Tech whisperer/food eater+cooker/sometimes-photojournalist/writer. Pissed off housing/homeless-people advocate. I believe in coyotes and time as an abstract. Karma karma karma karma karma comedian. I come and go.
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A beauty queen and cheerleader at the University of Kentucky was arrested after giving birth and hiding her newborn's body in a closet. Laken Snelling, 21, was taken into custody on Saturday and charged with abuse of a corpse, www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
I mean, look at her. She is the New American Ideal. There is such disregard for life and humanity in this country now. They act like death and loss are "ok" and it's spreading. đ˘
oh well
oh my god - this is the future
I zoomed up and then enhanced the image
I Believe.
not stupid. willfully and knowingly evil.
AI slop
yeah you enhanced a noisy image and the noise was exaggerated and smoothed.... this is meaningless AI slop
I was always warned that if i pulled anything like this i'd be sent to jail. is nobody being sent to jail?
$125 per person, $4M per year. Fucking CHEAP blood money, that fucking fuck. and I assure you that even the "Good Democrats" back in my hometown will be ok with it "because we need the money. Well, what can you do? Illegal is illegal."
Damn. I'm from there but never heard of Mahoning Matters. They're publishing more news than the remaining print and TV "journalists" combined.
fuckin ohio source: www.mahoningmatters.com/news/local/a...
New Mexico has issued a public health order that removes federal restrictions to COVID-19 vaccine access so that pharmacies in New Mexico can vaccinate people of all ages and risk profiles. Every state need to do this!
iâm not hard to please but Amazon has absolutely been going the extra mile lately to surface options i may have otherwise missed
but the allegations are "90% untrue"
Roy Cohn was dead: to begin with.
Being shitty about/to unhoused people is such a hardline dealbreaker. It means youâre nakedly motivated by your disgust for a group of people in your community and not at all curious about the material conditions that got them there.
thatâs all u got? wtaf
đ 35% of CAâs homeless population is Latine đ Half were in their first episode of homelessness đ Half lost housing in informal settingsâno lease, no protections đ 1 in 3 had minor children not with them đ 79% were living unsheltered Read: buff.ly/Mme8B4U (2/5)
why do people who drive like shit and cut others off always have passive aggressive license plate frames? WWJerryD?
I finally read computer scientist Joseph Weizenbaumâs 1976 classic âComputer Power and Human Reason.â This book deserves a massive revival in our current age of grotesque and largely thoughtless AI creep into everything:
live your life in such a way that millions of people donât joyfully await your demise
If you're arrested in Illinois protesting the planned ICE HQ in North Chicago, I can represent you pro bono. Email me at sheryl@weikallaw.com. As always, I will take as many cases as I can.
Like John Brown, I'm fanatically anti-slavery. I consider that one of my better qualities.
Iâve heard from a couple of messaging strategists now that people shouldnât post so much about COVID19 vaccines because itâs âdivisiveâ. I am here to say that I do not give a damn what is popular. I will never ignore scientific evidence for the sake of expediency, and neither should anyone else.
I very much doubt it happened but if/when it does, the story will probably break in some ridiculous way, like a cabinet secretary accidentally posting it on Pinterest
Shit, they'll still be channeling him through an AI-connected ouija board.
Dr. Dmitri Daskalakis, who resigned from the CDC says that RFKJr said he believes that Avian flu should be allowed to "burn through" the chickens and then children and others, so we can propagate a "stronger species". RFKJr believes in eugenics. RFKJr needs to resign or be fired.
fuck that thin blue line shit
I hope it will be exceptionally expensive
this is homicide
Ireland now has over 5000 children living through homelessness. A month ago, the Housing Minister said he was powerless to stop this. Can you imagine being a child stuck living in a hotel, telling yourself it won't be for much longer, then seeing the man with the power to stop it talking like this
so i was shopping at Safeway today and happened upon this WHAT KIND OF ANIMAL leaves 1/4 of a can of creamed corn uneaten??
your use of "frequency" implies that this is a coded message. We learned from Star Trek that advanced alien civilizations are monitoring our "spectral emissions" (and we, theirs). #FirstContact
OpenAI is an evil company and ChatGPT is an evil product. Excise it from your lives and yell at any institution that tries to make you use it.
Lydia, the 16 year old who is more honest than most of our elected officials and the corporate media who cover the administration
oh thatâs Peter Pan
NO I WILL NOT
We have the full spectrum from 3 piece suit to fig leaf, and loin cloths (microfibre, rubber, or leather) in between.
LOL no. you have nothing to back up your rant. Rent control saves tenancies and keeps people in their communities. And SB79 specifically targets 2-family rent controlled units with long-term tenants in SF. There could have been better protections for such tenants. It's intentional.
Uh, come to San Francisco. We have stores that only sell variations on these outfits.
