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Wouldn't it just be smarter to sublet the space and fill up the building. Rather than having empty floors on a building you barely use.
Subletting commercial space in San Francisco is not a simple endeavor at this time: https://www.sfgate.com/realestate/article/sf-office-vacancy-...
Selling off a twitter bird statue makes it look bad. What a signal that the company doesn't believe in itself anymore.
Heh, quite a few 60" LED TV's in there, with starting bid price of US$50. ;)
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Can you point to some examples? Note that they have to be examples which only apply to one side (I'm going to assume you mean conservatives) and aren't standard violations of ToS.
They suppressed Trump’s account before the election…
That fact was public knowledge.
Did the twitter files reveal anything more specific about why they suppressed Trump's account?
It seems to me that merely calling them "Twitter files" is very effective at evoking and implying possibly more than what they actually contain.
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Can they let the homeless stay in the unused floors? Surely they can find a spot in their heart to help out people down on their luck during Christmas.
Many homeless won’t stay in homeless shelters due to ‘draconian’ rules like no drugs, no dangerous animals, etc. Any attempt to do something like you’re proposing in a nice space not explicitly setup for the purpose is going to go pretty badly quite quickly.
Most people don't want to get assaulted, robbed, or infected with disease/pests.
That is a reason why empty office space doesn't solve anything. There's already plenty of of it without Twitter HQ. Running a temporary shelter is more about the logistics/support than it is the physical space.
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Many homeless won’t stay in homeless shelters due to ‘draconian’ rules like no drugs, no dangerous animals, etc. Any attempt to do something like you’re proposing in a nice space not explicitly setup for the purpose is going to go pretty badly quite quickly.
Usually what keeps people out of shelters is that they are not staffed/resourced enough to maintain safety. One person being violent can ruin the resource for everyone else. Poor access to health care and hygiene also can destroy a shelter's utility. Most people don't want to get assaulted, robbed, or infected with disease/pests. That is a reason why empty office space doesn't solve anything. There's already plenty o…
Someone with a knife requires 4-5 people to subdue minimum, etc.
Someone with an out of control dog will cause serious, potentially fatal injuries before anyone can react.
That people often get these things and want them to protect themselves just makes the problem more intractable, because when you add drugs and mental illness into the mix, the people are impossible to predict too.
Empty office space definitely doesn’t solve it. But doubling staffing at the homeless shelters won’t either.
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Eh, that was from Zip2 for $22 million, right? That's something but it's not PayPal money. I think he just had "average Stanford student" levels of privilege to do that.
This is warped, average Stanford grad is well off but not supercar level finances.
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They suppressed Trump’s account before the election…
> They suppressed Trump’s account before the election… That fact was public knowledge. Did the twitter files reveal anything more specific about why they suppressed Trump's account? It seems to me that merely calling them "Twitter files" is very effective at evoking and implying possibly more than what they actually contain.