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    Oh, I wasn’t trashing the city. You know how during the bar/restaurant boom in the 2010s so many Dallas places tried following national trends like farm to table, craft cocktails, etc but just couldn’t resist their inner $30k-millionaire to make it a little nightclub-y? My wife and I had the simultaneous realization that San Diego is just like that while watching the Kettle Exchange staff fist pump in unison to pounding bass on a Sunday afternoon (great spot for drinks btw).
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    It’s the Dallas of California.
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    Horn BBQ in Oakland used to be great, has run into troubles recently tho.
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    Buy a portable. You’ll be less than gruntled when it’s 82 in you bedroom at 2 am.
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    Yep, the Wire is a story about the modern American city, with the drug war as the friction point underpinning the narrative (think I’m actually stealing David Simon’s words). What makes it so great is that the characters and storylines all represent broader social arguments but are nonetheless compelling in their own right. Where Treme failed, IMO.
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    Again, totally irrelevant. Low wage workers in HCOL cities don’t live there - they commute to work there, from very long distances, because that’s where wages are. And many have stopped, leading to labor shortages. Ok boomer.
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    What on earth are you talking about? All I’m saying is that Austin’s affordability crisis is going to have significant impacts on its economy and that moral arguments about housing are irrelevant. I can’t speak for NYC but one of the first things you understand living in SF is how many people essential workers (especially police) have 2+ commutes and are constantly in shortage. This is going to be a generational issue and it’s bizarre there’s not more alarm about it.
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    Actually, in SF quite a few restaurants began pivoting to the counter-service model due the labor shortage, and this was pre-pandemic. The labor shortage resulting from housing crisis has resulted in a very distorted economy in HCOL areas for some time, not to mention retaining teachers, police officers and fire fighters. I’m not directing this at you, but the “not everyone deserves in X” argument is totally besides the point and quite tone-deaf. Annoyed only one of ten grocery aisles has a checker or a police officer won’t show up for a car break in? Stop blocking housing. Edit: also want to mention students. Something like 5% of UC students are homeless or housing insecure at some point, which is insane. Something absolutely has to be done for UT student housing.
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    It doesn’t work in other expensive cities. You have a shortage of low, or even middle wage, workers and higher prices. And these cities also rely on rent control and other tenant protections that Texas is, um, lacking in.
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    Oh God, that Larry Wright piece. NIMBY Boomer spends fifty years fighting development in an effort to ossify their community, becoming wealthy in the process, bemoans loss of “weirdness” in their town. That’s what happened in the Bay and should sound familiar to Austinites, but that flew over his head.
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    Now that I think about it, that’s actually quite easy for his narrative (“SF politicians try to solve national problems with local tools, which is why I went to Sacramento…”), but yes I still don’t think there’s anything he can do to overcome the generalized right wing aversion to SF.
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    You mean fuck Japan? Sapporo bought them in 2017, this is probably part of their streamlining. I think they will keep making some Christmas Ale for the brewery.
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    Speculation that this could be the first strike:
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    Orange day 2020 was one of the weirder times of a weird year.
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    N-95s when outside are helpful. I’d just stay in my office all day since I imagine that’s where the best air filtering is. Fire season sucks and they are only getting worse.
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    Thought it would be easy to BART to the game. Train 1: Broke down. Train 2: Richard Ramirez doppelgänger walks on holding a pistol in his pants and half the train flees. Train 3: Uber. I hate Oakland.
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    Jesus. For war correspondents that guy’s balls are exceeded only by Dana Stone and Sean Flynn.
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    Emme ‘22 Valdigue, imo.
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    Well great I came in hoping someone finally found bikini pics and instead got the mental image of Jerry Brown trying to get his 80 year old dick up at an orgy, thanks.
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    Sous voile, imo.
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    Somehow fell out of my rotation. Thank you for inspiring me to close the laptop early and get a beer.

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