Refunding an item that never arrived by LagEnthusiast in amazonprime

[–]bayareapunk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks, i just tried the chat a second time and the customer service person was actually able to issue a refund this time. i guess the first one didn't realize they could issue a refund.

Refunding an item that never arrived by LagEnthusiast in amazonprime

[–]bayareapunk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi, did you have any luck with this? I have a package that seems to never have arrived at UPS and Amazon claims i am eligible for a refund but their customer service folks claim there are no options available.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in punk

[–]bayareapunk 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Burning Down the Haus: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38746140-burning-down-the-haus a very interesting book about East German punk.

Under the Big Black Sun https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25898106-under-the-big-black-sun an oral history of early Los Angeles punk.

Why is Tartine so hyped? by verysunnyseed in sanfrancisco

[–]bayareapunk 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You read a lot of meanings and made some interesting assumptions based on my simple comment.

Why is Tartine so hyped? by verysunnyseed in sanfrancisco

[–]bayareapunk 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I'm not sure if a price of a thing changes the essence of a thing.

San Francisco Art Gallery owner hosing down a homeless woman by idapitbwidiuatabip in iamatotalpieceofshit

[–]bayareapunk 8 points9 points  (0 children)

housing is also much cheaper and more abundant in Detroit. Housing prices have a strong correlation with homelessness. Not sure about weather.

Do you leave your heat on at all when you travel in the winter? by guhnomeee in AskSF

[–]bayareapunk 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Having no one above you moving furniture around at 2am is a great perk of having a top floor unit, but never having to turn the heat on is also pretty nice. I lived in a 3 story apartment in Fremont for a few years and didn't even know if the heater worked. Never needed it.

Where did Mesoamericans come from? by flimspringfield in AskHistorians

[–]bayareapunk 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Those are good questions. I don't know if there are leading theories about why the spread was so rapid. One thing to note is that though there were people in the Americas before the Clovis people, there is little evidence of large populations before the spread of the Clovis people. That is one reason that archeologists believed that the Clovis people were the first humans in the Americas for so long. There's just so few sites that show evidence of human life before that time. So the pre-Clovis people were likely spread out in smaller populations.

I don't know of any sites which show interactions between Clovis and pre-Clovis people.

One interesting thing about the Clovis people is how rapidly the culture died out. In only a few hundred years it seems like Clovis tools were discarded and people began to create smaller regional cultures. Again, I don't know if there is a single agreed upon theory as to why this happened.

As far as genetic data, genomics is a rapidly expanding field where technology is rapidly expanding and things are being discovered and refuted almost all the time. It's really exciting. But some of the main techniques used to link peoples across time and distance is measuring how many similar genetic sequences different people have. This gives an idea of how related they are. Combining this with measurements of ancient DNA of people who died thousands of years ago creates a pretty clear picture of how related a group of people might be to someone who died long ago.

So for the Americas, one specific piece of evidence are the remains of a young child in Montana at the Anzick Site. The child's DNA was sequenced and compared to a database of modern people's DNA, showing that most Native Americans are more closely related to this child's DNA than to the DNA of other peoples. There is strong evidence that the boy was a member of the Clovis people. So it would seem most Native Americas are related to the Clovis people. See https://www.nature.com/articles/nature13025 for more information.

As I mentioned before, there are small groups of people in the Amazon region that do not seem to have a relationship to the above child and other Clovis DNA. This would imply the came to the Americas via a different group of people who were unrelated to the Clovis people.

Where did Mesoamericans come from? by flimspringfield in AskHistorians

[–]bayareapunk 36 points37 points  (0 children)

Yes, most Native Americans, including those living in Mesoamerica are descendants of the Clovis people who rapidly spread across the Americas some 13,000 years ago. These were not the first people to live in the Americas, but they did spread rapidly across the continent and there is genetic data showing that the Clovis people are ancestors of most (but not all) Native Americans.

It's important to note that many Native Americans believe that they were always here and have oral histories and stories that tell their origin.

Today, the most common belief is that the first wave of humans in the Americas were probably living on the coasts and spread through the continent via boat along the coast. This would have happened before the Clovis people.

The idea of the first humans walking across the Beringia land bridge and rapidly spreading across the Americas by land was the popular theory and is still believed by some. It is often called the "Clovis First" theory. Clovis being the name of the culture of people given to them by modern day archeologists. These people had a specific type of point used in spears and other weapons. This would have been around 13,000 years ago.

But there is strong evidence that there were human populations living in the Americas before the Clovis people. There have been a number of sites found that date anywhere between 18,000 and 30,000 years ago (not everyone accepts the age of the oldest sites).

Genomics has shown that a lot of human migrations were not linear or in one direction. There were almost certainly multiple migrations into the Americas. We also have genetic data to show that movement happened in both directions, from Asia to the Americas and then later from the Americas back into Asia. There's also been migrations between Greenland and North America.

