Tiny Brontosaurus posted:

especially teen clothing

Cicero posted:

Yeah I dunno about San Diego but LA has actually been quite good about building out their rail system lately, it's just that they have a lot of catching up to do.

BrandorKP posted:

No you're missing an opportunity. The first time I found out about them was in Honolulu. I was reading about them and was close enough to walk to one. I had half a day off and walked down from diamond head to waikiki. To get to the floor inside the mall I had take a convoluted path up a couple escalators across, down and then back up again. It was pretty empty of people. Most of the stores were very sparse. I remember one store had three purses on the walls of an otherwise white room, clerk just standing looking professional. Eventually I attracted a security tail. I was wearing khaki shorts, boots, and a pit sweated t-shirt, scruffy bushey beard looking vaguely like zach galifianakis, I'd walked a pretty long way before getting there. I smelt a bit frankly. Eventually I got bored of disturbing the exclusivity of the place and had enough voyeurism. The exclusivity is really what they are selling.

glowing-fish posted:

I'm posting a picture from the Goodwill Bins just to clear my palate after reading all of that:

Xibanya posted:

Am I hopelessly unhip or something?

Ice Phisherman posted:

Done both. Am a millennial. Dead bodies are heavy as hell. Doubly so when it's a former friend.

side_burned posted:

I am morbidly curious to see what Amazon would do if drugs ever get legalized.

Deadly Ham Sandwich posted:

I just strap all my groceries to my bike's pannier rack. I got crazy thighs though, so this may not be practical for you.

RBC posted:

Many cities, such as Toronto, do the opposite and subsidize commercial vacancies by exempting them from property taxes.

fishmech posted:

Nope, sorry but rent no one wants to pay isn't a loss, it's simply money you couldn't make. Your actual loss is the actual upkeep costs.

I might as well claim I'm making a loss because you refuse to give me $10,000 right now for this used plastic cup I have on my hospital table.

FilthyImp posted:

The traditional mall got its poo poo pushed in hard in Los Angeles by Caruso's THE GROVE and its partner in Glendale, THE AMERICANA. The Glendale Galleria survives, though its got some healthy realtor churn (and i'm sure the proximity to Americana helps). Everything else is in varying states of depression or slow death.

Motronic posted:

I've taken DC cabs in the pre uber days and they were indeed terrible. But there is a reason other than VC money that Uber started in SF. It is the only place that I've ever been that had worse taxi service than Paris. It was far worse than DC. One driver, who barely could communicate in english and could not find the ferry building had to hand me his Tom Tom and I put in where I wanted to go. I mean, a taxi driver that can't find one of the most iconic tourist destinations in the city they work in and can't speak either english or spanish at least conversationally in SF is not a good hire. This was not an isolated event, and typically happened when you got one at an airport stand.

blowfish posted:

BrandorKP posted:

I was was living there when that happened.

Baronjutter posted:

Sounds like Tim Hortons, they actually made good doughnuts and poo poo on-site but then to save some pennies they decided to mass produce them half-baked at some centralized factory and ship them out, and the coffee is terrible, and because you can't live off minimum wage and the "part time" hours they put everyone on in a lot of areas they hire almost exclusively "TFA"s which are temporary foreign workers. The TFA program was set up to allow quick temporary work visas to get SKILLED workers quickly in key areas. So your tech company can get a special visa quick to hire that one in a million specialty engineer from england because there's no one qualified for the work in Canada that you can get. What happened though is that companies would advertise a minimum wage garbage hour position in some hellish job, not get enough applicants and then whine to the government that clearly there's a labour shortage, can we import 100 Filipinos to staff our fast food place? These people have zero rights and their visa is instantly terminated the moment they are fired, which can also be at any time since they have no rights or protections. They're often lied to about their wages and their employers house them and take their rent off their pay and they have absolutely no legal path to a different visa or permanent residence. It's only a couple steps down from the outright slavery they do in Dubai, and the Canadian retail/food service business is a huge lobby group for expanding it. The narrative of course is that millennials are lazy and don't have good work ethic and are entitled and don't want to work McJobs so clearly we need imported visa-slaves.

And that's just the ones that people see, we also do this poo poo with remote mines in the middle of nowhere where deaths and injuries from the lack of safety standards just go unreported and who cares they're just TFW's, it's like Chinese building the railways except at least those guys got to stay in the country.

gently caress Tim Hortons and all canadian businesses that take advantage of the TFW program (also gently caress woke bae PM selfie for promising to close these loopholes but doing pretty much nothing)

RandomPauI posted:

That always surprises me.

hobbesmaster posted:

Most people cannot wear just a t-shirt and jeans to work.

Tiny Brontosaurus posted:

You are just plain and simple wrong, man. Stop acting like things have to be true just because you assumed they are, and pay more attention to how the other half lives. More working women are subject to dress codes than not, and women's clothing - even t-shirts and jeans - are synthetic more often than not. It's amazing, no matter how inoccuous the topic, if it relates to women some goon is going to mansplain about it.

paragon1 posted:

I have literally never worked a job that allowed a jeans and tshirt combo on anyone.

Tiny Brontosaurus posted:

That is really childish, and the choices aren't limited to "jeans & t-shirt" or "three-piece suit" you whiny child. And for the biiiiiilionth time in this conversation, if you're only thinking about what men wear to work you aren't really talking about the issue being discussed.

Inescapable Duck posted:

church is completely irrelevant to anyone under 30 unless you live in the kind of small town community that's dying rapidly.

HEY NONG MAN posted:

Yeah I don't think most people get a grand payoff like aerospace workers do. We get to watch our poo poo fly off 35,000 feet across the sky in defiance of God Himself.

Baronjutter posted:

I like making things, specially things other people appreciate or find useful.

Solkanar512 posted:

That blue-collar cosplaying poo poo needs to shut the gently caress up. His whole “only you are responsible for your safety” is going to get someone killed. News flash - if everyone watches out for everyone else everyone is a whole lot safer and doesn’t have to deal with out bullshit workers comp system.

Not to mention his lovely opinions on unions. “If you don’t like your job never ever complain, just find a new one”. gently caress you.

Haifisch posted:

This is America, so "massively out of date due to a lack of past investment" is always a correct assumption about our infrastructure.

the black husserl posted:

On hot days, they literally line up ambulances outside the warehouses because they know so many people will be collapsing with heatstroke.

Amused to Death posted:

Between myself, my close friends, and my current and former roommate, I can confirm 100% of people have prime