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> For any electricians/plumbers/etc. out there? Go get yours. When the shoe was on the other foot you were mocked and told to switch careers, lowballed on horrible residential proj…

> The politics of it started half a century ago, and the politicizing of abortion was very much intentional: It might have re-emerged as abortion became more in vogue in the early …

> Did they do those DEI things in 2021 because they wanted to, or because they had to? And if they had to, what power compelled them? These are rhetorical questions. I also don't t…

My bad, I thought it was just an apt way of describing modern tech workers, didn't know it was an antisemitic slur. I love Isreal and pledge my allegiance to the Zionist cause.

I'm guessing you live in the northern half if your using cute and Haight in the same sentence. Esp when Inner Sunset has effectively the same architecture. You could feasibly quadr…

I disagree with this, I've noticed that the countries rising to prominence are quite nationalistic and the ones fading into obscurity are very post-national. > Europeans and people…

I don't understand how people can see San Francisco and think "I wish this entire skyline was all 20 story apartment buildings so that rootless cosmopolitans can have marginally ch…

"You know who else reacted to foreign backed industrial sabotage campaigns? Hitler" this is deep stuff dude. you should run for office

>Why should the police be accountable, indeed? That's honestly my whole point, my whole issue with police having drones. They're not accountable, and when they get caught, they lie…

> First, the police have a weird habit of determining that black people drive the most suspicious cars. Does this racial profiling extend to their drone use as well? It's clear fro…

This is one of those ideas that gets thrown around and fits into one of two categories: - Massive money sink that shows no results: See SF during covid and a bit after - Dystopian …

This is something that happens right now and is currently known as "embezzlement". This will generally get you in trouble right now, so I can conceive of a world where it would get…

How do these conversion numbers compare to changing demographics via immigration? The problem with this view in my eyes is that you can get minority/interest groups to vote left in…

I saw this clickbait article once about how china was making laser propelled submarines, and the 3D stacking logic chips kind of sounds about as outlandish. Looking into it, they a…

Those aren't freedoms, those are rights. Calling them freedoms is nonsensical

This is a really great way of putting it.

>If anything, I've heard most of my coworkers (at multiple companies) say something along the lines of "we have to move so fast that there's no time to think. Anecdotally, the tide…

You're right nihilism is a never a productive reaction to have, but I find it a bit tone deaf to say it now after the past 10 years of ever increasing partisan capture of science a…

I don't understand this dichotomy between the people you've mentioned—nobody makes hundreds of millions of dollars in a vacuum by themselves. Swift had her parents, staff, record c…