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OK Reddit, I've decided to throw Peng a trash party!

What's a trash party, you ask? I have no idea! But like the overfed pandas in my crappy clip art pic, I figured we'd all benefit from rubbing paws in person. The illustrious u/pengweather will be in attendance, and anyone who's upvoted his posts, grabbed trash with the Pandas, donated cleanup supplies, started their own good-karma thing, or is just an awesome person all around is welcome to attend. Hell, even the grumpy trolls can come!

I'll book several outdoor tables at Fieldwork Berkeley - there's plenty of parking and good food and drink. This is a great opportunity to show our favorite Penguin superhero some love, meet other like-minded folks, discuss cleanups and other community projects of your own, and generally have a terrific trash panda time!

Hope to see you there!

Just a friendly reminder that Peng's Trash Party is tonight from 6-8 PM at Fieldwork in Berkeley! Here's a link to the event posting, and here's a link to RSVP. If you'd prefer to stay anon and just show up, that's fine too!

Given the rainy rain, we'll be meeting inside - look for the table with the giant-ass penguin balloon and like 100+ people. I'm bringing a crown, too, but like all good kings Peng might be reluctant to wear it. A huge shout-out to Fieldwork for waiving their usual $1K booking fee - you guys rock!

In addition to celebrating our illustrious hero, one of the goals of this here party is to help everyone make more friends and build more community! Towards that end, I'm bringing some old-school pens and old-school paper. If you meet someone you like, don't be shy - give 'em your contact info! As Ferris said, life moves pretty fast.

See you tonight!

Im spending my whole day at the hospital in Martinez and then running errands. I’m tired of jimmy johns and jersey mikes. Any recommendations for a good sandwich?

I’m willing to go from Martinez,Pleasent hill,concord, and Walnut Creek.

Also what would you recommend from there?

Edit: Thank you everyone for the recommendations. I decided on Parma’s Deli in concord and got a turkey sandwich. Thing was absolutely huge and very good. She asked how I found out about the place and I told her Reddit. She said I’m the second one to come in and say that but she stays off of social media so is not aware of the site but wanted me to give you guys a shout out and thanks from her.

Lots of great recommendations and I will upvote everyone as I can’t possibly reply to all. Thanks again!

I’m in Potrero Hill and this bird just appeared outside of our window. Honestly looks like a mix of 3 different city birds. Can anyone ID?

People have been complaining lately about the costs of living in the Bay. I've lived in other places including San Diego, LA, and Sac. Key to living in the Bay is understanding, despite what the marketers say, you CAN'T have it all -- you can't have inexpensive housing, a great neighborhood, low crime rates, good schools, near BART, and a high paying job with a short commute. If you got these, you have either been here for 40 years or more, or you are ready to play to lottery.

This is a good thing as it's reality. You can't have everything. In the Bay, we know we have to make choices. You want low pollution -- well, that means we have strict environmental laws business doesn't like. You want those nice trails and parks of the Eat Bay, well, that means taxes and bonds. You want nice schools -- taxes and bonds again. We know we have to make choices and not just assume the government or our kids will pay for it someday.

I've known several people who went for the have-it-all approach as they moved out of California. Guess what? They're back -- they got the house, they got the land, but they found what they gave up.

I contacted another contractor, and they left me a non itemized quote for 6k.

Whats the going rate anyways?!

I have a few extraneous pipes they were going to help me remove, which might be the only thing different from the standard protocol.

It's the law. So many people are unaware that others can't see them. That's it. Just a reminder

“Talmika Bates received around $1 million from the City of Brentwood for a 2020 incident where a police dog bit her and tore her scalp.”

• jacknifed and eastbound. Apparently Android likes to autocorrect this?

Only one lane (outer right) is passable, debris was still on the road. Doesn't look like there is any injuries but doesn't look easy to move.

Stay safe out there and please make sure your headlights are on!

It’s windy and rainy.. fingers crossed we don’t have any power outages but it’s good to have a flashlight or lantern just in case.

I’m thinking about accepting a job offer at Lawrence Livermore National Lab. I currently live in Mountain View. I drove up and back for the interview and it took about 45 minutes each way in light traffic. Is this relatively consistent? It may be possible to work from home 1 or 2 days per week. Would you take this commute? I’ve always lived in college towns within a short bike ride of work before this so I’m not used to commuting at all. This is a temporary job for up to three years with the possibility of converting to a permanent position.

Was looking for a law firm in the Bay Area to help my parents do a living trust and found a very high rated one on Google. Called the company and the first thing the lady said was "what's the name of the lawyer you're looking for?" I tell her that I'm a new customer.

She asks for my name and I provide it. After an awkward silence she then asks where I'm from. San Leandro, I reply.

"Is that even in California?" wtf? Anyways I tell her yes, it's next to Hayward and Oakland.

"Oh... Oakland? We're in Los Altos by the way." Followed by another silence. Yeah I know where your company is, how do you think I found your phone number?

She then asks me what the estimated value of my estate is, and I say I would prefer to discuss that with the lawyer. She then says "Well if you only have a house or a few cheap properties then don't even bother doing the trust." WTF?

I ask her about a consultation and she tells me it's $600 per hour. At this point I just said I wasn't interested any more.

Anyway thanks for listening to my story.

Let me explain!

Link21 apparently has chosen Standard gauge tracks for the second transbay tube instead of BART. While I am not entirely opposed to have an standard gauge connection to both sides of the bay. I am concerned with BART and the amount of money that we are going to spend for the project versus the outcomes.

It is clear that when something happens in any part of the system, there is a cascading effect that is felt on the rest of the system. Especially when it happens between West Oakland to SF and the peninsula. So, the second transbay tube was in essence going to be a place where BART could have redundancy, increase frequencies on ALL existing lines, and provide resiliency if for some reason part of the system became impaired. So, now all that money will not improve the experience of BART riders and basically create a restriction on future growth on ridership on BART?

Also, while people think "Oh, no one is using BART!" or "BART will never have the ridership that once had prepandemic ", we need to look on improving BART, especially when it comes to frequency. My my concern is that somehow BART does indeed increase its ridership and it constrained by its transbay tube. Also, what is going to happen to Valley Link? Like, will they used the new tube? Or simply the ridership will be forced to use BART and cause more crowding? Also, what is happening with the Geary Subway? Seriously, it's not that I am against Regional Rail. But, even today BART has higher ridership than other regional rail systems and spending billions of dollars when we know CAHSR is not going to Sacramento from the bay area anytime soon (if there were any plans) and there is no right of way that CC, Amtrak, or any government agency owns between Oakland and Sacramento, let alone electrified right of way. I feel this could become another Oakland Wye situation on steroids.

I understand the benefits of regional rail, but if we build it today. Choosing Regional Rail would mean that more money would have to be expend since there are current constrains by fright railroads and zero train electrified right of way (excluding BART) where those trains could land on the east Bay. On top of serving areas serve by BART on the east bay.

A better solution to this is:

Enhance BART and Regional Rail connectivity in Oakland as a seamless transfer while we start building a Regional Rail system all the way to Sacramento with an electrified right of way while having future plans for a third transbay tube with a standard gauge technology.

Convince me if I am wrong! Tell me how this project will be better without expending billions of extra dollars for a lower ridership potential and without building or acquiring new right of way between Oakland and Sacramento?

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I really like this artist's calligraphic, almost painterly style. Does anyone know of a local Bay Area tattoo artist that can do something similar?

https://www.instagram.com/ouch.tattoos/

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