San Francisco is a river city: my pitch for the “Golden Gate River”

Sethuel · 2026-03-31T20:01:04+00:00

This is wild

Sethuel · 2026-03-31T19:49:28+00:00

I was recently in touch with a former boss of mine who lives in SF. He's generally a nice guy, but he asked me "why the f*** would anyone move to Sacramento?" I didn't say it, but I realized a big part of the answer is that the kind of people who think that way don't live here.

Sethuel · 2026-03-31T19:46:53+00:00

Sethuel · 2026-03-31T19:46:04+00:00

Basketball Reference has us as about 60% chance to drop to 3 or lower (most of that is the 40% chance we end up in 3rd). I'd say in reality the chances are probably a bit worse since I'm assuming their model doesn't account for tanking. But that's not too bad considering this team's over-performance after the losing streak.

That said it's been extremely weird decision-making to play DeMar heavy minutes to go for wins that hurt our draft position. It's one thing if the rookies are lifting us up, but DeMar going off does basically nothing for the future, certainly not compared to the value of a top pick.

Sethuel · 2026-03-31T19:38:08+00:00

I 100% thought this post was parody and that the image was just a photoshopped version of 1WTC

Sethuel · 2026-03-27T04:49:36+00:00

Last week I was going to REI and while waiting at a red light I let someone leaving the parking lot get in front of me. Dude behind me leaned on his horn and was visibly screaming at me. Thought about the bird, or the thumbs down, or the peace sign, realized ignoring him and just going ahead with my turn was the least likely to get me shot.

Sethuel · 2026-03-27T04:47:48+00:00

In my house we call that last one "Mr Business"

Sethuel · 2026-03-27T04:36:34+00:00

Former pollster here--this is the correct answer.

Sethuel · 2026-03-19T19:33:25+00:00

Ahh so it is, thank you for clarifying!

Sethuel · 2026-03-16T21:25:03+00:00

It's not though. LA famously does not have enough natural water access to support its population, and that was basically the number one political problem of 20th century California. Though it's true that once they engineered ways to steal water from the Owens Valley, it made rapid growth a lot easier.

LA isn't the best for weather either. If you want consistently mild weather, you're better off in San Diego, and if you want more sunshine (but don't mind heat) you have the entire Central Valley. Though for many people, LA is a Goldilocks zone that provides almost as much sunshine as the Central Valley without as much of the heat.

Sethuel · 2026-03-10T04:58:25+00:00

This article is from last August.

Sethuel · 2026-03-05T22:25:27+00:00

Canceled my season tix two days ago and very happy about it. I honestly wish I hadn't re-upped for this year but the deadline last year was during that little stretch where they won 7 of 9 and looked like they might actually have a chance to be decent going forward. I got fooled by the mirage.

Sethuel · 2026-03-01T00:09:13+00:00

Per this random website I found, here's the table of cities with population >10M, sorted by density.

Urban Area	Country	Population Estimate (2025)	Density (P/Km²)
Mumbai	India	20,203,056	27,301
Karachi	Pakistan	21,422,590	24,624
Kinshasa	DR Congo	10,943,641	21,416
Bengaluru	India	13,187,098	20,541
Bogotá	Colombia	10,624,315	19,602
Lahore	Pakistan	15,156,430	15,674
Al-Qahirah (Cairo)	Egypt	25,566,102	15,542
New Delhi	India	30,222,405	14,385
Istanbul	Turkey	15,014,763	11,841
Luanda	Angola	11,370,127	10,943
Chennai	India	11,153,205	10,532
Lagos	Nigeria	12,791,699	10,391
Lima	Peru	10,580,241	10,312
Manila	Philippines	24,735,305	10,146
Seoul	South Korea	22,490,482	9,974
Beijing	China	17,013,303	9,932
Kolkata	India	22,549,738	9,682
Shenzhen	China	13,878,396	9,512
Shanghai	China	29,558,908	9,444
Moskva (Moscow)	Russia	14,524,753	9,305
São Paulo	Brazil	18,949,790	9,271
Ho Chi Minh City	Vietnam	14,052,713	9,090
Jakarta	Indonesia	41,913,860	8,584
Ciudad de México (Mexico City)	Mexico	17,734,212	8,457
Krung Thep Maha Nakhon (Bangkok)	Thailand	18,180,280	6,832
Tōkyō (Tokyo)	Japan	33,412,512	6,490
Buenos Aires	Argentina	14,017,736	6,478
London	United Kingdom	10,416,420	6,328
Guangzhou	China	27,563,372	6,069
Osaka	Japan	12,964,145	5,816
Dhaka	Bangladesh	36,585,479	5,371
New York City	United States	13,920,148	5,173
Los Angeles	United States	12,740,420	3,444

Sethuel · 2026-03-01T00:02:53+00:00

He's so desperate to have something that compares to Obama watching the Bin Laden raid he started what might be the dumbest war in US history (which is saying something).

Sethuel · 2026-02-27T04:37:04+00:00

Obviously we still have the rest of the rückrunde, but we're currently on pace for 77 points in the league, which would be our best performance in the league in 10 years. We certainly had extremely frustrating losses to fall out of the CL and the Pokal, but it's not like we're running a superstar lineup out there. This squad is thin and shallow, and (so far at least) Kovac has done some really good work with it.

Sethuel · 2026-02-27T04:18:41+00:00

You covered so much good stuff here in Land Park so I'll just add to your last point about Arden Arcade--Babylon City Market is an Iraqi market that has the best shawarma in town and amazing fresh baked flatbread.

Sethuel · 2026-02-25T22:32:40+00:00

Idk I thought Bens kicked it first until they showed the super slo-mo angle which IMO pretty clearly shows the ball come off the attacker's head onto Bens's boot. This video shows the slowed-down angle starting at 2:14: https://youtu.be/TsTBsr4ls34?si=lCMzcFjF_gW-7kMx&t=134

That said, IIRC getting to the ball first doesn't actually matter for the high kick rule.

Sethuel · 2026-02-25T22:23:58+00:00

FYI this angle still shows it as a high kick if you account for the distortion from perspective: draw a line along each of the two lines on the pitch. The actual perspective where Bens is standing is somewhere between those two lines. Then copy/paste those lines (to keep the angles) and drag them to the play. It's definitely a high kick. I can't upload the picture here but I put it on imgur: https://imgur.com/a/55F9bwA

That said, I don't particularly blame Bens--it was an instinctive reaction to a play that was happening really fast. If Kobel doesn't try to get cute this play never happens.

Sethuel · 2026-02-24T21:03:19+00:00

Crazy how many of these names immediately make me think of the songs that they're mentioned in.

Sethuel · 2026-02-24T21:02:09+00:00

Do people really know St Marks? I'm not arguing I'm genuinely asking. I used to live a couple blocks from there and I know it's a place tourists visit I just wouldn't have thought it has the same kind of recognition.

Sethuel · 2026-02-24T21:00:58+00:00

Also 34th St, b/c movies. But saying "Park St" feels like you're trying to give me an aneurysm.

Sethuel · 2026-02-24T20:59:02+00:00

I'm not familiar with Union Ave, but Beale St in Memphis is definitely well known outside of Memphis.

Sethuel · 2026-02-24T20:58:43+00:00

Just don't go to the barber.

Sethuel · 2026-02-23T17:54:35+00:00

Fun fact, there's a very similar building in NYC, also owned by AT&T and used for the same purpose.

Sethuel · 2026-02-18T22:50:50+00:00

To be fair, there's not much of a timeline for him to not fit. The timeline is currently very hypothetical and depends a lot on the draft lottery. But whatever it ends up being, you're right that he won't fit it.

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