Jeremy Bernier
@jeremybernier
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Software Engineer @ FANG company, writing about AI and life. ex-Nomad (50+ countries) ✈️ Preparing for AGI 🌏 🛠️ Telegram
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Much of San Francisco downtown looks like the city just gave up on itself. Drug addicts openly doing fentanyl and passed out everywhere, mentally ill screaming, homeless sprawled out everywhere, dilapidated empty storefronts and trash everywhere.
I've been here for 6 months and
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Palestine protesters are really becoming the modern day Westboro Baptist Church. Today they blocked a Japanese cherry blossom festival in Japantown with a sign saying "U.S - Japan - Blood on your hands". The protesters specifically blocked off Scott Weiner's car - a Jewish man.
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Just arrived to San Francisco and walking through the Tenderloin to my AirBnB. This is one of the most depressing places I've seen. So many drugged out people standing up while fully bent over with their head to the ground, taking what appears to be fentanyl. Tents everywhere,
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Within last 24 hours in San Francisco:
- (non-local) girl friend meets me downtown after work, we go looking for a restaurant, and she feels unsafe the whole time - freaking out at the "zombieland" that downtown SF is at night. Constantly on alert worried about seedy mentally
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So I just started a new job in downtown San Francisco. One thing that really stands out to me is how empty downtown is. It feels like half of the stores are closed, including vacant coffee shops and food places in what feels like should be prime downtown real estate, just outside
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Cost of Berkeley MBA in 1992: $4k, Avg Salary: $100k/yr
Cost of Berkeley MBA in 2020: $100k, Avg Salary: $140k/yr.
Starter house in SF back then: $280k
Same house today: $1.4m
@profgalloway
Way past time to end this pillaging of our future generation
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@DeclanMoloney99
First step is solving the fentanyl epidemic. It's not rocket science, just follow the same playbook that every city used to solve crack/cocaine/heroin/meth epidemics in the past.
Next we need to solve the mental health crisis. There are so many mentally ill people wandering
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Target in downtown San Francisco - laundry detergent locked behind glass, closed self-checkout machines, multiple security guards. I was told they closed the self-checkout machines a few months ago do to the rampant theft.
I was also disappointed that a medium-sized bag of
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I'm starting to like San Francisco - the concentration of smart, interesting, entrepreneurial people on the bleeding edge here is really on another level. And working in tech, it still has the most opportunity, particularly in AI.
Other things I like:
- Amazing weather (coming
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@ShoveItInSoMa
Yea it's incomprehensible to me how a city with such enormous wealth allows such disgraceful out-in-the-open drug abuse and poverty. Basically feels like some lawless anarchist dystopia. I've been to 50 countries and have never seen anything this bad. Even in favelas and in poor
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Biked to work today here in San Francisco. Note the feces, tents, and trash.
Came out to $7.37. Since calling a taxi is $10, it's not really worth it from a financial standpoint. Enjoyed the ride though!
I hope one day our government will provide real homes for the homeless,
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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?
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@iamgabesanchez
If you're not going to take care of your damn city then don't be surprised when newcomers shocked at the appalling conditions post online in an attempt to pressure leaders to help these people and clean up the situation. I'm not going out of my way to find this squalor, this was
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Finally starting to feel settled into San Francisco! This is the start and end of my daily commute to work - a block away from my apartment.
It seems 3 new separate tents popped up overnight. The timing of that is interesting 🤔
Having new neighbors is exciting though! Is it
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Went to SF Politics 101 by SF Board supervisor
@JoelEngardio
. Fantastic and highly recommended to anyone interested in SF politics and history
I asked him why they haven't fixed the outrageous open drug problem in San Francisco that everyone is fed up with. He mentioned things
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My tweets exposing San Francisco's squalor in the Tenderloin and the incompetence of its leadership (
@LondonBreed
, $444k/yr TC) are getting a lot of attention, so I'll talk about something positive for a change.
