Don't ever sign a ballot initiative being circulated by someone not wearing a badge saying if they are paid or not and what the measure is
The law requiring wearing a badge might be basically unenforceable, but it's a good indication of their willingness to break other laws to trick you into signing something other than what you thought you were signing
one thing I only just realized is why politicians perceive Asian people as being uniformly conservative, given that isn't my experience. I'd assumed I was just living in a bubble, but I realized -
It's gotten a lot harder over time to get citizenship in the US, and US immigration law specifically makes the process take way longer if you were born in certain Asian countries. So as a result, a huge demographic of younger people (who are generally more left leaning) are excluded from voting
@Alon generally I would say that within the Asian community, older people, wealthier people, more religious people and people who are in the more "suburban" and historically less diverse, majority white parts of the city tend to be the more conservative ones. What people think of as the "enclaves" tend to be less wealthy and thus less conservative
I hate it when people say Someone Else Should Do This Thing, cause someone else is never going to do it
But someone should write an op ed about how the reason why driving has gotten so much worse lately is that all the transit cutbacks have lead to a huge increase in the number of people driving in our city, and the only way to fix the problem is by making transit fast and reliable enough that people go back to taking transit
And that future transit cutbacks will make this problem much worse
when I was in San Jose this weekend I was waiting for the bus, and a guy who had just moved here was having trouble figuring out if he was waiting for the right bus, and not that I knew much but at least I could tell him roughly which direction BART would be
I'm trying to find a good non-paywalled source, but it sounds like it will now be the case in the US that coal power plants have to either close down or capture most of their CO2 (lol) in the next 10ish years?
If this happens, this seems like pretty good news. The two biggest climate change issues are transportation and fossil fuel based electricity. Closing coal (and natural gas) power plants is harder for individuals to influence politically but it's just as important
@jewishreader@sanae cool, but are we going to also subsidize the CO2 that they're selling in leaky pipelines which run through our communities and sometimes oops kill everyone, or require that they turn it back into stable charcoal and bury it, at a net negative energy yield? 😒 "up to 90%"
it would be really nice if I could go on a little walk in the park on a pedestrian and bike only path and not have to worry that there will be a driver there threatening people #banCarsFromSidewalks
Some people at my bus stop are l apparently taking Muni for the first time, coming from the ballet
We explained how everyone works - cash fares, how far the bus goes and how the route changes, why it says "on detour"
They were like good thing you were here to explain it! I didn't tell them we had just gotten out of Muni Diaries, a Muni-themed storytelling event for Muni fans
@sanae Thank you for doing that. Even when being familiar with a lot of transit systems, each new city has its peculiarities and it's great for any newbie (to transit in general or to a specific sity) to get such guidance.
Before my first work trip to NYC, I literally bought a book about how to navigate the subway there. It was tremendously helpful, since the NYC subway is a weird beast.
@sanae blocking crosswalks means they are red-light and stop-sign runners. they are in violation of cvc sections 21453, 21950, 22450, or 38300, perhaps all at once. cops won't do anything but complaints to the dmv may work.
Yelled at these people a bit but they clearly think the law is for other people and it's totally cool to drive on a pedestrian path to get the perfect Instagram photo
So it looks like they are finally addressing the problem of sidewalks being blocked by cars and trucks parked on them in the Richmond and Sunset, making them inaccessible to people in wheelchairs etc
I'll be waiting for the law-and-order crowd to endorse the city cracking down on this rampant lawlessness in SF. I'll be waiting a long time, I suspect