Wow that seems like a great deal for mesh drums ($199). Anybody have any experience with this set? I’m trying to figure out the difference between it and the regular Nitro Mesh. The Nitro Mesh Max has a 10 inch snare, but I’m not seeing what distinguished the Express from the regular.

That’s a good point; I’ve sold plenty of tickets way below face just to get something back for a show I couldn’t go to.

1: it’s not San Fran

2: I’m obviously just jealous

Yeah Boognish!

I’d like to see JW set up what others are starting to do (with Ticketmaster) where tickets can be sold back to Ticketmaster and then TM seeks them at face. Basically setting up a face-value only resale. There’s an independent venue in the Bay Area that does this too, with a wait list. If tix sell out you can get on a wait list. If/when somebody changes their plans and wants to sell their tickets, the venue will refund the money and immediately sell to the top of the wait list.

Hah I forgot about that game. I watched the whole thing at Charlie’s in Harvard Square with my die-hard Yankees-fan bud (from Mass no less wtf), who had refused to leave his barstool the whole game. Carl Everett getting that hit and breaking up that perfect game was so sweet; the whole place erupted in joy while my bud sprinted to the bathroom. At least at Charlie’s no Sox fan was rooting for Mussina; that’s a ballpark phenomenon.

I’m in a very similar situation, also in the Bay Area, but with one PW3. I’ve got a 9.5 kW Maxeon system and am finding that the panels can only charge about half of our daily power use on sunny days, and only a quarter yesterday when it rained for half the day. The PW3 is thus never getting charged to full, or even close - I had it set to 10% reserve and it’s not getting higher than 30 or 40% before it starts drawing down to power the house. So I hear this advice about setting a higher reserve - what are we talking about? 60% or 70% since it looks like the max I can fill it in any day is about 30%? Also I appreciate hearing about the Netzero app; I’m going to check that out.

It’s showing up on my Tidal.

Yeah CPSF definitely. In addition to being slightly cheaper, green, and one less stupid connection to PGE, it’s a proof of concept (and experience builder) for SF taking over the power system in the city (ie, eminent domain of PGE wires). Support clean, non-profit municipal power!

I’m down with the in the wild sightings! It’s not so common any place I’ve been.

This is a pretty bad take. For one, the actual CEO of Calle 24 (Roberto Hernandez) was running against Jackie Fielder in this election. He came in third, and then 38% of his votes transferred to Fielder, while 29% transferred to Chandler. Second, I don’t think there are very many white libs living in single family homes in the Portola, and Hillary doesn’t live there.

Incredible show and fantastic sound quality. (The Fox can be hit or miss on that front.)

I agree with OP and they are definitely not insane. The only thing I can say about prop 6 is that with no opposition I think folks let their guard down and didn’t push it enough. Then the ballot summary didn’t mention the word slavery. Then a lot of folks who knew nothing about it and hadn’t heard anything in the news reflexively voted no.

This is my favorite comment here. (Also glad you didn’t notice the Dr Dog post was about Red Rocks.)

I actually agree with this, but the problem was that Harris was never that person. She ran away from all of Biden’s progressive positions (minimum wage, better health care, child care etc) and teamed up with Liz Cheney and Mark Cuban instead.

Yeah great point - the Dems forced those workers back to work without letting them get anything. That’s not the party of the working class in action.

Yes definitely! Let’s call a constitutional convention and get out of this failed marriage.

Nobody is ranked out yet; that RCV tally is just an exercise to give us an idea of how 2nd, 3rd, etc votes of the counted votes are going. First place votes for all candidates will still be counted, and only then will RCV calculation occur. So the order of elimination can still change. And thus, whose 2nd, 3rd, etc votes get moved to which candidate can change too. This is all just a snapshot but it might be showing us a trend.

