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chema

@chema@sanfranciscan.org

A prieto colorado from a former Indian Republic, but in SF a while. Vegan and lifelong vegetarian. Often kicking it with @luna 🐕🐾 along the Embarcadero.

Opinions expressed are my own, but they could be yours too.

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chema, to random
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If we sorted all San Francisco households by income, split them into five equal groups and calculated the average income for each group, we could look at inequality and income distribution patterns.

Conveniently, the US Census Bureau’s ACS estimates this almost every year. They call it the mean household income of quintiles.

Between 2019 and 2021, the average income of the poorest 20% of households in San Francisco dropped from $18,082 to $15,507. That’s a decrease of nearly $2,600 or -14%.

Meanwhile, the wealthiest 20% saw their income increase 10%, from $457,966 to $502,622. That’s $44,656 more, or almost what THREE of the poorest household make. The top 5% saw their income increase by 15%.

The poor got poorer and the richer for richer.

chema,
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You can find the source data for this on the ACS website here, just add San Francisco as a geographic filter:

https://data.census.gov/table?tid=ACSDT1Y2021.B19081&moe=false

chema,
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There is evidence that income inequality and crime are related, and it makes sense if you think about it.

Maybe policy makers ought to address growing inequality if they actually want to tackle perceptions of out of control property crime.

Or they can just let the rich get richer and protect them from the hungry hordes.

chema, to random
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One of the most frustrating things about being are the folkloric expectations. My family's hometown has been around longer than English settlers on this continent. Cultures and ways of being change after a few hundred years, particularly given settler-colonial pressures. Doesn't stop making us though. Same thing for many (most?) people in .

chema, to random
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How little things change: The violent reactions to climate protestors blocking traffic in Europe today are the same reactions my colleagues and friends experienced in 2003, when they blocked traffic between Geneva and Lausanne during the G8 Summit in Evian.

Two protestors, Martin Shaw (English) and Gesine Wenzel (German), were hanging off the bridge to stop traffic when a police officer walked up and cut the rope. Both plummeted and nearly died.

The officer was found not guilty.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-laOIR66r0

chema, to random
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The NY Times is rightfully calling out the meat industry for its water use in the Colorado. 56% of all water is used for livestock feed or directly by the animals.

Imagine how much land is used, land that should be restored back to its original ecosystems.

The final paragraph is weak, but A for effort.

Gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/05/22/climate/colorado-river-water.html?unlocked_article_code=aYDvwkAnYtE8vGpKtxok8zGMZPi9A8d_2qcDjOr6fOW4NS7jdHwq5tUxHHAlJzXsrpfIhzEfRI6oBlXq7mgLXKpjxuzc_W4Wqw_j_6sFbOxTA0ihFkv2Hp_Mm-6aB6OfrxArp54Vl6_13quWV4p3Xyy12V2LWRJqEwnEzi7KL9pWn9GNfuq2QwyhAwQduc3hTJ_zcl9-7xo6utCwnqyJSJSs171xMg46JDnYjwn6sb7nK1RImRtDYFVYlmDqkShznrJH_xmrvfl1JatlXoXPbn3fGCHKSv8V4wjVJl2qf0MB3WPVlPLaq0weOHgcQqBYbNzdkNv4CmYAnET3A4zUVK_KUMPSwYKuXLxB7DfHnA&smid=url-share

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anyway people who claim all ✌️ organized religion ✌️ is inherently evil and oppressive need to read up on liberation theology and stfu

chema,
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In terms of settler colonialism and conquest, I see little if any difference between white American evangelicals and conservative Mexican Catholics, which happen to be a dominant cultural and political force. From Opus Dei, to the Yunque, to various other orders and institutions and political parties, they have wielded major political power. Compared to that, liberation theology has had minimal influence.

chema, to random
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Poster for the encuentro Zapantera Negra between the and members of the Party in in November 2012. Still one of the best I've seen.

I wasn't there myself, but I did co-host an event in the Mission a few months later with Emory Douglas, former Minister of Culture for the Black Panther Party and the Chiapas Support Committee.

