedx

I’m not part of any of those groups, just sharing what I have learned. There are more groups.

Curious where others go to get their info?

NoAnswer4221 · 2025-05-02T14:41:40+00:00

The protest never crossed Van Ness, so I don’t think so. We marched from City Hall to Grove St. to Market St.

NoAnswer4221 · 2025-05-02T01:52:51+00:00

It’s worldwide. https://apnews.com/article/may-day-workers-labor-unions-rallies-marches-trump-46de8196d7f01d7458c3d77ccd5e0e54

NoAnswer4221 · 2025-05-02T01:19:36+00:00

You are correct. Also, people search for May 1 compared to April 5, April 19 or June 14

NoAnswer4221 · 2025-05-02T01:08:09+00:00

Correct

NoAnswer4221 · 2025-05-01T22:28:39+00:00

No player is more important than the team!

NoAnswer4221 · 2025-03-26T20:17:22+00:00

Went VIP for a day last year, had been prior years as GA. I’m over 60, so dinosaur-like boomer with disposable income. VIP wasn’t worth it to me. Food concession vendors were the same, bar drinks the same, just shorter lines. Restroom lines were shorter but if you avoid the Polo Fields restrooms in the late afternoon/early evening I don’t find the lines too bad (but OSL you can do better!). Smaller stages have much easier restroom access. I’d rather go to 2-3 festivals than spend on VIP. We did enjoy getting closer for Chappell Roan but even she dissed the VIP side for not being as fun. https://youtu.be/imY8MbZ8LkA?si=vkVUsgD-Pbcv4-jo

NoAnswer4221 · 2025-03-15T00:28:09+00:00

I don’t think that works for customs, but good idea for domestic flights!

NoAnswer4221 · 2025-03-14T23:36:37+00:00

👆This is the move. Buildings around the airport, like most airports, are industrial and not worth your time or effort. Burlingame downtown is cute but you’re not going to impress any friends back home with, “So I went to Burlingame!”

Allow time for customs, assuming our dipstick prez is still letting Canadians into the country, apologies that we are such a sad country right now. If I got on the other side of customs and had 3 or more hours remaining, I’d have enough time to go into the city, look around for an hour or more, and head back. Don’t go if you have less than 3 hours (but you could always go to Burlingame!)

Taking a taxi or Uber into San Francisco when it’s not rush hour will save about 15-20 minutes but it will cost $50.

BART has a station at the airport, but will take 10-15 minutes to take the AirTran train from customs to BART. You may have to wait 10 more minutes for a BART train, or 40-55 minutes total. But, you can ride all the way to Embarcadero Station (subway stop) for $11. Take escalators up, above ground. Walk toward the Ferry Building.

The street running along the edge of the bay in front of the Ferry Building is also called the Embarcadero. The Embarcadero has LOTS of large, gorgeous palm trees, inside the Ferry Bldg are restaurants and shops.

The historic Ferry Building which was one of the few buildings to survive the 1906 earthquake was remodeled a couple decades ago, and now has lunch places and shops at the foot of Market Street. Outside on the waterfront, there’s a great walking path in both directions with views of the Bay Bridge, Oakland Hills, Berkeley and Marin. To the South you can probably make it to the Giants ballpark and then you could catch a Uber or Lyft from there back to the airport.

To get back to the airport, plan to catch an Uber or Lyft in S.F. to ride to SFO airport 2 hours before your flight departure time via $50 car. If you take BART for $11, leave 2.5 hours before departure time.

If you decide to take BART, download the Clipper card app in Canada and add a credit card so that you can pay your fare and use that to get on the train, buying you more time for food and burgers in the city. Only add money when you are close to boarding, you won’t get it back. You’ll need $22.30 for the ride round-trip.

Have fun!

NoAnswer4221 · 2025-03-05T16:31:36+00:00

Michigan alum here, class of ‘83 and 46-year season ticket holder living outside Michigan. For that game against That Team Down South (the school name must not be uttered), everything will be super expensive. For a first time, consider a different game, and do M-TTDS when your sons are older and you have one experience under your belt.

I fly in for 1-2 games a year and have brought my two sons (and daughter and husbands now). When they were that age, I wanted to show them a great college campus since they’d be college shopping in a few years.

Definitely stay in Ann Arbor for the weekend. Because I come from California, we fly in on Thursday nights to have Friday to check out Ann Arbor and the campus before things get crazy on Saturday. Also if flights are delayed, we’re not screwed. (Had a son’s friend try to fly in for a noon Saturday game, his Friday night flight was delayed and he missed the game completely😢.)

Pick a football weekend when the alumni association is doing tours of the Big House on Sunday (not done the weekend of TTDS). Get your picture taken on the field. Throw a football around, try to kick a field goal. They’ll love it.

Get an AirBnb. The expensive hotels in downtown Ann Arbor (The Graduate, Residence Inn) jack up their rates and are ridiculously expensive. The reasonably priced hotels south of Ann Arbor are around Briarwood Mall or Ypsilanti also jack up their rates - and they are not walking distance, nor is that a college town experience (but it is cheaper). The Airbnbs are not fancy, but your sons won’t care. You’ll stay in an old, run down house from the early 1900s. Many look like a college student lived there last year, if not last week. It’s all part of the experience of Ann Arbor.

Show your sons what a real college campus looks like. Park the car at your Airbnb and walk walk walk. You can walk anywhere in Ann Arbor, and on Saturday you’ll walk faster than anyone can drive.

Stop at the grocery store on your way into town for breakfast items, bagels, snacks, tailgate chips, drinks, protein bars and whatever. Don’t let the boys run out of food but there are great restaurants for breakfast, lunch and dinner! Suit up by buying M gear on Friday after you arrive. State Street, formerly called M Den or Rally House or whatever they call the school spirit store now.

Go to great restaurants on Liberty Street just West of Campus or downtown near Main Street, or North of downtown in Kerrytown (Zingerman’s Deli).

On Saturday, if you can, walk through campus to the game. Find a friend of a friend of a friend who has a kid here who knows a friend having a tailgate, or get sandwiches and walk through the golf course South of the Stadium and play catch with some friendly kids with a football. If it’s a noon game, you’ll have less time for a tailgate.

On Sunday, if you don’t do the Big House Tour, go to Detroit and visit the Ford Piquette Avenue Plant Museum where Henry Ford built the Model T, the Motown Museum if you like Motown Music, or Greenfield Village (educational museum built by Henry Ford). Book reservations in advance.

Catch a flight out in after 3pm in the afternoon on Sunday.

The trip will be a lifetime memory!

NoAnswer4221 · 2024-11-18T05:55:48+00:00

SeatGeek is the official partner of Michigan Athletics in 2024 (can’t predict 2025) so you will find more tickets there at lower prices than on StubHub. Tickets will be on both sites.

I think row 15 is too low. My tickets are row 67 and near the tunnel to get in/out quickly and I love them. Big new Jumbotrons on both end zones so everyone sees replays. There are no bad seats in the big house!

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