the only thing he misses is the property owner handing a bag of cash back to the VC and thus completing the SV circle of life

just reinforces my theory that venture capital is just a mechanism for wealth transfer to Bay Area landlords.

There should be a word for this phenomenon. Like when one puts one’s AirPods in the correct charging holes on the first try, simply by feel, and then the commenters are like “look at uncle moneybags with his fancy ear things”

Heady times. There’s no way you could prompt GenAI to produce this image. Merely trying to describe it would shatter the LLM’s semantic graph.

San Pablo cries out for a level-boarding tram, a business improvement district, and an eminent domain snatching of Sidda Yoga Ashram's real estate holdings all around the Powell intersection. But I'd take a 5-car bart line as well.

*checking my own list* turns out America’s greatest city is the Friday evening Larkspur ferry between 1999-2001

Already a few of them have mistaken the bust of Karl Marx on my shirt for Jerry Garcia

Your face is elite-level marriage

God wiling and SB 79 allowing, I will build a nine-story mass timber apartment building on this lot: redf.in/J9S74S Rockridge will HATE it.

totally off-topic but that photo makes it look like Beck has a braided ponytail and a chinbeard which is a deeply cursed thought.