It is known

[Taomeow]

And the war on pandemic small businesses rages on.  Large chains gained tens (some, hundreds) of billions in 2020 -- small businesses collectively lost $200 billion so far, and counting.  

 

RIP all the Out-of-Business-2020 permanently closed small and mid-sized places to eat in San Diego (so far, and counting), the city that fed, only a year ago, funky or hearty or healthy or artsy or just handy meals 34 million sun-starved and otherwise hungry tourists and a million and a half local regulars:

 

85°C Bakery Cafe - Point Loma
Amarin Thai - Hillcrest
Apollonia Greek Bistro - La Jolla UTC
Artisan Noodle Tatsuki - Downtown
B-Mo's Sandwiches - Pacific Beach
Bang Bang- Gaslamp
Banzai Bar - Midway
Bar Pink - North Park
Beach Grass Cafe - Solana Beach
Berkeley Pizza, Downtown
Bibigo Kitchen - Fashion Valley
Bo Beau Kitchen + Cache - Hillcrest
Brick & Bell Cafe - Pacific Beach
Burger Lounge - Gaslamp
Buster's Beach House - Seaport Village
Cabais Mexi-Deli - Hillcrest
Cafe 1134 - Coronado
Cafe on Park - Hillcrest
Casa Sol y Mar - Del Mar
Champagne Bakery - Del Mar
Cold Beer & Cheeseburgers - Carlsbad & Gaslamp
Coyote Ugly - Gaslamp
Crab Catcher - La Jolla
Craft Burrito Company - Del Mar
Crush - Solana Beach
Culture Brewing - Ocean Beach
Decoy Dockside Restaurant - San Marcos
Donovan's Steak & Chophouse - Gaslamp
The Dubliner - Gaslamp
Ebisu Sushi - Hillcrest
El Jardin - Liberty Station
Escondido Brewing - Escondido
Five Guys - Pacific Beach
Fuddruckers - All Locations
Furaido Premium Chicken Company - Poway
Gabbiano Pizza - Mission Beach
Gaya Gaya - Miramar
Grater Grilled Cheese - Del Mar
Green Acre - La Jolla
Hacienda de Vega - Carlsbad
Hammond's Ice Cream - Pacific Beach
Heart & Trotter - North Park
IB Public House - Imperial Beach
Il Dandy - Bankers Hill
Indigo Grill - Little Italy
Iron Fist Brewing - Barrio Logan & Vista
Jayne's Gastropub - University Heights
Juice Crafters - Little Italy, La Jolla, Hillcrest, Coronado
J/Wata Temaki Bar - Kearny Mesa
Ken Cinema - Kensington
La Torta Cafe - La Mesa
Lil' Farmers Cafe - Kearny Mesa
Livingston's Chicken Kitchen - Ocean Beach
Lumberyard Tavern - Encinitas
Martinis Above Fourth - Hillcrest
McCormick & Schmick’s - Downtown
Melvin Brewing - East Village
Mexican Village - Coronado
NaPizza - All Locations
Newport Pizza - Ocean Beach
North Park Breakfast Company - North Park
The Oceanaire Seafood Room - Gaslamp
On The Border - Mission Valley
Phil's BBQ - San Marcos
PrepKitchen - All Locations
Primavera Ristorante - Coronado
Ramen Menma - Oceanside
Rock Bottom Brewery - La Jolla
Rosie's Cafe - Escondido
Royale - Point Loma
Roy's Hawaiian Fusion - La Jolla
Salvatores Cucina Italiana - Downtown
San Marcos Brewery & Grill - San Marcos
Sapporo Japanese - Ocean Beach
Searsucker - Gaslamp
Sicilia Bella - La Jolla
Sign of the Whale - Gaslamp
Sister Ray's - Sherman Heights
Slaters 50/50 - San Marcos
Small Bar - University Heights
Souplantation - All Locations
Surf Rider Pizza - Ocean Beach
Sushi Yama - Carlsbad
Swami's Café - Poway
Tacos Libertad - Hillcrest
Tamarindo - North Park
Te Mana Cafe - Ocean Beach
That Pizza Place - Carlsbad
Tiger! Tiger! Tavern - North Park
Tin Room - Hillcrest
Tocaya Organica - Downtown & La Jolla
Toronado - North Park
Treelogy Cafe Restaurant - Pacific Beach
Troy's Family Restaurant & Coffee Shop - Clairemont
Two Paddles Fish & Grill - Hillcrest
Two Roots Brewing - Ocean Beach
Two Seven Eight - Hillcrest
Ultrazone Laser Tag - Midway
Umi Sushi - Encinitas
Volcano Rabbit - Gaslamp
Waypoint Public - North Park
Whisknladle - La Jolla
Winston's Beach Club - Ocean Beach

 

 

[silent thunder]

Biggest money grab by the 1% in history... and globally.

