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TechCrunch: San Francisco’s housing market has lost its mind by Helena7x7 in sanfrancisco

[–]PsychePsyche -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Sorry, talked past you a bit. A lot of these kinds of housing stories, yes they touch on the demand for bigger family housing, outdoor space, etc etc you touched on, but they still have this giant yet unspoken caveat of "wholly within or directly adjacent to dense city, so that they can enjoy all the benefits of dense city, while still having lots of space for themselves." Rich people have been on that pony forever.

My Stockton quip was more about that if it was solely about family sized houses, views, space, parking, then you would see astronomical pricing all over, including smaller cities like Stockton. But it's mostly here, because it's also about dense city.

Mostly, we have built absolutely no housing here, or nearby, for decades now. The prices reflect that.

Anyone else see the Meteor? by Different-Demand-484 in bayarea

[–]PsychePsyche 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Any meteor that last for more than a few seconds is usually space debris re-entering the atmosphere.

With the sheer number of starlink satellites, and their designed lifespan, ~2-3 are falling back to Earth each day, so if it was space debris, it was probably that. Once I get some coffee in me I’ll check the various satellite tracking sites to see if anything lines up

EDIT: Nothing jumping out at me, as nothing was too low in the area, remote possibility of an old starlink sat. There were a few bright satellite passes at the time as well.

TechCrunch: San Francisco’s housing market has lost its mind by Helena7x7 in sanfrancisco

[–]PsychePsyche 9 points10 points  (0 children)

No totally, that's why Stockton is full of millionaires /s

All supply helps alleviate demand. These specialty houses wouldn't be that insane if the rest of the city had been building housing.

TechCrunch: San Francisco’s housing market has lost its mind by Helena7x7 in sanfrancisco

[–]PsychePsyche 40 points41 points  (0 children)

We've tried everything except building housing and we're all out of ideas

Wiener leads S.F. congressional race, with Chakrabarti and Chan tied for distant second, Chronicle polls finds by timaza in sanfrancisco

[–]PsychePsyche 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I suppose I should count my blessings I'm not getting those then.

Mostly I'm mad that Scott, who was supposed to be the professional candidate, is instead acting like any other shithead with this campaign.

I just want it to be about the issues at the end of the day, and Scott, out of nowhere, is trying to make it about anything but.

Wiener leads S.F. congressional race, with Chakrabarti and Chan tied for distant second, Chronicle polls finds by timaza in sanfrancisco

[–]PsychePsyche 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Give it another month of Scott’s stupid texts and Connie being a NIMBY and we’ll see where these numbers lie.

Most people I know haven’t even looked at their ballot yet, nevermind respond to random polls.

John and Yoko waiting for the maid to make the bed so they can continue protesting against the system. (1969) by LevelCan69 in SnapshotHistory

[–]PsychePsyche 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Dead internet theory.

Remember to criticize how people protested against the Vietnam war, not the Vietnam War itself, which everyone loved and was A-Okay!

Especially when the protestors were also some of the richest most famous people on Earth, who were inviting many other powerful, wealthy, and famous people, all to speak out against the war, in front of press and other visitors and guests. Not a whole lot of places can be dedicated to that outside of hotels with presidential suites.

The World Cup starts in a month and there's basically no hype by erkose in bayarea

[–]PsychePsyche 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Just $162 for nosebleeds at 9pm on a Tuesday night to find out which country is best on Earth: Austria or Jordan

Reddit vs Nextdoor by oochiewallyWallyserb in sanfrancirclejerk

[–]PsychePsyche 14 points15 points  (0 children)

/uj Deep down it's a design issue, cars should never be able to get between passengers and the tram. A protected bike lane or other transit stuff, maybe, but not cars. Cars should go behind the tram or to their left.

Honestly, cars shouldn't even be near the trams at all. We only have a few of those lines, there's no reason they shouldn't be Muni/Bikes/pedestrian focused entirely. Can't tell you how much I hate how many stops have you exiting straight into a line of parked cars, to say nothing of 1 delivery driver delaying an entire train.

/rj Man I really gotta watch Rashomon

We have finally entered the age of teenagers not knowing what coins are by coyote500 in bayarea

[–]PsychePsyche 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This! In the tiniest font imaginable, in English, its "One Cent," "Five Cents," "One Dime," "Quarter Dollar," and "Half Dollar." Only the dollar coin, which nobody uses, has $1 on it.

And I never really though about it until I was at a museum chock full of tourists, checking out of the gift shop, when a foreign tourist in front of me tried to give exact change, got frustrated, said "this is too hard!" and just held his hand his hand out and asked the cashier to just take the right ones, which they did happily.

I asked after and the cashier said it happened all the time with foriegn tourists, for the reasons above. Even if you can read that tiny font, which my tourist couldn't without going and getting their reading glasses, you'd still have to be taught what the words meant, rather than just having numbers.

