2022-08-06 16:53:51 ET as i predicted, 2 years after 2020, san francisco is now seeing a mass influx of people again. those who left for flyover country during the shamdemic have hit the "find out" phase of their "fuck around and find out" plan of moving to literally anywhere else in america for Freedom®, as they've found out how economically impossible 99.9% of "literally anywhere else in america" is and how fake the advertised Freedom® is as well. having now inevitably lost their remote jobs, and their decent SF wages along with them, people are now stuck in areas that only pay crap, only have crap jobs and not many of them, only have crap public school systems for their kids (leaving the only decent option to spend thousands on private school) and of course there's only crap-if-any-at-all public transit infrastructure in most of flyover country as well, so they've now been forced to pay out the ass to own a car and drive everywhere - a circumstance made extra special thanks to biden's Freedom® brand HyperInflation™ and flyover country's absolute lack of any reasonable financial protections or social safety nets plus already inflated cost of shipping goods to. essentially stranded, people are, of course, now clamoring to come back, or just come here in the first place, since they're out of options otherwise. i guess, at the very least, some people who've spent their entire lives in northern california, relatively isolated from and failing to understand how much of a complete and total failed state the US has more broadly become, have now had their rude awakening. as for the broader US, at this point i honestly have zero clue what it's going to take to turn things around. but hey mississippi has now somehow managed to implement scandinavia's socialized housing program and eradicate homelessness in the state. so maybe there's hope. 2 comments

2022-07-30 12:38:33 ET apple's polishing cloth is absolutely worth $19. the cheaper microfiber cloths i've been using prior to this are absolute shit in comparison. not kidding. 5 comments

2022-07-28 23:34:45 ET so they're rereleasing johnny mnemonic in black and white for... reasons... but they're still not releasing the director's cut. sure ok. 2 comments

2022-07-24 23:41:42 ET apparently there was a heat wave sweeping the nation a few days ago. i mean, yes, this particular day was atypically "warm" for san francisco summer standards too. i think i can hear the foghorns... they're going "LOOOOOOOOL" 1 comment

2022-07-20 01:05:29 ET i've lived in san francisco for over 8 years now, and in my current apartment building for over 2 years, and yet i just now realized that the front cover photo / promo image for "san francisco rush" (a game and series that i've always been rather obsessed with) was shot basically around the corner and 2 blocks up the hill from where i currently live - an intersection i've walked through many times but never realized this until i just went on an internet dive relating to the entire rush series this evening and put 2 and 2 together. here's the cover: in real life there's no cable car on this street, and both of those cars are about to smash straight into a wall / stairway that basically goes up part of one of the cliffs of telegraph hill. there's no more street in front of them. here's a photo i took on the 4th of july about halfway up said stairway (that building in the right foreground is blue these days as opposed to the tan it was then) congratulations: you've now been unnecessarily educated on this bit of pointless trivia. 4 comments

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