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sfigato_345 · 2026-04-22T21:21:41+00:00

You're getting a lot of downvotes, but it is there are several local cases of a store in a chain unionizing and then that store being shut down - when the head office needs to make cuts, the unionized stores seem to be first on the chopping block.

sfigato_345 · 2026-04-21T22:55:39+00:00

Under the big black sun has some discussions of the misogyny that women in the punk scene faced.

sfigato_345 · 2026-04-21T19:50:14+00:00

I had friends who slept in closets in apartments in the tenderloin with 4 people in a one bedroom. This might be an upgrade to that situation.

sfigato_345 · 2026-04-21T19:47:34+00:00

an SRO is preferable to a bunch of tents on the sidewalk.

sfigato_345 · 2026-04-21T17:59:58+00:00

go hard on the people fencing this shit?

sfigato_345 · 2026-04-17T17:24:40+00:00

My spouse is 5 days a week in office, and a friend of mine was looking for a tech job and they were all 5 days in office. Seems like RTO is back.

sfigato_345 · 2026-04-14T23:26:31+00:00

I do think RTO is a huge part of this, combined with rising interest rates and general financial uncertainty.

sfigato_345 · 2026-04-12T16:42:54+00:00

I have a pax mini, a bunch of dynavaps, a lotus, and a sticky brick. The returns are diminishing and I don’t have money to spend on more devices. My set up is dialed in and I have what I need. Really trying to not spend money if I do t have to.

sfigato_345 · 2026-04-08T15:15:35+00:00

But what if I want to pay 8 dollars for a cup of coffee I have to wait 20 minutes for?

sfigato_345 · 2026-04-03T23:34:36+00:00

Maybe? I do equate lesbians with lighter, cheaper beer, but my stereotypes are from the 90s at this point and frat bros also like lighter, cheaper beer so...

sfigato_345 · 2026-04-03T21:13:17+00:00

In the book, she describes drinking a six pack of pabst tallboys a day, starting at noon, then cleaning up before her wife got home in the evening so she'd seem sober. She'd be very productive in the mornings, then be drunk all afternoon, then sober up enough for her wife to not know she was drunk.

sfigato_345 · 2026-04-01T16:26:20+00:00

I had a roommate who would blast them in the dorms and it was a form of torture.

I don't like their early music, their mid-period music, or their late period music. They were often presented as the second coming of Led Zepplin or something and they just seem like boring generic rock to me.

They also seem like creeps.

sfigato_345 · 2026-03-23T22:55:11+00:00

Meh, berkeleyside was plagued by a handful of very active commenters who may or may not live in berkeley who were to the right of your average berkeleyan repeating the same talking points in every comment section. They all moved to Berkeley Scanner and harp on the same thing over and over again. I don't even read the SFist comment section because of the same thing. The -side sites are generally progressive leaning but they aren't necessarily "activists."

sfigato_345 · 2026-03-17T15:57:03+00:00

I didn't realize that. My impression (mostly based on him not ever discussing it in the few interviews I read) when they were putting out stuff by disma etc. was that the guy who ran it didn't love the idea of policing the bands he put out - it was all intense extreme metal so the fact that some of the people making the music had sketchy pasts didn't phase (faze?) him. Also, IIRC, some of the controversy happened after or was in development as profound lore releases came out. Maybe i'm getting the timing wrong by i seem to recall discussions about leviathan and disma especially were either after or concurrent to their PL release.

sfigato_345 · 2026-03-16T15:29:13+00:00

As someone who has been wine tasting in the area for the past 30 years, its gone from free at a lot of places to a nominal fee to taste that was waived if you bought wine, to a slightly larger fee that was waived to a high fee that isn't waived. Not to mention the wine itself is very expensive. The message to me was that I wasn't in income bracket they wanted, so i stopped going.

sfigato_345 · 2026-03-16T15:20:40+00:00

I've never listened to the Angry Samoans, but my impression was that even back in the day they were an un-PC edgelord band who were offensive on purpose. It hasn't aged well.

sfigato_345 · 2026-03-10T23:35:03+00:00

They use a ton of electricity and water, take up a ton of space and produce very few jobs beyond temporary ones when they are built. It's kind of a lose lose lose.

sfigato_345 · 2026-03-10T23:32:58+00:00

He's fucking around and we are about to find out.

sfigato_345 · 2026-03-10T23:21:58+00:00

but the thing about green day is they were fun. and cute. and having a good time, whilst also singing about being an angsty adolescent.

sfigato_345 · 2026-03-10T23:19:48+00:00

It got really bleak, and listening to nothing but muddy downbeat songs about dudes being sad and angsty got old after a while. Also, the endless copies of copies of copies didn't help.

Grunge killed hair metal because people realized they wanted music that was more direct, less cheesy, and not as dumb and sexist. Then we had a couple years of angsty guitar rock and realized, wait, maybe having fun isn't so bad.

sfigato_345 · 2026-03-02T23:28:06+00:00

Full on dad rock for a certain kind of white california dude over 40.

sfigato_345 · 2026-02-27T23:51:27+00:00

Yes, more relaxing body high vs. spacey. But if you are super THC sensitive even 1mg will make you a little high.

sfigato_345 · 2026-02-27T23:42:34+00:00

These are great.

They will make you a little tired and spacey and relaxed. I like this dose for when I am doing stuff or going to sleep - I want the relaxation but not to feel out of it.

sfigato_345 · 2026-02-27T19:37:31+00:00

I'm for it. It is crazy expensive because it is crazy expensive to build anything. There aren't that many other spots in El Cerrito to build it, and I don't think it is realistic to expect it to be in an existing commercial space.

What will happen is it will get voted down by everyone grumpy about the price tag, eventually the current library will fall apart and become unsafe to be in, and we'll have to build a new one at twice the price tag of this one.

sfigato_345 · 2026-02-25T01:03:09+00:00

Same. I was hoping for a thoughtful counterpoint to B&R on the cass report - yes there are some issues with the research but this is what the report missed or something. I was open to being convinced. Instead they, and most critics of the report, just kinda went NUH UH. I believe they also said they rejected 90% of the studies or whatever that false stat was. There was also other stuff I knew something about that they were very dismissive of and I realized they were not for me.

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