The morning before that bike ride that went viral, I had breakfast
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My tweet made it to the DailyMail, a British tabloid of questionable reputation. I only know they wrote this because a friend sent this to me.
It's full of mistakes. Some corrections:
1. I'm not a "tourist", I just moved here for a job
2. There are no drug addicts outside my
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@SplendorEternal
Yea it's vile but if he actually paid for the kid's surgery (can't tell from the photo) then he's done more than anyone else here acting all self-righteous
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@ComixGalore
I was in NYC last week. I def saw the rise in homelessness and open drug usage, but it's still leagues ahead of SF. The new Target in NYC's Union Square for example has self-checkout machines and looks relatively peaceful, whereas in SF they're closed due to rampant theft. NYC
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Really didn't expect this to go viral.
I'll be live tomorrow on Fox News at 5:30am EST to discuss this. That's 2:30am PST for me so kind of a pain in the ass, but gotta do my civil duty.
Somebody please record this and send it to me.
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@DunsScotusX
I think I made it pretty clear that the whole world knows this and is laughing at what San Francisco has become.
Change starts with acknowledging the problem and pressuring the leaders in charge to fix things.
Happy to help in any way I can - let me know if there's anything I
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@Trim_Gawd
@ShoveItInSoMa
Guessing it's not like the Kensington in London 😔
(super posh/wealthy area in London)
Why USA gotta be like this. We need to stop tolerating this.
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@Lacko_party_pak
Have to have a positive attitude since I'm moving here, otherwise would just be depressing. My mentality is that this must've been what NYC was like in the 80s during the crack epidemic. Surely San Francisco will get cleaned up at some point?
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For the record I'm like 70% desensitized to this now. Give it another few months and it'll prob be more like 35%. Enough to fantasize about creating satirical dystopian
@LondonBreed
comics about zombie fentanyl apocalypse and global Tenderloinization conspiracies on my commute to
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Andrew Yang
@AndrewYangVFA
is hands down the most impressive presidential candidate I've ever seen in my life. I don't think I've ever actually resonated with a politician until this point. It gives me hope that we'll actually build a more rational future
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@alexandr_wang
Cultural prohibition? The U.S is the most workaholic country outside Asia.
The problem is that not all work is productive, and that distinction is rarely made in work worship
Meaningful work is a privilege afforded by those not having to worry about immediate survival and money
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Worth noting there's a playground near pic
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filled with kids playing. Also they were blasting music very loudly, perhaps the same "artists" who rap about codene, percocets, lean, & other drugs that destroy lives
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@RamiTouma
It's insane right? Rather than responding something like "yea it's a shame that our incompetent mayor
@LondonBreed
is failing at her job in taking care of the city. We need to do X, Y, and Z to fix this", people just get pissed at me and tell me it's my fault lol.
Can't fix
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@iamgabesanchez
Hey everyone look at this guy! What a stand up citizen! I aspire to one day be the model citizen you are.
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@FaraohFaucet
Yea I wish I'd filmed longer, but I didn't want the dude to start going off on me too and I wasn't planning to post this. Anyways just walk anywhere in the vicinity of downtown SF at night and it's zombieland, so this incident wasn't even particularly special.
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@lcwhitlock14
Staying in Pacific Heights, one of the nicest areas in SF. Took the train from the airport to Civic Center station and had to walk through the Tenderloin to get there though
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I have a dream, that one day San Francisco residents will be able to park their bikes outside without them getting stolen
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@luke_pighetti
Yea Spotify's UI/UX is atrocious. It's not even possible view a list of all songs by an artist.
It's recommendation system needs work too. I had to turn off autoplay because it legitimately wouldn't stop autoplaying me "Hoobastank - Crawling in the Dark"
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@1r0nm41d3n13
Yea it's really awful - I work in Soma and pass by this shit every day on my commute to work.
