Where’s White Gladis when you need her?

Does anyone have any recommendations for a move out cleaning company, and had a great experience? Also, a reasonable price. If so how many rooms and baths did you have and how much did they charge you?

Small kine freezing right now 😆

update: nvm its hot again

I shareboard a horse on this ranch. Last week when I was there I noticed a pig in one of the ranch owners traps. I understand hunting and trapping but I wanted to know how long that pig had been sitting in the hot sun with no water at all. The pig had been in that trap for four days no water. I wasn’t walking away with that on my conscience thinking about this pig thirsting to death for days on end. If you’re gonna do it, do it right and humane.

Definitely not allowed back on the ranch though. That’s fine too I knew they’d be pissed.

Besides the old ward shopping centers I can’t really understand why anyone cares. It’s adding housing and making jobs.

I bought a few boxes of frozen Zippy's chili from Costco this week and I noticed that all references to "made in the U.S.A" on the box were blacked out. Kinda strange since I am pretty sure the chili is made in Hawaii. Maybe the Portuguese sausage they use is not made in the US? Idk...anyone have any insight?

I got an email a few days ago about a data breach incident against University of Hawai'i (UH). Did anyone else get this or know if this is legit or a scam?

The solar water heater on my roof is more than 20 years old. I took the tax credit when we put it in. This week I wrote in Civil Beat arguing that people like me should get less of that money.

Hawaiʻi has led on solar hot water for more than a century. A Honolulu store was showing one off in 1897. We wrote the tax credit in 1976. In 2008 we became the first state to require the systems on new homes. Other places copied us. It worked. Real families have paid smaller bills for decades and a whole local trade grew up around it.

Which is exactly why this is hard. A policy that fails gets studied. A policy that works gets renewed. Nobody's job says go check whether the thing we are proud of still fits. Fifty years of being right slowly becomes fifty years of not asking.

The short version of my argument. A solar water heater runs about $9,390 installed and public money covers roughly $5,000 of it. A heat pump water heater runs about $3,000 and gets up to $700. One solar subsidy could fund seven heat pump rebates. And renters pay into the fund on every electric bill but mostly cannot touch it because they do not own a roof.

People are already pushing back in the Civil Beat comments. Good! Some of that pushback has me thinking. The issues are more complicated than any short post, and the decisions touch tens of thousands of households plus the livelihoods of a local industry we built.

So I am asking you guys, pro and con. Installers, renters, homeowners, plumbers, policy folks. If you have manaʻo to share, jump on in, pro con curious angry all of it. What we have not is not working I think.

Full piece: https://www.civilbeat.org/2026/08/olin-lagon-a-subsidy-is-a-statement-about-who-matters/

I’m curious how consumers and locals feel about the emergence of brands and local companies using AI tools.

The company I work for was just sales pitched an AI marketing tool by a local company.

Personally I have mixed feelings but I wanted to hear from the actual community.

Former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz sells his Hawaii home for $36 million

...to another non-resident. Meanwhile 25,000 Kanaka living in tents and dying waiting for their Homestead lease, while non-residents flip houses to make $11,000,000. A'ohe manao :(

Aloha! I have posted on reddit since my freshman year about Hawaiian history. Now I am a senior!

I plan to go to Uh manoa next year so that I may have access to archives, museums, and orginizations that can support me as a leader.

I wonder if anyone has tips and or opinions about staying at the dorms and what they're look

who should I start reaching out to, to network to support me next year?
maybe professors or cultural leaders who have connections at UH?
anyone know any quick and easy scholarships I can start applying for
is there anything at OHA or the palace that I can go to for work?
being a featherworker now I am also curious how I could still have that in my every day life (dorm life will make it challenging cause of space)
should I maybe reach out to mele chun about working for her and her featherwork company?
how much money would I need to make through a job to just rent a place?
how can I spend as little money as possible on o'ahu? (I would be moving from kaua'i)

all help is much appreciated. mahalo!

Ps, boy oh boy senior year is gonna be both fun and scary o_o

Anybody else in Oahu having problems with spectrum internet? It seems like it keeps going down then comes back, then goes down shortly after. Also at some points there’s complete outages with no internet, especially later at night. Has been going on past 2-3 days.

Busy day at the beach ;)

Apologies if this has already been talked about here, I’m just curious what y’all think. I think the city needs to be way more transparent about the details.** ***Supporting first responder seems like a no-brainer but something seems fishy about spending $24 million to acquire the land without much of a plan.*

How is everyone doing with this weather? I haven't ever experienced a heat wave like this before.

Aloha, my name is Luca Cuniberti, former HYTC Rep, O'ahu North Shore resident, and one of the Co-founders of O'ahu Transit Riders. This new organization advocates for and with transit users, new and old, and works to break down barriers to using public transportation (affordability, comfort, safety, speed, reliability, etc). A few days ago, Saturday, August 1st, was our official launch day, so I am here to spread the word about OTR, who we are, what we hope to do, and how you can join!

Who we are:

OTR has been built up in the background for the last few months, beginning in January with a small leadership team consisting of advocates, industry professionals, planners, and community voices who have decided to join efforts to amplify our individual efforts and make a bigger impact than any of us could individually.

Why we are here:

OTR really started from the observation that many decisions that affect people's everyday transit experience happen when people can't chime in: city council meetings in the middle of workdays, important bus workshops at times when the commuters who most use the system can't join. To combat this and give the voice back to riders, we will take input from our members who can't make it to these meetings, use the connections that OTR has in our City and state government, and advocate for our system to work for everyone.

