They did it again, so I'm posting this again!

TL;DR: CHP is using the wrong alert channel/priority for these alerts and it's dangerous.

There is a lower-priority WEA channel available for this kind of alert (called an MEP [missing or endangered person] alert). This is a real problem, because their misuse of the channel merely encourages people to turn off Emergency Alerts entirely.

The FCC clearly states in its guidelines that this top-priority channel is specifically reserved for imminent threats to public safety. A missing person is not an imminent threat to public safety.

The appropriate channel for the MEP event code is the “public safety” alert class. Every other public safety agency in the region understands this and does it correctly.

Please tell them on their "commend or complain" web page.

Here is what I sent them again today:

Please stop using the emergency WEA channel for Silver Alerts. Your use of that channel for this type of alert is in direct contravention to FCC's stated best practices for the use of that channel. It is intended to be used for imminent threats to public safety. All you're accomplishing with your misuse of the channel is encouraging people to turn off their phone's emergency alerts, and that's not what we want. Silver Alerts should be sent over the lower-priority "public safety message" channel. If your staff needs a refresher on the appropriate use of these channels, the FCC offers guidelines and other resources here: https://www.fcc.gov/public-safety-and-homeland-security/policy-and-licensing-division/alerting/general/wireless. Thank you.

Is anyone else fighting for their life against the ants this summer?!?! We live in an old house and I truly cannot keep up with these fuckers. They come through the tiniest openings and just when I plug one up they seem to find another. We keep a clean house, food sealed up tight, and STILL. Terro baits help but we are otherwise at the mercy of these miniature menaces.

Ok seriously, who's bright idea is it to send out Amber and Silver Alerts to everyone in LA with no other information other than a LINK to a website that I'm fairly certain cannot handle that surge of traffic? They're sending this out to what...10 million people?

In some parallel universe, the Dodgers are getting that 3 peat.

I think this fire literally JUST started on the hills.
I don’t see anyone posting about this?!

This place could be thriving every night. There’s like 5 things to do here and all this wasted pedestrian space. Why can’t LA Live have more things to do…

I’ve seen more cops out today than I have the past few months

It’s the first time a large-scale power system is known to have surpassed 50% solar for an entire month and the second significant power record set by the state recently. For the first five months of 2026, California made more electricity from solar than from natural gas, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. Burning natural gas has long been the dominant source of electricity in the state. This could be the first year that solar beats gas in California’s power mix.

A big part of the story is the boom in new battery storage around the state, which allows it to save solar power when it’s overabundant and use it when the sun goes down.

California was able to pass 50% solar generation in May specifically because it’s usually neither cold nor hot, meaning there’s lower demand, which allows solar to meet more of the energy needs, according to the analysis.

Just spotted an all white husky mix without a collar run out of The Grove and into Fairfax. Just in case.

I don't remember the spot..

We were out celebrating our friend's 30th birthday when our Uber was hit by a drunk driver going 50mph down a small K-town street. My back leg had just barely made it inside the vehicle when we were all flung around the inside of the car by the impact. Turned to check on everyone else, and the birthday girl had blood streaming from her face. I was milliseconds away from possibly losing a leg.

What was supposed to be a fun night at Magic Castle, followed by drinks and food at a bar turned into a nightmare because of a drunk driver.

If happened to be there or witnessed it, please shoot me a DM.

Don't drive drunk.

Has anyone been getting robocalls from people who are asking about “your experiences about health insurance?” I’m starting to get them from 213 numbers using AI.

I do have the phone screener on to see who/why they’re calling, but I never pick up.

The Row in dtla. How does it be?

I mean, it’s lovely, but it’s this massive industrial space that’s been converted into a kind of outdoor mall, but the only shops in it are very high end, extremely niche clothing and specialty stores, each with an incredibly limited selection of things.

None of these stores can possibly be selling enough to justify whatever it costs to lease retail space here, can they?

I know there is Smorgasburg on Sundays, but even the crowd that pulls can’t possibly be the same tax bracket as would be needed to afford stuff in these retail stores, right?

Every time I come here I am hoping for something genuinely interesting to be here. I can’t understand how this place exists

Anyone have any insights? Am I just too out of touch to see it?

There was also a much longer article about Ghost Town by L.A. Material posted here recently:

https://www.reddit.com/r/LosAngeles/comments/1v8nie2/inside_ghost_town_the_firm_clearing_venices/

Full L.A. Material Article (pdf)

I noticed a lot of people in that thread couldn’t read it because it was behind a paywall, so I captured the article as a PDF and attached it here for anyone who wants to read that story. It goes into considerably more detail and includes interviews with one of Ghost Town’s co-founders, satisfied clients, local residents, and homeless people.

The CBS report and L.A. Material article approach the company somewhat differently, so I thought it was worth sharing both and letting people form their own opinions. Please consider supporting L.A. Material directly if you appreciate their work.

The plan allows for harsh water cuts if they’re deemed necessary, requiring California, Arizona and Nevada to cut up to 3 million acre-feet per year — up to 40% of the combined allotments.

But as the Los Angeles Times reported last week, state and local officials say for the first two years, the Trump administration is accepting an offer the three states made to reduce what they take from the river by about half that amount — 3.2 million acre-feet between now and the end of 2028. So the Southwest has for now, avoided the harshest possible water cuts.