Notices by Tito Swineflu (tito_swineflu@sfba.social)

@scott I live up on the rich part of Bernal hill, and we're super progressive too. No idea why.

@chema @scott you may be right. This property tax map shows a significant number of property tax rates that are low enough to be from the 90s or even 80s. I would have thought the whole hill had flipped by now. https://www.officialdata.org/ca-property-tax/#37.74129746310414,-122.41265729069711,19

Anyone know what was on fire in Oakland /Alameda today? There was a big plume of black smoke.

These stock market gains are short-term, right? Why such a surge? Are people hoping they'll sell before the crash?

How does it work that some post of mine from weeks ago will suddenly get a bunch of boosts, if there's no algorithm to surface it?

@mekkaokereke @rasmus91 Holy shit. That is not an .. easy drum part. Playing the kick in those shoes too!

@scott Rent control doesn't mean you can't increase rent, it doesn't mean you can't pass on capital improvements, etc. It amazes me that there are two types of landlords in SF: normal ones who make rational economic decisions, and the ones who pay $50 for property tax on a building they inherited and do nothing to the property until it melts into the ground or burns down.

@scott Considering that the 4 unit building next to my old place pays $3,000 in annual property tax and $0 in maintenance, that should be an easy bar to clear.

@kingrat I use a different email address for everything I sign up for, so I can tell who sells my address. The most interesting one was when I signed up for a Ted Cruz raffle to win a shotgun and that email was later sold to the Democratic party.

@kingrat I contacted Dorsey's office to get the police to arrest a woman who assaulted our family. You'd have thought that would be right up his alley, but it turns out they have no juice with the cops over there.

@kingrat My problem was that everything turned into an encampment. One morning, I saw someone throw out a tv box - 6" wide by 5ft long. I thought, "I'd better go move that box before someone turns it into a house." I got out 20 minutes later, and it was still sitting on its narrow end (6"x5ft) when I went to pick it up though, there was already someone passed out inside it.

@kingrat I did a bulky pickup the day before I left soma. Homeless people took the small pieces of sheetrock for some reason, there was some cardboard, and people moved that 50 feet down the street and tried to live in it. They took the ancient bbq with all the mold in it and put it under the freeway and burned the three-legged chair I put out in it. A few months later, that encampment was still using that bbq. Everything, even splinters of wood, was hauled off by scavengers!
The funny thing is, I'm pretty confident that my name is flagged in 311 because of the front page story the sunday chronicle did on me and my shitty neighborhood 6 years ago. All of my neighbors would call in some pile of debris, and nothing would happen, but as soon as I did, it was gone.

In my old neighborhood, if you called 311 about a pile of trash that no-one was yet using for a home, sometimes they'd come pick it up. Sometimes they'd drive by and say "not today satan" and leave it. Sometimes they wouldn't appear at all.
I set up a recology bulky item pickup, but a dpw guy showed up and started picking all of it up. I told him that I'd scheduled with recology, but he was "no problem, I'll get it." I asked if someone had filed a request, but he said, "I was just driving by and saw it."
I guess this is what it's like to live in the fancy part of town!

why is it so loud in SF tonight? The giants are playing, right? It sounds like a concert at the ballpark, but it can't be.

@kingrat Ah. I sincerely love edm, the best music that was ever invented. It truly is good to know our robot overlords are able to drop the beat so well.

@kingrat Wow, for me that was a real twist at the end when it turned out you were talking about dog poop.

You've gotta love business people and their lizard-brain commitment to excel.
I have a tool that allows my client to work with their user list. It has name, email and access level. You can sort or filter by any of those fields. There are 180 users, paginated across 4 pages.
But.. they have to have a csv dump of it, for reasons. They want to check it for accuracy, which is something they can do in the tool they paid me to make. But csv!

@kingrat I have yet to chat with him, he's sort of reclusive, but he puts up a monster in front of his house for christmas and often has silly things like this out in front. Do you know the spot?

Ha ha, my neighbor on Folsom St.

questions for candidates who knock on my door:
* How will you reduce the number of police that SF is paying for, and how will you deal with police who are unwilling to do their jobs or engage in work slowdowns?
* Will you be pushing for scandinavian-style roadway design to separate bike lanes and reduce car violence against pedestrians and cyclists?
* Will you commit to not shoving the homeless from block to block for political gain?
* How can you effectively reduce the number of fires that are caused by homeless encampments?
* What will you do to eliminate corruption in DBI?
* Can you promise that teachers will actually get paid on time and commit to rolling back payroll software in SFUSD?
* What can you do to get more cars off the roads and reduce freeway pollution and noise in SF?
* will you end single-family zoning everywhere in SF?