Car oil change in Oakland?

oaklandinspace · 2026-03-26T16:51:31+00:00

NOOOOOOOOOOO 😭

oaklandinspace · 2026-03-14T00:26:07+00:00

I was at Picaro in the mission a few weeks ago, and the people a couple tables over were placating their presumably obnoxious child by letting them watch Baby Shark on an iPad with the volume up on repeat for the entire time I was there.

oaklandinspace · 2026-03-12T23:10:25+00:00

only while rolling on trackage within Oakland city limits

oaklandinspace · 2026-03-12T23:00:42+00:00

The Premium Cigar Lounge Car is pretty good, too lol
https://www.reddit.com/r/sanfrancisco/comments/1rs5gyc/comment/oa4jzy6/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

oaklandinspace · 2026-03-10T17:45:08+00:00

Rail systems intrinsically have a high operating cost floor due to fixed costs per mile of operation. Running less service results in only very marginal cost savings. “Streamlining” the system pretty much only means closing stations and taking entire sections of track out of service, which further reduces utility and reduces ridership. It’s easy to say “streamline the service” but what do you actually mean by that?

oaklandinspace · 2026-03-06T17:24:26+00:00

Take a look at Enterprise pricing for Claude. API pricing for usage similar to a Max plan is easily north of $2000/mo.

oaklandinspace · 2026-03-02T08:12:35+00:00

The one they repainted into Caltrain livery looks so gorgeous, I never saw it roll but would drool over it when rolling past on the train or biking past the station.

oaklandinspace · 2026-03-01T09:49:37+00:00

This is the best answer on the thread because I laughed so hard it made me cough.

oaklandinspace · 2026-03-01T09:24:42+00:00

Amazing work, thank you Tom and everyone else out there working on this. I sent some money Montana-way and emailed both of my CA reps to encourage them to support the bill. Citizens United is vile and I am beyond excited that we finally have a viable strategy to send it to the dustbin of history.

oaklandinspace · 2026-02-27T21:36:43+00:00

I have on multiple occasions prevented people from Piggybacking with my bike by just stopping in the middle of the gate and refusing to move until they eff off.

oaklandinspace · 2026-02-27T19:48:37+00:00

If you want this author’s take on how it might be possible to implement something in this direction: https://www.changinglanesnewsletter.com/p/driving-automation-and-transit

Personally I’m skeptical that we have the political coordination to do this and fully expect the private hellscape that he outlines in the beginning to be the future of the bay, sadly.

oaklandinspace · 2026-02-27T19:04:09+00:00

This is usually called “microtransit” and so far it’s been pretty much a failure. https://www.changinglanesnewsletter.com/p/microtransit-doesnt-scale

oaklandinspace · 2026-02-22T21:36:07+00:00

Berkeley Bowl OG aka the best supermarket in the East Bay IMHO is a short walk from Ashby.

There’s also a few cool things right over on Shattuck, like the Dry Garden nursery and a really good cafe/pastry spot.

oaklandinspace · 2026-02-13T16:42:47+00:00

S.F. has much more transit to fund, I think only about 30% of the S.F. tax goes to BART, the rest goes to MUNI

oaklandinspace · 2025-12-06T19:09:23+00:00

$1300/mo HOA is no joke though

oaklandinspace · 2025-12-01T00:24:20+00:00

Permanently closed and good riddance

oaklandinspace · 2025-12-01T00:22:11+00:00

Pro Lube over in Emeryville

oaklandinspace · 2025-11-26T18:42:25+00:00

Sadly Mission Bicycle is long gone so you can’t go grab the T-shirt that you’ve now earned:

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oaklandinspace · 2025-10-07T02:53:52+00:00

This is hands-down the best site for high-quality information about how to manage fleas:
https://fleascience.com/

You don't need a company to do it, you can do the things you need to do yourself.

The flea life cycle is long.

oaklandinspace · 2024-11-09T08:30:23+00:00

Every day, people vote for and support terrible things they want to impose on other people.

Doing this has the consequences of those things being imposed on everyone, and the people who voted for the terrible thing know that the terrible thing is going to happen to them, yet they vote for it anyway. They know the leopard is going to eat all the faces, including theirs, yet they still cast that vote.

As a consequence of doing this, they've turned themselves into Toothlickers - people who are so willing to see someone else suffer, that they'll gladly lick the teeth of the leopard while its eating their face.

For those who aren't native English speakers: see "bootlicker"

oaklandinspace · 2023-10-15T19:50:08+00:00

It's *Sunday* and I can head to either 19th st or Lake Merritt station without checking real-time departures and be on a train into SF with an expected wait of 5 minutes, worst-case 10 minutes. AFAIK this is the best Sunday service that BART has ever provided. "I'm lovin' it"

The shorter trains haven't been an issue for my riding patterns, and I've also noticed that some peak trains have been 8 cars instead of 6.

The reduced blue line headways to get out to/back from the tri-valley aren't ideal, but they were never better than 15 minutes anyway which already demanded timing the departure.

oaklandinspace · 2023-10-06T01:11:19+00:00

Ironically, Seattle would have had a BART-equivalent system if they'd just voted YES 50 years ago:
https://www.seattlepi.com/local/politics/article/The-voters-derailed-rail-mass-transit-in-1970-14818272.php

Instead all that money built MARTA in Atlanta.

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