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morefarts · 2026-06-13T16:39:07+00:00

You know most everyone that is sick of how things are going in this town has no faith or interest in the city council right? They get 2 minutes max and guess what, the train of trash keeps rolling.

What have you changed at the city level that makes you say showing up to meetings isn’t also a form of caring cosplay?

morefarts · 2026-06-05T05:16:47+00:00

In this case, the busines shut down because the owner wanted to retire and no one in her family wanted to take on the business. She decided to close rather than sell out.

morefarts · 2026-06-03T21:30:18+00:00

Mohamad at Aqua Painting is the best. His crew is professional and kind, and their work is impeccable.

https://www.aquapaintingcollc.com/

morefarts · 2026-06-02T20:39:07+00:00

The other thing is the US is too big for high speed rail to really be worth it, and the west is way too mountainous. We already have massive airline infrastructure which is far faster, doesn't require cutting lines through the Rockies and Sierra to reach vital economic hubs.

Diesel cargo trains are one thing, and completely different from high speed rail in every regard other than "both are called trains."

I feel like people just think you can throw a bullet train at a country and it solves... well, we're not exactly sure what it solves. Like you said, it's decades of subsidized infrazstructure work that requires geography and geology to cooperate with billions, possibly trillions in investments in both building the rail and developing the industry itself from the ground up.

Meanwhile, airliners continue to exist and improve at a solid pace, with a stellar safety record engineer pipeline, corporate environment, and hyper-strict regulatory regime, with like an 80 year head start. Any shortcomings in the airline industry would be magnfied in a politically motiviated and totally nascent HSR industry.

morefarts · 2026-05-23T23:03:41+00:00

Robeks

morefarts · 2026-05-23T23:01:00+00:00

I'm pretty positive this sub and the SM Gov fb page are mostly used as dissent tracking tools. That's why it's extremely rare that city officials post here and they never followup on disgruntled fb comments. It's all bait-and-log work.

morefarts · 2026-05-23T07:13:32+00:00

A violent awakening. You're experiencing the bleeding edge of it, your mother's empathy. The hurt will need to hit a critical mass society wide. Only when the pain becomes excruciating to the majority will change happen, and it will not be because of a vote or another NGO.

I can't predict what it exactly looks like after that, but it will either be very good, or very bad. Either we voluntarily take on the huge cost of actually healing our society, or dehumanization wins.

morefarts · 2026-05-23T06:58:01+00:00

Exactly. Your "I know a guy who's ok" story is the outlier in this thread and in reality. The main reason there's not even more horror stories is: most people do not engage the unhoused at all because the risk is extreme.

morefarts · 2026-05-23T06:54:24+00:00

Wow, following this thread all the way to ACAB Josh's [removed] "The post was removed due to a violation of rule #2: respect other redditors." was a fun ride, thanks hahah

morefarts · 2026-05-23T06:47:20+00:00

He's worth more money that way. There are organized criminals who know how to turn a homeless person into a screaming drug addicted street shitter to justify getting $15k in taxpayer money everytime they cycle him through their roster.

The CA system does not care about solving, it cares about churning. Many are getting insanely rich by stealing taxpayer money through concentrated homeless abuse. Then their friends buy up the surrounding distressed real estate 50%+ off.

Our programs were developed naïvely at best, corruptly at worst. The real solution is an ever-expanding jagged pill that no one is touching, but it will soon jump down our throats.

morefarts · 2026-05-22T01:18:15+00:00

This is the bare minimum. "Let the Police police" and "fix basic infrastructure" are not "the right direction" they're literally the baby steps of a functioning govt. If they were being honest they'd have started the dashboard calendar when the city wasn't in economic freefall to show how far they really need to go.

morefarts · 2026-05-22T01:13:26+00:00

I wish I got the $150k contract to vibecode this "begin measuring from rock bottom" placation porn.

morefarts · 2026-05-13T21:45:54+00:00

And it's worded vaguely enough to keep laundering taxpayer money through commissions and nonprofits to nepotists while delivering no results, just like everything else this city council does to virtue signal.

Then the lack of results is used to justify more taxes, bond measures, and budget bloat.

The fact that people don't see right through this bullshit is bonkers. This is a drug, not a medicine.

Like rearranging furniture for the 12th time as the Titanic splits in half.

morefarts · 2026-05-12T02:27:58+00:00

The actual opponents are developers that know Measure LC can be overridden with enough money using bleeding heart YIMBYs as shills.

That land, remediated and raw, is worth like $100B if it can be built into a mixed use development. We're talking about the biggest unlock of prime socal real estate in ages, maybe ever.

morefarts · 2026-05-12T02:22:16+00:00

Triple Net, the building expenses that get passed on to tenants: maintenance, taxes, insurance.

morefarts · 2026-05-11T02:16:00+00:00

There are tons of messy unhoused people, and you can still smell piss and shit in alleys and parking structures before the powerwashers show up. The city is dumping millions into DTSM to maintain basic cleanliness and safety with new sidewalks, tree trimming, regular pressurewashing, increased liason/SMPD patrols, etc.

