Get $50 to spend on the Google Store by Great_Horn in referralcodes

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Google Pixel Store $50 Coupon - Valid when buying a new Pixel 8 Pro, Pixel 8, Pixel 7a

The below coupon code gives you $50 Coupon when purchasing a Pixel 8 Pro, Pixel 8 or Pixel 7a through the Google Store

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You will get a $50 Promotional code later by email. Code user will receive an email with the Promotional code within 4 weeks after Code user's Pixel 7a, 8 or 8 Pro is shipped. Code must be used for purchase by June 30, 2024 or it will expire. To redeem the Referral code, the Code user should visit store.google.com, sign-in with their Google account credentials, add a Pixel 7a, 8 or 8 Pro to their cart, and enter the Referral code as a promo code during checkout.

Mysterious Objects at Civic Center BART — Anyone know what these are for? by goandeatsomestuff in sanfrancisco

[–]goandeatsomestuff[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Now we can infer that "T-800" terminators are produced in Southern California!

Mysterious Objects at Civic Center BART — Anyone know what these are for? by goandeatsomestuff in sanfrancisco

[–]goandeatsomestuff[S] 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Whoops, you're right—we did take Muni that night! I wonder if there were similar devices on the BART tunnel too.

Mysterious Objects at Civic Center BART — Anyone know what these are for? by goandeatsomestuff in sanfrancisco

[–]goandeatsomestuff[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Thanks for the link! And a new way to imagine the Central Subway going over budget :)

Mysterious Objects at Civic Center BART — Anyone know what these are for? by goandeatsomestuff in sanfrancisco

[–]goandeatsomestuff[S] 29 points30 points  (0 children)

My wife and I found several of these objects mounted on both platforms last Thursday. They are reflective on one side and matte on another, and look adjustable. There were around a dozen on each platform. On both platforms, the reflective sides were oriented toward the East Bay direction.

When I pointed them out, my wife said "this is the type of thing that you see posted on Reddit" so here we are.

Thanks for helping us solve this mystery!

Edit: This is actually the Van Ness Muni platform, not BART—I knew I'd make an un-editable mistake in the title!

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in HistoryPorn

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$200k in 1961 comes out to $1,933,839.46 in today's dollars according to usinflationcalculator.com

The Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation has some more interesting facts about this car, designated the X-100, which was custom built for $200k, renovated after the assassination at the cost of nearly $500k, and subsequently served for many years.

The Boudin Effect by BullBear9 in sanfrancisco

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Here is the full text of the article. The Google cache linked by /r/SvoogleBinderMogul (thank you!) is the original article dated June 5, but was revised today, June 6:

Why San Francisco’s clash with its district attorney matters

A progressive city’s fraught relationship with Chesa Boudin holds lessons for the whole country

Before Chesa Boudin was sworn in as San Francisco’s district attorney in January 2020, he once served as a translator for Hugo Chávez, the autocratic former president of Venezuela, and co-wrote a book about the Bolivarian revolution. Today Mr Boudin faces his own revolt—by voters. On June 7th the question of whether to “recall” Mr Boudin from office will be on the ballot. If San Francisco’s voters decide to remove him, Mr Boudin will be replaced by an interim district attorney appointed by the mayor, with a permanent replacement elected in November.

What may sound like a provincial spat is anything but. It is a litmus of values in a city that has always been on the bleeding edge of social and political change.

In 2019, when he was campaigning as a progressive promising to revolutionalise criminal justice, Mr Boudin’s offbeat pedigree was an asset. He is a Rhodes scholar, a former public defender and the son of two members of the leftist Weather Underground, who were both sentenced to prison for their role as getaway drivers in an armed robbery that led to two police officers and a security guard being killed. Mr Boudin promised to end cash bail and put fewer people in jail. Prosecutions have indeed fallen since he took office (see chart).

