Got a new washer dryer delivered today and have to give a callout to the Costco delivery guys, one of them literally stepped out into the street to stop traffic to let a pedestrian cross and then again when our school bus arrived and drivers weren’t stopping for the bus. Every day hero

why does my internet bill vary by tens of cents up or down every month, probably the biggest mystery of my life

Make your views heard - this Thursday at 6 pm! Councilmembers Tregub and O’Keefe are having a “listening session” zoom on the Corridors Zoning (commercial district rezoning) Sign up here: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

i love it (I entered in "Supervillain fake german from someone who like to ramble and is drunk")

We need a complete shutdown on “No Tax On…” proposals until we can figure out what the hell is going on

National dems are just such a fucking cooked group. This isn’t democratic, it is a complete republican ideological concession - the US government can’t help you, it only hurts you by taking your hard-earned money.

Affordability is not a tax problem. Example one: if suddenly everyone in CA making 100k has more disposable money, do you think market rents will go up, or down, or stay the same?

it feels like a lot of Dems are suddenly trying "we can run a robust social safety net by only taxing rich people and corporations" messaging and that is a) not a great message, in that we should all contribute b) not actually true, math-wise

Porter & Booker are giving free propaganda to GOP talking points that taxes are bad. Taxes are good! They pay for the things that make a society good! Libraries, schools, infrastructure, social safety nets! Even guillotining all billionaires is not enough to durably build a great society!

Europeans will mock Americans for our absurd use of non-metric but then still use TL (Teelöffel, teaspoon) and EL (Esslöffel, tablespoon) in their recipes!

My email to Berkeley City Council's policy committee over the proposal to not have bike lanes with the Hopkins Street re-paving. It's worth remembering that despite the controversy, the majority of Hopkins Street area residents voted for the pro-bike lane measure in 2024.

Can't believe we have to do this all over again. First steps first, get it out of Agenda committee. Please blast your CMs and share widely! actionnetwork.org/letters/save...

Read a stat line that seems to explain why Labor in the UK seems to suck. In 2024 they won 63% of seats off 34% of the vote. They have a huge parliamentary majority but absolutely no mandate to do anything. Maybe first past the post sucks

despite my effort to stay off social media and not doom-scroll the news, incredible that I keep finding out about more things that Trump is doing that is yet again the worst thing a president has ever done.

holy hell. Costco added a character limit on the password input box, and now I literally can't login normally because our password is/was longer than the input box character limit. it is incredible that dumb changes like this get pushed to prod.

I don’t go on Bluesky much these days, so consider me surprised that half my feed is dumping on Armand for what I can ascertain are not-fact-based reasons. Like wtf happened to everyone. Maybe everyone else should get off bluesky, too.

Another earthquake?

in other cities, i have seen bollards or sometimes actual gigantic rocks or leftover pieces of concrete sitting in these red zones to physically disallow drivers from being in the red zone at all. how much would it cost to just start putting concrete planters in these zones?

was just this AM observing that this year's summer has been very cool, and a few hours later got a surprise bill from PG&E (we have rooftop solar & normally don't get a bill now). had to look up our sunrun stats and it confirms that '25 is a very foggy year for nw berkeley

Jet lag is bad but switzerland is/was very awesome, maybe someday we'll even go to one of the non-german-speaking cantons. Apparently though we are 2/2 for going to europe right as a heat wave hits europe, i think we are some sort of cursed harbingers of warmth, es tut uns so leid.

why don’t Europeans do ice cubes

Transit in Europe/Switzerland is just next level. A train car with a playground for kids!

It's done!! On a unanimous council vote, and after 6+ years, countless hours of public comment, and more than 40 community meetings... ...Berkeley has *officially* ended single-family only zoning and legalized multifamily housing citywide!!!

Trying hard to not let it completely prejudice me against the concept ever again, but I just had some Asian food in Switzerland and it was the worst Asian food I’ve ever had in my life. Quite possibly just the worst food period.

reddit mods for explainlikeimfive having an extremely normal one in response to a "ELI5: What is AIPAC?" (i saw a lot of these comments, they were extremely normal)

it should be illegal to have a work holiday on just a thursday instead of actually observing it on friday instead

SB 79 PASSES OUT OF THE CALIFORNIA SENATE! 🎉🥑

Saw my first official fare jumper at NBB post new gates. Glad BART is blowing millions of dollars on these new gates.

Not picking on OP in particular, but the problem is that even if you have very good reason to sell out of stocks, you certainly do not know when to buy back in & much of the avg gains of the market are driven by a small handful of huge days that you’ll miss. Time in the market > timing the market.

doing my perennial search for another hair stylist who has me by the throat and once again deeply emptied my wallet and bemoaning once again why it seems that all the bay area korean immigrants with drip decided to settle exclusively in the south bay.

cities never have capacity to install new street safety or calming measures, but always have the capacity to remove them

wild that Gorsuch continues to be the SCOTUS judge most likely to open a meeting with a land acknowledgment

this version was just two years ago. society and the way we interact is going to undergo a massive transformation, for better or for worse.

nothing more maddening than to realize the cause of your confusing results that you've been debugging for ages is because the font being used didn't clearly differentiate between zero and the letter O so you ended up trying to string match the wrong thing

Let me put an even finer point on this: Nancy Pelosi intervened in the House Oversight race to make sure a 74 year old cancer patient won over an up and coming, Latino woman—right before Musk eviscerated the government. Who do we think would’ve done a better job at providing oversight?

Unironically they should buy up the domains for about 60 defunct local newspapers in swing states. Hire two reporters to write almost exclusively about highschool sports and new restaurants opening with every 10th article about how the local GOP is screwing over people.

people like to shit on yglesias et al especially here, but i'd really like to know what the anti-centrist plan is for winning a senate race in OH, because this math is brutal and real. even if you flip Collins (Maine) and Tillis (NC) you still need one more just to get to a tie in the senate.

watched a long video about Jespersen's cycle and now I will no longer judge people who say/write "I could care less" instead of "I couldn't care less." They are just way ahead of the linguistic curve than me

Bay to Breakers: pretty good event

Newsom is very lame but he still has his moments and I really hope legislators go along with this, should be an easy thing to do (just continuing cap and trade based funding) and would like actually get CA HSR work going past the initial Merced-Bakersfield segment. amp.fresnobee.com/news/local/a...

So therefore the court finds that she does not pose danger to community or present risk of flight. THE COURT ORDERS THE GOVERNMENT TO RELEASE OZTURK FROM CUSTODY IMMEDIATELY. "Ms. Ozturk is free to return to her home in Massachusetts."

proof Catholicism is woke

i actually do truly wonder if cardinals had US politics in mind when electing Leo XIV (nee Prevost)

11 new Bay Wheels bike share stations proposed for Berkeley (there are 37 existing) Map you can zoom into: berkeley.maps.arcgis.com/apps/instant... Survey for feedback on locations, open until 5/21: communityfeedback.opengov.com/portals/port...

Taking the doggo to the vet

win for Team “fuck you, make me”.