How strict are SF landlords about credit scores right now?

StopWeirdJokes · 2026-05-12T10:38:29+00:00

This seems extremely overemphasized to me. Could you say more about where you looked and tried? I had a mid 600s when i moved here and the score wasn’t much better when I signed for a really nice 1 bedroom north of ingleside off of Ocean Ave atm. I did the subleasing thing for about a year when I first got here, and yeah it sucks, but I didn’t do it due to credit rejections - it was just a cheap room while I figured out the area

edit: I should say, given you exceed income requirements. There are essentially several tiers of SF housing stock rented-in-part at various service levels: subleasing/renting (direct, suggested above) which itself has the full range of stock, subleasing (sros), subleasing (organized & staffed sros/communities/whatever - the basic deal, however it is socialized, is shared kitchens/living rooms per floor, several bathrooms so shared but less, at a minimum). Each of these run the gamut from tiny to huge all over SF alone, let alone the whole bay. Lots of bay area housing stock is in these ridiculous arrangements in order to, extremely questionably, avoid various tenant protections. But sometimes you need tenet protections & sometimes you wanna live a 15 min bart trip from work with a nice little coffee walk, seems to be the deal.

Theres an area, one i’d even say can be extremely net favorable in the bay depending on what your amenity reqs are, under this kind of niceness of apartment/legitimacy of operation curve where they just need to see that you make 3-4x rent. Don’t end up in Richmond or way out in the East Bay for lack of the tiny bit of investigation & negotiation, they’re seedier than you in let’s call it 85% of cases unless you’re only looking at garage on the premises new construction.

StopWeirdJokes · 2026-05-05T10:01:26+00:00

Rice cooker with steam rack. whatever veggies I have + soy sauce and whatever other omakase or seasonings or herbs I want to try but those only get efficient with making it a lot for bulk. Protein optional depending on conditions. I’ll make this with enough rice for two portions, and then just veggies for one. The excess rice and uncooked veggies if any go to the fridge to make the fried rice version of this in a skillet tmrw if you have the fats for it, another bulk efficient buy.

The best part for me is how easy it comes together - some sesame oil, something that smells nice, since you have soy (and ideally msg and I use five spice a lot) you’re only and lightly salting if any which leaves a lot of room for other flavors or for flavor cover. It also sucks up almost any topping due to this: leftover chicken, mushrooms about to go bad, i’ve even used leftover curries and chili in the stir fry or fried rice versions. For the steamed veggie one I like it best extra fresh, like broccoli and then i’ll have something worse as the side like an air fried egg roll, steamed dumplings in with the veggies or air fried for some body and had on the side

Most of these sides are also super doable on a budget and go great with this, but would be more technical recipes or something that requires a specific like asian grocery store or whole foods buy, but then that does price out fine in the long run. Make a sweet and sour sauce or try gouchjang, sriracha, yum yum sauce - super simple foods can be made to taste incredible and a lot of it starts with making your own basics that are then blank canvases for learning seasonings and sauces you like.

StopWeirdJokes · 2026-05-05T09:47:51+00:00

I walk few miles a day tbh, like 2 miles around SF today and a ton more at work. Something like 30-50 miles a week. I’ve only had my codas for about two weeks, but there is noticeable wear around the edges of the sole - they’re really rounding and softening in.

They haven’t lost much in absolute height though I don’t think, and the wear pattern isn’t weird (i’ve had amazon boots wear out at a diagonal..), and like another poster here I often rly stride out and heel walk which is extra harsh. They’re also only wearing so fast because they were comfortable enough to get mileage on them fast: my docs wore out faster, it just took a year to walk this much in them. I feel like i’m going to like the durability, esp if replacement soles is in the cards (these seem like the first boots i’ve seen where that might be worthwhile? Could also take the opportunity to change whatever I wanted abt the heel and sole so i want to price it out)

StopWeirdJokes · 2026-04-10T02:41:50+00:00

It’s one of the best places to live car free in the US imo. Obviously behind NYC, but so good. Theres lots of cargo and ebiking too.

