Sounds like how America was 20 years ago.
Readit Newsmanfromchina1 commented on My (terrible) experience as a British Asian at University old.reddit.com/r/UniUK/co... · Posted by u/aelnona
manfromchina1 commented on The UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks theguardian.com/us-news/2... · Posted by u/n1b0m
A US visa is typically for entering only. It doesnt say anything about the duration of stay. The latter is determined by CBP at the port of entrance and printed on your I-94. This is never emphasized anywhere.
I found this YouTube video from this news article: https://www.ft.com/content/d30d656e-2975-4940-8708-da4dc43cd...
Edit: The YouTube video was released on 2026-01-15 and already has 63.7 million views. Yikes. Who is watching this video? Did they find a way to make it go viral on Chinese social media?
The newest one on the CIA channel on YouTube is showing 1920 views right now. It was posted 3 hours ago.
He still won.
manfromchina1 commented on I removed AI from my I Ching app castiching.com/articles/w... · Posted by u/jackzhuo
I had Claude Sonnet 4.5 and Gemini 3 do a Tarot reading for me given what their memory systems know about me and was underwhelmed but I that just may be Tarot, which I'm not familiar with.
More interesting was when I asked them to tell me which character I most resemble in the folowing: The Wire, The Sopranos, Better Call Saul/Breaking Bad and the game of Chess.
Both said I was Freeman in The Wire, Hesch in The Sopranos, Mike in Breaking Bad and a Knight in chess. I asked them to explain their reasoning, which was enlightening from a self-knowledge perspective.
They would likely pick the cards according to what your text looks like at the moment. You should at least ask them to use a random function. And even then they might keep picking according to the mood/content of the text.
manfromchina1 commented on Havana Syndrome Device Purchased cnn.com/2026/01/13/politi... · Posted by u/yalok
That link has the following: https://x.com/nettermike/status/2009843044028428714
> Security Guard: Without a doubt. I'm sending a warning to anyone who thinks they can fight the United States. They have no idea what they're capable of. After what I saw, I never want to be on the other side of that again. They're not to be messed with.
Sounds like a strategic bluff.
LA's food scene is unbelievably good. There are individual categories of food that other places have it beat on (for example, if I want a deep dish pizza, I'm probably better off going to Zachary's, or being in Chicago), but on a scale of "I can walk into a random restaurant with no research and expect a good to extremely good meal, with plenty of variety in such restaurants to choose from" to "Evansville, IN", I haven't been anywhere in the world that has LA beat.
> I haven't been anywhere in the world that has LA beat.
I feel the same way about NYC and NOLA. Both have world class cuisine and the sheer diversity of NYC food scene can't be found anywhere in the US. And for whatever reason NYC style pizza is not as ubiquitous outside the NYC-NJ area.You can definitely find such pizza in Boston, but it cannot be found in every little corner in LA for example.
It's not just SF. The $10 lunch of 2015 is now $15. Default tipping of 20% on things that we never tipped on in 2015 (takeout, fast food) is also adding alot to the total cost.
I don't know how people are affording the various delivery services and their fees on top of it.
A random stall by the road in LA will charge you $10 flat and the same one in SF will ask for $20. Neither will have a screen for tips. THAT would make your SF purchases simply stratospheric. I have lived in Jersey City, NJ and New Orleans, LA. Neither one holds a candle to LA prices outside some random roadside vendors. Walmarts in greater LA are vastly more expensive than those in NOLA. But grocery shopping in SF is straight up nightmare where they dont seem to respect Murican money all that much if at all. LA could never.
Moving from LA to SF will definitely give you a sticker shock. I used to buy nice large burritos in DTLA for $10 flat as recently as 2024. That's with tax. Later that year in SF a nice sandwich in random bodegas would cost well over $20(with tax). SF is probably the most eye wateringly expensive city in all of US. It definitely beats NYC.
It's not a conspiracy when he says it so openly.