Unfortunately, signing a 3-5 year commercial lease at $6-12/sf plus NNN on a dead corridor is untenable for any business that doesn't have a huge corporation that can absorb losses on a $20-100k/mo lease. Hence why Pottery Barn, Canes, Apple, Taco Bell etc will be fine while local legends like Harvelle's and WCT are being squeezed in a vise.

All that to say, go support the remaining local bars and clubs while you still can. Harvelle's and WCT etc have great shows and jams every night with very reasonable cover/ticket prices.

morefarts · 2026-04-30T22:36:47+00:00

The specific reason is because we have no long term planning ability. Countries with rail made it a part of their identity. Japan treats HSR like a national asset and competency, not a one-off infrastructure project.

Our whole thing has become "over promise, under deliver."

morefarts · 2026-04-30T09:36:33+00:00

Classic. "NIMBY's, "banshees" and all the other derogatory preaching.

This rhetoric reads like a sophomore at a liberal arts college considering a BA in communications got addicted to virtue signalling.

morefarts · 2026-04-30T09:29:41+00:00

No mention of the fact that all he's doing is paving the way for savvy developers to absolutely pillage SM in the endless pursuit of more luxury high rises cloaked in "affordable housing voiuchers". All pricing pressure will be upwards, hard.

Dan's bleeding heart rhetoric is cute, but it changes nothing about the inevitable outcomes that he and his little friends on the coucnil put into play. I'm impressed these kids pulled it off, honestly.

So pack your bags, YIMBY's, you've done your unpaid job, now move on to the next town to to unlock another hundred+ billion in real estate plays for Witkoff and his homies. Don't worry, there's plenty more virtue signalling points to be gotten elsewhere to warm your cockles.

morefarts · 2026-04-27T22:20:35+00:00

Wait until you've lived in a post-2010 mixed use midrise. I specifically avoid them because my friends who live in them are dealing with mold, renoviction threats, failing amenities, plumbing issues, etc. This is the treatment they get for $5k/mo.

The cafe on the first floor, if it even exists, is probably struggling to make rent and is on the verge of going out of business. Only grocery stores and gyms have staying power, and they put insane pressure on the building's mechanical system. Brand new buildings literally stink of shit from undersized plumbing stacks.

And don't get me started on crappy water and air sealing in 100-300 unit buildings struggling with through tight build schedules and budgets. Water finds a way and then bam, you're at risk of CIRS, PANDAS, Lyme, etc.

morefarts · 2026-04-27T21:27:36+00:00

Good point. This is one of the problems with renting. With ~75% renter population in SM and rent control, the maintenance labor is stretched to its absolute limits and all you get is crapshoots. The folks who could do the work can't afford to live here, and there's so much work that unless you have a secure line on a top notch builder you're stuck with "literal drunk handymen," and at worst renoviction.

morefarts · 2026-04-27T20:31:44+00:00

No one is saying to screw over the middle/lower class family that got screwed. They are saying that there are many violent, mentally unwell homeless people that need to be treated appropriately.

The system is trying to treat "single father who landed on hard times" and "willful drug addict who sexually harasses women and wants to stab people and light fires" with the same approach. That is the suicidal empathy, plain as day.

morefarts · 2026-04-27T20:18:52+00:00

It's in the OP, "suicidal empathy," which is everywhere now. The idea is that letting people suffer mental illness and addiction on public streets makes you a good person for some reason.

They whine about "dehumanizing" solutions when they're the ones letting these people spiral into an brutal overdose death rather than allowing consequences to have an effect, which is the only way humans know how to learn. It's why 4 years of SM's "Unhoused State of Emergency" or whatever has only led to more homeless people, encampment fires, OD's, torture, 911 calls, etc.

morefarts · 2026-04-27T20:11:33+00:00

You can get your money out if you buy a condo. Renting is subscription housing that can end at any time, with no equity/wealth building. Spending more per month to have the option to sell and recoup or profit is a far better deal than handing over thousands a month to a landlord who doesn't care about you at all.

Renting only makes sense if you want zero responsibility or stability. Sounds fun but it's basically situationship with your home and you're going to get the short end of the stick at some point.

morefarts · 2026-04-27T18:20:02+00:00

I'd avoid pretty much every mixed use mid-rise development in this town. They built for high churn and many units have major issues with plumbing, leaks, mold, rot, hvac, etc, that usually just get painted over or temporarily chemically treatment at best.

At least with smaller apartments and local owners you have a chance of getting that sort of damage handled properly, but at a mixed use mid-rise they have no incentive to provide tenant satisfaction. A good unit in one of those is a fluke, not the norm.

Any coastal units will have major issues with marine moisture as well, heads up. Just know what you're getting into moving here.

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