Notices by sanae :vbike: :vbus: (SF) (sanae@carfree.city)

That felt like a bigger earthquake than usual
I spent it trying to remember what to do if you're in bed during an earthquake

I wonder if it felt stronger farther west, that felt like the biggest one in a long time

@skinnylatte like if people actually believe that they should be saying "therefore we should make it easy to switch jobs" or "therefore there should be oversight of the program that penalizes abusive corporations while protecting H1-B workers" but the fact they don't is revealing

(It's also gross given that California just voted to continue making actual forced labour legal or that like there are people who can't afford immigration lawyers having their passports taken away and forced to work)

A big part of it is that most people are not experiencing the standard of living they would expect given the fact that they have more opportunities than almost anyone and live in a wealthier country than most of the rest of the world. But that is a problem you will never fix by blaming people from other countries, that's a problem that needs to be solved from within the US

I think a big part of the assumption even among liberals or leftists that H1-Bs are paid less is the belief that non-Americans must be less qualified. I think a lot of people are not ready for the idea that things are actually currently rigged in their favour; that there are tons of people from other countries that are more skilled or educated or otherwise qualified than them and that resources being concentrated in the US actually are giving them a giant advantage over most people in the world

I don't know if it was just me but I asked the bay area yarn crawl to be a bit more public transit friendly in my feedback last year and they just posted a muni yarn crawl!

Vancouver lets you use your credit card to take the bus and I'm reading up on all the details because part of me can't believe that such advanced technology could possibly work

@skinnylatte also needs to be things that can cross the border without explaining them to customs officials during the busiest time of the year, unfortunately

@skinnylatte I have the problem of my family being in this ambiguous space of doing gifts but only kind of because it's not really our culture and we have not figured out or agreed on what our cultural norms are (this is true of the holidays in general)

@skinnylatte ooh now I want to figure out how to dye with purple sea urchins

I've wanted to dye with something native to the bay area, but I have no room to grow plants to harvest them responsibly

@chema @tito_swineflu @scott
One thing that was interesting is that I had my absolute worst experience canvassing in Bernal (everyone else was fine). I don't want to list the exact blocks but it was a few right next to the top of the hill. It's in a precinct that voting data suggests is otherwise progressive. I wondered what was up with that - just rich people at the top of the hill?

@scott we need to tell all our friends because Muni needs to sell over a million hats a year

@ai6yr unfortunately also I heard that bikes lead to paved asphalt roads, which lead to automobiles (at least that was true in SF)

some interesting SF politics correlations (with like half of the votes in)

- Prop L and M votes are uncorrelated, suggesting few people were voting no on M to get L to pass (or were aware of the conflict clause)

- Voting No on K is more strongly correlated with voting for Trump than voting No on L, even though L is more traditionally left wing - reflecting that K is mostly a culture war thing

- No correlation between votes for Connie Chan and votes on prop K, lol

https://electionmapsf.com/correlations/#

I'm pretty sure at this point Lurie is just sending every format of flyer you can get at the flyer store, we just got one that's a giant fold out poster? Map?

Apparently the CEO of Uber's yearly compensation is about equal to the money raised by prop L ($24 million vs $25 million) although the tax is spread across several companies

So that means that more than 4.5% of every Uber ride you take goes to the CEO of Uber personally

@njudah I think a lot of commercial (and other) landlords are just bad at business.

They assume they should be able to get ever increasing rents, evict the business, and refuse to rent to anyone who won't pay the rent they think they deserve. And because commercial taxes are low and they mostly have a lot of money, they can be stubborn in the face of reality for years without ever being forced to change anything

Apparently all the squashes are the same species??? Like pumpkins and zucchinis and stuff? This is the broccoli thing all over again

@eniatitova where do you get your masks? My black and navy blue ones mostly match what I'm wearing I guess

I went for a bike ride yesterday, we're near the end of the roses in GGP and near the beginning of the dahlias (the light was not as good with the dahlias)

#bloomScrolling