And almost no one batted an eye at it.  And even if they did (or like me spiraled into disbelief and deep depression)  what could be done about it?  Everyone was under stay at home orders for Covid.

 

Small businesses and the remnants of the Middle Class are left to atrophy while the major corps receive grants and guaranteed loans... to purchase up all the newly available corpses of the small business community.

 

We'll likely never recover.

 

Hello Bladerunner.

[old3bob]

2 hours ago, Taomeow said:

And the war on pandemic small businesses rages on.  Large chains gained tens (some, hundreds) of billions in 2020 -- small businesses collectively lost $200 billion so far, and counting.  

 

RIP all the Out-of-Business-2020 permanently closed small and mid-sized places to eat in San Diego (so far, and counting), the city that fed, only a year ago, funky or hearty or healthy or artsy or just handy meals 34 million sun-starved and otherwise hungry tourists and a million and a half local regulars:

 

85°C Bakery Cafe - Point Loma
Amarin Thai - Hillcrest
Apollonia Greek Bistro - La Jolla UTC
Artisan Noodle Tatsuki - Downtown
B-Mo's Sandwiches - Pacific Beach
Bang Bang- Gaslamp
Banzai Bar - Midway
Bar Pink - North Park
Beach Grass Cafe - Solana Beach
Berkeley Pizza, Downtown
Bibigo Kitchen - Fashion Valley
Bo Beau Kitchen + Cache - Hillcrest
Brick & Bell Cafe - Pacific Beach
Burger Lounge - Gaslamp
Buster's Beach House - Seaport Village
Cabais Mexi-Deli - Hillcrest
Cafe 1134 - Coronado
Cafe on Park - Hillcrest
Casa Sol y Mar - Del Mar
Champagne Bakery - Del Mar
Cold Beer & Cheeseburgers - Carlsbad & Gaslamp
Coyote Ugly - Gaslamp
Crab Catcher - La Jolla
Craft Burrito Company - Del Mar
Crush - Solana Beach
Culture Brewing - Ocean Beach
Decoy Dockside Restaurant - San Marcos
Donovan's Steak & Chophouse - Gaslamp
The Dubliner - Gaslamp
Ebisu Sushi - Hillcrest
El Jardin - Liberty Station
Escondido Brewing - Escondido
Five Guys - Pacific Beach
Fuddruckers - All Locations
Furaido Premium Chicken Company - Poway
Gabbiano Pizza - Mission Beach
Gaya Gaya - Miramar
Grater Grilled Cheese - Del Mar
Green Acre - La Jolla
Hacienda de Vega - Carlsbad
Hammond's Ice Cream - Pacific Beach
Heart & Trotter - North Park
IB Public House - Imperial Beach
Il Dandy - Bankers Hill
Indigo Grill - Little Italy
Iron Fist Brewing - Barrio Logan & Vista
Jayne's Gastropub - University Heights
Juice Crafters - Little Italy, La Jolla, Hillcrest, Coronado
J/Wata Temaki Bar - Kearny Mesa
Ken Cinema - Kensington
La Torta Cafe - La Mesa
Lil' Farmers Cafe - Kearny Mesa
Livingston's Chicken Kitchen - Ocean Beach
Lumberyard Tavern - Encinitas
Martinis Above Fourth - Hillcrest
McCormick & Schmick’s - Downtown
Melvin Brewing - East Village
Mexican Village - Coronado
NaPizza - All Locations
Newport Pizza - Ocean Beach
North Park Breakfast Company - North Park
The Oceanaire Seafood Room - Gaslamp
On The Border - Mission Valley
Phil's BBQ - San Marcos
PrepKitchen - All Locations
Primavera Ristorante - Coronado
Ramen Menma - Oceanside
Rock Bottom Brewery - La Jolla
Rosie's Cafe - Escondido
Royale - Point Loma
Roy's Hawaiian Fusion - La Jolla
Salvatores Cucina Italiana - Downtown
San Marcos Brewery & Grill - San Marcos
Sapporo Japanese - Ocean Beach
Searsucker - Gaslamp
Sicilia Bella - La Jolla
Sign of the Whale - Gaslamp
Sister Ray's - Sherman Heights
Slaters 50/50 - San Marcos
Small Bar - University Heights
Souplantation - All Locations
Surf Rider Pizza - Ocean Beach
Sushi Yama - Carlsbad
Swami's Café - Poway
Tacos Libertad - Hillcrest
Tamarindo - North Park
Te Mana Cafe - Ocean Beach
That Pizza Place - Carlsbad
Tiger! Tiger! Tavern - North Park
Tin Room - Hillcrest
Tocaya Organica - Downtown & La Jolla
Toronado - North Park
Treelogy Cafe Restaurant - Pacific Beach
Troy's Family Restaurant & Coffee Shop - Clairemont
Two Paddles Fish & Grill - Hillcrest
Two Roots Brewing - Ocean Beach
Two Seven Eight - Hillcrest
Ultrazone Laser Tag - Midway
Umi Sushi - Encinitas
Volcano Rabbit - Gaslamp
Waypoint Public - North Park
Whisknladle - La Jolla
Winston's Beach Club - Ocean Beach