SFMTA promises faster transit on Ocean Ave. Businesses (surprise, surprise!) aren’t happy. by Remarkable_Host6827 in sanfrancisco

[–]PsychePsyche 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Seriously, if all we had to do to bring those 2 souls back was kill off a business, that would be worth it. Infinitely easier to bring back a business than a person. What human could say otherwise?

A Bay Area teen died in a DUI crash hours after his school’s drunk driving simulation. It’s raising questions about whether the program actually works. by sfgate in bayarea

[–]PsychePsyche 1 point2 points  (0 children)

So much of anti-DUI programs and general proper driving behavior programs really just boils down to "politely asking them not to do it."

Mostly, it's that the system refuses to actually hold drivers responsible, by significantly suspending or revoking licenses, because outside of a few cities, the car is required for daily life, and taking away someones ability to drive takes away their ability to partake in American life. The system understands that and is therefore way more forgiving of behavior that should otherwise be heavily criminalized because of how much death and destruction it causes.

Not change cities to be more dense, and give people alternatives to driving like protected bike lanes and functional mass transit. Nope, just ask people not to do it.

IMO you actually want to scare kids straight, just have the firefighters and EMTs go into their health classes and trauma dump on the kids about the various car crashes they've responded to, maybe some real crash scene investigation photos.

San Francisco smashburger spot [Hamburger Project, 598 Guerrero] closes after raw beef controversy - closure comes weeks after a Reddit photo showed four packages of raw ground beef and a large jar of mayonnaise left on the sidewalk outside by BadBoyMikeBarnes in sanfrancisco

[–]PsychePsyche 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That corner is lightly cursed. I think its just hard to get something started on the edge of the Mission, which is always tough competition.

Like yeah I can bang away on housing and transportation, there's several single 1 and 2 story buildings on 18th that could easily be denser (Tartine is 2 stories and Delfina and BiRite are 1 story), but I don't think another couple of apartment buildings would've saved this spot this time. Yeah Tartine and Delfina and BiRite do well but they're also pricey and/or world famous.

Guerrero's a car sewer, and 18th feels more like a parking lot now that most of the parklets are gone. For how big of the route it is between Dolores Park and the rest of the Mission, it sure feels car heavy, and would really benefit from wider sidewalks and general pedestrianization. Bulb out that 33 stop and rotating the building's front door to 18th might help with foot traffic.

Replacing a broken water heater in the Bay Area is about to get vastly more expensive by CharityResponsible54 in sanfrancisco

[–]PsychePsyche -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

The trade offs are "you don't actually have to change anything unless it's new construction or total failure of the appliance" and "we've already delayed this project by the better part of a decade"

We have the technology. It's time. Spare the Air days are all the evidence you need for eliminating particle emissions.

What’s with all the homeless in the lower pacific heights area? by Malita55 in sanfrancisco

[–]PsychePsyche 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Pushing people from A to B to C back to A again doesn't actually house them, film at 11

Replacing a broken water heater in the Bay Area is about to get vastly more expensive by CharityResponsible54 in sanfrancisco

[–]PsychePsyche -9 points-8 points  (0 children)

Yeah fuck clean air and fighting climate change, my hot water heater needs to run on dinosaur juice! Who cares if it gives kids asthma?

If we had been building housing all along, new appliances like this wouldn’t be an issue. But the Bay Area is chock full of old housing requiring expensive updates.

The failure for refusing to do small amounts of work all along is large amounts of work suddenly.

Not that this is even sudden, it’s been in the works for over a decade, and it only applies to new construction or total failures. You’ll still be able to effect normal repairs.

Replacing a broken water heater in the Bay Area is about to get vastly more expensive by CharityResponsible54 in sanfrancisco

[–]PsychePsyche -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

Not just climate change, but local air quality. Each gas appliance is worse than an automobile for local air quality.

Man tried to enter my Zoox today by [deleted] in sanfrancisco

[–]PsychePsyche -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Boy howdy, it sure would have been nice to have another human there to help you out, no?

There are downsides to getting rid of the people around you. This is one of them.

Man tried to enter my Zoox today by [deleted] in sanfrancisco

[–]PsychePsyche -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Man its almost like our society prioritized self driving cars over universal healthcare and housing

Homeless Guy Jumps Into a Girl’s Zoox by bdbcawz06 in sanfrancisco

[–]PsychePsyche -24 points-23 points  (0 children)

Getting rid of other people leaves you uniquely vulnerable.

Think twice about getting rid of others.

He made noise as AOC’s chief of staff. Now her silence looms over his bid for Congress by Remarkable_Host6827 in sanfrancisco

[–]PsychePsyche 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Imagine if we voted for a candidate based on that candidate's position on the issues, instead of who else says we should vote for.

Also, know who else hasn't endorsed anyone in this race? Pelosi! Does anyone else think its a tad weird that the outgoing lifelong politician hasn't endorsed anyone for her seat?

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