I know it sounds ridiculous, but I am still optimistic though. I think we're at an inflection point where everyone's fed up, and elections are coming up.
In any case I do hope that the
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It's sad that Americans haven't adopted mixed zoning with ground floors being open to commercial.
In San Francisco, neighborhoods like Rincon Hill and Mission Bay are very modern, clean, and free of homelessness / zombie apocalypse - yet very sterile and dead because there's
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@y_akopov
"The possibility of resistance after the active phase of war is dismissed"
They honestly believe that residents of Kyiv, Lviv, etc will just bend over to their new Russian overlords?
Are they not familiar with the Orange + Maidan revolutions? And that wasn't this serious
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@tommasot
Appreciate the counterpoint. The nice areas of SF are definitely nice - I like the nature, weather, hills, and tech scene. Is there a neighborhood you'd particularly recommend (working in SoMa but don't want to live there)?
City does feel a bit small and sleepy so my younger 20s
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@LemUhuru
The good news is that I haven't felt in danger in any of the bad areas, and the good areas are fine. But I def recommend taking a Lyft/Uber from the airport if public transportation would otherwise have you walking through the open-air trap-house that is the Tenderloin / Civic
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@stuffonfire
Thank you! I am happy to be here despite all this. And that's a great idea, let me know if you have any recommendations. I have enjoyed the food at the local establishments and food trucks I've eaten at so far.
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Arriving to Seoul from San Francisco feels like jumping 100 years into the future. So modern, clean, and cyberpunk (just needs the self-driving cars).
Not throwing shade on SF. I just think most westerners don't realize how modern Asian cities are outside Japan.
The other main
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@sentientist
The most blatant double standard in this regards is with the whole body positivity / fat acceptance movement. In the U.S there are many pictures of fat women on products, even fat mannequins. Just now I had dinner next to some bookstore where there's a poster outside that says
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I just walked into a Walgreens in San Francisco to buy toothpaste. The Walgreens has a security guard at the entrance (like many if not most stores in San Francisco now), and much of the products are locked up to prevent theft - including the toothpaste.
I asked the worker who
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Spent the last week in Los Angeles after living in San Francisco for 6 months. Here are my impressions of LA:
- Way livelier than San Francisco. It's seriously night and day, and makes SF look like a sleepy village in comparison. Go to Venice Beach on a Tuesday night and it's
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@TwiggySwift
@JTLonsdale
I'm currently visiting Miami and have not found this thriving tech energy.
Would love to be proven wrong though.
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Correction - these "pro-Palestine" protests in NYC aren't merely anti-Israel, they're anti-U.S, and even pro-terrorist.
Don't just take my words for it though - watch this video of two men walking around NYC with American flags and being harassed with chants of "death to
We went to a “pro-Palestine” rally with only American flags to see how people would react. The responses we got should sadden and anger anyone who cares about America, democracy, liberalism, and peace. Clearly, this is not just about Israel.
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@WillManidis
In tech you're surrounded by sterile neckbeards and have to put on this facade that coding is why God put you on earth and that you're "changing the world" when you're basically just a digital plumber
Finance is boring, but at least u don't have to pretend like it's not just $
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@otterbo54348271
@JoelEngardio
Yea exactly. I also thought prior to coming to SF that progressivism was about things like universal healthcare, free college, generous safety net, etc (Nordic system stuff).
But San Francisco "progressives" are NIMBYs and anarchist libertarians who are anti-police, against
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@AtConsent
Yea it's either pure corruption or a deliberate ploy. Mere incompetence doesn't explain the level of absurdity that SF is right now
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@mecampbellsoup
Ah yea fair point I do e-bike a lot (using the bikeshare). Also I live in a relatively flatter area between Hayes Valley and the Mission, and commuting downtown to the office is a flat straight ride on Market St. Areas like Russian Hill are super hilly, so would be way harder to
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I've never been more ashamed to be a Columbia alumni. These are not peaceful protests, they are straight anti-Israel and anti-semitic - with actual Hamas/terrorist sympathizing.
