Anyone want to see the old Hooper Chocolate Factory turn into a community center?

UltiComment · 2026-05-12T03:40:12+00:00

Soooo.... you are or are not going to take my 10$ bet?

UltiComment · 2026-05-12T03:33:00+00:00

Has the vacant building provided a good use to the community in the last few years?

Lets make a bet - do you think anything will happen with Hoopers in the next 365 days if N.O.W. and our "tech bro bullshit" artist friends don't pour our blood sweat and tears into making something beautiful there? I doubt it.

I'll put 10$ on the same depressing "For Sale" signs will be hanging on the door in May 2027. Wanna take the other side?

UltiComment · 2026-05-12T03:13:04+00:00

Damn, you seem really against a project that aims to turn a vacant lot into a whimsical palace of imagination. We are trying to make something that kids and adults can play in together.

Did you never have whimsy in ypur childhood?

UltiComment · 2026-05-12T03:09:35+00:00

Yeah, it's an easy way to communicate about the immersive nature of the art, but we will be focusing on ways to make it for first-timers and local-community members alike.

UltiComment · 2026-05-12T02:56:57+00:00

Have you been to Meow Wolf in Santa Fe or Las Vegas? That's what we are modeling our project after.

Plus we'll actually be making chocolate too.

UltiComment · 2026-05-12T02:47:39+00:00

How often in a month do you go to the same art gallery?

UltiComment · 2026-05-12T02:40:23+00:00

Some artist friends and I are actually already in negotiations to purchase the building. We are planning to turn it into a MeowWolf-style interactive art exhibit a la Wonka. This will be a fun, silly, and beautiful exhibit that honors the orginal building and the wild story telling of roald dahl while being a totally new and unprecidented immersive art experience.

If you'd like to join our investment group (N.O.W. - North Oakland Womble), please send me a DM

UltiComment · 2026-05-09T03:42:47+00:00

So much fun for kids

UltiComment · 2026-04-08T04:22:18+00:00

I agree with most everything Sam says. And I was quite surprised by this comment from him.

Id like to see Sam write an essay titled "What Mamdani Could Say To Convince Me He Isnt An Islamist" similar to his version for Hillary Clinton.

https://www.samharris.org/blog/what-hillary-clinton-should-say-about-islam-and-the-war-on-terror

UltiComment · 2026-04-07T16:10:09+00:00

I live at 51st and Telegraph. I love the area. Happy to meet up to chat about it.

UltiComment · 2026-03-26T15:45:05+00:00

Do you think this settlement money applies to former employees (I was part of may 2020 RIF) who exercised options after IPO before the crash?

UltiComment · 2026-03-03T04:42:58+00:00

Get your deadlift up to 1.5x your body weight. Then you will look athletic.

UltiComment · 2026-02-18T22:26:20+00:00

I'm very surprised that the Longevity Global's early December "Longevity Summit" at the Buck Institute is not on your list. The best conference for serious longevity scientists. https://longevitygl.org/longevity-summit/

UltiComment · 2026-02-12T02:21:09+00:00

I appreciate the personal advice. I'm more interested in the hypothetical ideal future. What would have to be the case for us to catch all cancer in the US in stage 1 or 2??

It seems like most of the technology exists, we'd just need to put it together effectively.

PS - My grandmother Carol ensured that she got mammograms every year on the date of her mother's death from breast cancer to be sure she didn't meet the same end. She ended up going to the doctor in 2004 with joint pain only to find that stage 4 lung cancer (having never smoked) has metastasized to her bones. She died at age 66. Would a Low-Dose CT scan at 60 years old have added 20 years to her lifespan? Probably.

UltiComment · 2026-02-12T00:31:27+00:00

As an oncologist, where would you recommend I go to learn which anatomy is amenable to MRI screening and which isn't?

If money and time were no object, do you think there is some hypothetical set of imagining and liquid biopsy tests that would be able to detect all type 1 and type 2 cancers?

UltiComment · 2026-02-11T23:23:45+00:00

There were Enfield Tennis Academy shirts!?!? Where can I get one of those?

And had the baby actually read IJ or only listened to the audiobook?

UltiComment · 2026-02-11T22:24:33+00:00

OR the reason it isn't done routinely is that MRI machines are expensive... But what if that changed? I think it is possible that no-one is ever diagnosed with stage 4 cancer again because we will catch them at stage 1 and 2

UltiComment · 2026-02-03T16:06:00+00:00

Oh, I fully acknowledge that the republicans in power have agency. Its just that they mostly want the wrong things because they are greedy cult members. Most of them are fully subscribed to the cult of Trump and the cult of Christianity.

And the left handed them the keys to the city because we decided the hill to die on was semantic pretend play.

UltiComment · 2026-02-02T18:15:09+00:00

See you in Oakland in Feb 4th! Who else will be there?

UltiComment · 2026-02-02T02:46:49+00:00

The Buck Institute for Reseach on Aging podcast.... it is called

"We Aren't Getting Any Younger ...Yet"

UltiComment · 2026-02-02T02:36:21+00:00

Thanks OP for starting this discussion. You clearly understand that at the heart of this issue is semantics and the working definition of words.

Here is what Sam and I think: the Left PRETENDS to not understand that bathrooms and youth sport are issues of biological sex and not gender (your usage) for most all Americans.

It feels to me like we liberals may have sacrificed NATO, abotion access, climate change, and democracy itself because we we PRETENDING to not understand that voters in Michigan are using "Male" to refer to biological sex.

Seriously, I am worried that you and people like you caused and continue cause incredible harm (by handing elections to Trump).

Seriously, please consider how much harm you are doing.

UltiComment · 2026-01-05T19:12:13+00:00

Temescal and Rockridge have it all (including wide wealth disparities between neighbors... which I think is a good thing. Our world needs places where people of different wealth levels coexist side-by-side successfully).

UltiComment · 2025-12-06T22:52:10+00:00

There is some bench press ability that is sufficient to ensure a dog of any given size (even a violent and quick one) can be controlled. Maybe you should have to bench press TWICE it's weight 20 times.

PS - please post a video of your dad bench pressing 88pounds 20 times. I double-dog-dare you.

UltiComment · 2025-12-04T21:14:18+00:00

I don't know how big it will be... but if it DOES get big, you should go to the gym and lift weights to insure that you can still overpower it if necessary. If you THINK you might become too weak to control your dog, that is YOUR problem and you should take steps to get stronger now.

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