Mildly Annoyed Red Guy

Our local Reddit is complaining about higher prices at local restaurants, and that some old places are now closing down due to the higher costs, especially labor. The very same higher costs that the same Redditors told us was necessary and wouldn't cause job losses. Also, rents have gone higher as well. That new minimum wage buying power went right into the hands of landlords. Just like we told them it would. Imagine that.

@BigMacGHM @WSJ Strike was in early 2023. That was definitely a later factor, though, I agree.

@LifeDtf @WSJ Nope, the strike did this.

A century-old entertainment economy is evaporating in Los Angeles with no signs of a turnaround on the horizon. on.wsj.com/4tkMZ5h

Still a few gopher servers out there too. Amazing how fast things load when you don’t ruin the web with JavaScript and ads.

I love old photos like this. Lots of neat history in Reno too. It’s sure changed a lot.

@beyondreasdoubt Are you sorting them or just taking the express train to flavor town?

Is there a limit to how many jelly beans one should eat in a single sitting? Asking for a friend.

@aaronp613 We’ll have our own WWDC!!

One day I will go to WWDC 😔

There are now 10 toilets in Space International Space Station: 4 Crew Dragon Docked at ISS: 1 Soyuz Docked at ISS: 1 Tiangong Space Station: 2 Shenzhou Docked at TSS: 1 Artemis II on way around Moon: 1 This will be the first time a toilet has left low earth orbit!

Daily reminder that the anti-data center cult is made up of technical illiterates.

@koulakarma We also saw it on replay for like 3 days too. Huge news.

I just watched Artemis launch and I’m wondering how many people my age held their breath watching this takeoff. I saw the challenger explode on TV in class at my HS.

Y'all make fun of Florida, but it's the only place with direct flights to the Moon.

Appleの50年を製品写真で巻き戻すショートビデオ。フォントがスーザン・ケアのChicago！

Another reason it’s a special day. Us old nerds love this!

For some of us old nerds, this is quite a special day.

@harukaze_illust Both have their place, but what we really love is Taco Bell. 😇

バーガーキングのイラストも描いていました 私はワッパーが大好きです アメリカではマクドナルドとバーガーキングどっちが人気なんだろう？

@txsalth2o Pile them in the sink, and then after you aren’t going to use any more dishes, Tetris them into the dishwasher for maximum clean potential. 😂

How does one reach the age of 40 and not immediately put dirty dishes in an empty dishwasher after use?

@ComatoseGoat Oh my word. Now I’m tempted to find that article. 😂

@LifeDtf A personal favorite. (I had a subscription in the late 90s but it got too political so I dropped it.)

How you know SciAm isn't a serious publication anymore. This is essentially a shorter version of the useless USA Today article from a few days ago. (The "new variant" headlines are clickbait. *yawn* Virus gonna virus. They do this. They have variants.)

@bryanculbertson @JoshConstine @Scott_Wiener Does that graph take compensation, pension and retiree health benefits into account? IIRC, those were a significant amount of BART's costs.

@JoshConstine @Scott_Wiener FACT: BART is the most efficiently operated transit agency in the nation because ATU 1555, AFSCME 3993, and SEIU 1021 are amazing at their jobs

This is not a drill. Absent stable long-term funding, Caltrain, like BART, will crater & potentially shut down entirely. Muni will reduce service by as much as 50%. We can avoid this disaster for the Bay Area by passing two funding measures on the ballot in November: a regional measure I legislated last year & a companion measure in San Francisco sponsored by the Mayor. The Bay Area runs on transit. Without it, we’ll see escalating gridlocked traffic, people not being able to get where they’re going & way more pollution. We must not let that happen.

@y3rnaux @RG_historywatch On that page: 3 popups, then a paywall. Yeah, I’ll just use AI. 🖕

@RG_historywatch @historyinmemes @grok 4 fucking seconds of google search and you’ll know everything, lazy ass. latimes.com/archives/la-xp…

In 1966, a U.S. Navy pilot secretly blinked the word “TORTURE” in Morse code while being coerced into claiming he was fine.