Wendell Laidley 🇺🇸

It doesn’t get any better than this…

my culture is not your costume

@realEstateTrent Same with gas stations and grocery stores in Nevada

I’m still on Eastern time, so I woke up at 3:30 a.m. today in Vegas and headed down to grab coffee in the hotel lobby. People sitting alone at tables with just them and the dealer, gambling their lives away in the early hours of a random Tuesday. I don’t know why it bothered me so much, but I’ve been thinking about it all day. I hope they find help.

insane level of manipulation from @Google If you search for Pacific Palisades, they are using old map data and labeling it as 2026. If you go to the historical data, you can see the receipts

@the_transit_guy London, Toronto, Chicago, and Minneapolis

What city or metropolitan area in the world is most hampered by its weather and climate? In other words, what city would be exponentially better if it had the weather of Southern California?

Last year I asked Connie Chan to resign for her role in making San Francisco unsafe for Asian Americans This year she somehow got the endorsement from Pelosi Make it make sense. You can’t.

What do college town cops do in the summer when they cant give put public intoxications and minor in possessions?

my new england

So glad that NYC Parks fought tooth and nail to evict a non-profit sailing program that taught middle school kids in Inwood maritime skills and suspend all community access to the river so they could use the marina to *checks notes* do nothing!

Yes mom, the job search is going well

@garrytan This is exactly how Chipotle went downhill before Brian Nichol took the reins. Corporate leadership prioritized their bottom line over basic hospitality.

I went to BJ's Restaurant last night with my kids. The bathroom was disgusting. The front of house was kind but sloppy and slow. The food upset my stomach and I woke up at 4am this morning because of it. Whoever BJ is, they probably aren't a real person, because everyone acted like nobody's name is on the door. I studied the management history of BJ's. The original founders left after the seventh location. Then it was sold to their accountants. Then it went public. Then the CEO resigned last year after 19 years and was replaced by an interim board member from Darden Restaurants, who was then replaced by a "Chief Concept Officer" promoted to CEO. The CFO also quit. Roaches behind the takeout counter in Coral Springs. Rodent droppings and mold in the ice machine in Pembroke Pines. An "F" retention score on Comparably. Glassdoor reviews that say "management turnover is high... that should say quite a bit about the company culture." Seven layers of management between the person cooking your food and anyone who owns the outcome. General manager reports to area director reports to regional director reports to regional VP reports to SVP of Operations reports to the COO (who started in January) reports to the CEO (who started last year). 218 locations. Founders long gone. Managers rotate every 18 months. The kitchen is run by compliance checklists, not pride. A dirty bathroom is nobody's personal failure because it's nobody's personal restaurant. This is the stewardship crisis in America in one building. In Chinese restaurants, the 老板 (laoban) is there. He tastes the food. He watches the kitchen. His family's reputation is the business. The restaurant is clean not because of health inspectors but because his name is on it. Haidilao built a $30B hot pot chain with less than 10% employee turnover. Servers can give you free dishes without asking a manager. Why? Because they're treated like stewards, not interchangeable parts. The West replaced stewardship with professional management. MBAs who optimize spreadsheets for people they've never met. CEOs who've never touched the product they sell. Politicians who sign the bills and spend the people's money but never checked the money built anything that helped the people they claimed to care about. Founder mode isn't new. It's the oldest idea in Chinese business culture. We just forgot it. The best founders I fund at YC are natural stewards. They own the outcome. They're in the kitchen tasting the food. They care about the bathroom. Most of society's problems are a stewardship crisis. Not a lack of resources or technology or intelligence. A lack of people who give a shit because their name is on it.

Everyone is shouting about AI ads in SF but what about NYC?

When they used to send fresh college graduates to the Colombian rainforest to interview cocaine traffickers >

@MarlowNYC @Hotshot_Movie Karen Bass burned down his house, and Sacramento won’t let victims rebuild. Focus on your side of the Mississippi, Marlow.

@Hotshot_Movie i am aware, but he already left LA almost a year ago so he can stop acting like he still lives there — it’s bizarre

he… lives in santa barbara

My house burned down. I lost everything. I can’t rebuild. As a 42 year old man with 2 kids, I’ve had to move into my parents’ house, and I’m getting attacked for that? This is journalism? This is why no decent people ever get into politics. This is why you only have goblins running everything. God help you if you try to make things right for your community…if you lose your entire town, “journalists” mock you for not making your kids sleep in the toxic dirt on your burned out lot. Who raised you, dude?

Whoever designed this needs to be fired immediately:

If you ever fly business class on an international transatlantic flight, you will never be able to do it again in economy. That one time upgrade with points will be extremely expensive for the rest of your life.

Manhattanhenge on 42nd Street, Times Square in New York City Summer 2026 Dates May 28 at 8:14 PM ET: Half Sun on the Grid May 29 at 8:13 PM ET: Full Sun on the Grid July 11 at 8:20 PM ET: Full Sun on the Grid July 12 at 8:21 PM ET: Half Sun on the Grid

Socialist gets elected mayor of Seattle. She says “I think the claims that millionaires are going to leave our state are super overblown. And the ones that leave? Like, bye.” The crowd laughs and cheers. Now, local leaders are worried that they're actually leaving. Starbucks is opening a corporate hub in Nashville, which actually wants business. The mayor says she wants the company to stay. How many times do we have to experience this? How is there never any learning? Socialism isn't just bad economics. It's spiritually rotten to be this hostile to truth and this hateful toward those who contribute most to society.

@TavCannaLLC @jfberke @th3trolling4non Burden of proof lies on prosecuting jurisdiction to prove THC content exceeds federal allowances for CBD/hemp. Huge expenditure there for an agency.

@jfberke @th3trolling4non Wrong again. Read the TSA website. Where it says “referred to local law enforcement”. And if your in a state where a medical card is not recognized, say like SC, or Mississippi, and local law enforcement decides to arrest you for possession, you will likely go to jail.

The TSA explicitly allows medical marijuana in both carry on and checked bags. "TSA security officers do not search for illegal drugs..."

I-70 between Limon and Genoa is 1 lane at times where cars have driven, the left lane is 1-3" deep in hail. #cowx