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I’m looking forward to more B&N stores coming back to the Bay Area (https://www.smdailyjournal.com/news/local/barnes-and-noble-s...).

I used to love spending hours at Borders in Stonestown or the B&N in Colma. I had temporary solace with the Amazon brick and mortar in WC, then a B&N opened in Concord. The Emeryville B&N gives off a weird vibe for some reason.

My point is physical brick and mortar stores should be everyone’s source of truth for legit non-AI garbage book buying. Because of limited shelf space one is going to assume the books being sold have sort of vetting of sales and demand behind them. Vs Amazon having unlimited shelf space and letting garbage populate the virtual aisles.

One has to wonder if this is a plan for these “investors” to find a better way to keep affordable housing people on the other side of town vs their backyard. ie the current NIMBY fighting going on in Atherton with the forced affordable housing projects residents are griping about.

Most of the investors in the article are the ones pushing back against the affordable housing project in Atherton. Atherton is roughly five square miles so affordable housing in the middle of that has residents “worried” about what affordable housing brings to their oasis.

With this new town they’re proposing I can envision investors on one side, state mandated affordable housing on the opposite side, and city services, retail, etc., separating the two residential zones.

As having been in a LTR with someone who worked in the film industry, Hollywood is just a giant salt mine that a handful get lucky and make it. The little people on strike are fighting over table scraps.

The strike does affect businesses supporting the industry, however the studios can wait it out because they have the deeper pockets.

With tens of thousands of things to watch from various sources, people will find other things to watch or tune out.

If the strike does end soon, it’s because the strikers will cave to the studios just to get the industry back to work.

You don’t own the land you have your residence on. The government owns the land. You’re paying rent to them to keep the right to own the land. If you stop paying property taxes, what happens?

As much as I endure the spirit of these cars helping people, San Francisco is not the place to test this.

I realize Cruise started in SF and they want that SF startup vibe for hiring, but SF was not designed for this.

Test the cars elsewhere in suburbia and leave densely populated, narrow streets for later conquests.

Larger cities with wider roads are better suited. Once the reputation of the cars being successful, it’ll work it’s way into denser areas like SF and NYC.

I believe you have to log into your AppleID account and click to remove yourself. If not, your AppleID in System Settings should have a way to uncheck the box.

System Settings > Click your AppleID > Name, Phone, Email

You should see buttons to turn off emails from Announcements, Apple Music etc., and Apple News Newsletter.

They definitely aren’t ready and should move away from operating in SF altogether. They should operate out larger cities with wider roads or limit where they operate in SF like bus lines.

I think this compromise needs to happen because SF didn’t plan for robotaxis when the roads were built decades ago. Towns like Phoenix and Las Vegas have the roads to support it. So they should consider splitting operations that way to continue working.

This does nothing but make other towns think the taxis aren’t ready and will fight to keep them out of their towns.

It’s an optics issue at this point if they want to convince people the robots can drive better than humans

there’s too much red tape and special interest play in trying to expand transit options in the United States.

Examples in California include: car companies killing off successful street cars in SoCal, car dealers and residents block the expansion of BART down the SF Peninsula, residents in northwestern Bay Area blocking BART from entering their area for fear of criminals accessing their area easily from the East Bay.

I started having an inkling that streaming services were about to turn to garbage when 1) Netflix was churning out shows, series, and documentaries at a fast rate, and 2) comedians and society starting joking that every major news item of the day was about to be turned into a Netflix movie/show/series.

There’s nothing good on cable anymore. My cousins kids have no idea what a commercial is on TV. I was with them on vacation, turned on the TV to something they would watch and commercial came on. They didn’t know what was happening.

Streaming services are meh now. If there’s something I want to see, I’m accessing it via the old methods of the early 2000s.

Get rid of golf courses first. I saw many on my road trip from one side of the state to the other.

We also need more water storage because we just had a ton of rainfall and let it run out to the ocean this summer.

Last time I had to implement Okta integration for DocuSign at my employer it was absurdly expensive. If Google does this right then I’d be ever so happy.

DocuSign on the SSO Tax site: https://sso.tax/

With all the talk of more Covid coming this winter, should be interesting to see how that plays out with lockdowns again if they happen.

VCs and companies like Blackrock have investments in commercial real estate. They will definitely “encourage” C-levels to RTO to keep their investments safe at the expense of the people at the bottom.

You probably don’t live in SF and have never seen the incidents on the news where the police and fire agencies have tried to move a driverless car in an emergency.

One has to wonder if UPS caved in because they can pass the cost of the agreement on to customers rather than cutting back on executive pay and perks.

It’s a victory for the workers, but at a cost to those that need to ship or receive things when we’re already seeing wages not keeping with inflation.

