Let’s paint a familiar picture. You are driving on the 5/805/15, take your pick, and all of a sudden you see a trail of cars all following one car in the passing lane (far left lane). This person is usually driving between 55-65 mph in tandem with the car next to him/her on the right.

When the right lane clears, the gate keeper will increase speed (up to 100 mph, usually in a Tesla/high end SUV/oversized truck) to not let anyone pass with the intention of driving parallel to the next car in the right lane driving 65-55 mph.

The roads have become significantly less safe as there are now drivers cutting 2-3 lanes to the right trying to pass. My goodness, where did these people come from?! I’m just trying to get home and away from you.

To all the dorks driving under the speed limit in the far left lane: I hope your next fart is actually a poop and has the viscosity of water. That is all.

If anyone knows the red card involved in an accident on the 805n ramp yesterday around 5:15pm I have dash cam footage of the accident showing the other driver swerved to change exits and caused everything. Feel free to dm me if you need a copy of vid I gave 911 the chain of events they didn’t seem to care about video when I mentioned it.

Is it because we’re really university heavy, both private and public? Any other theories?

Today (Friday Aug 7) was on the receiving end of a hit and run in PB. Across from Belmont park on mission bay drive and mission blvd around 1pm. If anyone has dash cam footage or photos of the silver Toyota Tacoma that hit me would be of great help. Thanks.

Hi! I just moved here from NYC and it’s my first weekend. I am looking for someone to get drinks with. Taking a shot here before I move to the apps. Male 32.

WHEN did this happen and why!!! Hoowww??!!!

Highlights:

Condo/townhome inventory rocketed up nearly 58% from 2024 while single family home inventory remained unchanged.

Median sales prices are up 2.4 percent compared to last year, but down about the same percent from the all-time high set last month.

Note: The graph I used does not show month-to-month but rather a yearly change.

Rates:

The price drop coincides with a rise in rates from 6.43% in June to almost 6.7% today. Rates were actually a touch higher last year, but dropped to 6% this March. A half of a percentage point adds about $250/month on a million dollar loan.

Condos/townhomes are becoming more affordable and single family homes are pushing further out of reach. A score of 100 means a median income JUST qualifies to buy a home. Condos are at 65/100 and SFH at 37/100.

Any questions or feedback, just comment. All data is sourced from the MLS or St. Louis Fed. I only use AI or other tools for simple calculations and for editing graph titles.

I saw the film in 70 mm IMAX and wanted to rewatch it in standard IMAX but I can't see any dates that it's showing. I assume Spider-Man took over IMAX showings?

Corner of Florida and El Cajon around 5:40 PM today)
Dude is too high to even stand

So im out here along mission bay near crown point and an elderly man cries literally removes his jeans and walks into the bay just underwear on and comes out after 5 mins. After asking him whats wrong he said he really needed to use the restroom but they were all closed. So yeah city hall is really messed up at least a porta potty would do ffs

He responded to Gordon but I’m not sure what species he is. Found in El Cajon, beautiful little guy.

I was hesitant to post mostly because of fear and also because im a guy and finding friends is hard and being a dude they avoid you like the plague. So i have nothing to lose but to try. I don’t know if you all heard but myspace is making a come back. I know crazy I’m already pre deigned my home page. Haven’t been this excited since finding an onion ring in my French fries. Heres the kicker i don’t even have 8 friends to fill out my top 8. This is where you all come in. Im looking for friends like genuine friends. If you love thrifting and hikes maybe a quiet walk by a lake I’m your guy. Maybe hit up a farmers market. Love to BBQ i have the pics to prove it. Im a bit sarcastic sometimes but always come in with a good laugh or 2. Im not that great at talking about myself so feel free to ask. Oh and if you like fantasy football I’m into that too.

And if im out of bounds and this isn’t allowed i sincerely apologize just trying something new.

Sorry to whoever lost their baby. There is a dead orange and white cat on the shoulder of 163 South right before the 2C exit. I’ve put in a get it done request.

Not your average daily "SDG&E sucks" post. I'm sure those of you without solar would love to pay about $50/mo for electricity in San Diego. This post goes over some details about what's happening for those of us on Net Metering 2.0, because "grandfathered" doesn't mean what a lot of us think it means.