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oh no mayans are in the news again. i’m begging you please don’t talk about indigenous peoples who exist today as if they had mysteriously disappeared.

chema,
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Obligatory Drake meme.

chema, to random
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The fact that I can share a peer-reviewed scientific article here and get more than hundred reposts in a few hours says a lot about this place.

chema, to random
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I’ve always considered the sweet potato in Polynesia to be the “smoking gun” when it came to Pre-Columbian contact between the Americas and the “Old World”.

Now, genetic evidence appears to back up this theory. The article below concludes:

“[We] find strong genetic evidence for pre-Columbian human trans-Pacific voyaging contact (at the turn of the twelfth century), contemporaneous with the Polynesian voyages of discovery in the remote eastern Pacific.“

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2487-2

chema,
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One of the possibilities is mind-blowing: the estimated dates raise “the intriguing possibility that, upon their arrival, Polynesian settlers encountered a small, already established, Native American population“ in Fatu Hiva, South Marquesas.

chema,
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It's awesome to imagine the possibility that around 1150 CE there was a population of Native Americans in what is now French Polynesia.

chema,
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The mere possibility of even incidental contact between Native Americans and Polynesians nearly a millennium ago deep in Polynesia is exciting because it did not lead to the genocides of European settler-colonialism. A peaceful exchange, by all indications.

chema,
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And that brings me back to the sweet potato. An important crop for both Native Americans and Polynesians, with similar names on both sides of the Pacific, implies to me that contact was significant enough for people to teach each other about the crop, how to grow it, how to cook it. Contact was a learning and sharing opportunity.

chema,
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I've been excited about these new studies for years, but my posts never got any traction on Twitter. Still think this should be the new Moana sequel.

chema, to random
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Maybe I should register chema.zip.

chema,
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Es el TLD más a la moda! Apenas salió y ya todo el mundo esta recibiendo emails con .zip. Es la fiebre de .zip

chema, to random
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The most frustrating thing about the mainstream environmental movement is how it effectively ignores the mitigating options with the greatest potential to reduce net global GHG emissions.

According to the IPCC 6th Assessment Report, reducing the conversion of natural ecosystems could exceed the contributions of wind energy and perhaps even solar energy. Carbon sequestration in agriculture and restoration, afforestation, reforestation aren’t too far behind.

Together, the mitigating options related to the agriculture, forestry and other land use (AFOLU) sector could have the greatest impact in helping address climate change, but so few organizations are talking about it.

chema,
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And by all means, let's talk about wind and solar and biking and all the other options at our disposal! But our climate emergency cannot justify us ignoring our best options just because they're uncomfortable or expensive.

chema,
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And that's what it comes down to, really. These options are expensive and it means going up against powerful, influential industries like the livestock, biofuels and mining industries to stop ecosystem destruction and rewilding land that they now control.

chema,
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A good post on these convenient blind spots here:

https://seedthecommons.org/averting-climate-disaster-our-analysis-of-the-ipcc-climate-change-2021-report/

chema,
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Almost 40% of California is grazing land, controlled by some of the powerful political dynasties in the state. So yes, land is generally off-limits here. Californians will rightfully rally to protect the Amazon rainforest, but when it comes to protecting native Californian ecosystems it is crickets. Just read the Sierra Club's official policy on Grazing on Public Lands. Imagine this milquetoast position, but for drilling. It's absurd.

https://www.sierraclub.org/policy/grazing-public-lands

chema, to ai
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When I was a kid, my dad had stacks of Fortran paper punch cards. Programming with punch cards on shared mainframes was a slow, deliberate process which required a lot of time, effort and coordination.

Things are really different today. You’ve got home computers and screens and graphic IDEs and all sorts of manuals and support you can lean on. You can solve problems in a fraction of the time.

Yet despite all these improvements, people are still working 40-50+ hours a week, but for even less money.

Better has only improved the working lives of very few people.

Why would be any different?

chema,
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Great comparison. AI and related technologies could make people even more efficient. We (workers) could do the same amount of work in a fraction of the time and bosses would still make the same amount of money off our labor.

But they won't ever let that happen because they just see these technologies as a way to make even more money for themselves.

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