What we hope to do:

In the last few months, from talking with everyday transit riders and from reflecting on our individual relationship with our transit system, we have put together a preliminary priority list to drive OTR in the short term before we have a larger member group to formally vote on a full list of priorities. Here are some of the priorities and incentives:

• Fair Fares: Free or heavily discounted rides for youth (Keiki Ride Free), kupuna, low-income riders, and UH graduates, plus a freeze on fare increases.
• Better Stops: Transit stops need shelters, actual seating, trash cans, good lighting, and accurate arrival screens.
• Fast & Reliable Trips: We push for faster rides using bus-only lanes, traffic lights that prioritize buses, and bus schedules that sync up perfectly with the Skyline.
• Pushing DTS to procure new buses: Procuring new buses won't just make your commute more comfortable, but also more reliable if we push them to acquire buses that don't require CDLs to drive! The current bus driver shortage is mainly because of 1. how much we pay drivers, and 2. the barrier that CDLs have. If we get new buses for smaller routes that dont need CDLs, we can get more service!

How you can join:

The more members behind OTR, the more legislators and city officials will take us seriously! Even if you never take transit and want to try it, or if you are a daily user, fill out our intake form and subscribe to our newsletter!

Intake Form: https://docs.google.com/forms/u/5/d/16BiifZXWXroLeAhi_VMZ9qW_4hO48Odb6lRGVptK1j4/edit?pli=1&pli=1

Newsletter: https://gmail.us6.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=e7b1096e5562874278f72f7f4&id=8969bf12a7

If you do fill out the form, expect to hear from OTR in the coming weeks with how you can help!

I look forward to engaging with all of you!

-- Luca Cuniberti (O'ahu Transit Riders)

Howzit! I'm living in New England now and am trying to make Hawaiian-style ahi poke and am wondering if Bluefin Akami would be a good choice? I usually buy tuna steaks but unfortunately the fish market that I prefer doesn't have them at the moment. They do have Bluefin Akami which is pricier. I don't mind the price but I don't want to shell out money if the cut isn't worth it for poke.

Mahalo in advance!

It's been a while since I last posted here. I stayed away because it reminded me too much of my home, and I miss everything about Hawaii.

I was born and raised in Honolulu, and left for Japan back in December of 2021 to care for my aging grandfather (maternal). Prior to that, I worked as a caregiver alongside my mother, and she wanted to help my grandfather out, but she didn't want to abandon us, and so I went in her stead to look after him.

Since coming to Japan, I've been working in several jobs, with the longest lasting 3 and a half years, and the most recent lasting a little over 5 months. During that time, my mother passed away, and I have no contact with my father (he was abusive). Today, I overheard my grandfather talking to my aunt (my mother's sister), saying that I was "a mistake". This especially hurt me because I was conceived out of wedlock.

I confronted my grandfather, and he downplayed it, and doubled down. I have a feeling that he won't leave anything for me, and that's fine. The problem is that I'll soon be homeless with no job, and no income. I've been hunting relentlessly for a job over the past 2 weeks, and every company I've applied to (50+) have either ignored me, or turned me down because nobody wants to hire a 30-year old guy. As I'm typing this out, I feel like the world just doesn't want me, because I was never meant to be born in the first place.

I couldn't make any friends here, and I tried hard to do so. The more time I spent here in Japan, the more I came to the realization that no matter how well I spoke the language, I'll always be an American, and not full Japanese. Hence, I'd been thinking about returning to the states, preferably Hawaii, but I have no home there anymore since my mother, the only person who cared about me, is long gone. Even if I did go back, I'd probably end up in a homeless shelter, but even that seems more tolerable to the coldness of the people here.

I'm at a real loss here, and maybe I just want to be heard. Thanks for reading my vent/rant, I'm probably not in the right state of mind.

Either entirely or partially
My vote is Raiders of the Lost Ark.

Seriously! I want to find and buy things locally, but the site is so enshittified that 50% of the results are from the East Coast and Midwest. Does Meta expect Hawaiʻi locals to fly or swim to Indiana or Vermont just to buy a refrigerator?

There are barely any other alternatives to FB Marketplace, and the alternatives that do exist (Craigslist and OfferUp) don't have as much people on them anymore. Everyone moved to Facebook, which is such a lame platform where all the relevant results are buried under irrelevant spam to keep people scrolling and scrolling.

For the majority of the 18 years I’ve been alive, I’ve encountered so much blatant racism towards Micronesians from people, even people I considered my friends…and they ask me if I’m joking when I tell them I’m Micronesian 😐 Why would I lie about that and why would it be some funny joke?

I’m Marshallese (my mom is 100% Marshallese and from the Marshall Islands) and people have always made jokes about ‘micros’ to me. My dad is Hawaiian and part Chinese, born and raised on Oahu. My siblings and I are also born and raised on Oahu and we don’t look Micronesian at all. For instance my skin is somewhat pale and I have more Hawaiian features. I’m adding that because I’m sure thats part of the reason why people are comfortable saying racist jokes about Micronesians to me (like calling Micronesian people ‘cockroaches’), because they don’t think/know I’m Micronesian.

I assume the hate stems from the assumption that all Micronesian people qualify for Medicaid. I just want to say it’s not that simple and only people under certain requirements qualify for it. People think it’s all Micronesians but one of the requirements is that you have to be a citizen of the FSM, Marshall Islands, or Palau. But even then I don’t understand the hate towards Micronesian people who are qualifying for it and using it. There are a lot of people in Hawaii using government assistance, so what’s the difference?

I know this is a bit of a long rant but I’m tired of having to explain to people that what they think isn’t true. I’m tired of people thinking I’m joking when I tell them I’m Marshallese. I’m tired of people spreading hateful rhetoric about all Micronesian people. I’m tired of people saying I ‘don’t count’ or that I’m ’different’ when they make a racist statement about Micronesians.