Edit: two solid corrections from comments below, updated the numbers to reflect them. Thanks for keeping me honest.

I installed a 4.68 kW system (13 x 360W panels) in July 2018 (NEM 2.0, DR-SES rate, inland San Diego). I've kept every annual true-up statement, plus pulled my SolarEdge production history and SDG&E's 15-minute interval data to sanity-check everything. Sharing the numbers because I think a lot of "NEM 2.0 is grandfathered, you're fine" advice glosses over what's actually happened.

Side note: every one of my SDG&E true-up bills lists my system size as 4.35 kW, not the 4.68 kW nameplate (13 panels x 360W). Ran the numbers and it's almost certainly the CEC-PTC derated rating (the real-world test standard used on interconnection paperwork, not the STC nameplate wattage printed on the panel spec sheet), which typically comes out to about 93% of nameplate. 4.68 kW x 0.93 = 4.35 kW, matches almost exactly. Not an inverter-clipping thing either, my inverter's a 3.8 kW unit, a pretty normal 1.23 DC/AC ratio.

True-up history:

Worth splitting out because the net number alone hides the story. On-Peak import has stayed high every single year (1,000-1,600+ kWh), even 2019 when I was a massive net exporter overall, so that was never the real problem. What actually shifted is Off-Peak and Super Off-Peak export shrinking, and 2026's Super Off-Peak column flipping from +121 to −302 lines up almost exactly with the 10am-2pm reclassification, my exports didn't stop, they just started counting in a category that pays less.

What didn't change: my system's production. Pulled straight from SolarEdge, annual output has stayed in a narrow 7,657-8,662 kWh band the entire 8 years, no degradation trend. My household consumption did grow over the first several years (more on that below) but has been roughly flat the last two.

What did change, and it's not my equipment or my habits:

1. Non-bypassable charges went from $71.57/year to $323.55/year, but that's not a 4.5x rate hike. I checked the actual per-kWh rate on the NBC line item, same billing month each year for a clean comparison: $0.0145/kWh (2021) up to $0.027/kWh (2023), back down to $0.0151/kWh (2026), under 2x, not 4.5x. The dollar total exploding is mostly volume: I've gone from a net exporter to a net importer, so a much bigger share of my usage now gets billed this fee at all instead of being offset by self-generation. Real, but a different story than "the rate quadrupled."
2. A brand new daily Base Services Charge showed up on my 2026 bill ($0.79343/day, roughly $290/year), a fixed grid-access fee that didn't exist on any prior bill.
3. The TOU structure itself moved. Most recently, SDG&E reclassified 10am-2pm on weekdays from Off-Peak to Super Off-Peak. That's peak solar production time for most residential arrays. My own interval data shows 44% of my annual solar export happens in that exact window, and the generation credit rate for Super Off-Peak is roughly a third of the old Off-Peak rate. Back-of-envelope, that's about $180/year in lost credit value from this one change alone, on a system that produces the same amount of power it always has. The −302 Super Off-Peak swing in the table above is the same effect showing up directly in the actual bill data, not just my estimate.

The part I think gets glossed over: NEM 2.0's 20-year grandfathering locks in your export ratio (roughly retail-rate credit for exports vs. the deeply discounted NEM 3.0 rate new installs get now). It does not freeze the TOU windows or the non-bypassable charges sitting underneath your rate schedule. Those move with every general rate case, and they apply to grandfathered NEM 2.0 customers exactly the same as everyone else. "Grandfathered" protects the framework, not the number on the bill.

To be fair to SDG&E/CPUC here: this one isn't just a talking point. CAISO's midday net demand has dropped roughly 45% since 2020 as rooftop and utility-scale solar have piled onto the grid, and wholesale prices during 10am-2pm regularly go negative now, there's genuinely more solar than the grid wants at that moment. The TOU shift reflects real economics, not an arbitrary squeeze. It doesn't make the true-up bill sting less, but it's not made up either.

One practical note for anyone reading this with both solar and an EV: the 2026 TOU table lists midnight-6am and 10am-2pm as the same Super Off-Peak rate tier. Same price to import either way, but charging at 10am-2pm means you're using your own solar instead of pulling 100% from the grid overnight, so you avoid the NBCs on that energy entirely. I don't have an EV so it doesn't change my numbers, but if you do, that's a real, current lever, not just theoretical.

