San Fransicko collapse watch! - Designated shitting thread!

[Disc]

I don't see how they can be profitable with these locked up cabinets. I imagine that sales will drop sharply because a lot of people will just not buy it since they don't want to spend the time or effort to chase down someone to open the cabinet and get the item for them (I will buy somewhere else).
Or, the store will pay an army of employees/clerks that does nothing else than open cabinets, gets item, walks to the cashier with the item for you?

I just don't see how this will be financially viable. Why not just stop selling these products alltogether?

Now consider that they still felt this was the better option.

 

[A-Stump]

They have all these failed social policies in place that sucks up a major amount of money and a vacuum of industry. They're going to know what real pain is once every last big player in town cut their losses and moves. It's going to be a financial shitshow that is going to make Detroit look quaint in comparison.

 

[Super-Chevy454]

The original video is graphic and horrifying. It involves a (white) man getting mad at the ludicrous spectacle and then a mob attacks him and beats the shit out of him even after he's down and unconscious.

I'm afraid it won't be long before someone snap out and decide to shot some of them.

 

[SpergioLeonne]

There’s enough shit in SF, I don’t need to add to it and I never want my ass that close to AIDS

 

[Comandante Marcos]

OK, somewhat PL, but former SF resident in the house (May 1994-February 1996). I was there just before the internet roared onto the scene. Back then SF was a relatively nice city. It was a typical big city with all that implies, but there weren't a gorillion homeless living in tents on every available inch of sidewalk. You could leave your car for a few hours and be pretty certain that when you got back it and the stuff in it would be there and in one piece when you returned. You could lock your bicycle and it would be usable when you got back.

I lived in the area of Sutter/Polk, and back then that area was normal people living normal lives, working for a living at normal jobs. I paid $450 for an efficiency apartment (called "bachelor" for east coast fags) and my view wasn't a brick wall but a pretty nice view of Sutter Street and the roofs of the Tenderloin in the distance. As for the Tenderloin, I rarely got offered anything stronger than weed or sex.

Union Square was full of high end retail and nouveaux-riche shoppers with plenty of tourists mixed in. Speaking of tourists, I always liked chatting up the tourists on Muni buses, asking them what they thought of the city. If said tourists were from Europe, I inevitably got a version of "It is a very European city! It is totally unlike the rest of the west coast!" The transit system sucked, but was reasonably safe, the subway stations didn't have gorillions of addicts shooting up in plain sight.

After I left the world rushed in, suddenly everybody was getting evicted so the rents could be jacked to the moon. People arrived to get in on the boom and wound up as an underclass.

Fuck, now I've run out of shit to type so I'll just let it go.

 

[Hatoful Dandy]

Isn't San Francisco the city where people leave their trunks open on some streets so they don't get their windows smashed by people looking for valuables?

But enough about why STDs spread so easily in that city...

 

[moocow]

Didnt another american city ban protective glass because it was considered racist? Is that prevalent enough to just happen in San Feancisco as well?

Pretty sure that was Chicago that banned bulletproof glass at Point-of-Sale for retail stores and restaurants. The obvious happened as a result -- given the choice between operating in hostile territory where it was literally illegal to mitigate the risk of being shot for your trouble and closing up shop to go somewhere else, people packed up and left.

But hey, the underlying "problem" (bulletproof glass is racist!) was solved, right?

Let’s also be on the lookout for the anticipated Millennium Tower collapse!

Heh! Have they given up trying to right it? Is it finally just accepted by the locals now that the damned thing is doomed?

 

[reptile baht spaniard rid]

The solution isn't less drugs.

It's more drugs, and harder. We need a form of fentanyl that gives a druggy a perfect 32 hour high and then they just die.

 

[Jonah Hill poster]

As a kid, the only thing I remembered being happy about San Francisco was the fact that Barry Bonds was on the Giants. Then, when it found out that he was taking steroids, everything changed.

These days, San Fran is just a lost cause.

 

[anustart76]

The solution isn't less drugs.

