In 2019 I literally almost died from Shigella. It caused a 105° fever and I am grateful for my Spencer for rushing me to San Francisco General Hospital, and to them for saving my life. This is not a bug I would ever want again.
At $0.60/kWh, I cannot afford a new excuse to hike my electric and gas bill.
I cannot stand this company. I don’t agree with the practice where people in San Francisco have to pay for mismanagement and neglect of this for profit corporation’s infrastructure in far flung rural areas - places that I have never been before - and have no connection to. If we forced PG&E to breakup after the last bankruptcy, and San Francisco had purchased the wire infrastructure and transmission lines that give us light in the City, we would be much better off. Proceeds would be reinvested… Municipal ownership is the only proper solution. Just a thought.
The start of the SF Bay Area shelter in place order was sandwiched right between the sudden loss of my boyfriend (completing suicide), and then two weeks later my best friend (cancer), all in March 2020. As the pandemic resulted in a loss of work at the same time.
It really was a incredibly lonely, isolating experience.
To top it off, many friends left the Bay Area. I fortunately was not grieveing alone as my boyfriend’s cat inherited me, his next human.
The things that people normally get help with, or support- couldn’t be done. I was pretty alone cleaning out my boyfriends’ apartment, didn’t get to have any kind of service for either of them; and I had nothing to occupy my time except “what if” thoughts - but few people willing to discuss with me.
What would be most helpful for the grieving?
- If you can be with that person, be with them.
- Do share stories, photos, memories of the deceased if you knew them.
- Let them manage the conversation.
- If they want to go through the “what if’s” with you, entertain them! This was the most healing interactions I had.
- especially don’t tell a suicide loss survivor anything regarding them being at fault or not. They don’t need to hear it; and indeed they have been thinking about these what if’s constantly when alone. “It’s not your fault” can be interpreted as a sign that your support has boundaries and you don’t wanna discuss. Better to LISTEN to everything they want to discuss. If it was a suicide, gently tell them “I hear you,” and suggest even if they, the bereaved, intervened in the situation that ended their loved one’s life; they may have changed the outcome that day; but every day to the deceased was challenging. It takes professional help to pull someone out of a suicidal mindset; and even then it’s not a guarantee they wouldn’t have been successful eventually.
- Finally, check in with them around the anniversaries of their passing. One month, six months, one year, 18 months. Trust me, they won’t forget the date, they really need extra support then.
- Boys do cry. Anyone who told me that “Boys don’t cry” bull**t, I immediately found untrustworthy to confide in and share my grief with. Even though I had only one person tell me that, it was completely not what I needed. Don’t judge anyone’s reactions to grief. Do let people feel.
- My boyfriend Spencer, age 32, was a loving person who had a wonderful soul. I still like to discuss him to keep his memory alive; I find those who are not afraid to bring him up also, to be my closest friends.
- You/everyone else around the grieving will probably get tired of hearing about the deceased over and over again. There is no timeline or end date to grief. I still feel their loss as heavy today as previously.
Ahhh yes. I loved BeOS. I remember how exciting I thought it was when it came to Intel x86, for free. As a 12 year old, I was an early promoter of platform agnosticism.
I installed it on a hand-me-down emachines, aside from figuring out some voodoo magic to get my 33K modem to work; it was a good OS. I do miss technology in the 90s.
I too miss the Cambrian explosion of OSs in the 90s. It felt like so much potential before it all became dominated by Windows and then the OS itself began to vanish with sealed devices like smartphones.
Would you rather have a NeXTCube instead of your Mac, or rather a BeBox? Run some networking servers on your Solaris machine and do visual rendering on your SGI? Ah, it was fun times.
Haiku is a modern successor to the BeOS. It is backwards compatible, but future-looking as well. I'm optimistically expecting that it will be an option alongside Linux as a production alternative OS for users, one day.
Elon, enjoy Texas (or Nevada...) Hope it goes well for you. Tip: Don't tell them you are a California transplant.
I'd personally consider Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky, Illinois, Indiana, or Ontario; they're much more supportive of the auto industry - and ample manufacturing and tooling expertise resides there.
With lots of soon to be idled property next to Warm Springs BART & near the Dumbarton, 237, 580, 680; time to build more housing.
While I’d be sad to lose my Google Voice number in use since 2010; I’ve been using my iCloud account since the day it was launched as iTools. I have had my @mac.com email for 20 years.
“App enabled” ovens, if you read the manual, come in one of two flavors:
* Bluetooth only, no WiFi, to mandate proximity
* Manual activation steps required, like turning the knob to a “remote enable” setting, so you have to validate that nothing that’ll catch fire is in the oven.
A big reason this was done was because the UL has a real distaste for combining fire with not being present to watch the fire - and that’s in a closed space by an appliance that is purpose built for that.
It makes me question the methodology Tesla uses for refurbishing and reselling a lemon.
It would’ve been pretty easy to restore non autopilot software (as this event shows) before they sold it.
After seeing the way this is handled, I for sure wouldn’t be willing to spend $8K on a feature that can be removed so easily if I was configuring a new Tesla - regardless of whether or not private party sales have different policies.
The SAAS model is less appealing when it comes to durable goods.
Indeed, maybe we shouldn’t allow software features to be rolled back after the car is delivered.
I decided against Tesla in 2017 when I bought my first EV. I wasn’t into the complete lack of control in ownership - no ability to order parts or do my own repairs, vendor lock in for onboard DC fast charging equipment, cars made on “beta test” like production lines in tented parking lots, the chance of nefarious software updates from Tesla (or others) bricking functionality the car; or causing security issues.
Maybe the buyer should’ve done more homework, call Tesla before purchase and verify features?
It’s a bad situation for the buyer; and another reason I have added to the growing list of reasons not to buy a Tesla.
The vehicle had the Moroney sticker. That is legally required to be accurate. The buyer had no reason to contact Tesla because Tesla themselves stated the car had this feature when they sold the car to the dealer.
In San Francisco, most of the city is zoned RH-1 or RH-1(D). Areas not zoned RH-1 (Essentially residential areas that allow the construction of multifamily apartments and other larger condominium projects) are seeing an explosion of growth and change; mostly in lower income minority neighborhoods where developers can affordably purchase property.
It’s incredibly unbalanced; and senate bill 50 would have balance the scales to favor more housing options in some of these areas with stringent zoning for only residential single-family homes.
Even though Senator Wiener is from San Francisco, the city council itself came out against this bill. San Francisco is the densest large city in California, with a larger ratio of the population living in apartments then most other cities in the state. Sen. Weiner is pretty safe from backlash as a majority of San Franciscans understand that other cities around the state need to do their part in building housing just like San Francisco has over the last century.
For other politicians around the state, senate Bill 50 is Kryptonite. Like everywhere else in America, Politicians are elected by residents. The largest constituencies of voters tend to be those in single-family homes because mostly California lives in single-family homes. Very expensive single-family homes.
People do not want to change the neighborhood to drastically in a way that would alter the equity they have accumulated in their home.
The best way to not be reelected is to support this bill. Why support multi family apartment construction for people who do not live in their district? Very much the “I got mine“ attitude.
There is no panacea here. It’s going to take a ballot referendum, which is not likely to pass for the same reasons. Or change to the fair housing act. In the 50s and 60s, California zoning was indeed complicated with racial bias and exclusion. Above all else, it is the epitome of Systemic racism for the time period; and the biggest flaw in the fair housing act. As it turns out, the system is still working as originally intended. Fixing the fair housing act to cover residential zoning might be more achievable then anything California can do on it’s own.
ATM- not worth it!
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