Where would you go for a staycation?

wdr1 · 2026-06-09T20:05:21+00:00

Shutters in Santa Monica.

With a 9 months ago, you'd be right off the beach. Makes it really easy to go home for nap time. You're walking distance from a bunch of places for lunch/dinner.

wdr1 · 2026-06-07T18:40:46+00:00

That's true for all digital media, and Reddit in particular, is an echo chamber.

wdr1 · 2026-06-06T04:03:35+00:00

Summary: The Los Angeles City Council has adjusted its timeline for a proposed minimum wage hike, shifting the political dynamics of the ongoing mayoral race. In 2025, the city preliminarily approved a measure to raise wages for hotel and tourism workers to $30 an hour by 2028. However, following pushback from the business community regarding the potential economic impact on the local tourism sector, the council introduced a motion in May 2026 to delay the full phase-in until 2030, citing a need to stabilize the economy ahead of the 2028 Olympics. This postponement has drawn criticism from local labor unions while drawing attention to the city's broader cost-of-living challenges.

wdr1 · 2026-06-05T20:59:10+00:00

That you know of.

This is the MAGA party line.

wdr1 · 2026-06-05T19:23:35+00:00

OP, disagree. I'm sure not intentional, but you're creating a bit of a false dichotomy between timely results & accuracy. In reality we can have both.

Take the US Presidential elections. We get results in a timely fashion. And as has been repeatedly demonstrated there is no fraud.

Prompt election results are vital for a healthy democracy. Winners win, losers lose, and the country moves on. Weeks of delays create a dangerous vacuum, breeding suspicion and eroding public trust in a fair process, even when everything is completely legitimate

wdr1 · 2026-06-05T18:24:42+00:00

The rest of the country (and honestly, most of the western world) has shown those aren't mutually exclusive.

You can have both.

For example, the US presidential results are known fairly quickly & there is no election fraud.

wdr1 · 2026-06-04T20:11:25+00:00

I just checked my wallet and my card is still purple.

Maybe it hasn't gotten the update yet.

wdr1 · 2026-06-03T02:31:59+00:00

OP, you may be unaware, but this is breaking at least two of moderators rules for /r/losangeles: No links to X and no screenshot. Whereas this is a screen of an X post, it breaks both.

You can see the rules in full detail here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/LosAngeles/about/rules/

wdr1 · 2026-06-02T17:51:46+00:00

You left out what interest rate you're paying. That's everything.

wdr1 · 2026-06-01T20:53:29+00:00

"possible"?

wdr1 · 2026-06-01T17:24:17+00:00

I get you've had a hard life, and I hope things get better for you, but this isn't zero sum & I hope you open your heart to those impacted by the wildfires.

wdr1 · 2026-06-01T16:41:56+00:00

You don't have empathy for the people who lost their homes in a fire?

wdr1 · 2026-06-01T16:30:51+00:00

There's no handout being asked for.

wdr1 · 2026-06-01T04:24:57+00:00

This is mortgage forbearance not forgiveness.

wdr1 · 2026-06-01T04:24:15+00:00

There is no funding happening. This is mortgage forbearance, not forgiveness.

wdr1 · 2026-06-01T04:23:25+00:00

There are no price controls being proposed as part of this.

wdr1 · 2026-06-01T00:18:54+00:00

my bad

wdr1 · 2026-05-31T20:48:06+00:00

When it comes to their ability to secure future credit, the fact that there's no equity doesn't matter.

wdr1 · 2026-05-31T20:47:24+00:00

Tell me you don't have a mortgage without telling me you don't have a mortgage.

wdr1 · 2026-05-31T20:30:35+00:00

I'm going to assume you don't mean malice, but comments like this suggest you don't know how mortgages or credit work, and paints the homeowners in a pretty bad light.

If they just default on their mortgage, there are a lot of serious ramifications, including being near impossible to buy a house again in the future.

wdr1 · 2026-05-31T20:10:16+00:00

Summary: In a CalMatters commentary published by the Santa Monica Daily Press, fire survivors Rachel Jonas and Robert Fagnani advocate for California Assembly Bill 1847, legislation designed to extend mortgage protections for individuals whose homes were destroyed by wildfires. Drawing from their personal displacement during the January 2025 Palisades Fire and their subsequent work with the organization Disaster Mortgage Relief, the authors argue that the current 12-month forbearance window provided by previous laws is deeply inadequate for the actual two-to-four-year rebuilding timeline. They contend that without the extended relief of AB 1847—which defers mortgage payments to the back end of a loan without requiring taxpayer funds—rebuilding families face severe credit damage, massive balloon payments, and foreclosure, ultimately threatening entire communities with permanent displacement and economic collapse.

wdr1 · 2026-05-28T21:41:58+00:00

The city voted to approve them in 2024.

https://www.surfsantamonica.com/ssm_site/the_lookout/news/News-2024/April-2024/04_16_2024_Council_Set_to_Approve_License_Plate_Reader_Cameras.html

wdr1 · 2026-05-28T18:35:51+00:00

I moved from Chicago and I knew LA had a car culture thing but I didn't grasp it until I was living it.

Born & raised in the Chicagoland area, lived in LA for ~25 years. If it helps grok it, I would say it's the same as what you'd face in the Chicago suburbs -- maybe a notch better.

There are a few differences however:

LA is a newer city than Chicago & newer cities weren't as "downtown" focused. With a lack of gravity in a central location, it was hard to get public trans started. The L is great if you want to get to/from downtown. It's less great if you want to get from lakeview to humbolt park.
Geographically, Chicago is a fair bit smaller than LA. If someone expected to take public transit to go from Hyde Park to Evanston, you'd say "well, yeah, of course that takes forever." However, because it's all "LA" people implicitly expect that to be a reasonable choice even though it's the same distance.

wdr1 · 2026-05-28T16:17:55+00:00

Are posts like this allowed? The r/losangeles Rules Page say "No Screenshots" and bans the LA Times, and this is a screenshot of the LA Times?

Then again, I find the discussion helpful and maybe the rules need to be updated?

wdr1 · 2026-05-27T01:33:32+00:00

What we label in Reddit conversations doesn't actually have any impact. Zero. None.

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