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I spend too much time on nextdoor, and the only thing that gets more people angry than e-bikes are pedestrians....

I would also love it if the laws were enforced when drivers did stupid stuff. I see people run red lights and stop signs every day on my way to work but no one gives a crap, instead they rant about bicyclists.

I would also think that local journalist, at least TV ones, are driven by their audience, who are mostly older, conservative, and hate change.

Unfortunately yes.

The Rs have been trying to do this since the 90s. Gingrich's house proposed it.

Newsom would have been a classic California R like 30 years ago.

Locally the reasons given are that either 1) the cops are underfunded and overworked, or 2) the corrupt politicians, DAs, and judges are all stopping them from doing their jobs.

That's a wild chart. I can see each of my tuition increases on it!

They will just pass you in the intersection. They will cut in front of everyone and go through, often without stopping. Ask me how I know.

They are all getting fired. The CIA and the FBI are getting purged and only loyalists will remain. 6000+ out of the FBI and the CIA announcement just happened

I need to like this more than once ....

Good thing you od not write for a living.

My state university gets like 25% of its revenue from federal grants. This would mean the loss of literally thousands of jobs, mostly students and junior folks. I cannot imagine a better way of creating a huge population of pissed of people with nothing to lose.

Well, after everyone rewrites their Broader Impact section ....

Me, getting out of meeting about extremely large NSF proposal: Maybe I should pop onto bluesky just to see what is up.....

The panel will happen, but when it will happen is tbd ....

Funding for grad students is going to be a nightmare.

Buy green beans and roast yourself. Unroasted beans last much longer.

There are already rules for that. You can build a 6 story on fill, but you have to spend on the foundation. (And a lot of flat places are fill from rivers.) The cost of land makes a 5+1 economic even with Californian labor and material prices as well as meeting the earthquake code.

I agree with Mike fwiw. They want to gut NASA but the near term will have slower than they want.

Please do not give the NIMBYs any ideas.

The state has finally made things like height limits and set backs much harder to enforce. There is a lot of new building but folks are still fighting it tooth and nail. And the state laws do NOT change zoning. Probably 3/4 of San Jose is single family.

To be honest, they have not really even noticed the NSF yet. It is small and was not involved in the Covid response.

Santa Clara county has a median price of 1.5 million and the number of houses sold per month is like a 100. In a county of 2 million people.

A local bakery goes through 200 cases A DAY.

Newsom would have been a moderate R like 20 years ago. He owns a huge winery and is pretty hostile to labor.

You can!

There are even companies you can hire to do robotic trades to boost the value! It is really something!

Well that will help. The fires will be easier to control.

The thing is, the forests of the south east are going to burn as well. Hotter climate means more rain to promote growth and worse droughts. If there can out of control forest fires in the Maritime provinces of Canada, they can happen anywhere.

It’s all wash trading. These are called shitcoins for a reason. The whole thing looks like a classic pump and dump scheme.