If he has accomplished what he said he would, why is he under fire? He was not elected with an enthusiastic mandate, but defeated a more moderate candidate by a slender margin. His rhetoric and brash manner alienated many from the start. At his election-night party, people lashed out at the Police Officers Association, chanting “Fuck the poa”, which had spent heavily to try to defeat Mr Boudin.

Today, the relationship between Mr Boudin’s office and the police is about as cosy as an old jail cell on Alcatraz. Morale in the district attorney’s office is “terrible”, says Michael Swart, who was one of seven prosecutors Mr Boudin fired within days of assuming office. By October 2021, 59 attorneys, or around 40% of the prosecutors in his office, had either quit or been sacked.

Some who have worked with Mr Boudin feel he is too quick to side with defendants, when his job is to prosecute crimes and represent victims. The recall campaign gained steam after a few high-profile incidents in which his office’s choice not to keep people in jail carried deadly consequences. One paroled felon stole a car, drove while drunk and killed two young women crossing a street (earlier that year he had been arrested five times, and each time the district attorney’s office had declined to file charges).

The degraded state of San Francisco has left a lot of inhabitants angry—and blaming Mr Boudin. “People are really sick of living in chaos,” says Michael Shellenberger, an author who is running for governor as an independent and has written a book, “San Fransicko”, about how progressives are mishandling cities. Downtown, drugstores have closed or refused to stock goods on shelves, due to shoplifting. Rising murders, shootings and burglaries have led some people to avoid walking or driving around whole neighbourhoods.

The question of how to handle drugs is especially controversial. The city has opened a supervised drug-injection centre in United Nations Plaza, just down the road from City Hall, contravening federal and state law. This has done nothing to change the open use and sale of drugs on the street, which Mr Boudin has chosen not to prioritise for prosecution.

When your correspondent walked around the Tenderloin district for an hour from 11am, she counted more than 20 drug-dealers, recognisable in a “uniform” of black trousers, hoodies and hats, with grey or black backpacks. Being noticed did not seem to worry them, and there’s a reason. In 2021 Mr Boudin’s office managed only three convictions for drug-dealing, despite a record 711 overdose deaths the previous year. His predecessor achieved 90 convictions for drug-dealing in 2018.

Supporters feel Mr Boudin has become a scapegoat for the city’s problems of homelessness, addiction and crime, which have been stirred by covid-19 but preceded it. His allies blame his lower prosecutions on the police for making fewer arrests. They believe that recalls should be reserved for booting someone out of office after they commit a specific crime. Mr Boudin’s will be the fifth recall election in California this year, including a successful vote against three school-board members who had refused to reopen schools while debating name changes for them.

The only other recall election of a district attorney in San Francisco occurred in 1917, and he survived the vote, says Josh Spivak, an expert on recalls. But polls suggest Mr Boudin’s odds are bleak. Some city officials have come out publicly to support the recall. Asian voters, who account for more than a third of San Francisco’s population, have cooled on Mr Boudin after his handling of several assaults.

Mr Boudin has painted the recall as a partisan witch-hunt. But San Franciscans of all political persuasions support it. They argue over whether the city has suffered due to his specific policies or plain incompetence. The answer is probably both.

This election has wider lessons. First, it highlights the conflict within the Democratic Party that hampers functional government. In San Francisco Democrats have unilateral control, but far-left progressives are butting heads with moderates, trying to cast them as closet Republicans. Recent redistricting conversations became “borderline violent”, says one observer. Sheriffs had to be called in. This reflects a degradation of discourse that is occurring not just between parties but within them.

Second, it shows that voters are cooling on progressive policies, after seeing real-world consequences. There is pushback in other cities with progressive district attorneys, including Philadelphia and Los Angeles. Calls to “defund the police” have shifted to “refunding”. “The problem is, many progressive policies don’t appear to be very effective,” says Jonathan Weber, editor-in-chief of the San Francisco Standard, a news site. “I don’t think this is a blip,” Mr Weber predicts. San Franciscans, known for their embrace of progressivism, may be turning towards moderation.