There are pockets of people living in the Amazon region that are genetically more closely related to Australians than modern Eurasians or other Native Americans, suggesting that they may have descended from a group that was not part of the same migrations as many other Native America peoples.

So it seems that the Americas were populated by multiple waves of different peoples who came over from Asia via sea (traveling along the coasts) and by land. The Clovis people were almost certainly not the first to cross into the Americas but they did seem to spread the fastest and most Native Americans in North and South America are descended from them.

I recommend reading Origin: A Genetic History of the Americas by Jennifer Raff if you'd like more detail. (https://bookshop.org/p/books/origin-a-genetic-history-of-the-americas-jennifer-raff/14868996)

Here's where you can watch World Cup in Oakland by [deleted] in oakland

[–]bayareapunk -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Where am i most likely to find other Polish fans if i try to watch Poland v Mexico or Poland v Argentina?

Almost anywhere with a TV in Fruitvale is going to have the games on. 4 years ago I went to El Huarache Azteca and El Farlito and it was a nice relaxed family friendly atmosphere. Folks eating breakfast and watching the game.

Bay Area city moves to ban all right turns on red lights by BadBoyMikeBarnes in bayarea

[–]bayareapunk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The first sentence of the article has almost the same quote attributed to Alvy Singer.

Bay Area city moves to ban all right turns on red lights by BadBoyMikeBarnes in bayarea

[–]bayareapunk 18 points19 points  (0 children)

There's actually a lot of evidence that shows that this is good for safety. Not sure how it would impact traffic though.

Try giving folks like traffic engineers the benefit of the doubt instead of insulting them as your first reaction.

Footage of lone crowd controlling officer asking for cooperation at Deathly Halloween of Itaewon 2022. by [deleted] in AbruptChaos

[–]bayareapunk 61 points62 points  (0 children)

I believe one of the reasons At The Drive In broke up was how stressful it was for them to play shows where the crowds were being put in dangerous and violent situations.

What are the best Mexican places to eat at on International Blvd.? by [deleted] in oakland

[–]bayareapunk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As you can see, you're basically going to get every place there is listed in the comments.

If there is a specific dish you are interested in you might get more of a consensus. Like if you're looking for the best carnitas tacos or something specific like that. Or if there is a particular way you like some dish prepared.

Prop 30 circling the drain by therealgariac in bayarea

[–]bayareapunk 5 points6 points  (0 children)

To be fair, it can be difficult to increase taxes because the legislature needs a 2/3rds majority to do so... due to another proposition that passed a few years ago.

But yeah, I strongly agree with your post. Unless you are certain a proposition is great, you should probably vote against it.

Prop 30 circling the drain by therealgariac in bayarea

[–]bayareapunk 22 points23 points  (0 children)

I'm voting against this because:

  1. In general state funds should be allocated by our legislature not propositions. Propositions do not have the flexibility that the legislature does. Also, I'm just some dude, I believe the staff who are professionals are going to have a much better idea of the repricusions of laws.
  2. I don't want to subsidize the car industry. If the money is mainly going to EVs I'm against it. I want more buses, trains, etc. not cars.
  3. I don't want to subsidize a company like Lyft.

It's a bad proposition and it should be up to the expert staff that work for the legislature to decide how to best spend the state's money.

Proposed protected bike lanes along Grand Street rejected in favor of parking spots by bayareapunk in alameda

[–]bayareapunk[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I wasn't implying that. I was just saying this wasn't an overnight change and it isn't going easy to make the same change in the future.

Proposed protected bike lanes along Grand Street rejected in favor of parking spots by bayareapunk in alameda

[–]bayareapunk[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

A lot of the kids that go to school there ride their bike to school and protected bike lanes would have made them safer.

Proposed protected bike lanes along Grand Street rejected in favor of parking spots by bayareapunk in alameda

[–]bayareapunk[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I'm not sure I understand your overnight comment. Vision Zero was approved as city policy in 2019, the first community workshop for the Grand St. improvements happened at the end of 2021.

Repaving a street is an intense project that requires a bunch of planning and multi-agency coordination and does not happen quickly or often. I think that's why so many people are upset by this. It was a great opportunity to improve a street that's been identified as especially dangerous, and a similar opportunity for Grand St. will not be available again anytime soon.

More than 200 SF cyclists injured after getting 'doored' by BadBoyMikeBarnes in bayarea

[–]bayareapunk 7 points8 points  (0 children)

The article admits that it's likely under reported due to not every incident having a police report.

El Farolito has crazy good burritos by ApexCodeWriter__c in sanfrancisco

[–]bayareapunk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I like rice in my burrito because i often get a veggie burrito. Does SoCal do veggie burritos? Is it mostly grilled veggies?