 

 

 

that is really terrible !  And probably many more not listed...

[old3bob]

5 hours ago, silent thunder said:

Kindred Spirit... we park several blocks away and walk around and through the park to enter our market, avoiding the main street and parking lot entirely.  I swear folk's IQ and patience all but evaporate in parking lots here in SoCal. 

 

Some obsessive rush that overrides logic for the duration of the drug-like pursuit of 'scoring the perfect spot'.

 

We have a grass fed bison stand that we will be trying out for the first time this holiday season.

 

 

Speaking of bison,  I've gotten bad packages of it a few times which is very discouraging when you are trying to get a supposedly better meat that didn't come from "slaughter house 5" so to speak.

 

Btw.  I've driven in SD. a lot and its bumper cars for real there !  Road rage with little tolerance for other drivers and tail-gating as if everyone is indestructible and errorless to stating a chain reaction crash scenario, more so during early morning fog along the coastal area highways.   (don't get stuck on I-5 without lots of gas for when it slows down to 5-10 mph with stops in between)

Edited November 22, 2020 by old3bob

[Taomeow]

1 hour ago, old3bob said:

Btw.  I've driven in SD. a lot and its bumper cars for real there !  Road rage with little tolerance for other drivers and tail-gating as if everyone is indestructible and errorless to stating a chain reaction crash scenario, more so during early morning fog along the coastal area highways.   (don't get stuck on I-5 without lots of gas for when it slows down to 5-10 mph with stops in between)

 

Which part of the country are you comparing it to?  I came here from New York/New Jersey and was amazed at how positively balmy people's behavior in traffic is compared to what I was used to.  So relaxed and polite.  Well, mostly.  Shit happens of course.  E.g. no one here knows how to drive when it rains because it never does, so when it does, they just lose it and speed up -- the way you would run from the rain on foot I guess.  But other than that...  easy peasy.  

[silent thunder]

NYC and Jersey drivers were on the whole, admirably aware in my experience of seven years in and around the city.  Most of it on my bicycle.

 

Probably out of necessity they're more aware due to the massive numbers of vehicles and small area of operation.

 

Minnesota and California are pretty much tied for the worst I've experienced.  Between a lack of patience and just pure 'not giving a shit' moves that put everyone around them in danger, they stand out to me.  Saw a guy on my way to work Friday, weave back and forth, making eight lane changes within a quarter mile, cutting off three cars and a tractor-trailer, to get two and a half car lengths ahead of where he'd been behind me when he decided he'd had enough.

 

I used to ride a Suzuki Intruder 1400.  It was my sole mode of transportation for the first four years I moved to Cali in 2000. 

Sold it when the phone craze took over and haven't replaced it.  Too many close calls... with folks on their phones.

[Taomeow]

Maybe I'm just used to it.  The devil you know and all that. 

 

Folks on their phones -- yes, those are something else, but I'm guessing they're everywhere.

 

A while ago, just after dark, a neighbor showed up at my door to inform me that my car had been involved in an accident.  She was all shaken up and said that it was "a big accident."  My car was parked in the street the whole time and it took me a moment to fathom how it could possibly get involved in an accident when no one was driving it.  Turned out a teenager using his phone while driving plowed into a whole line of parked cars along the curb, badly damaging five or six (maybe seven, don't remember exactly) in one fell swoop and, in particular, taking the driver's door clean off mine while jamming its front into the car parked in front of it, and that one into the next and so on, like dominoes.  The kid was, as it turned out, headed home -- which was a full one minute of driving away from where that happened, just down the street.  Couldn't wait, apparently.  Urge to text too irresistible.    

