We actually don’t, the guy wasn’t that progressive and was only advocating for it because the cost of renovating and maintaining that stretch of road was unjustifiable since the dunes constantly migrate and cover it.

The guy was actually more on the right by san francisco standards and got elected fear mongering on crime during the post blm reaction.

He didn’t do it to make waves, the city voted and passed a referendum to close the highway and make a park, he just endorsed the referendum.

It also didn’t delete the ability for people in the sunset or the Richmond to travel, there’s a parallel road a couple blocks inland that is actually more connected to the highway network. People mainly went down the great highway because it was scenic, not because it was the best route.

It was also just a bad road for cars, the dunes on the beach would migrate all the time and the city would have to pay to clean up the sand. It’s better for pedestrians and cyclists who care less about a bit of sand on the road.

fueled by many of the same people who tossed out three liberal school board members and politically progressive San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin in 2022. Engardio, a crime victims’ advocate in his first term, supported those recalls and was elected that year to a seat on the city’s Board of Supervisors.

Live by the recall die by the recall

They can’t, the park was created by a referendum by the whole city, which passed last year with the more populace east side voting for it and the more suburban west side, where the park is, voting against. This recall was more about spite from the West siders mad that they lost and that their representative didn’t back them then actually trying to change anything.

the flying “car” in question. Just seems like a quadcopter to me, but I guess that’s why I’m not in marketing.

In the senate*

Rashida Tlaib has been calling out israels bullshit since day one, and is left of Bernie on a couple other issues like abolishing ice.

IMO, the algorithm is overhyped, and the secret to tik toks success is its scale. If you gave metas algorithm the same amount of data to train on and the same amount of content to recommend, it would be equally as addictive. It might suck at first but give it a couple months and people won’t be able to tell the difference between the old algorithm and whatever oracle creates.

It’s just like chatgpt, given the same set of public data any company with sufficient engineering and compute resources can make there own model that performs very similarly.

In an ideal world we’d have algorithmic choice, like in bluesky sort of, and we could actually compare different ones, but that would cut into the profits of the data monoplies.

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I know this is how the fediverse works, and how it has to work. But maybe we shouldn’t be advertising this tool right now when the right is trying to dox people and get them fired/deported for liking a kirk meme.

Saw asmongold doing the same to try and get game devs fired for edgy tweets about kirk.

The free speech absolutist side seems really keen on cancel culture when it serves them.

The title may be wrong, the article says 35,000 households. Idk what the average household size is but just guessing 2 that would be 70,000 people, about a 10% increase on the city’s population of 780,000.

You have to also consider they’re talking about the city proper, the metro area is around 4 million people and that area probably gained a lot more cars as it’s mostly suburbs.

So eating meat is now rebelling against the billionaires…

For every dollar a billionaire spends trying to get you to eat less meat, other billionaires spend 100x more trying to get you to eat more meat through advertising, lobbying, etc.

If you want to play into the billionaires plans, eat more meat. If you want to help stop climate change, eat less meat.

Unless you plan on actually doing something about these billionaires, like Luigi. In which case I’ll personally buy you all the filet mignon you can eat.

Same with cars, even if we completely ignore climate change we maybe got a century left of oil before it’s too expensive to drive. By not investing in other transportation now we’re just making it more painful when we finally do rip the bandaid off.

And not littering won’t fix the underlying problems of single use plastics wrapping everything we touch, and the corporations that want to keep it that way. Doesn’t mean you shouldn’t litter.

At least the mayor knows what’s up:

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson swiftly condemned the action.

“He just wants his own secret police force that will do publicity stunts whenever his poll numbers are sinking, whenever his jobs report shows a stagnating economy, whenever he needs another distraction from his failures,” he told reporters.

Ideally yes, Palestinians have a right to defend themselves from genocide.

Realistically you could sell those weapons to Ukraine since the weapons industry is the only thing keeping this shit country going.

Mormons and skiers, also a decent amount getting born there too. There fertility rate may not be positive but it’s a lot better then the other states so they’re relatively gaining population.

Honestly a lot of what the article points to isn’t that bad and wouldn’t be out of place in a lot of the sfw moe communities here. They even reference a “topless women” which is just a picture from the shoulders up of some ai slop galaxy women.

Yeah fuck Elon and his nazi ai but I don’t think he’s posting gooning content, or at least I don’t think i could goon to it.

Come to San Francisco, the weather never goes above 70 degrees and we have the best bread bowls and they only cost $50 (without tax)

You can still use free fillable forms, you can fill out the raw tax forms yourself online and can submit them online there. Not the best UI, it’s literally just the forms, but you cut out the middle man so they don’t get more money to lobby congress to keep this dumb system going. It’s also free if you make more then $85,000 , which alot of the “free” software isn’t.