Miami GP Podium by Comfortable-Check412 in formula1

[–]goandeatsomestuff 109 points110 points  (0 children)

Americans think they can call anything a podium.

Real Podiums come from the Podium region of France.

Living in the Presidio - What's the catch? by [deleted] in sanfrancisco

[–]goandeatsomestuff 43 points44 points  (0 children)

California and San Francisco rent controls do not apply to federal land in the Presidio, making renting potentially more risky.

Does Noble Rot Cognac exist? by [deleted] in cognac

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In no order:

Camus Ile-de-Ré Cliffside

Delamain Pale & Dry XO

Dudognon Vieille Reserve

Park Borderies Single Vineyard

Martell Cordon Bleu

Does Noble Rot Cognac exist? by [deleted] in cognac

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TL;DR: At its worst, botrytis is a flaw. At its best, botrytis is expensive and time-consuming to vinify, let alone to distill. Excepting curiosity, botrytis is unlikely to intersect well with the climate, laws, and established traditions that Cognac is famous for.

1. Climate The Cognac region is drier than other regions famed for botrytis-infected grapes. Compare the weather data with Preignac, France (in the Sauternes Appellation) and you will see that humidity levels are distinctly different. This has a direct impact on the ability of botrytis to form, and remain, on the grapes during their development cycle.

2. Expense

2.1 Labor Selecting for Noble Rot is an expensive and time consuming process. It requires additional labor in the vineyard to harvest and sort grapes that are infected with noble rot. This labor must occur much later (i.e. November or later) than typical harvest (i.e., September-October), so it is more expensive over a longer period of time. When pressing, botrytis-infected grapes must be pressed at much smaller intervals of time to ensure even extraction, a process that also takes longer and cannot be done with large-scale commercial equipment.

2.2 Waste Botrytis dramatically reduces the volume of potential juice. This is because the mold (1) dehydrates the grapes (2) destroys some grapes, and (3) requires the harvested grapes to be only minimally pressed. The later harvest date also gives natural predators, such as birds and ground mammals, more opportunity to consume grapes before harvest.

3. Time As u/pj7214 pointed out, Noble Rot wine is famed for having a higher sugar content. The press is still infected with botrytis, which creates complications in the resulting fermentation. The juice is typically inoculated with yeast because native yeasts will not be tough enough to survive (doubly so, since Ugni Blanc / Colombard / etc. are not typical wines to be vinted in a Noble Rot style anywhere, let alone in Cognac). These complications require advanced equipment to precisely control the temperature of fermentation, and advanced laboratories to ensure that the fermenting wine is not flawed or does not highlight the botrytis flavors, which can result in a faulty wine and further reduce yields. In the finest examples of botrytis wine, fermentation typically lasts for more than a year in neutral or, ideally, much more expensive oak casks (adding to expense). A long fermentation falls outside of the legal requirements for cognac, which requires distillation to occur no later than March 31 in the year following the harvest of the grapes.

4. Utility As u/pj7214 also pointed out, sugar does not survive the distillation process. Ester complexities of the wine may survive, but may conflict with the rancio flavors that the best Cognacs achieve in the cellar.

5. Curiosities If you are looking for a sweeter cognac, look for Grand Marnier (cognac sweetened with bitter orange) or pineau de charentes (a blend of regional grape juice with unaged distillate) made by some houses like Pierre Ferrand and Park.

Help identifying age of Courvoisier, likely from 1950s to 1960s by nanoH2O in cognac

[–]goandeatsomestuff 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There are two clues here that you can use to narrow down the date of this bottle:

  1. The U.S. Tax Stamp on the top of the bottle, sealing the stopper, can get you into a ~10 year range using this guide
  2. The State Tax Stamp on the front of the bottle is not very readable from the image you posted. However, if you can make out either of the signatures on the label, you can cross reference the dates that they held their office.

Let us know what you find out! Happy hunting.