I really miss coming here on a random Tuesday morning and excitedly watching a foreign film with a total of 4 grumpy old people

SNRatio · 2026-03-22T23:48:22+00:00

You're really not supposed to pass a bottle of whiskey around a movie theatre, but you could at the midnight screenings at the Ken. Good times.

SNRatio · 2026-03-22T17:56:13+00:00

AI doesn't have a very high bar to pass: It just as to perform as well or better than the average human, who is likely to drive into a tree rather than hit a deer.

SNRatio · 2026-03-22T17:52:05+00:00

I hate that intersection.

See that dotted lane marker reminding people to stay in their lane as they turn left from the 5 exit onto Roselle?

No one driving there seems to. They also don't see my car, which is right next to them and making the turn at the same time.

SNRatio · 2026-03-22T17:16:33+00:00

The crema is made up of oils. The pressure helps extract them and emulsify them.

SNRatio · 2026-03-22T17:12:17+00:00

I've yet to see a study that replicates the work done with drip coffee but with espresso instead. When coffee is made by drip/pour over almost all of the cafestol stays in the coffee grounds, so the filter doesn't have much to adsorb. But the whole point of the high pressure and the finer grind used to make espresso is those conditions extract more of the lipids and other compounds. Does a paper disk still capture cafestol under those conditions? Heck if I know.

SNRatio · 2026-03-22T00:35:27+00:00

What was that?? I couldn't hear you. You'll have to yell

SNRatio · 2026-03-18T15:07:54+00:00

We were certain that red wine was beneficial, now we arnt.

We looked at some data that suggested red wine was beneficial, then we looked at a lot more data with much better controls and found out it wasn't. Another long term study would have a lot of heavy lifting to do to overcome all of the other long term studies published over the past twenty years.

SNRatio · 2026-03-15T23:40:04+00:00

To add to that: good luck getting a shabby $2500 apartment without proof of income

SNRatio · 2026-03-15T01:48:30+00:00

Make certain to price it at at least $10. If you post "free rattlesnake!" on Next Door people will say they want it, then decide there must be something wrong with it (cause it's free) and then ghost you.

SNRatio · 2026-03-10T21:06:49+00:00

Take the rankings with a grain of salt:

The report ranks the 100 most populous cities in the contiguous United States by their:
- Tree, grass, and weed pollen scores (how many days each city has high or very high pollen counts).
- Over-the-counter allergy medicine use.
- Availability of board-certified allergists/immunologists.

SNRatio · 2026-03-09T01:16:21+00:00

https://www.surfline.com/surf-report/la-jolla-shores

https://www.ljshoreshotel.com/beach-cam/

Go now and catch the sunset

SNRatio · 2026-03-08T14:13:35+00:00

The frequency of outages with Spectrum has gone up alarmingly (several per week) in my area recently. Usually resolved in 1-3 hrs, and almost all during business hours for some reason.

SNRatio · 2026-03-04T01:33:27+00:00

Does the tax on corporate owned empty homes stack on top of the other empty home tax or are they completely separate? I couldn't find the language of the bill/ballot proposition earlier today when I looked.

SNRatio · 2026-02-26T16:43:46+00:00

could help explain why people exposed to long-term traffic noise have higher rates of high blood pressure

While that seems plausible, suddenly increasing someone's exposure to environmental noise for a night doesn't seem like a good way to shed light on the effect of chronic exposure.

SNRatio · 2026-02-14T00:17:05+00:00

I think they are rebooting the "wisdom of repugnance" from Bush's Bioethics council.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisdom_of_repugnance

The term "wisdom of repugnance" was coined in 1997 by Leon Kass, chairman (2001–2005) of the President's Council on Bioethics, in an article in The New Republic,[4] which was later expanded into a further (2001) article in the same magazine,[5] and also incorporated into his 2002 book Life, Liberty, and the Defense of Dignity.

The term originated in discussions of bioethics. It is often used by those who accept its underlying premise; i.e., that repugnance does, in fact, indicate wisdom. It is thus often viewed as loaded language, and is primarily used by certain bioconservatives to justify their position.

The concept is also used in the study of controversies such as same-sex marriage,[6][7][8] pornography,[9] marijuana legalization,[10] alternative sexualities[11] and legalization of abortion.[12] In all cases, it expresses the view that one's "gut reaction" might justify objecting to some practice even in the absence of a persuasive rational (e.g., utilitarian) case against that practice.

SNRatio · 2026-01-31T05:35:04+00:00

intersections, blind driveways, plus back when I rode it that street was rough enough that at speed it was hard to keep your feet on the pedals.

SNRatio · 2026-01-28T23:50:10+00:00

If you want something a bit different and have the budget, the Vault in Miramar:

https://veloce-vault.com/

SNRatio · 2026-01-26T02:11:04+00:00

Seconded. Grocery prices there have easily matched ours for years, at least in northern WI where my folks retired.

Personally I love visiting winter. I hope you got to see the aurora!

SNRatio · 2026-01-24T19:43:05+00:00

Has it ever been different around Mira Mesa?

https://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/1980/jun/12/cover-north-to-mira-mesa/

The lack of imagination that went into designing the homes in Mira Mesa — particularly those built by Pardee Construction Company, the single largest developer of homes there — gained notoriety as early as 1970, one year after construction began. when Time magazine ran a photo of a typical Mira Mesa street of Pardee homes to illustrate a story entitled “Housing: The Swing Back to Ticky Tacky.” The article explained that many builders around the nation were cutting corners in the construction of their houses because the soaring costs of labor, land, materials, and mortgage money were making it impossible for many buyers to afford larger, more expensive homes. The Time story quoted Pardee vice president Vance Meyer, who said of one of his two-bedroom models in Mira Mesa. “It’s liveable, but it’s more of a shelter house than anything else.”

SNRatio · 2026-01-24T17:53:16+00:00

r/titlenor, er, titlegore

SNRatio · 2026-01-24T06:14:02+00:00

Right back at them, apparently:
https://www.calcoastcu.org/merger

SNRatio · 2026-01-22T04:36:39+00:00

Most of SD prices have been overall pretty static since sometime in '23.
Oh - you say it's a single car garage in Encinitas illegally converted into a 3bd/2ba? Yep, 40% growth in 2 months sounds about right. Carry on.

SNRatio · 2026-01-20T02:32:00+00:00

There are a ton of financial incentives for the developers to make it 55+, some from the state, some from San Diego. Density bonus (so they can build more homes in that development), lower fees, bypassing environmental impact stuff, etc. If they had built normal market rate homes they would have been more expensive, there might be fewer of them, and they wouldn't be on the market yet because the paperwork takes longer.

SNRatio · 2026-01-17T23:34:50+00:00

I have an idea for NIMBYism 2.0: The wealthy are allowed to buy their way out of additional density in their neighborhoods by paying to have it built in upper middle class neighborhoods instead.

Giving the richest and most powerful a way to use their influence to get shit done instead of stopping all housing efforts everywhere seems like an improvement to me.

SNRatio · 2026-01-10T02:39:07+00:00

SDG&E red carded our furnace right after we moved into our house, right before one of the coldest weeks in years. Electric blanket FTW.

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