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Between Teedy’s “We are a city that floods” shrug off of the pipe system and no trash pickup for a month after Ida, I fear NOLA may be first with rate of coastal erosion. Current run to reclaim murder capital for the first time since Cash Money brought in the ‘99-2000s ain’t helping either.

‘99 Clos Saron cab imo. Actually Renaissance vineyards, but the winemaker escaped the cult and kept some barrels. Prob slightly past peak but an opportunity to taste California history for less than $80.

This war sucks.

Vincent Paris, imo.

Oh I’m with you, just given GQP messaging I don’t know how he would overcome the California baggage. As @Sbbruin mentioned, he’d be portrayed as the poster child of failed progressive politics, even though as you’re well aware in SF he was staunchly in the moderate wing and was basically viewed by the DSA/progressive crowd as a Republican. I can’t even imagine how absurd a Newsom/Trump general would be.

All joking aside, it takes several weeks of training for crews and support personnel as well, so it sounds like it’s a complex process to scale quickly. I did see one Ukrainian official tweeting an ammo dump strike and exclaiming they had “passed the test”, so was curious if there’s an effort by the Ukrainians to pressure the US to speed things up.

I think that’s the disconnect folks were pointing out. The conventional wisdom may be “the best time to buy is now” or “you can always refinance”, but the increase in interest rates has put many homebuyers in a position where they can now only afford a house that may not meet their long term, or even immediate, needs. And of course, folks are going to weary of going house poor while speculating that rates will go down in the future. It just makes the personal calculus more complicated. In my market , a jump from 3% to 6% interest rates raised average monthly mortgage payments $2,100, while the average rent/monthly payment ratio remained around 30-40% (and CA has rent control). It’s not about timing the market, it’s the complication of timing the best personal decision for you.

Folks on r/CombatFootage were arguing that the real constraint on HIMARS was the Ukrainians’ ability to handle the logistics of the supply chain, which is why we began with four. I don’t know shit about fuck though so would be interested in hearing from someone with knowledge.

Yeah many of the beach areas/islands are Mexico for Australians. I did enjoy Ko Lanta, though, which had a sleepier feel and, being predominantly Muslim, was culturally different from the rest of Thailand.

We tend to go to Saba since I couldn’t help but side with (Alon) Shaya after the breakup, but Shaya is still excellent. It’s just a shame Besh blew everything up, since Shaya in the period after their first James Beard nom had the best energy I’d ever seen in a NO restaurant besides maybe TW after their Bon Appetit award or Saffron now. BTW, the Saffron family is opening a new restaurant across the street.

Edit: misread post.

Hell yeah, usually around 62-64 in the summer for me.

I’m sure the advice she was given was to plead guilty and confess to get a lesser sentence since she’d be convicted regardless. I’m inclined to think she was carrying, but her confession doesn’t really mean anything to me.

Hell, Jerry Brown is one of the finest statesman in US history. Just finished “The Browns of California” by Miriam Pawell and highly recommend it if you’re into CA history, btw. I see Newsom’s narrative as something like Tommy Carccetti’s from The Wire. Young, douchey ambitious guy who gets into politics for all the wrong reasons (which is to say, the usual ones) and through age, experience and quite a bit of public embarrassment matures to recognize the gravity of his public service. I genuinely think he’s a good guy. You’ll hear stories around SF about his hooker and blows days when he was mayor, and while they may very well be apocryphal folks agree that would have been on brand at the time. But nowadays I’ve also seen him doing unannounced cleanups in the Tenderloin, and by all accounts he does it just for the sake of it. I think he feels strongly in his need to carry on Brown’s progress to lead the world’s 5th largest economy and address inequality, climate change and the housing crisis, but can’t help but ponder how he could fill in the vacuum in Dem leadership. But a rich white guy from California who checks all the limousine liberal boxes and used to have a coke/Guilfoyle problem? I mean I think he’d be great personally but c’mon.

Eh, I tend to believe his claim that he’s less than zero percent interested.

Saffron is outstanding. Brothers III as well.

Fuck Mitt Romney, fuck Liz Cheney, and most of all, fuck Dick Cheney.

Truckee became SF east over the pandemic, almost as expensive too. Guerneville is very LGBTQ friendly though.

Ultramarine, imo. Would absolutely not pay for it at retail or at a restaurant, but at allocation price ($70) the rose holds up well against grower champagne in that price range. 2017 drinking well right now.

Sotto Mare is a great choice for the classic North Beach experience. If you can’t get in, recommend Betty Lou’s (actually a break off from Sotto Marre, better food but not the ambience) or Tosca Cafe (great cocktails, little more upscale). Regardless, you should go to Gino and Carlo, a classic NB dive bar, while you wait. edit: Trattoria Contadina great as well but pretty hard without a rez.

SCOTUS sure as shit can.

All these Texas visitors have brought great weather, not much June gloom at all this year. SF showing off today.

Not seeing pics of Swan’s.

Yeah, but he’s also equivocating stomping down fifty years of advancement in women’s rights with ending segregation. So fuck him.