Jewish students have been harassed and physically assaulted. Watch the videos and you see them
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@levelsio
100%. Most European hotels look like they're owned by some absentee 80 year old who stopped giving a f*k decades ago. Yet they can still charge high b/c not many alternatives.
Would seem to me that any hotel/AirBnB owner with common sense could easily crush it in these markets.
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Here's my live interview on
@FoxNews
discussing the sad state of public drug addiction and homelessness in San Francisco steps outside mayor
@LondonBreed
's office
Keep in mind this interview was just one day after moving here, so these are just my
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Seoul has the best free places to work in the world, hands down. This place is completely free, and has a free coffee machine (I made a cappuccino). Internet speed: 192 Mbps / 137 Mbps
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@NevahPost
It's actually a lot worse than it looks. On the left side (not pictured) the sidewalk is lined up with tents and way more druggies. The entire walk was basically like this, and this pic doesn't even show the "fentanyl pose" of people standing up and bent over with head to the
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@MobileMusclept
Why do you think tech is responsible for SF's problems?
SF's government seems to be doing everything in its power to drive tech and business out of its city. Look at the results.
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@amyisquitebusy
No I am not, but I would put money that there are illicit drugs involved. Watch any SF documentary talking to these people on the streets and they'll tell you they're addicted to fentanyl
What do you think they're doing?
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@ChrisJBakke
2032 Employer: "I want you to do this thing that's really boring, soul-sucking, and meaningless, but you'll agree to do it because I'm richer than you and you need the money"
2033 Employee: "Nah f*ck that, I'll just take my UBI check. Peace"
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@DevinCow
No but I'd like to learn. Mind summarizing it for me? Someone here recommended the Tenderloin museum so I do plan to check that out at some point.
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NPR did a great podcast on Basic Income This is the most important policy issue of our lifetime
#basicincome
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@live2tell_x
@LondonBreed
I've never seen this outside the U.S. Yet Americans claim the U.S is
#1
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If other countries can fix this, then so can we.
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@dannoyes
Judges should be liable for crimes committed by criminals they put back on the streets.
Extremely poor judgement on Loretta Giorgi's part dropping this serial burglar's bench warrant. She should be fired.
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@calichicacine
I want the fentanyl and homeless epidemic to get more attention so that it will be solved, guilty.
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Pro-Palestine protestors today shut down the Golden Gate Bridge, Brooklyn Bridge, and I-880.
Thousands of cars were stuck on the Golden Gate bridge for 5 hours - including people on their way to hospitals for surgeries - all because these f*cking lunatics.
I don't understand
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Reddit CEO made $193m last year while his company lost $90m.
I seriously wonder what Reddit employees do all day. The site basically looks exactly the same as it did 16 years ago when I was first introduced to it.
The comment quality was actually great in 2008. Since then it's
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@jennygriffin123
@LemUhuru
Yea maybe next time. I like walking and exploring cities but didn't expect the walk to be this shocking.
I wonder if the mayor has walked through the Tenderloin recently and how she lacks the conscious to clean up this needle-ridden fentanyl laced shithole.
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Here's Youtuber Mark Rober pranking San Francisco car thieves. Interesting look into how these car thief parasites operate, driving around in stolen license plates, not really caring about anybody but themselves
Apparently only 1% of car burglaries in San
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@camiinthisthang
No different to how NYC/SF/LA/DC have the highest concentrations of wealth, yet so much blatant homelessness/poverty. I find it disgusting that American culture is so indifferent to this, but short of gov't change or rich ppl with influence making it a priority, nothing changes.
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33% of all billionaires in the U.S. inherited their wealth, and 50% in Europe
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@darren_stallcup
The problem with Macy's in SF is that it's located in Union Square, which is located in downtown SF, which the city's leaders have turned into a complete zombieland dumpster fire.