đ¤ the cats have made a fully-connected graph of the three of us and am devastated that I can't explain this to them in a way they would appreciate
if there are relevant dates/times or a chain of events, put that in a google sheet and get it out of your head so you don't have to think about it your POV is allowed to be: I did nothing wrong. someone acted out irrationally.
w/r/t filing unemployment, admit nothing. "did you know you were at risk if you (did/didn't) _____"? No I did not. "did you talk to your manager about ___". I tried to repeatedly and they said everything was fine. Turn in all check-ins on time, attend ANYTHING (even webinars) to show initiative
Open google docs or doc on your own computer. When your head is full of thoughts about what happened, write it down. when you think of a way they wronged you w/r/t leaving, write it down. (1) get it out of your head so you aren't stuck in a loop; (2) if unemployment pushes back, these are rebuttals
Example #1093 of a YIMBY who goes silent as soon as all his statements are refuted and shown to be untrue. SB79 will permanently displace many long-time rent-controlled tenants from San Francisco and other cities with inadequate tenant protections. Period. that's the truth.
Valid. I mean, this is the dumbest shit I have ever seen. But THIS IS HOW THEY THINK. LOOK AT THESE IMBECILES burning down their own life support system
Pause if you can. You feel like you are "supposed to be doing something" but that's a lot to ask when you're also processing the bullshit.
it may say âbus onlyâ but thatâs actually a special lane just for you! those green boxes with bikes painted in them are just for you too because youâre special! speed limits are just a number! youâre special and no one else matters
the only coffee shop chain that should be allowed in Boston does not need to be mentioned by name because we all know it is the One.
Good luck persuading them of that. There IS an argument for limited vehicle access, at least on the side streets if not the thoroughfare. Mountain View has just about got it right after narrowing the street and taking cars out of the core. The cross streets are open, but also narrow and slow.
it's already stupid in retrospect as much as it was prospectively stupid, especially the "we had an idea" center lane dalliance that cost so many years and some injuries. Every time we're there (often) and see packed sidewalks and busy shops, someone says "OMG It's dead. Bike lane killed it."
Two here. Plus parts/tuneup for the one that I refurbed and donated to a homeless org in town. Plus accessories. Plus referrals.
Part of me wants to walk in occasionally w/ someone, mid-sentence, so they hear one of us say "... and it's so AAMAAAAZZZEEE that this bike shop is right here on the BIKE LANE. Like omigod. You guys were so smart to open up right here on the BIKE LANE... no, just looking"
I haven't been back since that happened. I mean look at this fuckin thumbhead prune telling his sob story to the chronicle. Of course, the chronicle.
IIRC part of the story was that elite cyclists drove their elite bikes to the shop because it does elite tuneups or some shit. it's all incoherent. most impressive was that he had no fuckin shame about advertising his opposition to the fuckin bike lane on the fuckin windows of his fuckin bike shop
FUCK THAT GUY I spent a ton of money there before he came out as a shitfuck. A fuckin bike shop w/ bike lane out front w/ people on bikes who need bikes & bike repairs & bike shit & he fought it. Why does anyone shop there now? Woke Boston has bike and snack shops on the Minuteman Trail.
It would be cool if the journalists doing these kinds of stories would take 5 minutes and look up one of the many studies on the benefits of bike infrastructure and then include that in the story. But no, we get vibes and a one-sided story.
Hi Taylor. Thanks for asking. here are my thoughts: "We are completely fucked."
i spent as many in print, and a few more. vid kids always fucked it up and print stenographers have adopted their bad habits for the last many years hey, rage bait makes engagement so it must be good, right?
fuckin wimps
aaackshually: being able to get it right in 90 seconds IS the âskillâ part of the job. all the rest us just words and pictures to illustrate a well structured, factual story. most âjournalistsâ today suck, especially if their thing is âtvâ (whoâve always sucked at the local level)
all of this makes total sense when you recognize that âfreedomâ here means the freedom to dominate those you view as your subordinates and âtyrannyâ is when someone threatens that âfreedomâ or worse, when those subordinates try to claim power as political equals
cool yeah they whole meet occasionally to fuck shit up then go home thing kind of shocks me otoh full time legislators keep adding laws. maybe thereâs something to not constantly tweaking reality
what is this sleeping beauty bullshit? something about it - can't quite pin it - is really creeping me out
There are several reps in office now who could barely afford to move to DC and survive until their first paychecks. And yes, anyone who's well off doesn't GAF about the wage. they have other income streams. So these genius plans just starve/punish those who are most like us. Pointless.
unclear if you think this is useful that texas leg is basically in hibernation for most of its lifetime. You do realize that doesn't work everywhere, yeah? And the whiners seem to loop in the admins/workers who actually keep the world running, into these schemes.
yeah that's not gonna cut it. Regret to inform you that the city council in Rustbelt, OH is not gonna pump up the minimum to $45/hour no matter how much you want to change the world and GOOD people who could run government can earn more doing anything else. You act like elected office is a gift.
to answer your other question, hell no i'm not an "elected official" cuz i already can make way more than they do, doing something else, and avoiding all the bullshit they both create and deal with. i wish we had BETTER people in those roles, and def don't want someone who would work for low wage
Because your premise is completely stupid. Municipalities need professional management, and it's a full time job. Why would anyone worth a damn sign up for all that responsibility? Fuck that. It's just really fucking stupid because leadership roles pay way more than minimum and always will.
