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We’reTexas

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  1. Igor died a few years ago. He still owned Checkpoint Charlie’s, but that place is a shithole. The laundromat was kind of a New Orleans things. Maple Leaf had one. My parents claim they did their laundry while James Booker played.
  2. No it literally was the Screech tweet. I’m not trying to be argumentative, just with most of this board being off twitter I think folks missed one of the funniest internet implosions in a while.
  3. lol no it was the Screech tweet. seriously. https://x.com/VivekGRamaswamy/status/1872312139945234507 Edit: Found it on Bluesky.
  4. Miss River doesn’t have a great bar situation, but Chemin a la Mer upstairs does.
  5. Do you like drum circles and fighting housing development?
  6. PG&E started ramping up with the major outages in Northern California after those bad 2018 fires. People were pissed, too, but to be fair, when the utilities are the causes of those major fires, it’s kind of a “fuck you” to the public to just shut their power off and pass on settlement fees through rate hikes instead of bothering to improve their infrastructure.
  7. Yes, you will be fine between St Charles and Mag. It gets a little seedy past Mag around the old St Thomas projects, but there’s not much sight-wise there anyways. Stop by Courtyard for a beer and Barrel Proof for a marg.
  8. They already do, though rarely.
  9. Central City gets extremely dicey about a block away from St Charles, so just head straight there at night. It’s gentrified quite a bit in the past decade but it was ground zero of the murder capital in the ‘90’s (Cash Money and No Limit ya heard) and I’ve never quite gotten over that.
  10. That sounds reasonable but that is not going to happen.
  11. Tipitina’s is my favorite venue on the planet, as my avatar suggests. WWOZ Livewire is all you need for what’s going on music-wise. After Tip’s, I like Maple Leaf (much smaller venue where many famous acts have had residencies) and Carrollton Station if going way uptown and Howlin’ Wolf in CBD. Used to like Chickie Wah Wah in Mid-City but they changed ownership a while back and idk how they are now. Frenchman is of course the easiest choice and doesn’t require a long car ride (dba and Blue Nile have the best acts), but it’s become Bourbon Street at night these days.
  12. No, not really. Obviously many intense places and positions, but a lot of folks with relatively chill jobs benefited from rapid RSU appreciation and/or liquidity events during the tech boom. Not so much nowadays, except for the janitors at Nvidia.
  13. As someone mentioned above, that’s just upper middle management at a tech company in the Bay Area.
  14. Newsom already suspended CEQA and CCC review for homes destroyed provided they are rebuilt in the same fashion.
  15. Can’t imagine how much labor and supply costs will skyrocket after this.
  16. The Zuckerbro transformation is quite the midlife crisis.
  17. The more on point comparison would be if Harvey settled over New Orleans instead of Houston. Maybe you could criticize the city for not overhauling its 100 year old drainage system that runs on an archaic type of electricity, but ultimately there is nothing that can be done to prevent catastrophic damage from such a freak occurrence. There are 33 million acres of forest in California, most of it on federal land. Five years ago the state and federal governments agreed to an ambitious plan to burn 1 million acres a year (which to my knowledge they’ve yet to come close to hitting). Let the magnitude of that sink in.
  18. I am by no means a controlled burn expert, but why does it surprise you there is a lot of paperwork involved with intentionally lighting shit on fire, why does it surprise you that AQI is a consideration for the timing of a burn? You seem to be strongly intimating that this is a librul California issue but that is not the case. And in any event nothing could have prevented what has happened in LA, which is resulted from a freakish combination of weather.
  19. I think you’ve created a false dichotomy to describe the situation in California. To extent it exists, it has less to do with, as you imply, liberal over-regulation than with the defiance of property owners who refuse to come to terms with the reality of nature. We already talk about “managed retreat” along the coast, but we are more hesitant to have that discussion for high risk fire zones.
  20. He is termed out. And fires are not exactly a new issue. This happens every year.
  21. Thanks, appreciate the insight from someone in the industry. We were very close to having to go with FAIR, but were able to avoid. From what I understand, FAIR has like $400M in reserves for claims and the state can charge (try to?) overages to accepted insurers, who can then pass along charges to policy holders. How would that even work out? This sounds like an epic clusterfuck.
  22. Yep, definitely, we’ve been dealing with it. Although I’m not sure many are uninsured - you would go with FAIR, the state insurer of last resort, which to be fair (sorry), will probably be bankrupted by the is. But the point really was that California’s NIMBYist land use policies contributed to this by forcing sprawl. edit: let’s pile on Prop 13 as well, maybe the fire hydrants would have worked if the Palisades boomers paid their fair share!
  23. Yes, and this was not unexpected: the Palisades and the Lamorinda area in the Bay were the two main areas State Farm noped out of earlier this year. Also, read in the paper today that a Stanford study estimated the insurance costs of a Palisades fire like this to be $30 billion. The state’s fallback insurance plan, FAIR, has like $400 million for claims. Jfc.
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