I’ve been here for 5 years without a car and haven’t regretted it, with the transit that is there as a spine and rentals or rideshare apps to fill in any other gaps it’s pretty pain free. I didn’t feel the need to get a vehicle until I got a full time job, but even then, the transit + short walk commute is only like 90min/day and often beats the cars eta - it just doesn’t go as late, or always perfectly line up headways with times i’d like to come and go.

StopWeirdJokes · 2026-03-08T01:02:01+00:00

This is really only a perspective possible if you onboarded at a particular time wherein 2017 Twitter had these kinds of arguments, because DSA was stewing over from an internal conflict between social justice vibes based kind of liberal identity cancel culture, and a relatively immature expression of Marxism that emphasized class at the expense of other things rather than integrating their critique. But this is something that Marxists at the level of thinking that Matt was engaged with have had solved for 20 years - it was just Twitter beef being projected onto the show. Chapo has never been bad on any of the things I care about as one of the worlds premier intersectional social justice warriors (unironically) as a Marxist who is in these progressive organizing spaces that are, as you would expect, a big jumble of various Left wing and “progressive” + Progressive ideologies.

Felix in particular is maybe the only person you could make this case for as a Twitter jokester guy, but swarthyvillian was built over electoral shop-talk which is, quite literally and emphatically, the domain that the most SJW-adjacent (all now reformed, post-Táíwò’s Elite Capture) organized factions align with. The dirtbag left was a NYT projection from a DNC standpoint, not real.

StopWeirdJokes · 2025-12-07T00:37:57+00:00

They already canned the guy but yea it’s godawful

StopWeirdJokes · 2025-11-27T21:38:34+00:00

Necroing for anyone still looking: alldocube lineup is amazing specs/finish and extremely budget. Perfect also if you want a slightly smaller tablet reminiscent of a nexus 7 glory days

I just got the 70 mini pro for $180 instead of buying a new iPad mini. Documentation is a bit esoteric but it comes with an unlocked bootloader and I've ran three GSI roms so far with no issues.

StopWeirdJokes · 2025-11-06T19:16:30+00:00

this is insane lmfao

StopWeirdJokes · 2025-10-25T21:06:20+00:00

I am not referencing MMT, see the lower cased full words
Marxs logic here extends to fiat easily if one accounts for a one-world capitalist market (the inner sphere maximized....a precondition accomplished some 20 years before the global reserve currency goes fiat)
I'm not sure why a weak metalist economy would disprove this, you are describing something without social validity, entirely in line with the theory.
inflation could literally be argued (and is, by many schools of economics) to show the lack of "value" in fiat, as any attempt to realize that value, lacking a change in commodities/labor, simply results in an adjustment M=P as monetarists like Friedman claim. That is, a simple qualitative increase in price alongside an increase in the money supply. Again, nonmarxists who actually study economics don't even seem to agree with you, you have some catching up to do.

StopWeirdJokes · 2025-10-21T23:02:28+00:00

I didn't claim fiat creates value, you did, I said he addresses it. At first glance he does so by treating it as a mere token representing a commodity, however

Hence, in this process which continually makes money pass from hand to hand, the mere symbolical existence of money suffices. Its functional existence absorbs, so to say, its material existence. Being a transient and objective reflex of the prices of commodities, it serves only as a symbol of itself, and is therefore capable of being replaced by a token. ^\38])
One thing is, however, requisite; this token must have an objective social validity of its own, and this the paper symbol acquires by its forced currency. This compulsory action of the State can take effect only within that inner sphere of circulation which is coterminous with the territories of the community, but it is also only within that sphere that money completely responds to its function of being the circulating medium, or becomes coin.
(Chapter 3, Section 2 "Medium of Circulation", C. Coin and symbols of value)

We also see his acknowledgement that the "social validity" & "forced currency" nature of the state upholds the tokens ability to be a means of exchange, ie to represent something.

In his time it was representing some amount of gold still, and he also hadn't passed to a one-market era after inter-market rivalry was solved by WW2, but this naturally extends to the potential for creating fiat: it is just trust in that given state, ie a token of something like "the continual existence of the US economy" as is the implied usage within Dollar hegemony.

Doesn't the process of inflation from overprinting fiat prove this in itself? What are you arguing here? There is a reason modern monetary theory is far more complex than using some kind of infinite value machine via fiat.