 

[old3bob]

2 hours ago, Taomeow said:

 

Which part of the country are you comparing it to?  I came here from New York/New Jersey and was amazed at how positively balmy people's behavior in traffic is compared to what I was used to.  So relaxed and polite.  Well, mostly.  Shit happens of course.  E.g. no one here knows how to drive when it rains because it never does, so when it does, they just lose it and speed up -- the way you would run from the rain on foot I guess.  But other than that...  easy peasy.  

 

interesting that you ask, I've driven around Boston some and it had very heavy traffic but the drivers seemed less aggressive there than in California.  (and how about some those old and very narrow roads near downtown Boston!)  I have never driven in NY. of NJ.  The big cities in Texas (like Houston!) get kind of crazy to drive in but they seem to have mix of behaviors in their drivers.   I once stereotyped  Texas in not such a good way before spending time there but after I did I found a decent mix of people,  places things that I hadn't expected, like wine country, lots of great parks, rivers, beautiful trees, good restaurants, history galore,  good businesses and various facilities , and also Lukenbach Texas "where there aint' nobody feeling no pain."  

Edited November 23, 2020 by old3bob

[natural]

The axiom build it and they will come certainly applies to roads in the greater Baltimore Washington metro areas.

Go from a two lane highway (two lanes each way) to four lanes each way traffic doesn't double, some how it quadruples.

Even though it rains regularly and snow ain't uncommon, you wouldn't know it by the way people drive

Motorcycle forget about it... unless you have a death wish!

[old3bob]

4 hours ago, natural said:

The axiom build it and they will come certainly applies to roads in the greater Baltimore Washington metro areas.

Go from a two lane highway (two lanes each way) to four lanes each way traffic doesn't double, some how it quadruples.

Even though it rains regularly and snow ain't uncommon, you wouldn't know it by the way people drive

Motorcycle forget about it... unless you have a death wish!

 

Right, then add another 4 lane hwy. above the present one that is supported by pillars.   (if that is not enough  then dig to add underground lanes)

[Taomeow]

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Edited November 23, 2020 by Taomeow

[natural]

6 minutes ago, old3bob said:

 

Right, then add another 4 lane hwy. above the present one that is supported by pillars.   (if that is not enough  then dig to add underground lanes)

Lol!

It is coming, like a bad penny it keeps turning up, in both local and state planning.

And of course supported subsidized by the federal government.

Due in part to Auto makers lobbies, cement and asphalt producers, and road construction contractors

[steve]

The most aggressive drivers I’ve ever encountered were in the Boston area. Nowhere else comes close. That was quite a few years ago.

[natural]

If memory serves me Motor City (Detroit) had unusual rule that incoming vehicles on the freeways had the right of way. All vehicles on the freeway had to yield to traffic entering, not merging, but barreling along at whatever speed from grandma peeking over the wheel at 30 mph to the hot rodder doing 70 plus. Get the hell out their way!

[old3bob]

1 hour ago, steve said:

The most aggressive drivers I’ve ever encountered were in the Boston area. Nowhere else comes close. That was quite a few years ago.

 

interesting how we had such different experiences in the Boston area,  although clear on the other side of the state I did run into some more aggressive drivers around  semi yuppie towns tucked away in the countryside who were in a big hurry to get down two lane highways as fast as possible,  a young and upwardly mobile looking lady in a fancy SUV let me know I was going too slow for her with a one finger salute, even though I was within speed limits.   

Edited November 23, 2020 by old3bob

[steve]

I nearly got run over when walking on a sidewalk downtown. Someone apparently decided the sidewalk was an extra lane when needed in a traffic jam.

[old3bob]

4 hours ago, steve said:

I nearly got run over when walking on a sidewalk downtown. Someone apparently decided the sidewalk was an extra lane when needed in a traffic jam.

 

haven't had that happen yet, although after attending some public event and in the parking lot some guy purposely tried to hit me with his car,  not real hard but enough to make me jump part way onto his car hood! (as he apparently laughed & then took off)

[Taomeow]

What have they done to education.  What have they done.

 

A discussion I had in a Western alchemy group.  Not my cup of tea but I like to stay informed beyond my cup of tea.  So, the OP says, the eye is just like the camera and the brain is just like a TV, so who is watching?  A philosophical question.  To which I give a physiological answer: the metaphor is faulty, in reality the eye is nothing like the camera and the brain is nothing like a TV.  Some product of "education" as they apparently get it today tells me that there's no difference, and proceeds to praise technology.  I say, technology externalizes human perceptions and thereby diminishes rather than expands them.  (Right or wrong, that's how I see it.)  He says, but glasses!  What would we do without glasses!  I say, we would have good eyesight if our development was not thwarted, in particular by technology.  (Scientific fact.)  He says I'm a fascist.  And launches a foaming-at-the-mouth rant that is inspired by whatever he thinks I meant when I said that humans are not in need of glasses by design, that it's something brought about by our lifestyle.  He is propelled into an absolutely deranged extended rant about how saying that makes me a fascist.   How what I said discriminates against people with differences and I am the one who is discriminating against people who are different and therefore a fascist.    