I work downtown, and after work I gtfo because the area is depressing as f*ck. Add to that the
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@ec0anarch0
@iamgabesanchez
nobody cares that you don't think that anybody cares that I'm shocked
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How are young Americans getting so radicalized to the point where they're chanting for the destruction of their own country?
How much is TikTok responsible for this radicalization?
Social media platforms have enormous power in shaping the minds of the masses. TikTok is probably
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@a_klarke
@eyeslasho
Remember though when that essay came out, every single major media outlet reported it as "Google fires employee who wrote sexist memo".
The problem wasn't specific to Google - this woke nonsense had also taken over the media. At least now we can talk about it here though. Before
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@DWeisburd
Harvard president needs to be fired, along with MIT president and UPenn president (resigned after this).
Genocide is wrong and never "depends on the context".
If you replaced "Jews" here with black people or any other ethnic group, then these people would not be saying it's
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@DennisOLeary50
I'm staying on the southeast corner of Pacific Heights, which from what I hear is one of the nicest neighborhoods in the city. I took the train from the airport to Civic Center (the closest stop) and took the 20 minute walk passing through the Tenderloin.
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@BolognaFishMD
Unbelievable that the city's leadership has allowed the area to collapse like that.
I remember as a young whippersnapper back in 2009 watching this rap video that a startup in SF made in attempt to pitch for VC funding with the line "coming straight out of Soma".
I had never
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San Francisco is such a bizarre city. Saw this lively scene on 7th & Market St on my commute after work. Apparently it's a street market.
A man tried to sell me a brand new jacket for $40 that he claimed was worth $200. I asked him where everyone here gets their goods, and he
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@scottsantens
@pmarca
Wait does that imply that wage slaves aren't already zoo animals farmed by wealthy people like him?
Hilarious when billionaire VCs criticize UBI. Of course they want entrepeneurs and subsequently their employees dependent on rich people and VC overlords for funding.
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@_celia_bedelia_
@FoxNews
@LondonBreed
no got a job here, you should read tweets before you respond to them
how does this troll account have 37k followers? lol
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@yhdistyminen
Huge fan of Land Value Tax and it would indeed fix so many issues, though at the same time it's not a magic pill to all of society's problems
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The biggest reason for a UBI other than ending poverty / solving AI jobpocalypse is that more people could focus on fixing the systemic problems in our society like upgrading our democracy (liquid democracy) and solving political issues (eg. solving fentanyl crisis, our
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@EthDreamer
Exactly the kind of demands I'd expect from a full-time advocate for more "insert underrepresented minority" in tech despite having never actually done anything in tech or written a line of code in their life
Enough with this woke bigotry. Feel harassed? Handle it like an adult.
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San Francisco actually has some really nice public libraries.
Unfortunately this library rooftop is closed because there was too much rampant drug use. I was told the public bathrooms here also used to be a mess until they started taking more aggressive security measures.
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@peterclowes
@Twitter
Very well said, and this rubs me off the wrong way about this "hardcore" move by Elon. For employees to go "hardcore" there needs to be significant financial upside for them and/or a shared vision/mission that ppl are excited for, neither of which seem to be the case here.
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San Francisco Board of advisors voting on an Israel/Palestine ceasefire while their city is collapsing would be comical if it weren't so sad.
Imagine if Hamas just passed a resolution defunding the police in San Francisco, voting from their cushy HQ in an underground tunnel
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Rather than rally against free trade b/c it kills jobs, we should be advocating for a basic income (yea, my blog)
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@kurtisjlin
@PinwheelAPI
I think the primary benefit of hiring ambitious people without pedigree is that they have a chip on their shoulder, ie. feel they have something to prove.
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If I could require all students to take only two courses, they'd be:
1. Discrete Math (logic)
2. Morality & Justice (logic applied to real world problems)
These were the two most useful classes I took in university. Discrete math was eye-opening for me, and led me to switch my
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