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

@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

Every time I walk by the Internet Archive I'm like yup that's where they store the Internet. It's all in there

Gathering signatures (I'm not in either photo)

#communityTransitAct #dogsOfMastodon #butNotMyDog

one thing about the demise of the mall is, where do you buy shoes. Like say you are looking for shoes for a wedding or something. You don't want something bespoke and from Italy near Union Square. You don't want the kind of sneakers people line up to buy, or the kind you buy to run marathons, or really any kind. You don't want to go to a store that has like 3 shoes next to their scented candles. You don't want cool boots. Usually you want shoes that are comfortable, but not today.

They're training waymos to block pedestrian crosswalks, if you wondered if self driving cars were going to be safer

Waiting for the bus in the rain #HostileHorticulture

A political leader should take public transit, send their kids to public school, use the same healthcare as the rest of us. At the very least they should have done so regularly before taking office. We don't need to be ruled by aristocrats. You aren't qualified to run the city if you use your money to opt out of living in it.

It seems the problem is the fundamental way we fund transit in SF entirely

am I going to subject myself to the SFMTA budget listening session this morning

We fundamentally need to change how transit is funded. We can't budget our way out of not having enough money and we shouldn't be dependent on having people go into a downtown office to run transit

Interesting that we make more money from parking than transit fares but we can only raise fares...

Depressing that we are the safest city for biking and second safest for walking in the US cause we aren't doing great