 

What the fuck did they do to people.  What the fucking fuck did they do to people.  What have they done.  

 

       

[Nungali]

4 hours ago, Taomeow said:

What have they done to education.  What have they done.

 

A discussion I had in a Western alchemy group.  Not my cup of tea but I like to stay informed beyond my cup of tea.  So, the OP says, the eye is just like the camera and the brain is just like a TV, so who is watching?  A philosophical question.  To which I give a physiological answer: the metaphor is faulty, in reality the eye is nothing like the camera and the brain is nothing like a TV.  Some product of "education" as they apparently get it today tells me that there's no difference, and proceeds to praise technology.  I say, technology externalizes human perceptions and thereby diminishes rather than expands them.  (Right or wrong, that's how I see it.)  He says, but glasses!  What would we do without glasses!  I say, we would have good eyesight if our development was not thwarted, in particular by technology.  (Scientific fact.)  He says I'm a fascist.  And launches a foaming-at-the-mouth rant that is inspired by whatever he thinks I meant when I said that humans are not in need of glasses by design, that it's something brought about by our lifestyle.  He is propelled into an absolutely deranged extended rant about how saying that makes me a fascist.   How what I said discriminates against people with differences and I am the one who is discriminating against people who are different and therefore a fascist.    

 

.....

 

       

 

 

 

... and then he reports you .

 

And you get a moderator warning .

 

 so you decide the best course of action is to

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Taomeow]

18 minutes ago, Nungali said:

 

 

 

... and then he reports you .

 

And you get a moderator warning .

 

 so you decide the best course of action is to

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Yup, they work exactly the way you noticed they do, those hitlerjugend/hongweibing reincarnations refurbished and repackaged under new management.  I don't know if the moron attempted reporting but I doubt the words "good eyesight" -- the only suspicious words I used -- would raise a red flag, not yet anyway, I don't think they've been included in the list of hate speech yet (perhaps soon, but not yet).  And the f word was his contribution, not mine, so the bots monitoring for crimespeak have nothing to go on in this case.  Although who knows.  Sometimes they react to just the fact that someone reported you, much like the teacher in elementary school will automatically punish someone snitched on because figuring out who's really right and who's wrong is too bothersome and time consuming.

 

And I work exactly the way you hypothesized too.  Except I blocked the moron first, deleted the group for tolerating this level of morondom in its member, and then took a walk on the beach.      

[Taomeow]

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Edited November 27, 2020 by Taomeow

[Taomeow]

Japan, the poster child of success, just published their inspiring data.  More suicides in just one month of October than covid deaths in all 10 months of the pandemic.  

 

I think it's time to add a few updates to the famous slogans of "1984" -- War is Peace, Ignorance is Strength, Freedom is Slavery:

 

Despair is Civil Duty  

Suicide is Responsible Behavior

Death is Life

[old3bob]

may they RIP...

 

Edited November 28, 2020 by old3bob

[Taomeow]

A great reset in Iran was fast and easy.

 

Before 

 

 

After

 

 

[Taomeow]

“Voltaire said about God that ‘there is no God, but don’t tell that to my servant, lest he murder me at night’. Hammurabi would have said the same about his principle of hierarchy, and Thomas Jefferson about human rights. Homo sapiens has no natural rights, just as spiders, hyenas and chimpanzees have no natural rights. But don’t tell that to our servants, lest they murder us at night.”

― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

 

How confused a "civilized" thinker is.   

 

Natural rights are the ones I claim for myself if I can overcome opposition and assert them. They are whatever I say they are. When I was four, two slightly older girls in kindergarten tried to exclude me from playing with a particularly desirable toy which was supposed to be in fair communal use. I beat them up in a risky but decisive fight, taking on both at once, took that stuffed fox from them, and allocated the amount of time I deemed fair to playing with it myself before passing it along. I claimed that right for myself and acted on that claim to the best of my ability. I considered it natural. So did those girls, from that point on. I think a normal human being is born with an innate compass that tells her what her natural rights are. The problem we have is, there's not many normal human beings born and, especially, raised anymore.