Notices by (gobsmacked) (nwchapman@sfba.social)

@skinnylatte A lovely story. Also, and I hope you won't mind me saying this, it seems like very much a lesbian couple story. I know a couple other couples here in the Bay that had a similar path

San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency Student Intern Program, Summer 2025

Positions for people working in a variety of divisions, with backgrounds in planning/urban planning, architecture, engineering.

Pay is $35 or $38/hour

https://careers.sf.gov/role/?id=3743990006318926
https://careers.sf.gov/role/?id=3743990006319006
https://careers.sf.gov/role/?id=3743990006318966
https://careers.sf.gov/role/?id=3743990006318977

#jobs #CivilService #SanFranciscoJobs

After law enforcement cleared homeless encampments in eleven cities, a team of ProPublica reporters distributed notecards to the unhoused people affected, inviting them to detail the belongings they had lost in the sweeps.
#homelessness
https://longreads.com/2025/01/09/i-have-lost-everything/

"The social function of the economics profession is to explain, over and over again, that your boss is actually right and that you don't really want the things you want, and you're secretly happy to be abused by the system." - @pluralistic
#economics #TheDismalCult
https://pluralistic.net/2025/01/11/socialism-for-the-wealthy/#rugged-individualism-for-the-poor

#TIL Lol... this may have been around for awhile, but I just encountered it for the first time today :

"liztruss" as a descriptor for a wilted lettuce in @pluralistic 's latest piece

https://pluralistic.net/2025/01/11/socialism-for-the-wealthy/

Excited to have someone from McKinsey working on "health, homelessness, and family services" for San Francisco

They did such a great job with oxy addiction, excited to see what they can do to... I mean, for San Francisco
https://missionlocal.org/2025/01/daniel-lurie-picks-mckinsey-partner-to-oversee-health-homelessness-and-family-services/

McKinsey...

Ex-McKinsey partner pleads guilty to destroying records on opioids

Martin Elling pleads guilty to destroying records on advice provided to Purdue Pharma on how to ‘turbocharge’ sales

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/10/mckinsey-partner-destroyed-opioids-record?CMP=share_btn_url

It actually seems to me to be fitting that the MCU films have become boring (albeit in a loud and spectacular format), stupid and unengaging in pretty much the same ways as the comics did, because they made similar "storytelling" choices from, I'm guessing, greed
#MCU #film

@skinnylatte We're so glad you came!

I knew that healthcare spending and results in the US were worse than in various European countries...

But I had no idea they were this bad.

The US spends more than 3 times as much as Italy on healthcare, but still has an average life expectancy that is four years lower.

If you allow for "statistical" deaths, it becomes clear that the health insurance and for-profit healthcare industries in the United States are killing tens of thousands a year and the only consequence they face is... increased profits.

With #UnitedHealthcare one of the major beneficiaries of this profiting off death

Now I want a game, a sort of mash-up of GTA and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, where you have a series of missions taking down evil corporations and their profiteering leaders and fascistic politicians.

This North Beach dive should arguably be the most famous bar in San Francisco

SFGATE dive bar columnist Broke-Ass Stuart investigates the long and fascinating saga of La Rocca's Corner
https://www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/article/sf-north-beach-dive-la-roccas-corner-19955788.php

Silicon Valley Is Reviving the Discredited and Discriminatory Idea of ‘Race Science’

Scientific racism today must be seen and rejected for what it truly is—a hollow attempt to dress discrimination in the garb of science and reason
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/silicon-valley-is-reviving-the-discredited-and-discriminatory-idea-of-race/
#SiliconValley (aka our new government) #racism

@skinnylatte
Very far away from the city... That checks out, Canberra wise.

Is it boring? Are their birds that attack you? Lots of roundabouts?

@skinnylatte Wait - there's a Canberra in Singapore?!?

San Francisco fixture Sam Wo to close in January if it doesn't find new chef, management
https://www.sfgate.com/food/article/sf-famed-sam-wo-future-remains-uncertain-19984413.php

Every Senator who supports RFK Jr. should be asked for their vaccination status and that of their kids, and whether they will commit to no more vaccines for any family member (and no abortions)

On UnitedHealthcare:

"People hate Unitedhealthcare, for good reason, because he personally decided – or approved – countless policies that killed people by cheating them until they died.

Nurses and doctors hate Thompson and United. United kills people, for money. During the most acute phase of the pandemic, the company charged the US government $11,000 for each $8 covid test"
~ @pluralistic https://pluralistic.net/2024/12/09/radicalized/#deny-defend-depose
#Unitedhealthcare #healthcare

@skinnylatte What are a couple of examples of "serious Chinese food" that you eat with these friends?

"by seizing the means of computation, workers and organized labor can turn the tables on bossware – both by directly altering the conditions of their employment, and by producing the evidence and tools that regulators can use to force employers to make those alterations permanent" - @pluralistic
https://pluralistic.net/2024/11/23/hack-the-class-war/