As part of my ongoing investigation into the hopeless collapse San Francisco I went to Dolores Park. I know I am kind of cheating here, but if the doomers can post the same four blocks of the TL, I can post a picture of a park on a sunny day right?
I walked around the neighborhood and took some photos. I used to work around Square in the mid-10s so I am very familiar with the neighborhood. It was lively then and sort of emptied out during Covid, like many places.
The Market - a posh grocery store - is still there and doesn’t really lock up its goods, which is what you might expect if you believed the doom loopers. Looks like there are fewer restaurants in the back than there used to be. Not as many people are coming into the office daily.
@kevinnbass
Conservatives have abandoned reason, objectivity and intellectualism and are not even interested in pursuing careers in science, law, medicine or journalism. The rot starts when conservatives replaced classical liberalism with conspiratorial narratives.
@Jason
What do you think about legacy admissions? You sure were upset when some people were getting a leg up, but have gone completely silent on the issue of rich people buying their way in.
The bash San Francisco crowd is getting shriller and shriller as it becomes obvious to people that they have presented a false narrative and are being shown up for what they are.
Bay to Breakers had a nice turnout in spite of efforts by conservatives to drive business away from San Francisco by complaining about "street conditions."
I rode the 14 Mission here. There were no stabbings, no fights, nothing of any note. Just a bus ride.
Lines outside of Good Good - wow must be hopping to have this crowd at 5 PM!
Lines at Bi-Rite Ice Creamery. A crowd outside Dolores Park Cafe.
@sentdefender
The only time we got steak and lobster in the 82nd Airborne was Christmas dinner. If you were being deployed you got an extra couple of MREs 😁
@devahaz
9th and Market? Sure go ahead and put up some of your photos, I would love to see them. I have bicycled by there dozens of times in the last year.
Kids on the playground, kind of a throwback to the 90s guy on his motorcycle.
I saw one disheveled looking guy muttering to himself. Also some obviously high young people singing loudly.
I did notice the noxious smell of that evil drug that has been killing thousands of San Franciscans. You guessed it: tobacco. In spite of all the well know dangers, some people can’t kick it. I don’t judge them, it’s hard to get off addictive drugs.
Took a walk through the Tenderloin today. It's basically an open-air traphouse + mental institution. All of this is a few blocks from the mayor's office.
I tried to go visit
@LondonBreed
but city hall was closed today. I guess all the cops are also taking the day off?
@ReubenR80027912
Highly skilled ambitious people don't want to live in Texas. Top H1B immigrants want to live in a place that welcomes and accepts them. The University of California has six campuses in the top 25 nationally and top 100 globally. Stanford, Caltech and USC are here. The list goes
@Noahpinion
@RishiJoeSanu
My daughter plans to study English and philosophy and I support her 100%. It’s sad to see the university reduced to trade schools. But it’s good for her. I think the ability to think abstractly in words will be useful and rare in the next generation.
@JamesClayton5
You act like this is a bad thing. San Francisco needs more housing.
Most tech companies have nap rooms and washing machines. The employees appreciate it.
I have slept under my desk during a crises. That’s what you do when you believe in what you do.
@stan_okl
Half of my brothers have never had a paying regular job. Two of them are ex-cons. They live in a rural area. There are lots of people like that in the sticks.
@Jason
We are never going to have the unfunded tutoring. So we are returning to the old way of hereditary aristocracy, where the wealthy buy privilege for their heirs, including admission to elite private schools and permanent tax breaks. Just like pre-revolutionary France.
We need more housing at all income levels. We need to make it legal to build multi-family in areas zoned single family. This will make housing cheaper for middle class families, which will reduce commutes, improving lives and reducing green house gas emissions.
Just so you San Francisco haters have something to feel smug about I found about 30 sketchy looking dudes near the library. They keep getting moved around and the crowd is shrinking.
@JamesClayton5
At Google interns used to sleep in campers in the parking lots and enjoy the three free meals a day and the free gym, laundry, game rooms and other perks.
Who are you to judge?
@FactsMatterPpl
@poisonjr
This is 100% thinking about this this wrong way. The end goal should be to talk conservatives off the cliff of crazy and into the mode where they can define and defend their ideas with well thought out positions. Shunning 40% of the population leads to more factionalism and
@Noahpinion
Warmongering is bad. Spending $1T preparing for offensive military ability throws money away that we could use for high speed rail, education and health care.
Invading other counties is what you do when you have a huge military and a political establishment dedicated to it.
@FreeNortherner
Let’s check back in a few years and see if Millbrae is “destroyed”. I have some low income housing near me and my neighborhood is oddly not destroyed.
Remember that city sponsored homeless encampment I took a picture of earlier. Here it is in the daytime. Good neighbors. Same with all the affordable housing adjacent.
@KevinBriggs1776
I wonder if the worldwide pandemic which killed tens of millions of people and drove people out of cities worldwide might have something to do with that.
FiDi has lots of shuttered business which isn’t good. It’s also less a tiny fraction of San Francisco.
@SAMcClellon
Onions are cheap and so are chicken and thighs. Rice and beans are a great staple with a long shelf life. Chop up some onions and throw them into the crock pot with the chicken, rice and onions. Let them cook all day. Add salt and spices yo taste.
@constans
I do fifty pushups and lift weights everyday. I go long walks and bicycle rides on the weekend. I go to the range to keep my shooting skills intact. What’s the point of that training if you don’t keep sharp.
Unsafe use sites already exist. They are all around you whether you are aware or not. That’s where the thousands of people die each year from entirely treatable causes.
Opposing safe/supervised use centers doesn’t deter or reduce drug use. It just perpetuates preventable deaths.
@America1stLegal
@StephenM
Where will you lead the charge against legacy admission polices that unfairly discriminate on the basis of how much your daddy donated to the university?
Oh you don’t mean *that kind* of discrimination.
@naturallyneve
No. My great grandfather homesteaded Wyoming so I wouldn’t have to. My grandfather was born on a farm in North Dakota and left as soon as he could for California and never went back. Subsistence farming is not for me.
@MarcNovicoff
@notstpaddy
@sfmcguire79
“Are Gaza Protests mostly happening at elite universities?” And then lead with the private school graph. A combined graph would clearly show that it a a mixed lot.
Instead of spending money on treatment for people who are seeking treatment, Dorsey wants to spend it on people incarcerated. The evidence shows rehab works best on people who want it. Why are you doing this
@mattdorsey