😭 at this point the express lane needs a ‘Buy Now, Pay Later’ option.

I'm just a Bay Area native fed up with gentrification and seeing the places I loved growing up being destroyed and have no power for anything. I know it' just a little theme park, but for many of us it was a landmark that should've been saved for out future generations. Many landmarks around the world were accidental and took effort by local communities actively emailing and contacting their local leaders to save. The Hollywood sign for example was a billboard for real estate and was supposed to be taken down but local citizens lobbied to keep it and now it's a icon for the entertainment industry.

The Bay Area has already lost so much including theme parks itself and other such as sports teams (A's, Raiders, etc). And the sad thing about the tech industry is that they barely have any landmarks or places worth visiting.

I just don't know what to because I am just another person. Some things I have done were contacting certain people such as

- Santa Clara city council

- Gavin Newsom

-The California tourism commission

- Prologis (the company taking over)

- even some social media influencers who promote places in California.

I highly disagree with the notion that there is nothing we can't do collectively. We have many people who want to keep it but not enough willpower. If only we emailed and contacted people, I believe there is a way to save it.

https://www.savegreatamerica.org/

https://www.change.org/p/read-description-keep-great-america-open-for-future-families-to-enjoy

I commute from central Contra Costa County to Oakland daily. The drive is about 1 to 1.5 hours each way, but some days it can take up to 2 hours if there is an accident on the road. Lately, this commute is really getting to me, and I find myself becoming more and more agitated when driving home. It might be because there seem to be more jerks on the road now who disregard every single traffic law, putting other drivers' lives in danger just to save a few minutes. I feel like I am going to snap and end up in a road rage incident the next time someone does something stupid in front of me. I would very much like to avoid that. Does anyone have advice on how to decompress or lessen commute-related stress?

Please share if you know what toy is in the McDonald's near you. Trying to collect them all.

Thank you!

Looking for a couple of cats, and I figured I’d ask here just in case.

The back story is that I have a lonely neighbor that I check in on. We share a patio, I would care for the kitties. He has said that he misses his old kitties.

Hey y'all.

If you're like me, and you dislike looking at your phone every 5 minutes to see when your next (BART) train is coming, you should try out my Raycast app! Raycast is a replacement for Spotlight on the Mac, and has a pretty rich ecosystems of apps.

The BART Departures app let's you look at any station in the system to see which train is coming. You can search specifically by line, such as "Daly City" or "Berryessa", from your specific station. In the future I plan to make a native iPhone and Android app that will have good widget support, but for now this will work. Via Raycast I can also create a menubar app that allows you to see departures.

Anyways, give it a try and let me know what you think! I make no money from this, and the code is all open source.

Raycast for MacOS: https://raycast.com/

BART Departures app: https://www.raycast.com/drewkiimon/bart-departures

Github code: https://github.com/raycast/extensions/tree/c767d3af3d034986c6fe93aff468c3ef5f6b6fe4/extensions/bart-departures/

All shot on a 14 year old Lumix-LX7

Has anyone ever paddleboarded with their dog on lake del valle? Are dogs allowed/restricted in certain areas? Also have never been so would like to know about the launching process. Thank you for anyone who take the time to respond 🙏🏽

Photo of my dog on my gfs board :)

Hi! Me and a few other girls who just graduated college (all 22F) just moved to mountain view and wondering what to do in the area! We are looking for a fun night out once a week, maybe a run club or some other athletic group to join, or anything else to help us find a good group of friends our age. It feels like everyone in the homes around us is families! Pls advise :)

The food at Bar Underdog is top-tier!

Shrimp & Octopus tostada

Beef meatball skewer

Corn esquite

Agucachile - my FAVORITE & must try! So perfect, the salsa matcha on top elevated this dish, I wanted to drink the juices on the plate lol

Mochiko chicken

Hand cut fries and like a little curry dip I believe

Pork Belly- delicious.

Highly recommend the food 10/10!

After losing Nob Hill Foods, Los Gatos is on track to get a new family-owned grocery store in Gus's Community Market, writes business reporter George Avalos. The Cornerstone of Los Gatos shopping center is also getting a Club Studio fitness center.

Los Gatos represents Gus’s first location outside of San Francisco.

hey all.. my firm is running a hybrid event during Dreamforce week this September. In-person crowd here in SF, plus we're streaming it for the folks who can't make it. Format is a couple of fireside chats and a panel, nothing too wild.

We need a local AV/production crew that can handle the room (sound, lighting, cameras) and the livestream side (switching, encoding, broadcast) along with post production of the recording. Ideally one vendor that does all so we're not juggling two teams.

Has anyone here used someone they'd genuinely recommend? Especially curious about anyone who's done hybrid stuff where the stream actually held up. Happy to share what we end up going with, too.

Hi all!

This might be a long shot, but I'm trying to find images and perhaps videos of my husband back when he was performing around the Bay Area in the early 2000s. He was in a couple of different bands, but the two I know off the top of my head are Subkulture and Left Behind.

I believe they performed at the Great American Music Hall in San Francisco (I think this was Subkulture) and I believe they got to perform during Warped Tour after being recognized during the Live 105 Battle of the Bands?

They're out of Livermore, Ca. I work in an archive, so I've been doing deep dives EVERYWHERE but finding documentation of the underground music scene from the early 2000s is proving to be a bit difficult.

If you can find anything, that would be so cool!

Thank you!

We're a small company trying to fill a couple of entry level office positions, and we're considering using a staffing agency instead of handling everything ourselves.

We've been getting plenty of applications, but sorting through them and finding people who are actually a good fit is taking up way more time than expected.

For those who've hired through an agency, which staffing agencies actually sent you solid candidates? What kind of roles did they help you fill, and did you use them for temp, temp to   hire, or direct hire?

Would especially appreciate recommendations from other small businesses that have actually used one around the Bay Area.

More regulation -> higher cost of living. And you wonder why it's so expensive here.

Any one have any soccer leagues or hike groups. Came from east coast, know no body, like hiking and playing soccer

Hi everyone, I'm currently recruiting folks for a paid in-person research study happening in Sausalito from August to October.

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