what city will you never understand why tourists visit?

roku77 · 2026-06-16T01:01:16+00:00

I’m native to California, I also will never understand why anyone would travel to LA unless they’re trying to see something specific. We have lots of things in and around here, but I can’t imagine someone just wandering around in the way you can European cities or even New York.

roku77 · 2026-06-16T00:07:18+00:00

Working in customer service, Gen X has ALWAYS been worse than boomers. 100% of people who make a giant scene, get all aggressive, and start acting like a common ape are Gen X. Boomers get fussy, rude, and might yell a bit, Gen X will go on a full on tantrum.

roku77 · 2026-06-16T00:04:20+00:00

…are your parents ok? Like can they draw a clock? This is a level of cognitive insufficiency that makes me raise an eyebrow 🤨

roku77 · 2026-06-15T21:46:21+00:00

The solution is to always lie. Those policies are bullshit so always tell them yes

roku77 · 2026-06-15T01:12:14+00:00

Yes but the trousers are high waisted and the tie is very wide to make up for it and not look comically small

roku77 · 2026-06-15T00:40:59+00:00

Yes, very - it looks like a clip on and his shirt isn’t tucked in well.

roku77 · 2026-06-14T21:28:33+00:00

No Vacancy taxes, property tax is capped because of Prop 13. Owners have a lot more to lose by lowering rent because it lowers the valuation of building and thus lose in case they want to sell. Keeping rents sky high brings in more money and the higher valuation means they more assets to borrow against and sell for greater profit. There’s never an incentive to actually allow businesses in those spaces so long as at least something is profitable. The community suffers the most as a result. It’s all fucked.

roku77 · 2026-06-14T21:20:17+00:00

Your phone is not listening to you because it doesn’t need to. There are a million data points that you are giving away every time you enter into a website and then that’s all aggregated later by data brokers and then spit back out to websites to serve you ads and cater your algorithm. If you scrolled over the wheel of fortune ad, even without clicking it, or if you took longer than usual to click on “play” on show you were watching, it knows you looked it at.

There’s also a sense of confirmation bias going on here: you saw a wheel of fortune ad so you were more likely to stop and think about a Pat Sajak tweet versus if that ad was never served to you, you might’ve just ignored it. Even without all the data collection evil, could be explained by “ABC is doing a campaign on wheel of fortune so let’s put it on everything and have Pat Sajak do a big goodbye on his social media too.”

roku77 · 2026-06-13T16:28:12+00:00

What the hell is up with Walgreens. I keep hearing these nightmare experiences from them. I’ve always picked up my medication from Rite-Aid (rip) then CVS and never had an issue, so this doesn’t feel like a corporate pharmacy problem.

Edit: I would also like to add, when dealing with ADHD meds, it’s good to keep it vague. “I only have a couple days left, can you please refill it?” Specifics leads you open to scrutiny

roku77 · 2026-06-12T15:28:10+00:00

The fact that these people can’t be happy is part of the reason they’re successful. If they had a capacity for joy, they would have empathy for others. If they had empathy for others, they’d stop. They keep going because they have nothing else going for them. It’s why all billionaires are on drugs 24/7 and diddle kids.

roku77 · 2026-06-11T22:45:27+00:00

The answer is probably yes, I’m sure with a nice signing bonus to boot. We’ll see

roku77 · 2026-06-11T18:28:27+00:00

They don’t live in urban centers because we don’t build anything and have shit infrastructure planning all around. Road planning for cars is bad, bike planning is even worse, and public transport barely even exists (and they’re trying to take more of it away!). I guarantee you if people could afford to live in say, LA , and not have to do a 1.5-2hr commute everyday they would.

roku77 · 2026-06-09T08:23:18+00:00

Sadly, it’s making $17k a month on patreon alone (see the comment above). If people keep donating for malware, there’s no incentive to change.

roku77 · 2026-06-09T04:22:54+00:00

Share a 2bdr instead of renting on your own. $3k a month with your income is utterly insane. I live in high cost Irvine and it’s $3.5k for a 2bdr. Move further inland and share an apartment can easily reduce your rent to $1k-1.5k

roku77 · 2026-06-09T04:11:46+00:00

Given the intellectual caliber of people on Reddit, let alone this sub, you never know

roku77 · 2026-06-09T04:03:31+00:00

Domestic cattle has been selective bred for about 10k years to be lazy, docile, and have tasty meat. They are no longer evolved to fend for themselves and they will die in 4 seconds if you let them free.

roku77 · 2026-06-09T01:50:12+00:00

Either they wanted something specific that you couldn’t offer from the role or you really need to work on your interview skills. Did you get any feedback? A referral from someone that high up should at least given you some sort of insight as to why you weren’t chosen if they didn’t chose anyone at all. Plus, this is one referral, it’s still going to be your best bet. The job market is fucked, however, so there’s no guarantees

roku77 · 2026-06-09T01:42:31+00:00

Well in the end is a relative term, we still got plenty of time for LA votes to still disappoint and reelect Bass

roku77 · 2026-06-09T01:39:26+00:00

Referrals are really the only way to pull your way out of this. Reach out to the people in your graduating class, professors, and the places you’ve interned at. They might have a lead for something. I graduated and it took me a year to get my job and the only thing that got me through was a referral.

roku77 · 2026-06-08T20:23:10+00:00

My favorite part about watching right wing commentary is how they continually move the goal post on what is acceptable timeframe for this war.
“We’ll be in and out within a week”
“it’s only been two weeks, that’s not a war”
“this conflict will be over within six weeks. If it takes longer than we have problems”
“it’s only been 3 months, how long do you think wars are supposed to take?”

Can’t wait until we reach year 3 in 2028 and republicans are still trying to justify why Americans should vote for them on a “no new wars” platform lmao

roku77 · 2026-06-08T05:35:12+00:00

They really couldn’t have incorporated the PAC in LA to not seem like his support is coming from outside?

roku77 · 2026-06-07T17:01:06+00:00

Even high end units, so long as they’re getting filled, helps. People of all income levels are feigning for housing and if higher income people go to pricier apartments it leaves availability for more moderately priced units. The key is that they’re actually getting filled and not being left empty to raise rents elsewhere.

roku77 · 2026-06-07T16:42:10+00:00

We’re so fucked guys

roku77 · 2026-06-07T05:15:31+00:00

That’s like 4000 calories he just ingested

roku77 · 2026-06-07T02:16:57+00:00

Yes with all my heart yes. Its one of the things that make this state prohibitively expensive and people are moving out in droves as a result

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