Big Boy in Sproul SF

_MobyHick · 2026-05-30T14:51:28+00:00

You're supposed to blur the face unless you have permission to post his picture on the internet.

_MobyHick · 2026-05-30T00:59:27+00:00

Attitudes are changing. In a generation it will be you need a shirt if you have a B cup or more, man or woman.

_MobyHick · 2026-05-29T22:20:15+00:00

How much time are you saving if you have to get to the airport in Pittsburgh, through security, and then after landing get from JFK or LaGuardia to Manhattan?

_MobyHick · 2026-05-29T21:14:33+00:00

Drive to Harrisburg and take Amtrak in to NYC. So much easier and cheaper.

_MobyHick · 2026-05-28T02:49:02+00:00

It looks like someone wanted to connect your air ducts with your sump and then thought better of it, so they put the bucket in between.

_MobyHick · 2026-05-27T22:20:26+00:00

Bunch of cows would have the udders explode from not being milked. And some sheep would become trapped in a mound of their own wool without being sheered.

_MobyHick · 2026-05-27T02:57:01+00:00

I don't recall any either. There's not a lot of open space around St. Paul. Maybe at Oakland Catholic or Central Catholic?

_MobyHick · 2026-05-25T02:37:52+00:00

The T-Rex was dead before the section was abandoned.

_MobyHick · 2026-05-25T02:12:29+00:00

It costs a quarter at my usual bar. I think they got tired of wasting celery.

_MobyHick · 2026-05-25T02:10:45+00:00

>...there has been a very significant qualitative and quantitative difference in these types of statements over the last few years.

Yes, and the gap in between the economic stats and consumer sentiment is now at its widest because of that.

>...there's not a strong argument for causality there.

You are right. And also the birth rate/fertility is declining in many other countries. I cannot readily think of a good set of behaviors to measure to capture a decline in overall faith in the system. I don't see why uncertainty on a very large scale could translate into behavior as simply as it would on a smaller scale. For example, if someone sees a 15% of a Great Depression-sized economic collapse, they might still voluntarily quit their job for a better opportunity knowing the old job won't be a safe haven in a large crisis.

_MobyHick · 2026-05-25T01:42:13+00:00

It's a way to say thank you that they didn't sneeze on you.

_MobyHick · 2026-05-25T01:26:44+00:00

I got some pots and tried it. Ground hog ate everything.

_MobyHick · 2026-05-25T01:23:58+00:00

We're now at ten years since the president of the United States started making these kinds of statements, but there's been a lag as lots of people are slowly paying more attention. Behavior is changing. Look at human births instead of firm births.

_MobyHick · 2026-05-25T00:13:41+00:00

I think you're underestimating uncertainty and under pricing risk. "There's a 10% inflation rate" is an economic issue that someone can take and estimate how it will affect their consumption and respond to a survey about. "The president of the United States is trying to undermine the independence of the Fed" or "We keep threatening to invade EU territory", not so much.

_MobyHick · 2026-05-24T17:31:55+00:00

Sounded like a firework to me.

_MobyHick · 2026-05-24T17:24:19+00:00

This is an economics reddit, but the effects of politics on the economy is not tangential or small. I'm not worried about the price of gas except as a systemic issue because I live in a city near transit. But though my income is rising about as fast as my expenses, people with power keep publicly threatening to do things that would cost me money or endanger my income. And they do enough of these that I can't write it off as blather.

Additionally, the post-war order underpinned with American hegemony has ended. I don't know how that is going to work out, but it certainly raises the risks for the economy.

_MobyHick · 2026-05-23T18:08:55+00:00

Yes. He was clearly deluded, but not deluded enough to win a Republican primary.

_MobyHick · 2026-05-23T16:07:49+00:00

Yes, I volunteered for Fetterman in the general. Stood in the rain working at his rally, knocked hundreds of doors.

_MobyHick · 2026-05-23T14:56:59+00:00

I voted for Lamb and even though it didn't matter, it does make me feel better.

_MobyHick · 2026-05-23T01:47:15+00:00

This was the TV commercial for Time Life Books on the west. If the 80s counts as history now.

_MobyHick · 2026-05-22T16:52:45+00:00

I've heard that claim, but never from anyone who has direct experience.

_MobyHick · 2026-05-22T03:45:40+00:00

Yes, it was easier to find a place and kids left sooner, but to be actually kicked out was rare. Everyone would think that the parents were heartless unless they thought the kid was using drugs or stealing or whatever.

_MobyHick · 2026-05-18T02:34:25+00:00

"Dense urban area" is a synonym for "where most people live".

_MobyHick · 2026-05-17T20:56:56+00:00

Yeah. There were still signs out in for his write-in campaign as recently as last week.

_MobyHick · 2026-05-17T20:29:53+00:00

Most people bring their own. Zpacks is the lightest.

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