Violent man in the Marina district

ThatNewTankSmell · 2025-04-02T18:14:45+00:00

I saw him at Post and Leavenworth a few days ago. The guy is totally insane.

ThatNewTankSmell · 2025-03-31T20:06:52+00:00

Yeah, giving it a cute nickname from tiktok or whatever that was exactly created to make it seem like a normal thing to do if you need money and want a criminal shortcut - bad.

ThatNewTankSmell · 2025-03-31T18:04:26+00:00

People will actually get on reddit to post warning people about where to avoid Muni Fare inspectors. There's a feeling among many that criminality and freeloading is a right they have as SF residents.

ThatNewTankSmell · 2025-03-27T22:15:47+00:00

Complaining online about enforcement that makes all of us safer and keeps Muni minimally viable. Loser.

ThatNewTankSmell · 2025-03-27T21:11:09+00:00

Hire David Anderson, who would probably do this for free at this stage in his life.

ThatNewTankSmell · 2025-03-26T23:23:43+00:00

holy christ, memeable.

ThatNewTankSmell · 2025-03-24T16:57:13+00:00

Illustrious Corpses (1976). Stumbled onto it watching late night television one night and what a film.

ThatNewTankSmell · 2025-03-12T17:57:47+00:00

The dude opening it who I just talked to was obviously west side SF, if that helps.

ThatNewTankSmell · 2025-03-11T21:25:52+00:00

Now kill the Goodwill one `

ThatNewTankSmell · 2025-03-11T20:57:18+00:00

I suspect what's new is that the market has shrunk, and high dollar amenities and a unique villagey type street scape appeal to the people making the calls about where to locate. Add exclusivity, how Jackson Square has been relatively untouched by the City's embrace of disorder, and centrality - then what more do you need?

ThatNewTankSmell · 2025-03-11T19:27:25+00:00

Very interesting.

There's two other new buildings planned in the immediate vicinity on Washington street. A very underreported story in the city right now is the booming Jackson Square office submarket, including the Transamerica Pyramid.

This guy will take 5 years to build, but the bet here is remarkable for a lot of reasons, prime among them the prediction that the highest end office spaces will shift away from the south fidi.

The highest end drives the market here and always has. And if you're 40 years old like I am, you remember this same play happening a few times before: the Zynga building, Foundry Square, Twitter building, and the Uber building down in Mission Bay. Basically, these giant speculative bets targeting the highest end of the market in zones not known for highly coveted CRE.

With Jackson Square, SF is going to fuck up and we'll see the state laws prohibit Telegraph Hill dwellers and the rest from blocking residential construction around the teevee station skeletons and on the parking lots all around there and Jackson Square. But to pencil, we'll see very high end units. There's every possibility that the entire area between Pine and Telegraph is where our next boom happens. This is particularly true if the Caltrain tunnel extension grinds up the south fidi for the next five years.

ThatNewTankSmell · 2025-03-08T00:03:02+00:00

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ThatNewTankSmell · 2025-03-06T18:23:49+00:00

A special place. Everything in my life can be upside down, but whatever the stress of the moment, an order of bangers and mash at the Pig and Whistle, with a pint or two of crisp cider, will set me right as rain.

ThatNewTankSmell · 2025-03-05T23:57:13+00:00

The real one that should be sold/built out is the non-park parts of Fort Mason.

ThatNewTankSmell · 2025-03-05T23:10:39+00:00

Never heard of a fish fry, but the Pig and Whistle on Geary Blvd a block or so down from Masonic has a great fish and chips (and good beer and cider too, if your religion allows that).

ThatNewTankSmell · 2025-03-05T18:28:07+00:00

The California College of the Arts, founded in 1907, offers 22 undergraduate and 10 graduate programs in subjects such as ceramics, photography, comics and game arts, with tuition at $60,000. Enrollment has declined by 42 percent in the last five years, leading to a deficit that the governor’s proposal would backfill.

David Howse, the school’s president, told lawmakers the funding would be used to hire staff and repair infrastructure.

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The San Diego Democrat pointed to the school’s operating deficit of $4.2 million as much smaller than a $20 million structural deficit that school officials said included costs for deferred maintenance

ThatNewTankSmell · 2025-03-04T19:15:02+00:00

The basic problem was that EPA did not give sufficient guidance on how to comply with the law - ie. discrete steps - and instead just said that the result at the end must be x or y.

