perhaps we can have some joyless rationalism, as a treat

Increasingly think we need a ‘modernity is actually good’ political tendency. the right is putatively pro-industry and economic growth but thinks science is gay and wants to throw out vaccines for essential oils, the left putatively believes science but also embraces crank degrowth NIMBYism

Yes, and that's the real reason the guy ambushed and harassed Weiner at the trans March a few weeks back. He's a NIMBY and opposes Weiner's housing initiatives. He admitted it on social media. Gaza was just a cover.

People who've legislatively done more to block housing bc they *claim* to be anti-corporate but really they're protecting the views and housing value of their core constituents—Aaron Peskin and Connie being prime examples—are why rents and housing purchases are so out of control in SF.

just make sure most of the money is spent on some obviously worthwhile thing and you’re already a top 10% philanthropist

Speaking as an archaeologist, we now have a technology that allows us to fire harmless lasers at the ground and digitally uncover ancient cities in the jungle that not even the local indigenous people knew about without having to tear apart the forest to dig them up.

we effectively cured AIDS and have a pancreatic cancer vaccine that just passed phase 1 trials

why haven't I had bypass surgery? weak? afraid? no - I DID NOT NEED IT UNTIL MY CLOGGED ARTERY CAUSED A CRISIS OF BLOOD FLOW

jesus, what have we done to a generation here

uh oh. will Mamdani fall victim to the same poor judgment w.r.t. staff that Sanders did

it frustrates me greatly that, despite the rampant slopulism around the issue, this is entirely the correct strategy

"we saw you from across the PACU and we really dig your vibe"

rare horse L

One of the political problems of today is that ten random people who are mad at Dems are mad for ten different reasons and half of them are not based in reality and of the other half, a couple are real but very stupid

I'd almost rather we banned it for senior citizens

the deep air of satisfaction from being the guy at the office with (1) a hex wrench on hand and (2) the strength to undo the bolt stuck in place by years of corrosion

Another reason why California is a great place to live.

being informed by the spouse that, while my enthusiasm is appreciated, it is not strictly necessary to yell "VICTORY FOR THE FORCES OF FREEDOM AGAINST THE CARBON MENACE" after each successful errand run on my e-bike

Every single car buying guide is just "Go certified pre-owned, Honda/Toyota compact hybrid if you don't need the space (if you have to ask, you don't need the space), if you do, Honda/Toyota minivan" and yet everyone makes the wrong decision!

I’m looking to buy a car for the first time ever basically (because my gf needs one and I figure we’d buy one as a household) And I just look at things like: maintenance, resale value, mpg etc. and it feels like I’m being punked. Why does anyone buy cars that aren’t Priuses, corollas, or civics?

we need to start pounding mercilessly on journalists to use the term "e-motorcycle", not e-bike, to those particular vehicles where it more properly applies

most proposed measures to address overtourism turn out to really just be measures to make tourism more of a luxury good

They want wealthier tourists and that’s probably what they’re going to get.

Wake up, babe, the new BART schedule just dropped and it’s beautiful! Better transfers, interagency considerations, active effort to eliminate rider frustrations. Love it! 😻✨🚆

Baumol's disease is a real thorn in the side of human civilization

The Platner mess has exposed a very specific sub-tendency on the American socialist left: urbanites whose politics are defined by their hatred of their liberal neighbors, and channel that distaste into a condescending fetishization of rural/working-class male identity

Weird how every Ukraine skeptic seems to really love rape

all right, who's going to write the "Is Your Furnace Killing the Planet?" essay bashing northern Europeans for wanting to not freeze to death in January? is it going to have to be me? I don't wanna.

who tf looks at San Francisco's historical housing policy and sees a role model? is Chicago just too affordable?

"woke I arose from a kind of political ZIRP" goes with "orange man bad is the index-fund of political opinions" in the hall of fame of bluesky's bizarre econ metaphors that make just enough almost-sense to somehow be actually more true than hitherto we thought a metaphor could metaphysically be

the voters of ME made their choice. they had other ones.

Harris ran the best campaign anyone in her particular unfortunate position ever could have, and it yielded the best possible result, which unfortunately was not enough

vibes so rancid I'm now holding my phone a foot further away

basically accurate missionlocal.org/2026/07/san-...

the responsibility that a position of such power entails is terrifying to a normal human; anymore who voluntarily seeks it has some mixture of extreme courage and psychopathy, and unfortunately, many will just have the latter

Sen. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-ME)

Single most valuable trait in the world right now is character judgement

if Ken Klippenstein were capable of shame we could at least be looking forward to that

You can just smell it on some people. It’s like they sound exactly like an evangelical, they talk about politics like it’s a divine battle between good and evil, except all the characters have been replaced. Like satan is now capitalism or something. It’s tedious.

Maybe it’s because I was raised by libs in SF and most my friends parents were libs/ leftists, but there’s something irksome about people raised by conservatives, who became leftist after moving out, achieved a zealous passion for their new beliefs and then end up doing evangelical flavored leftism.

Gotta be the group least likely to return their shopping carts to a designated area, right?

remember, patriotic Trump lovers, that the best place to be in a violent thunderstorm is (1) under the protection of large trees, or (2) in the safety of a large body of water, such as the green reflecting pool

human nature is what it is, but the metrics that The Algorithm were tuned for were actively selected by a small set of them

I'll summarize this: Mamdani asked NYers to keep air conditioning at 78 degrees. A wave criticism hit online. A MSNBC broadcast pointed out the US Department of Energy recommends that 78 degree figure. Immediately after, the US Department of Energy deleted 6,000 web pages related to energy saving.

there's a tendency to assume there is some private trove of valuable knowledge that the rich have access to that we don't, but their private conversations appear to be dumber and shallower than the median discourse here, if anything