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It's a perfect example of Biden Logic (TM): The best way to stop addicts from using drugs is to give them even more free drugs.
> Biden Logic(TM) /sigh why does Biden need to be involved in our conversation. For anyone who reads my comments please don’t take this as a pro or against Biden thing. Right now I’m exclusively interested in critical analysis of free drugs at safe injection sites and helping people disconfirm their biases. > The best way to stop addicts from using drugs is to give them even more free drugs. It’s definitely counter i…
I agree. That's why, whenever I meet recovering alcoholics, I always send them a few cases of booze, because I know it will help them quit faster.
Same with smokers. If I meet anyone trying to quit, I always leave them with a few boxes of free cigarettes. It's very counter intuitive, like you said, but the more temptation they have, the easier it is for them to quit.
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The only way SF will be fixed is if there is massive earthquake to take care of all the nimby concerns. Can't be concerned and stop construction if you don't have a back yard anymore.
Not again… last time was such a mess.
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Is this actually legal?
Yes, of course, if you register as an overseas voter. You get to keep voting in the last place you lived. I couldn’t transfer my vote to Texas where it would do more good, for instance. https://sfelections.sfgov.org/military-and-overseas-voting When my daughter turns 18 and if we haven’t returned to the US by then, she’ll also get to vote in her hometown of San Francisco.
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If you are a visitor/commuter from the burbs, you most likely aren't riding MUNI much except for rare occasions or for short trips. Otherwise you are asking for a ridiculously long commute. They still pay the fare. People tend to drive if the trip is ridiculously long by transit. Go tell people how much SF residents pay for museums and how much they pay if they are low income. Compare that to people who don't live in…
BART and CalTrain have very few connection points with Muni. The CalTrain people would get off at 4th & King and a relatively small percentage would take the 3rd street streetcar. The primary BART connection points are near the Embarcadero. Muni is so slow from the SOMA that it is often easier and faster to walk to/from those BART stops. Oftentimes, instead of MUNI, you saw people with scooters or bikes. The people g…
The tech people I knew detested BART and completely ignored MUNI.
It was Uber for them.
As for Muni (it's an abbreviation not an acronym), every BART station within San Francisco (and the Daly City station) gets Muni service except for Glen Park. The Glen Park station is a short walk from the J.
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I feel like we have a lot of non-critical stuff that we should be able to cut. Right. And if you don't value books, music, or art then San Francisco is not for you. There are plenty of other more bare bones cities to live in. Even in the Bay Area. You would likely be much happier in a city like Emeryville or Denver. It costs more to do more. San Francisco does a lot of things that other consolidated cities push off o…
I think that's a really condescending response. I'm happy to live here; that doesn't mean that I don't get to take issues with the actions of our government. And you don't get to pretend that SF "isn't for" people who disagree with your specific views, nor do you get to claim that I don't value books, music or art (which is nowhere indicated in my prior posts). I did not say anything about cutting services for the ho…
Don't try to put words in my mouth, and don't try to act like you get to
be a gatekeeper on who belongs in this city.
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Ok, imagine for me the society for which you can file a police report for a stolen backpack, and you relatively efficiently have your backpack returned, and the perpetrator brought to justice. What does that society look like? How does that happen?
That you won't get it back doesn't mean that it's not useful to count the crime. It won't get counted if not reported.
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I was born in San Francisco (so was my Dad, my Mom was born in Oakland and so were her parents etc.) and my family has been through many ups and downs in the Bay Area over many generations. SF used to actually be a cheaper place to live than a lot of parts of Los Angeles. There is no way it will be Detroit though. It's just too desirable of a place to live.
Don't underestimate the possibility of a death spiral. It's already happened once. Read Gray Brechin's excellent book Imperial San Francisco . SF used to be the undisputed capital of the entire North American West Coast, and arguably even the entire Pacific. In the aftermath of the 1906 earthquake, it lost that position to LA. I lived in SF for 19 years, moved to London (family reasons, elderly parents with health is…
My understanding is that prior to the "Southern Strategy" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_strategy) of the 1960s, the Democratic Party was largely right wing, and the Republican Party was largely left wing.
So San Francisco flipping from Republican to Democrat aligns pretty much squarely with the change in politics of the parties due to the Southern Strategy.
This implies that in fact, San Francisco has always been fairly left-wing.
The city officials are asleep at the wheel. Blame it on remote work and pandemic as much as you want, but the reality is that the city was in decline even before that. It is too expensive to live in the city. It is too expensive to commute to the city. It is too expensive to feed yourself in the city. Crime is rampant. Drug use and filth is everywhere. Most importantly city has been hostile to tech and business owner…
We can fix it, but only if we get organized. Sachin Agarwal (co-founder of Posterous) and I founded GrowSF to fix the city. We're less than two years in and already the #2 most influential voter guide in the city. We must elect pro-growth and pro-tech people who can bring competence to government. There's no other way out of this mess. We'd love your support! https://growsf.org/donate
I find it curious though that your guide only endorses a single candidate, when the voters can rank multiple candidates.. Surely there are multiple candidates that stand out above the rest, and bringing attention to that set would help get better people into office?