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divya, 11 days ago to random

HAHAHAHAHAHAH

"Miracle in Solano: California Forever unites Democrats and Republicans"

"**The point: **The California Forever project appears headed for a massive defeat in November. But the billionaires behind the proposed "tech utopia" have managed to pull off a true political miracle in 2024: uniting Democrats and Republicans – against their project. I got a sneak peak at more detailed polling data. In all of my years in politics, I've rarely seen anything poll this badly (besides Mayor London Breed, who has a 71 percent disapproval rating)."

https://www.parallelmirror.com/solano-county-poll-republicans-democrats-california-forever/

divya, 3 days ago to random

Interestingly reading about China's EV "innovations" it feels as though they are trapped in the mindset of pleasing the white people – big full OLED screens, fancy interiors that Cheeto would love instead of doing stuff that would actually be useful to the consumers.

Also thought of this given how Buicks were apparently popular in China

divya, 8 months ago to random

sdljfslmkjdfaldsjkdaljfd Amtrak is building a 90min train between Dallas and Houston!!!!! Thats as much distance as between SF and San Luis Obispo!!!

How is this not happening in California???? Shame on Gavin Newsom for not prioritizing trains within our state. Imagine if we had a 90min connector between OAK/LA. How amazing would our lives be?!

Imagine the possibility of living in LA and commuting to Bay Area for work!

https://qz.com/amtrak-texas-high-speed-rail-dallas-houston-90-minutes-1850724002

divya, 2 months ago to random

"First U.S. moon lander in half a century stops working a week after tipping over at touchdown"

If this is not a perfect metaphor for private enterprises trying to fulfill social needs, I don't know what is.

https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2024-03-01/first-us-moon-lander-in-half-a-century-stops-working-a-week-after-tipping-over-at-touchdown

divya, 1 day ago to random

IMHO we should stop using Latin names for birds, plants and use the names used for them where they were found to exist first. What has latin got to do with anything?

divya, 2 days ago to random

Reading the PFAS bombshell from ProPublica. I know this has nothing to do with nuclear power generation but this is exactly the story of workplace violence found in nuclear power plants like GE's. This is also why I am anti-nuclear power plants.

". They told Hodge only part of what they knew: that PFOS had sickened and even killed laboratory animals and had caused liver abnormalities in factory workers."

https://www.propublica.org/article/3m-forever-chemicals-pfas-pfos-inside-story

divya, 5 days ago to random

Oh you thought colonialism ended?

"More French police arrive in New Caledonia amid riots
French High Commissioner Louis Le Franc said reinforcements had been deployed to "regain control of all the areas of the urban area that we have lost".

The unrest erupted this week after lawmakers in Paris backed and approved changes to voting rolls that the indigenous population say will dilute their political influence."

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cyj348wwggzo

divya, 2 months ago to random

This is exactly the kind of architecture that architects in India need to build instead of building glass buildings with air conditioning that do not fit the conditions these buildings live in.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/feb/29/we-dont-need-air-con-how-burkina-faso-builds-schools-that-stay-cool-in-40c-heat

divya, 2 days ago to random

How is it legal for petition gatherers to get paid per signature??? this is nuts

"Dana said the petitioner told her that he receives $12 for every signature he collects for California Forever. Another petition circulator collecting signatures in Solano County, who preferred not to give a name, told the Vallejo Sun that California Forever pays $6 per signature and an additional $3 bonus for a total of $9 per signature if the initiative qualifies for the ballot. The other petitions the circulator was offering to voters paid $3 per signature."

https://www.vallejosun.com/solano-residents-say-california-forever-petitioners-spread-misinformation-about-voting-process/

divya, 10 days ago to random

"He was evicted and his home was later listed on Airbnb. Meanwhile, his landlord hosted a charity event to end homelessness"

headline from Toronto but could be a headline from SF

https://www.thestar.com/real-estate/he-was-evicted-and-his-home-was-later-listed-on-airbnb-meanwhile-his-landlord-hosted/article_72c86bde-e162-11ee-b6d0-e3e7190ad965.html

divya, 10 days ago to random

Purchased MSG coz the Sohla cookbook recommended it, promptly experienced mouth tingling upon first use. 😩

divya, 7 months ago to random

OMFG Gavin veto'ed the bill that was sent to him to outlaw caste discrimination and he does so on the weekend? What a crying shame.

divya, 7 months ago to random

wow all this while I thought Ruskin Bond was dead but he is actually alive??? Amazing.

divya, 3 months ago to random

I don't know why it never occurred to me until now, but did Black activists from the Caribbean ever talk about cricket and the West Indies team specifically?

divya, 8 months ago to random

the country to whom billions of dollars in aid goes. here is what the advisor to their President has to say about people like me and other asians;

"There is weak intellectual capabilities in these countries"

(thread below says sub-title translation is valid)

https://x.com/DanielDumbrill/status/1701720456708153637?s=20

divya, 8 months ago to random

If SF had a real media they would be all up in this explosive investigation by the teachers union in sf about how SFUSD squandered money and is now blaming a "teachers shortage" for why it can't better the working conditions of teachers in SF.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OGk_92yCWxj0oLg6w5Dy-G-WfoGBjUdi/view

divya, 6 months ago to random

OMG instagram tells me the word "Cash" is from Tamil word *Kaasu *https://www.etymonline.com/word/cash

divya, 7 days ago to random

This whole school board thing is exactly playing out in SF too. Suddenly SF school district has no money? My hypothesis is this is a ploy by the billionaire class to undermine public education which they believe is the reason people are hating on them.

All of those who recalled the school board and did some fake nonsense about algebra are suspect in my mind.

divya, 3 days ago (edited 3 days ago) to random

A wild story of a white socialite who killed a Belizean police office & who had kids out of wedlock with a UK conservative billionaire's son

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jasmine-hartin-henry-jemmott-fatal-shooting-48-hours/

divya, 3 days ago to random

wow the monkey man villain is clearly a brahmin. Amazing

divya, 4 days ago to random

Yes police really need billions of dollars to do more of this amirite

"US police departments quietly sell untold numbers of their used guns. Thousands of those guns have turned up at crime scenes."

https://www.cbsnews.com/police-selling-guns/

divya, 1 day ago to random

Was looking up estate sales near me and turns out some people are selling possible antiques looted from India & China (if they are fakes I would feel good).

https://www.estatesales.net/CA/Dublin/94568/4072650

divya, 2 months ago to random

Oh I am ready for an expose of Jay Shetty.

"Much of Shetty’s spiritual education took place not in India but in Watford, an orbital town outside north-west London, they say. He was there not because of a spiritual discovery in college but because he grew up in the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (also known as Iskcon or the Hare Krishna movement)."

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/ng-interactive/2024/feb/29/jay-shetty-self-help-empire

divya, 7 months ago to random

Two Bay Area spooky movies to watch:

• The Fog: Doesn't actually feel that spooky but it's John Carpenter!!
• Coherence: Pretty spooky and very white culture specific feels. Very Lord of the Flies I mean.

Can you recommend other horror movies set in Bay Area?

divya, 3 days ago to random

Apparently a 2013 study by Department of Energy found that rich people either do not cover their windows or use horizontal blinds

PDF: https://www.energy.gov/eere/buildings/articles/residential-windows-and-window-coverings-detailed-view-installed-base-and