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One of the more memorable and surreal experiences I had on my visit to SF was walking around Golden Gate Park, and suddenly seeing what looked like the mast of

One of the more memorable and surreal experiences I had on my visit to SF was walking around Golden Gate Park, and suddenly seeing what looked like the mast of an alien sailing ship looming out of the fog in the distance. It turned out to be Sutro Tower.

mertd 4y ago
Had you acquired chocolate bars from some hippies by any chance?
- azinman2 4y ago
  You know you can just go to a store for that now, and they’re not run or frequented by hippies.
  - FutureZeitgeist 4y ago
  - baby 4y ago
    Depends if it has mushroom in it
    - azinman2 4y ago
      Fair enough
    - cheriot 4y ago
      You'll be able to go to a store for that soon as well! https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/10/us/san-francisco-decriminalization-psychedelics-trnd/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/10/us/san-francisco-decriminaliz...
      - baby 4y ago
        It’s weird because everyone in SF has been saying that these have been decriminalized when the news says that nothing has happened yet AND it’s not about decriminalization: > It calls for San Francisco police to give investigation and arrests related to use of such substances “the lowest priority.”
        wahern 4y ago
        That recent law regarding mushrooms was political theater, sponsored by two of the most left-leaning supervisors on the Board of Supervisors[1] worried about potential challengers, especially since the Boudin recall, whom they aggressively supported. Everybody else went along because how could you vote against it? Just like marijuana, SF police haven't cared about psychedelics for decades. And while there may have been occasional pretext arrests for drugs in the past, encounters were always initiated for something else, and in any event these days police are hesitant to stop in-progress, felony property and violent crimes occurring in front of their faces. I mean, we have open-air heroin markets, and even after Boudin's recall you have to be a distributor, not simply a street dealer, to even get the attention of authorities, police or the DA. To be fair to progressives and liberals generally, those two supervisors are particularly contemptible, pandering politicians, Dean Preston especially. Hillary Ronin seems more sincere, if misguided, but Preston has no redeeming qualities as a politician. [1] Which itself is obviously all Democratic, with most if not all members self-identifying as progressive.
        cheriot 4y ago
        It's generally good to encode these decisions in law rather than hand police even more discretion... but I 100% agree with you on Dean Preston and Hillary Ronin. They weaponize progressive language to preserve the status quo.
        wahern 4y ago
        > It's generally good to encode these decisions in law rather than hand police even more discretion. Agreed. But this falls short--it's a hack based on budget stipulations that seems to have become all too common; it doesn't really change the status quo given current and long-standing official city policy regarding drugs, especially wrt recreational and medicinal drugs. I'm not even sure it's even enforceable. The DA's office is independent, and I don't think this would prevent a cop from pretextual application of drug laws, which have usually been in violation of city policies, anyhow, such as a marijuana charge that local papers made hay out of recently, but which actually occurred several years ago, was clearly pretextual and against rules (the cop was a rookie), and was never even prosecuted--not even sure it was an actual charge, may have just been listed as probable cause for a search or detainment.
    - MyChurch 4y ago
      You can find that too at zide door
      - baby 4y ago
        Not in sf tho :P
gfd 4y ago
I was curious what that looked like and turns out there are videos on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60fqruVDrjs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60fqruVDrjs Pretty cool!
- influx 4y ago
  Another cool video of going to the top of the tower: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JPJ4oZDY7I https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JPJ4oZDY7I

mertd 4y ago

Had you acquired chocolate bars from some hippies by any chance?

azinman2 4y ago
You know you can just go to a store for that now, and they’re not run or frequented by hippies.
- FutureZeitgeist 4y ago
- baby 4y ago
  Depends if it has mushroom in it
  - azinman2 4y ago
    Fair enough
  - cheriot 4y ago
    You'll be able to go to a store for that soon as well! https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/10/us/san-francisco-decriminalization-psychedelics-trnd/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/10/us/san-francisco-decriminaliz...
    - baby 4y ago
      It’s weird because everyone in SF has been saying that these have been decriminalized when the news says that nothing has happened yet AND it’s not about decriminalization: > It calls for San Francisco police to give investigation and arrests related to use of such substances “the lowest priority.”
      - wahern 4y ago
        That recent law regarding mushrooms was political theater, sponsored by two of the most left-leaning supervisors on the Board of Supervisors[1] worried about potential challengers, especially since the Boudin recall, whom they aggressively supported. Everybody else went along because how could you vote against it? Just like marijuana, SF police haven't cared about psychedelics for decades. And while there may have been occasional pretext arrests for drugs in the past, encounters were always initiated for something else, and in any event these days police are hesitant to stop in-progress, felony property and violent crimes occurring in front of their faces. I mean, we have open-air heroin markets, and even after Boudin's recall you have to be a distributor, not simply a street dealer, to even get the attention of authorities, police or the DA. To be fair to progressives and liberals generally, those two supervisors are particularly contemptible, pandering politicians, Dean Preston especially. Hillary Ronin seems more sincere, if misguided, but Preston has no redeeming qualities as a politician. [1] Which itself is obviously all Democratic, with most if not all members self-identifying as progressive.
        cheriot 4y ago
        It's generally good to encode these decisions in law rather than hand police even more discretion... but I 100% agree with you on Dean Preston and Hillary Ronin. They weaponize progressive language to preserve the status quo.
        wahern 4y ago
        > It's generally good to encode these decisions in law rather than hand police even more discretion. Agreed. But this falls short--it's a hack based on budget stipulations that seems to have become all too common; it doesn't really change the status quo given current and long-standing official city policy regarding drugs, especially wrt recreational and medicinal drugs. I'm not even sure it's even enforceable. The DA's office is independent, and I don't think this would prevent a cop from pretextual application of drug laws, which have usually been in violation of city policies, anyhow, such as a marijuana charge that local papers made hay out of recently, but which actually occurred several years ago, was clearly pretextual and against rules (the cop was a rookie), and was never even prosecuted--not even sure it was an actual charge, may have just been listed as probable cause for a search or detainment.
  - MyChurch 4y ago
    You can find that too at zide door
    - baby 4y ago
      Not in sf tho :P

gfd 4y ago

I was curious what that looked like and turns out there are videos on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60fqruVDrjs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60fqruVDrjs Pretty cool!

influx 4y ago
Another cool video of going to the top of the tower: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JPJ4oZDY7I https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JPJ4oZDY7I