Saw some posts on the "hey if you have certain things in your past you can't run for Congress" And...i know not the time in some ways, but i share this dissent

suddenly feel like a cranky old man for reacting to events by complaining about how people need to be more virtuous and care more about virtue.

From the calc I was doing today Raman needs around 11.5% of the remainder of the vote that all should be favorable to her. She got about 10.5% here so we really are in squeaker territory, this could go to the very last day

here's an update:

That's completely unfair! At most it would take 3 months.

This guy is gonna show up in Los Angeles Republican nightmares a few weeks from now

Nope. Can't do it. I am blocking again

Insurance commissioner really looking like Kim v Allen

In general, the results in California are looking too red. I think there is going to be a blue shift so hold on tight, we might not know a lot tonight. I'm sure the news rooms are figuring out while they look at early returns and once we start getting day of

Broke: reform, reconstruction, packing the courts Woke: Herem

without being specific, executions

A certain user on here is right about a certain thing

Watching the Europeans get mad when people make fun of their food.

I know I've ranted about it before, but man, I just... do not like the term "gender-affirming care." And I don't think that "Elon's hairplugs are gender-affirming care!" arguments have been helpful for trans people.

One funny thing about cali election discourse is that there have been some social media freakouts about low turnout while early voting has been higher than the last midterm which was the midterm just post covid so you would actually think it might have had more early voting

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The sun has risen. The promised day has begun.

No one is better than Bolts at widespread local coverage

Also in LA county, Long Beach, a group of 3 real estate associated nimbys are attempting to take a run at Long Beach city council and a crowded mayoral race looks like incumbent mayor and new metro board member rex Richardsons to lose

Gastrodiplomacy is honestly such an incredible achievement by the thai government. If you have ever wondered why you can get good thai food everywhere, it's because the country actively wants you to have good food

We've had a Costco membership for a decade, it used to be my parents Christmas present for us, but recently i have come to appreciate the range of costco deals are like 1.) good quality, premium price 2.) good quality, good price And 3.) if you buy diapers anywhere else we are in a fight

This is the post i was referring to! It's pretty good

Never gonna forget the time that someone told me that Gad Saad was def. smarter than me on account of ethnicity. Still think I'm smarter than him ngl.

Thought this was funny

i think this is accurate and worth thinking about. A D vs D governor's race would all-but guarantee a wipeout of Rs in all the competitive House seats in CA and in a bunch of other swingy downballot races

Threads is so goofy sometimes. Like, every source says biphasic sleep is normal and we have a lot of experiments showing people will just kinda naturally adapt to long night cycles by slipping into biphasic sleep. Is it healthier than monophasic? No, we have lightbulbs, but it's not a disorder

If I had a nickel for every time in the last year the LBPD let someone who just committed a violent crime with a gun get away but closed streets for hours anyways I would have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but what exactly are we paying them for?

Governor takes are stale. I want more people up in arms wanting insurance commissioners to allow telemetry or not. Yell about how building in fire prone areas is ridiculous and should be banned as soon as a house burns down. Give me your most nuclear take on any race but Governor?

The Squamish people of what is now Vancouver were illegally dispossessed of their land 100 years ago. They sued, got the land back, and used their sovereignty to ignore local zoning and build 6,000 new homes over the loud objections of nearby wealthy NIMBYs. Now other tribes are getting in the game.

"wow, you decide on what candidate to vote for based on their understanding of what the current budget is and policy they want to change, that pales in comparison to my strategy of he came up and shook my hand and seems nice"

Now on the vote: Only nominee is Long Beach Mayor Rex Richardson. City votes are unanimous (though some cities absent) for Richardson.

Long Beach Mayor Rex Richardson elected by Gateway Cities subregion to serve on Metro board - still needs one more approval - Richardson likely to start on Metro board by July meetings.

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truth is not a territory to be defended, but a good to be shared

"We should not be intimidated by tensions or differences because they can become creative forces when guided by shared responsibility." Echoes of MLK here

So it's 42k words. What's the verdict. Can I use LLMs to make a picture of Bishop Barron surrounded by feet or is that like taking a job from a hard working photoshop artist?

Diet coke + naproxen+ triptan was the first step in my migraine plan that would usually kill it before it could get out of hand so yeah I have 0 opinions on which one is "better" but i do get that dopamine "oh this is the thing that made the bad stuff go away" feeling from diet coke

One of the most "oh I'm the weirdo" moments of market research for me was seeing the results of how much people LOVE their morning shows. Like you actively have to be careful putting them *in* the surveys because they'll depress results for other shows

I don't even think the cultures need to be particularly near one another! Roughly speaking, the entire world was introduced to old/new world food combinations at the same time

women were kept out of meetings and career opportunities at Pixar because John Lasseter was so much of a sex pest that people decided it was easier to simply not have them in the room with him how many talented women didn’t get a fair chance because one guy couldn’t behave himself?

I don't see enough social media coverage of Kenneth Mejia's Poasting chops as la controller.

It makes me so annoyed that ostensibly progressive people think stuff like this is a good idea. Just a recipe for rule by elite rich people that already have wealth and money

Measure passes voters to help the general fund from excess utilities revenue Courts rule revenue transfer a tax and strike down because California proposition requires tax to be approved by voters Which it was. ALAB

Will is finally wrong about something. People use the discount shops, novelty shops, asian markets, hole in the wall convenience stores in denser areas that are still quite cheap and send kids to preschools and don't have massive yards and big ugly cars. Just a lot of them tend to have melanin

It's remarkable that in local elections you have randos running for office saying "I am a progressive, and people always say they are gonna solve homelessness but never do it so I think we actually should" And then also are like "a .5% increase in the sales tax would be terrible"

Going to politics events as a young politics and policy junkie is kinda like going to church events as a religious nerd. Most of the people there are old, extreme, have no idea what they are talking about and no one is talking about the stuff you actually want to talk about which is zoning reform

Long Beach apparently has roughly the same transit ridership as Chicago which is the 15th most transit friendly metro in North America. Which either means “wow, lb transit is great” or “wow, North American transit sucks!” Or both. It's both