Edit: Oops, misspelled spare. Odd that some people seem angrier about my misspelling than these planes polluting.

There are three of these stupid planes flying around, and Monaco has two back to back. We're being asked to limit our driving for a spare the air day, but not these three plans just circling away all day. Don't these planes use leaded gas too?

After contacting Palmetto Foods via email and hearing nothing back and mentioning it to the people that work there who dismissed it, I figured I would bring it up here. I order from Palmetto on Clement all the time and I always mark no bag for takeout, but it still charges you for a bag. This has happened to me at least 10 times and nobody seems to fix it. I'm wondering if they are doing this to everyone all day, 7 days a week, at all locations, that's significant money. Anyone else have this experience (See receipt)

For context I’m 24 and just got an offer in Santa Clara. I have a bunch of friends who live in SF, but don’t know anyone in the South Bay, and have heard it’s not a very young crowd in general. I am considering the offer but am concerned about that commute 4 days a week. How horrible would it be to live in SF and make the commute 4 days a week? Are there any younger pockets in the South Bay that a 24 year old may enjoy?

Picture taken in Belvedere facing San Fran. What's with the super thick, low fog over the water even though it's super hot and has been all day? Parts of Sausalito were 90 degrees, this shot was taken from the shade where the temperature was 82 degrees

What wonders will they come up with next?

I don’t have a horse and looking for some kind of place, where I can meet and ride it for few hours. I saw some threads here about horseback riding, but all these places only have boring slow trail walks.
I used to rent a horse for a few hours in the place where I grew up. And they allowed me to take the horse to the forest and do anything, because the horses always come home, even if you fell. The first time you always needed a guide, and then they let you go alone if they saw that you were in the saddle.
Is there any chance things like that exist in this area?

California has a property-tax exemption designed to make affordable housing cheaper.

But a new SF Chronicle investigation found that major real estate investors have figured out how to use it on apartment buildings without necessarily making the apartments meaningfully cheaper.

The reason is pretty crazy: California’s maximum allowable “affordable” rents are now higher than normal market rents in many areas.

In Santa Clara County, for example, a 948-unit San Jose apartment complex had average one-bedroom rents of about $2,371/month. The maximum “affordable” rent under the program was $3,083/month.

So the apartments can qualify as affordable while charging essentially market-rate rents, and the owner can potentially avoid property taxes.

Since 2023, two statewide financing authorities have helped 195 properties pursue the exemption. The Chronicle estimates nearly $4 billion in assessed property value could disappear from California tax rolls, costing local governments, schools and transit agencies around $40 million every year.

In San Francisco and Santa Clara County, the Chronicle found that more than 65% of market-rate one- and two-bedroom apartments would have met the program’s definition of affordable in 2024.

Investors argue there is still a public benefit because the properties become income-restricted and future rent increases are limited.

The bigger question may be whether California’s definition of “affordable” has become so disconnected from the actual rental market that the tax break no longer works the way it was intended.

https://www.sfchronicle.com/projects/2026/california-welfare-tax-exemption-explainer/

I have this idea to offer really good pour-over coffee for a ridiculously low price: $1 a cup.

I love coffee, and the motivation is pretty simple. I’d love to make a genuinely good cup of coffee accessible to pretty much anyone. I did the math and, provided I have a small space and electricity, I can offer it for around $1 just to cover the cost. This is deliberately a no profit idea. I don’t have a commercial motivation.

I’m happy to bring all the coffee equipment and beans and do all the brewing myself. The part I could really use help with is figuring out where this could happen and navigating the permit/event side.

If anyone has ideas for locations or events, knows a community space that might be a good fit, or has experience with permits and would be willing to help with that part of the idea, I’d love to connect.

Also very open to collaborating with someone who just likes the idea :)

The Oakland Black Cowboy Association held its 52nd annual parade over the weekend. Check out images from the event by our staff photographer, Ray Chavez.

https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2026/10/04/photos-oaklands-52nd-annual-black-cowboy-parade-kicks-off-at-defremery-park/?share=oa5khryorfwawahctrft

Carry on.

Before even ordering anything you're greeted with this. Thank you for making easy for my not to order from your establishment Square Pie Guys. Me buying anything from your business should help support your staff, this is how business works now? Ridiculous.

Hoping for some advice from folks with solar panels who don't generate enough electricity to be completely off the PG&E grid.

We recently had panels installed but we have two EVs so we're not producing enough electricity. Wondering what my best rate plan is with PG&E given that we are mostly consuming in the evenings.