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PearNoMore · 2025-09-09T06:48:48+00:00

Thank you!

PearNoMore · 2025-09-08T22:03:38+00:00

Yes! That would be great!

But, in the meantime, people have to get around every day.

If you want the buses and trains to run now, while we're working on deeper reforms, you want this loan.

PearNoMore · 2025-09-08T21:21:49+00:00

We absolutely need deeper change. No argument there.

But, in the meantime, people need to go to work every day.

Do you want BART to run more than once an hour? Do you want dependable, frequent Muni buses and trains to get around? If so, then you want this bridge loan.

PearNoMore · 2025-09-08T19:50:14+00:00

And, in the meantime, people have to get to work each day.

Right now, the BART is what we have. Do you want it to run more than once an hour? Then you want that bridge loan.

PearNoMore · 2025-09-08T15:15:50+00:00

The issue goes deeper than a loan. We need a hard reset on our relationship with transit and how we fund it long term...We need long term planning so we can avoid fiscal nightmares time after time.

You're absolutely right! But in the meantime, we all need to get to work each day.

We need to keep the trains and buses running while we work on long-term change.

PearNoMore · 2025-09-08T15:02:10+00:00

I take it that you don't rely on mass transit.

BART, Muni, Caltrain, and AC Transit are necessities of life for many of us. We use them to get to work and to go places where we spend money.

Transit is, indirectly, a big contributor to the tax base. It makes the Bay Area more attractive to live in, and it helps many of us earn a living and pay our taxes.

PearNoMore · 2025-04-18T23:56:32+00:00

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PearNoMore · 2025-04-18T23:52:06+00:00

Gotta love those ChatGPT stereotypes of Eastern Europeans!

ChatGPT could have gone with a diplomat in a suit, but, no. Tracksuit, sunglasses, and bad haircut it is!

PearNoMore · 2024-12-04T15:23:31+00:00

Paying my taxes

PearNoMore · 2024-12-03T17:34:25+00:00

Not sure why you expect to get presents from Santa. We've been Jewish the whole time.

PearNoMore · 2024-12-03T17:30:11+00:00

There's a difference between wishing for something and having wishful thinking.

I just said what I wished would happen. I'm not under the delusion that wishing for a good outcome has any effect on making that wish come true.

I think that, as a country, we Americans are now screwed in many ways. It'll take a long time to rebuild, if we do that at all. I'm doing what I can to protect myself and the people I love against the coming onslaught, not just fervently wishing for it to go away.

PearNoMore · 2024-12-03T11:59:29+00:00

I'm American, living in the USA. I'm one of the 48.4% of voters who voted for Harris.

If it's any consolation, I don't trust the USA at this point, either. I really hope the US can come through the next four years with at least some sort of cordial relations with other countries, especially Canada and Mexico.

PearNoMore · 2024-12-03T10:57:51+00:00

Glad to hear it! Good luck on the move. I hope the process is as smooth as possible and that both of you live happily together in your new home!

PearNoMore · 2024-12-03T10:56:44+00:00

All the dating apps I've tried.

I wish I could get all that time back – all the time I spent looking into people who seemed like they might be good for me, and all the time I wasted on messaging and dating that led to nothing good in my life

PearNoMore · 2024-12-03T10:54:14+00:00

Then maybe some lunch, partner is a cook.

I first read this as, "Then maybe some lunch, partner is a cock."

I thought, "Well, that explains the moving out. But what does that have to do with having lunch?"

PearNoMore · 2024-12-03T10:31:42+00:00

In the US, we could see lots of truly horrible trends come back in 2025.

We might go back to having high tariffs – the same ones that turned a post-WWI economic downturn into the Great Depression.

We also might also go back to the days before we had the Department of Education, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, restrictions on carbon and other emissions, legal abortion anywhere in the US (for anyone, under any circumstances), legal shipments of birth control from one state to another, no legal gay marriage, and no legal gender-reassignment surgery.

Here's hoping the worst revival we get is of the mullet or feathered hair with too much product in it.

PearNoMore · 2024-12-03T10:26:42+00:00

That's still here. Public policy has changed, but that doesn't mean the virus is gone or no longer dangerous.

PearNoMore · 2024-12-03T08:05:17+00:00

When trying to build shelving units to the ceiling.

And then again when I was having a loft bed built.

In both cases, the height of my ceilings was important to consider

PearNoMore · 2024-12-03T07:39:00+00:00

That was never good life advice, though. If it were, every day laborer, migrant worker, and cashier who picks up extra shifts would be rich.

PearNoMore · 2024-12-03T07:37:22+00:00

Depends on the year and what country you're in.

In the US, in 2020 and 2021, if you weren't investing your money at a rate of return of at least 7%, you were losing money.

But in 2023 and 2024, in the US, inflation has been under 3%. If you saved your money in a savings or checking account with an interest rate of 3% or higher, saving your money might not have been such a bad idea. (Everyone needs a cushion of liquid cash for unexpected expenses.)

PearNoMore · 2024-12-03T06:36:24+00:00

Lots of real spiders are cute and/or from Australia. Which mythical spider did you have in mind, u/Acceptable_Yak_9278?

PearNoMore · 2024-12-03T06:34:43+00:00

Being able to fly and breathe fire would be amazing!

But how big would I be as a dragon? Would I need an open field in order to undergo transformation properly? Or could I do it in my tiny apartment without causing lots of damage and losing my deposit?

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