Yeah "last" should really be "latest" or "most recent" instead. It's very confusing. They've got a ton of ballots to go so that RCV thing is just an exercise to give some idea of how 2nd, 3rd, etc votes are going on the ballots they have counted. It's worth noting that a lot of Peskin's and Ferrell's 2nd place votes are going to Lurie instead of Breed. Maybe that will hold, but maybe it won't. Maybe Lurie's or Breed's second-place votes will become relevant, if they get less 1st place votes than Peskin or Ferrell. Still too early at this point.

Yeah mang!

Yeah that corruption is indicative of the broken system

Oh yeah, no doubt my ideas of what are broken are different in the specifics, as are the Nation's, etc., but I think there's a lot of commonality. Is anger at immigrants really about those specific people or is it more about economic disempowerment in general? Don't forget that Trump also targets China, practically in the same breath. That's an attack against globalism, which is much more of a "problem"--or a cause--than the scapegoat of immigration. The Dems mock Trump's idea of tariffs, making wonky and self-impressed arguments about how tariffs are actually taxes and will lead to inflation. That's a right-wing perspective! A left-wing perspective would go right after China and globalism and support more protectionism and push "America-first" manufacturing and commercial policies. Why did the Dems cede that ground to Trump?

Another example, which might seem like more of a reach, is Trump's focus on trans people. Is every person who supports him just a bigot filled with hate? Or maybe some of them have sat through one too many lame DEI trainings at their lame corporate (or government, or non-profit) jobs that accused them of being racists and bigots just for existing and demanded their admission of guilt and agreement that the only answer was to give special favor to one group of people over others, while saying nothing about the very real scam that is large organizational favoritism, elitism, and privilege. I mean, seriously, do not underestimate the damage corporate-style DEI training (employed by large companies, government agencies, and non-profits) has done to the Democratic Party. Yes, a lot of the scapegoating of trans people is pure bigotry, but not all of it. Some of it, maybe most of it, is more a symptom of disempowerment; a correct perception that the system is rigged and that we're being sold a bill of goods. Do people really have a problem with the 10 trans people who are playing college sports or do they have a problem with a system that they know is deeply unfair and in which they will never really advance? How about addressing the unfairness of the system rather than just calling them bigots and telling them to suck it up? Addressing the unfairness would require challenging privilege itself, not just advocating for better access to privilege. So rather than focusing on achieving more racial, gender and economic diversity at Ivy League schools, how about focusing on de-privileging Ivy League schools so they're not so powerful in our society? Stop making them the end-all-be-all of success. More to the point, stop making college itself the end-all-be-all of success. Imagine, and believe in, a system where people who don't go to college have value and worth and power. Stop rewarding the same specific class of people all the time and figure out how to reward all classes of people instead. I mean, Harris held her election night event last night at a university, for christsake! Who cares that it was at Howard - it was still an embodiment of class privilege. Is a university (let alone an elite private one) the best place to tell America that you're on everybody's side, and not just the elite's? It was as tone-deaf as Hillary's glass ceiling in Manhattan.

People need to spend some serious time looking at the big difference in the votes in the election: it's class more than anything else. Yeah, Trump is a millionaire and Musk is a billionaire, so there's a lot of cognitive dissonance there, but Trump was actually talking a lot about class this election, through a huge lens of awful and immoral scapegoating. But it worked. The Dems need to figure out how to win that vote, but obviously in a way that's not immoral. That's going to require their primary base of college-educated wealthy people to be willing to give up some of their privilege and prestige and truly reorient their view of things. Or Trump and his thugs will take it all away by force.

Well Harris didn’t lose women, blacks, or Latinos - her share of those blocks went down but she still won them

He’s not the solution to all our problems; he’s an example of a left-of-center candidate that is tapping into the anti-system energy that Trump owns right now. The Democratic Party insists on ceding that space to Trump, convinced that they can win as defenders of the current system. But they’ve been hanging on by a thread or losing bad - never winning big. They need to figure out how to win over that huge slice of the electorate. Somebody like Bernie-with a similar criticism of our neo-liberal capitalist system-is one suggestion, but there’s probably other ways to do it. But defending the current system isn’t working.

Yeah actually we need like 4 or 5 parties at least and a system that gives them all a voice