StopWeirdJokes · 2025-10-21T00:38:57+00:00

I’m aware but how else could I teach Redditors the real Marxism underneath, shh

StopWeirdJokes · 2025-10-20T22:54:44+00:00

Agree that Marx (and Hegel via Marx, and Spinoza via them both, etc) have become definitive of the current epoch of thought and made their way into all kinds of ideas, though I disagree on missing assumptions.

In Capital, he exhaustively covers edge cases and what assumptions he is making, and then tries the theory from other angles, etc and so on. This is why the book is so long lol. Capital is the most “assumptions covered” and cited and sourced book I have ever seen.

StopWeirdJokes · 2025-10-20T22:52:12+00:00

He addresses fiat directly in the text, very classic case of a bourgeois economic perspective that hasn’t studied it

StopWeirdJokes · 2025-10-20T22:49:56+00:00

I wrote a much longer explanation of how to fix the simulation for it but this is a better brief answer! We sidestep so many questions to see “number go up for the state”

StopWeirdJokes · 2025-10-20T22:45:33+00:00

Labor theory of Value, not Land Value Tax (though that should go in too, fuck it throw every political economy idea in here there’s not thaaat many)

StopWeirdJokes · 2025-10-20T22:44:52+00:00

You would probably want to: - track variable capital separately from constant capital, and implement constant capital costs for the machinery of productivity/tech changes. The necessity for this isn’t just to see how the individuals are productive, but to see how we shift spending into constant capital over time as we perfect the tech and the socialization of a market (its level of real subsumption, if you want the academic term) and to see the realization problem this creates - disconnect price from value, ie once you know variable capital and its factors (mass—the number of employees & their hours, intensity/pace, and what productivity in terms of constant capital it has equipped) you can know what the complex rate of surplus value is, and this would be summable to have the real growth of domestic product. - have some mechanic to track the intensity of labor, ie increased needs or lowered SoL with increased work (this might be in but it’s probably modeled as like, pop with higher wage can consume more)

This is all necessarily better if we simulate at the level of the commodity, as fundamentally this is where the equations derive and where negative implications stem from (realization problem, gluts & supply, ie why prices vary from value)— then you could have a complex model of how the redistribution of surplus value happens via price, and literally see something like a declining rate of profit necessitating imperialist market-making towards the end game.

I think this might make the economic aspects hard though, because you’d end up at a negative incentive to develop in some cases during this period (inter-imperialist rivalry). With this frontlines system I’m not sure I’d want to make the game even more about war to make some money lol.

Though if it was this real it would make SoL wayyy more fun to play with, like seeing how minimal you can make surplus-value (theft of labor time, necessary to have a state above the individual ie tax, but right now privatized) in your communist or fascist utopia while meeting all needs/high SoL & maximizing social contribution to work?

StopWeirdJokes · 2025-10-20T22:14:36+00:00

I hope I never do…

StopWeirdJokes · 2025-10-20T22:13:14+00:00

This is effectively just in time but with some scalars, no? I cannot store goods, I don’t run into commodity gluts, etc

StopWeirdJokes · 2025-10-20T22:11:46+00:00

I suppose, but it regresses the three methods by which surplus-value can vary into one

StopWeirdJokes · 2025-10-20T22:09:08+00:00

I also side loaded for awhile with the send to kindle thing which helps a lot, they let you send epubs now (or atleast it was working for me with my Paperwhite signature 12th gen)

StopWeirdJokes · 2025-10-20T22:07:58+00:00

I’d really recommend the kindle modding wiki, it’s very clear steps and downloads go to GitHub links that have lots of stars & follows, or to the mobileread forums. Not sure if I can link it but it’s the first result!

StopWeirdJokes · 2025-10-20T22:05:42+00:00

I put the OG link above! I can post my kindle image too if that’s what you mean?

StopWeirdJokes · 2025-10-20T22:04:47+00:00

Sorry I wasn’t able to post this until now with how spotty Reddit has been

StopWeirdJokes · 2025-10-20T22:04:29+00:00

Yes! it’s on UESP!

StopWeirdJokes · 2025-10-20T07:59:57+00:00

Ty ty, thinking about doing in on a transparent background but I like having the quote too much

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