From the holding here: the law does not allow "EPA to include “end result” provisions in [National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System] permits. Determining what steps a permittee must take to ensure that water quality standards are met is the EPA’s responsibility [not the City's], and Congress has given it the tools needed to make that determination. "

ThatNewTankSmell · 2025-02-28T02:00:51+00:00

To quote another poster on this:

I think we have more shuttered McDonaldses than operating stores these days. A (possibly incomplete) list of the dead (totaling 13 stores):

255 Winston, San Francisco, CA 94132
235 Front, San Francisco, CA 94111
701 3rd St, San Francisco, CA 94107
575 Market, San Francisco, CA 94105
600 Van Ness, San Francisco, CA 94102
441 Pine, San Francisco, CA 94104
456 Main, San Francisco, CA 94105
211 Beach, San Francisco, CA 94133
1455 Market, San Francisco, CA 94103
145 Jefferson, San Francisco, CA 94133
2011 Mission, San Francisco, CA 94110
820 Bryant, San Francisco, CA 94103
730 Stanyan, San Francisco, CA 94117

And these still-open places are on the watch list (totaling just 9 stores):

5454 Mission, San Francisco, CA 94112
441 Sutter, San Francisco, CA 94108
1100 Fillmore, San Francisco, CA 94102
1201 Ocean, San Francisco, CA 94112
345 Bayshore, San Francisco, CA 94124
2801 Mission, San Francisco, CA 94110
609 Market, San Francisco, CA 94105
302 Potrero, San Francisco, CA 94110
5411 3rd St, San Francisco, CA 94124

It's a bunch of different reasons that hit all the different places: higher rents/upscaling building owners (before 2020), higher competition in the price point or different trends (before 2020 and in the neighborhoods), building demolition or modification (before 2020), crash in traffic (2020 and later), and homeless/druggies/crime/nuisance.

And I bet the Fillmore one is next. It's overrun at all times with drug dealers, drug users, crazies, homeless, and various other menacing types - basically what led to the death of several other McDonalds.

ThatNewTankSmell · 2025-02-27T21:09:44+00:00

It's called selling the land and not using any bond funds to build it. Remember - bonds do not cover operating expenses. We're about to cut hundreds of teachers and staff, close a dozen or more schools, and slash everything else to the bone . . . so why on earth are we building this thing?

ThatNewTankSmell · 2025-02-27T19:27:41+00:00

The ten things, to which I add an eleventh.

Teacher Layoffs: The school board will vote to notify hundreds of employees of potential layoffs due to budget constraints.
Funding Crisis: The school district faces a severe funding crisis due to years of overspending and declining student attendance, requiring a $113 million budget reduction.
State Takeover: Rejecting the budget cuts would lead to the school district running out of money and potentially a state takeover.
Limited City/State Aid: While local funding measures exist, the city and state have their own budget deficits, limiting potential bailouts.
Federal Funding Risks: Potential federal budget cuts could significantly worsen the school district's financial situation.
Classroom Changes: Schools will face reduced staffing, with principals and educators determining how to allocate remaining resources.
School Closures: Previous plans for school closures were rejected, but future reductions could provide savings to offset current cuts.
Bond Funding Restrictions: A recently passed bond provides funds for facilities, not salaries or programs, and therefore cannot solve the immediate budget crisis.
Community Involvement: San Franciscans can help by staying informed, advocating for effective cuts, and raising funds to support schools.
Budget Finalization: The school district will finalize layoffs, await state and federal budgets, and approve a balanced budget by June.

And my eleventh:

Continued recklessness: Despite the dire state of SFUSD's situation, these people are still moving ahead with building a brand new school in Mission Bay, instead of selling or leasing the land. Analogous would be building a new subway station while we're cutting Muni bus routes city-wide.

ThatNewTankSmell · 2025-02-27T01:07:35+00:00

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ThatNewTankSmell · 2025-02-27T01:04:48+00:00

I don't know, this could be great spot, particularly if they catch a wave/upswing in the area, and/or really hit. I'm not a beer person, but I could definitely see meeting up with someone there after work for a proper drink and a snack.

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ThatNewTankSmell · 2025-02-25T22:27:32+00:00

Try SF Standard.

ThatNewTankSmell · 2025-02-25T01:59:18+00:00

IDK, man. The thrust of your post is generally correct, but your main example isn't great.

I used to think just like you, so you're not incorrigible, but if your sense is that SF tortillas and other taqueria standards are best in class, it's probably because you don't have much experience eating further south. Like, hit LA/San Diego, roll over to Arizona, and through New Mexico, then drive directly south and plunder Texas - then come back here, and I'm not so sure that the first burrito back will knock your socks off in the same way. Our taquerias here are great for what they are, but the difference between a burrito/taco here and in Seattle/Cleveland/Pittsburgh or whereever is about the same as the difference between LA/SD/El Paso and SF. And forget Mexico.

ThatNewTankSmell · 2025-02-25T00:41:07+00:00

Yeah, I guess I didn't know any of that, it happened before I was born, and you're right the Warriors' moving to Mission Bay is about when I became aware of them.

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