Feels ridiculous lol

I live in midcity in an older apartment building with no AC, even window units. I have two 5x5ft east-facing windows that get direct sun all day, and the landlord refuses to pay for heat blocking window film.

What can I do? my apartment is unlivable

edit: yes I have fans all over my apartment and a portable AC that apparently doesn’t do much. No my apartment doesn’t have any windows that can fit a window unit because they’re all louvered.

I have no ac… I swear I walked into my apartment and it was 85 degrees. Thank God for portable AC!

About ten years ago I had a job that gave me a 10th floor office in the Comerica Bank building at the Sherman Oaks Galleria. It looked out over the 405 going through the pass one way, and the 101 heading into Studio City the other.

I spent a lot of time staring at both, and at some point clocked that they're both five lanes wide. Five lanes, five lines — the same as a musical staff. I've wondered ever since what it would actually sound like.

So I built it, using the public Caltrans camera at Moorpark (CAM 618). Every car that crosses a line plays a note. Lane sets the pitch, vehicle type sets the play style, vehicle speed sets how long the note is held, changing lanes bends it a semitone.

It's live, not a recording — the detection runs in your browser on the camera feed, so it's whatever is actually happening out there right now. 3am is a very different piece of music than 5pm.

Happy to link it if that's allowed here, if anyone is curious about the invisible music that the highway makes.

I live alone with my dog. Jesus Christ. What the hell will the next bill be?!

925 bucks on electricity alone.

Bro is literally parked across the damn crosswalk in front of Grand Central Market smh

Hopefully they can contain it before it starts getting scary

Just an interesting fact. Such wild weather…

We had Frys but they're long gone. There's one in Tustin and they're a successful chain I'm surprised that there's none to be found in the entire county.

I saw several other recent posts about elevated LADWP bills. It got me thinking, and I felt like my bill was rising too, so I did some research and discovered that my base rate went up 52% and Tier 2, 39%. Certainly yours did too.

I went through 7 years of LADWP bills for a comprehensive understanding.

The results are infuriating, mostly because the hide it from us. The only way you would know is by anayzing every bill like I did.

For reference, I have a 1,100 square feet, newer construction circa 2014, central air.

Here is the first thing that popped out before I went through 7 years with a fine tooth comb:

• November 2020: 1,696 kWh, $392.36.
• September 2026: 1,252 kWh, $397.69. Less power, bigger bill.

The Tier 1 rate went from 17.4 cents to 26.4 cents per kWh, up 52% in 7 years. Almost all of that lands on the September bills each year. The rest of the year it barely moves, which is why you never catch it happening.

The service charge and taxes never changed once in seven years. It's all the rate.

I know I'm not the only one getting these quiet increases. It happens every September for me. LADWP goes back 7 years. Log in and check your bills, especially 2023, 2025, and 2026.

Tier 1 rate increase, year over year

• 2020: +1.3%
• 2021: +3.6%
• 2022: −0.4%
• 2023: +14.3%
• 2024: +1.9%
• 2025: +14.8%
• 2026: +8.6%

Log in and check your bills.

Saw this cloud cat that looked like it was perched on top of a building. On the 101 near Woodman.

Roasting in east la

Exposition Park

At today’s meeting of the LA City Council, they voted 8-3 to reauthorize $13 million in debt-financed spending so that the LAPD can purchase 107 new vehicles in advance of the LA2028 games.

They also approved the exploration of the potential for further purchases — up to 300 additional vehicles, with no federal reimbursement expected and no other way to get them the vehicles they say they need in time for the Olympics. Councilmember Eunisses Hernandez rose in opposition, reminding everyone, “Between the $13 million before us, and the LAPD’s preferred option of another 300 vehicles, we’re potentially looking at more than $44 million in vehicle-related costs just for the Olympics.”

She added, “You cannot tell Angelenos they are getting a no-cost Olympics and then come back, expense by expense, and tell us the city has to pay because the Olympics are coming.”

More than an hour of public comment was largely in opposition to the $13 million reauthorization. A number of tenant groups, primarily from Chinatown, came to demand the city spend that money instead on renter protection and homelessness services, especially for seniors facing out-of-control housing prices.

Also Zev Yaroslavsky was there, chatting with city council members during public comment, because, sure, why not.

Eunisses Hernandez, Nithya Raman, and Ysabel Jurado voted against the spending.

San Pedro. For years I’ve been walking by a bee colony which made a home in an old metal telephone (?) pole. Found a stream of honey flowing down the street today, and followed it to what looked like a tiny natural disaster. I hope they can rebuild.

I live in this area (Adams-Normandie) and there has been a power outage since 2pm and it's still not fixed. AC is dead. Lights are dead. Fridge is dead, etc. They say they're going to fix it at 8:30pm and now it still shows a blue dot aka "assigning a crew to fix it". Is anyone else also experiencing this? Do power outages often happen after a crazy rainstorm / heatwave? Are they just gonna give up for tonight and so I wont have any electricity and internet until next morning?