After Avengers Endgame it seems Marvel put out sub-par quality films. I tried watching GotG 3 and had this feeling I was out of the loop on the multi-verse stories.

The movie alone was ok, but I honestly feel like every month there’s some Marvel show or movie premiering.

The Star Wars stuff in the pipeline is fine for me. Right amount being trickled out to the fans.

Berkeley attempted this and it was recently overturned: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/court-overturns-berkeley-califo...

California's electric grid is in horrendous shape. We can barely keep the power on in the summertime, especially when wildfires happen. When the power is out, am I expected to start a fire in my yard to cook food? Fire up my JetBoil? My BBQ?

Crypto isn’t anonymous. Governments and private companies have ways of identifying you. After reading the book Tracers in the Dark, crypto isn’t so anonymous anymore to me.

If I recall, there was a Wired article about this problem.

Original European settlers brought over domesticated hogs during colonization. I believe to raise and to hunt. They eventually were abandoned or got out and starting breeding with wild hogs.

That’s the problem. I was working somewhere they signed a seven year lease before the pandemic. The push for RTO was from the board and the CEO because they want ROI on their lease. This sounds eerily familiar to that workplace I was at.

Not only that, the Zoom functionality on the Hub Max is broken.

My office was looking at using the Hub Max for employees at home. We purchased one and tried to set it up. Followed their instructions and there’s an Android Developer permission that needs to be turned on the Google side. There’s a whole thread with people complaining about the error in Google’s support forum for the product. Everyone saying the same thing: “I bought this to use Zoom and it seems like Google doesn’t care about anything but it’s own video conferencing software on the Hub.”

The problem seems to have been around for a couple of months now. I wonder if Zoom should be notified that the Zoom Certified Hardware component isn’t living up to their certification requirements.

Stores should just be giant vending machines at this point. Cuts back on retail theft and staffing stores with humans.

We’re already buying stuff from Amazon and going with what’s shown on a screen. Why can’t we be like the replicators in Star Trek, stand in front of a screen, pick what we want, and it magically be placed in front of us?

I live in SF and have a feeling vending machine type stores are a solution to the rampant theft in retail here.

Found this about tmobilewingman: https://www.reddit.com/r/tmobile/comments/7u535i/tmobilewing...

Seems to have been around for at least five years.

Five years ago I noticed all the things you saw and decided to go back to hotels. With hotel chains it’s a consistent experience. With Airbnb it was gambling.

Bigger Pockets created a lot of portfolio renters on Airbnb and created a cult for others to mimic. I briefly had a rental I was sub-leasing from a landlord and in turn renting it out to traveling nurses. Imagine many people doing this with multiple units to sub lease.

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I have this problem with HomePod. I ask it turn the TV off and it sits there thinking. It will then say it’s not online. I’ll yell at it, and maybe the second time it complies or says it’s offline again. At that point I just hit the power button on the TV remote.

I mainly use my HomePods for turning the TV off or setting a timer.

Setting a timer is pretty much the killer feature in my house.

Here’s how much bloat I experienced with Slack recently.

My company’s renewal came up. We are one tier below the overly priced Enterprise Grid functionality. Our sales rep insisted we meet for a check in before our renewal. I asked why, we’re happy with the service. They insisted we meet (real pushy in email, even with my associate at work who was on the thread agreed) to discuss how we’re using the product and making sure we get the most out of it.

I responded that the service is set up fine, integrated with our SSO provider and our employees are using it to its design for our tier. Still pushing us for a meeting.

My teammate and I got on the zoom and four or five other sales people were on the call with us.

Sales rep starting going over our account and best practices for how we’re using it.

It was a waste of 45 minutes for my teammate and I. I’m sure we could have also had our sales rep and one other person on the phone.

The call was pointless even after insisting two times in email that the call was not needed. Yet 6 people wasted 45 minutes going over pointless info.

If Slack would carve out features and drop the price and let us do a la carte, then getting on the phone with us annually would be a great upsell opportunity. However Slack is like a utility for us at this point in our use. Is it on at the moment? Yes. Then we’re good.

I think for me it’s a privacy issue with Alexa more than anything. People I know have similar feelings about it.

I’m also not seeing a lot of need for voice assistants anymore. The ones I use at home are good for turning things off and on and setting timers for food I’m cooking. Outside of that nothing else.

A year or two ago there was a way to get free SOL from Coinbase by reading some literature and taking quizzes. I barely remember it, but recall it was trying to position itself as a safer alternative to BitCoin, not controlled by situations like FTX.

I used to catch his shows on Comedy Central in the 90s. I think they used to play his shows at 5 or 6 on Saturday mornings.

I just bought a DVD collection on eBay and plan to rip it and add it to my streaming server.

So sad his health was failing over the last decade.