One more thing - many will make $180K this year and $0K next year. The country is collapsing even middle-income people are losing their jobs. Hell, there's a bunch of ppl on Bsky begging rent money. Shitty time to kick LT tenants out of housing for a "vision" driven by profit. Need more protections.
that's funny elected officials running Random Township, OH don't create jobs but they do keep the roads paved and the fire dept staffed. You fucking nitwit
TBQH I am sure Scott knows his "vision" doesn't "pencil" w/o destroying 2-family rent-controlled housing in SF. And as I said, the new units the survivors return to "at the old rent + 5%(?)" will be smaller than what they left. eg 1100sf 2br --> 850sf 2br. "a home" is differentiable, not commodity
There's still a CLIFF at $84K that hurts all 2-income households=MANY middle class tenants. SF is ground zero for rent-controlled LT tenants w/ afaik comp nowhere near those levels. We've watched devs/LLs exhaust tenants by slow-rolling projects. LT tenants in 2-families are at huge risk.
Wait. i'm confused. so the first chart you posted isn't relo sums but income cutoffs? the 2nd is the amount received?
Breaking a lease means ON THE HOOK for all remaining months if they can't re-rent the unit. We know from experience that when tenants are "temporarily" evicted for reno, most leave the city forever. SB79 its written to target exactly these tenancies as they are DEFINED as "underutilized"
Those large sums are for low income people. What are the cutoffs? Middle class won't get that. Rent Assume$2500/mo = $30K/or or more to market rate. $20K one-time won't help. AND the "temp" place will want 12mo leases. When "return" time comes w/ 2 mos to move or lose, they have to break a lease.
It didn't hurt. We didn't talk about it a lot. Small company... never enough $ to pay everyone what they were worth so it was a stepping stone to other things. But I feel I tried my best to be more coworker than boss that's how we made money (apart from worrying, which was my job).
btw am i for more housing? fuck yes. but Scott knows EXACTLY what he was doing when he set up 2-family homes AND housing above retail to have no protection. Those are the targets of SB79. It's easy to see once you exclude all the "protected" homes.
I'm ok with that. When I ran my own companies, my wage was the median wage of everyone who worked there. if the company did really well in a given year, I made more money than they did since it was my ass 100% on the line. If not, well, too bad for me.
we know from LONG experience that "renoviction" is very effective at kicking people out of SF. Fewer than 50%, maybe 1/3 at most, can use "right to return" because they can't survive in SF for 1-3 years at market rate during reno. Also the replacement will be smaller (only requires same # bedrooms)
See, you're lyning. "More than two units" <-- at least you were honest about hat. What comprises a HUGE number of rent-controlled units in SF (which must be older homes)? Two-family Victorians snugged right up to transit lines. Who lives in them? Long-time rent-controlled tenants. 1/2
ICE took 2 firefighters OFF THE FUCKING FIRE LINE!?
sb79 has no protection for a huge number of long term rent controlled tenants who will be forced out of SF if their buildings are targeted wiener knows this
this is a scene straight out of a war zone. the president has declared war on his own country.
"Tao is one of the most prominent mathematicians and academics to publicly oppose the administrationâs actions, calling them an âexistential threatâ to his field, and academic science, more broadly. He said public advocacy is a priority over his research, for now." www.nbcnews.com/science/scie...
Thereâs always a fucker called Flynn pulling Boston back to the glorious past
Just about guaranteed. Over on FB Iâm watching people like him in Ohio rally to eliminate property taxes (with no plan to replace the money) and bellow that elected officials should work for free. Theyâre two sides of the same kind of monkey (butt).
Abbe Lowell and I represent CDC Director #SusanMonarez. Contrary to govt statements, Dr. Monarez has neither resigned nor yet been fired. She will not resign. We have issued the following statement:
Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.), top Dem on the Senate health committee, on this evening's chaos at CDC: âWe cannot let RFK Jr. burn whatâs left of the CDC and our other critical health agencies to the groundâhe must be fired."
We need to stop using a framework of 'ChatGPT killed someone', it feeds into the myth of the system's agency & OpenAI's framing. The right framework to use: OpenAI is continuing to perpetuate an indefinite industrial disaster. The oil pipe is not at fault when it breaks. The company that built it is
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this twenty-seventh day of August, in the year of our Lord two thousand twenty-five to say F*ck the NRA & F*ck Trump.
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good eyes. the house and surroundings are also full of crap so ... choice of pathologies
LOL "suit" body armor is their "suit", mister.
I'm sad to hear that OAK has taken a turn. they also removed all the ATMs for a spell but now they've reappeared in new locations
this guy deserves more than a footnote under the johnny appleseed legend