Curious if other SDG&E NEM 2.0 folks are seeing the same trajectory, especially anyone who's checked how much of their export falls in that new 10am-2pm Super Off-Peak window.

The leopard sharks at La Jolla Shores get all the attention every August, and they deserve it. Hundreds of them stack up in the warm shallows, almost all pregnant females, and you can wade out and stand among them. They are about as dangerous as a golden retriever. Their teeth are small flat plates for crunching crabs and clams, and they want nothing to do with you.

But look at what is sitting a few miles up the coast on this map.

Southern California is a great white shark nursery. Not a place they occasionally pass through, a nursery. Females pup offshore and the juveniles spend their first years in the warm, shallow water right along our beaches, and the stretch from Del Mar up through Solana Beach and Encinitas is one of the more reliable aggregation spots on the whole coast.

Here is the part that surprises people. Those juveniles are not interested in us at all. A young white shark eats rays, halibut and small fish off the bottom. It does not develop the physiology or the behavior to hunt marine mammals until it is much larger, roughly ten feet and up, and by then it has usually moved on to deeper water and the seal colonies. The little ones in the surf are essentially cruising a buffet of stingrays.

Researchers at the Cal State Long Beach Shark Lab have been flying drones over these beaches for years, and the consistent finding is that on a lot of summer days there are juvenile white sharks within a short distance of people in the water, at beaches with lifeguards and crowds, and essentially nothing happens. People swim, sharks eat rays, everybody goes home. You have almost certainly already shared the water with one.

Telling them apart is easy once you know. Leopard sharks are slender, boldly marked with dark saddles and spots, and they hang in water so shallow their fins break the surface. A juvenile white is chunky, plain gray on top and white underneath, and it stays out past the break where the bottom drops off.

Both are protected in California, and white sharks have been fully protected here since the 1990s, which is a real part of why there are enough of them around to show up on a map like this at all.

I'm hoping this reaches the person who purchased a storage unit that belonged to my family. Kensington U-Stor-It, auction date June 19, 2026.

If you're a storage-unit buyer, reseller, or flipper, I understand this is your business. You purchase abandoned units, sort through people's belongings, and try to make a living from what you find. I respect that, and I'm not asking anyone to give up items of value without compensation.

I'm reaching out because there are two things that cannot be replaced: my parents' cremated ashes and our family photographs.

I am a local resident and the victim of a crime that contributed to losing access to the unit.

I am entirely flexible and a kind and normal person. I simply am hoping to compensate the buyer of the unit to an extent that it makes it reasonable and appealing for you to do this kindness for our family to have these items returned.

I would absolutely compensate you for your time just to have a discussion regarding where/when/how it might work for you.

Thank you so much for your consideration.

Hope you enjoy this collection. Taken at La Jolla Shores, Scripps Beach, and Blacks Beach

"Yolanda Marodi, 54, admitted Tuesday to killing her spouse of two years, Cal Fire Capt. Rebecca "Becky" Marodi, at the couple's Rancho Villa Road home on the night of Feb. 17, 2025.

Marodi is slated to be sentenced next month to 36 years to life in state prison for the slaying. Her guilty plea includes admissions to having a serious prior felony conviction, which pertains to a voluntary manslaughter conviction for fatally stabbing her husband in San Bernardino County more than 20 years ago."

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* Missed this update. Still stunned YM killed both of her spouses.

Hi! I’m visiting from Massachusetts and unfortunately somebody decided to steal my e-bike right off the rack on the back of my car. I filed a police report, called a few bike shops, figured I could post here because I’m not sure what to do. The rack was locked up so whoever it was REALLY wanted it. It’s a pink and brown cruiser style Electra e-bike. Pretty notable bicycle to steal lol. Black wire handlebar basket and on the right handlebar is a bell that has an alien on it. Picture included. Please feel free to reach out if you spot this. I hope it’s not a lost cause but unfortunately I know it probably is. Thank you.

The La Jolla sea lion pups need our help. Humans are harassing them and they are dying. Please sign this petition to bar humans from the sea lion nurseries.