It's more drugs, and harder. We need a form of fentanyl that gives a druggy a perfect 32 hour high and then they just die.

Wasn't something like that basically the plot of Kingsman 2?

 

[Betonhaus]

Wasn't something like that basically the plot of Kingsman 2?

Technically that high was very unpleasant and was used as a women-moment hostage situation plan for money, but yeah otherwise its pretty similar.

 

[Kulee Baba]

Razor blades I get, those fuckers are way too expensive.

Stop getting gouged by the Gillette corporation. Buy a safety razor, the kind your grandfather used. Double edged razors are sold for pennies and in my experience each one is good for at least 3 shaves.

Also buy yourself good Shaving Cream not that canned garbage, I like Cremo.

I don't understand why we got fooled into paying for disposable razors.

 

[Betonhaus]

I don't understand why we got fooled into paying for disposable razors.

I think they were supposed to last longer and be more convinient.

But yeah it'd be interesting to get a fancy titanium safety razor and just use blades and cream. I might look into that as I just use an electric now and it's just ok, and now that I'm leaving intelligence I'll need to be more presentable for work.

 

[Dragged Into Sunlight]

The solution isn't less drugs.

It's more drugs, and harder. We need a form of fentanyl that gives a druggy a perfect 32 hour high and then they just die.

At this point, just let all the fent in. Eventually it will become too dangerous to do street drugs at all and kill off all the remaining junkies.

 

[behavioral swamp thang]

Hi fagettes. I saw this one in the down time and got a good chuckle. Can't even fathom these levels of cope. Many comments saying SF is the best city they've even been to. I really hope they haven't traveled much yikes

Spoiler: copypaste

Right now it’s cool to crap on SF, which until 2020 was on a tear rivaling Manhattan as the best city in the US. It was outpacing it as far as per capita Michelin restaurants, salaries, property appreciation, and property development.

Tech really seems conflicted but it does not appear that top tier companies are relocating to Austin or Miami. I work in investments and those industries are second-rate at best. There is no competition when comparing regions.

The perfect trifecta of old/new-money, best education, and geography/weather mean that the problems facing SF and other Bay Area regions ultimately depend on the city putting on a good face and dealing with two main issues:

1. Police force inadequacy - property crimes and thefts receive the most attention here. Followed by drug use. Why are we not removing these groups with urgency?
2. Homeless relocation - we either need a statewide solution to remove everyone that is homeless, or as another individual mentioned, we need to put down 8,000 mattresses on treasure island so that technically we can move people elsewhere.

I recognize this may be beating a dead horse or cheerleading, but I struggle daily with another city that would be better to relocate to.

Austin? Hot AF and Texas. Miami? Hurricanes and going to be underwater in 10.
Denver? Cool but 90% white and blizzards in May. NYC? Amazing but brutal from November-April.

The next tech groups to move in to SF are generative and predictive AI. That is being led by OpenAI and the series of follow on AI groups building on top of it. South Bay will get energy focused startups working on Nuclear Fusion, based out of LLM Labs.

Tl;dr - too amazing of a region not to rebound in a few years.

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[Rei is Shit.]

"per capita michelin" is a really funny way of saying it had nowhere near as many michelin stars as NYC

 

[6 Years Ago]

But hey, the underlying "problem" (bulletproof glass is racist!) was solved, right

Sometimes I think the actual point of clownworld is to slowly drive everyone crazy and incapable of resistance.

 

[Vesperus]

Stop getting gouged by the Gillette corporation. Buy a safety razor, the kind your grandfather used. Double edged razors are sold for pennies and in my experience each one is good for at least 3 shaves.

Also buy yourself good Shaving Cream not that canned garbage, I like Cremo.

I don't understand why we got fooled into paying for disposable razors.

Oh for fuck's sake just grow a fucking beard.

 

[Null]

Texas and Florida are fucking ruined. It's so over.

 

[Dim Glownigger]

Denver? Cool but 90% white and blizzards in May.

I cannot fathom the levels of nigger worship it takes to consider this a downside.
Also Denver is like 50% white lmao.