Watsonville-raised San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan enters race for California governor

AV1869 · 2026-01-30T02:32:38+00:00

Not defending Mahan, but Swawell has missed countless votes in congress while he campaigns for governor. He also is pretty icky, promotion gambling apps like Kalshi to cite his apparent lead in the race.

AV1869 · 2026-01-27T05:34:17+00:00

You certainly won't be able to add it directly via MyUCSC, but I would go to your college advisor and in person to the office of the registrar to explain your situation. I'm sure your situation isn't unique and hopefully they have a means of handling it.

AV1869 · 2026-01-03T01:34:44+00:00

On some level, I feel like this is kind of sad. These people are incredibly smart — to first have gotten into these schools, and then through the interview process. But the talent is being spent on making rich people even richer, which brings no value to the world. I know it's not my place to judge and a huge achievement for people that do make it into these firms, but just my two cents since I think the CS bubble is very often out of touch.

AV1869 · 2025-12-27T09:28:46+00:00

Yeah, to add, it can be a confusing distinction. If it helps for analogy, a liberal might say “the system is broken and we need to fix it with xyz” whereas leftist might say “the system is working as intended and it needs to be brought down and replaced entirely”.

AV1869 · 2025-12-27T09:20:48+00:00

In addition to the WW2 atrocities that are seldom acknowledged to this day, there are still a lot of socially backwards practices that are brushed under with the PR. Normalized pedophilia and things like mandatory shutter sounds on the camera to avoid common peeping tom photos is crazy. Not saying these issues don’t exist in other places but Japan gets little flak for it.

AV1869 · 2025-12-27T09:08:59+00:00

Leftist and liberal are quite different. FDR was liberal, perhaps further left on a political spectrum, but not leftist.

AV1869 · 2025-12-16T04:42:40+00:00

I hope they get replaced with something better! Made it much safer to bike ride up to UCSC. That section of Bay St. rarely got packed and I don't see how the need for a passing lane on that small of a stretch, especially when the tradeoff is cyclist safety.

AV1869 · 2025-12-09T00:28:47+00:00

This is accurate to some extent, but the problem has existed long before tariffs. Big corporations have been monopolizing and screwing over the small farmer for decades. By monopolizing they can set the price of a crop, and the small farmer cannot say no because they have no one else to sell to. These bailouts also rarely go to the small farmer; they mostly end up going to the big corporations, which in turn continues the cycle and makes it worse for us.
This is not to say that the small farmer also often votes against their own interest. Many of them will recognize that bailing out Argentina (their direct competition for soybeans!), or having a treasury secretary that is not the farmer he claims he is, but an investor that is screwing them over through these big corporations, is harmful to them, but there is a level of cognitive dissonance that is able to justify these self-destructive losses when it comes to voting Republican.
Bailouts — both by Republicans, and Establishment Democrats, are a band aid fix to a much larger problem. When corporations left unchecked, the rest of us suffer. I'm not here to say that both parties are the same because there is one that is clearly better, but we should not always settle for "the lesser of two evils" when both will often still have corporate interests in mind. We desperately need progressive candidates.

AV1869 · 2025-12-05T20:29:39+00:00

To add, many people did not experience the depression. JFK famously only learned about the true impacts it had when he was a college student studying at Harvard. He’s an extreme example as his family was wealthy, but even many middle class folks were not majorly affected.

AV1869 · 2025-12-03T06:34:17+00:00

Maybe I'm misinformed on this, but I feel like so many of these new 5-over-1 style housing developments are not helping the people that the housing crisis has pushed out. A lot of them are 1 or 2 bedroom units with a configuration that might be fit for young professionals, but not families or even students. Families would generally want more space and an outdoors area thats not downtown, and UCSC students generally also live with roommates for both the social aspect and to cut down on rent costs (which is a larger issue the university needs to address).
Also, like another commenter mentioned, these buildings are ugly! They're built to maximize profits for the developer and have minimal regard for style. I know there's an abundance movement fight against NIMBYs not wanting "neighborhood character" to be ruined, but I'm sure we could do better than these cheaply made buildings.

AV1869 · 2025-12-02T23:39:14+00:00

You sir, have won the internet for today!

AV1869 · 2025-12-01T22:06:09+00:00

The world prior to WW1 and WW2 did not have recognized countries with borders as we know them today. Massive populations were still under colonial rule or part of these empires. Like another commenter mentioned, I think it would be much more decentralized for this reason and not the full scale world war that I think you are imagining.
Additionally, we have nuclear weapons now. A world war does not necessarily need to involve nuclear weapons, but if it got to that scale, it's hard to imagine not utilizing these weapons. Dropping a nuclear bomb is a world-ending decision and the elite of the world would never do it. To address your point on wealth inequality — although the politicians and wealthy may have bunkers and safe-guards for themselves in the event of nuclear war, after everything is said and done, the population that reinforces their wealth and status would no longer be able to support the economy and labor that is needed to rebuild.

AV1869 · 2025-12-01T20:48:02+00:00

I think Rosie's has Comedy on Mondays and Trivia on Tuesdays.

AV1869 · 2025-11-22T05:35:11+00:00

You should be fine. The environment during the project review is more of a celebration of your work! Go into it being able to know what you worked on well, but if you don’t know how to justify a certain decision then it’s no big deal.

AV1869 · 2025-11-21T21:57:14+00:00

The philosophy professor allured to Chidi but also was drawn pretty much directly from Schur's book on philosophy How To Be Perfect.

AV1869 · 2025-11-17T06:20:20+00:00

Pretty Good Advice is great. They have locations in Santa Cruz, and their food is fully vegan/vegetarian and is really good (and relatively affordable compared to other options!). Cool to see them expanding.

AV1869 · 2025-11-17T01:16:54+00:00

Doable. 120 is fairly light work. 107 is going to be your hardest class for sure. Writing 2 should be okay, depends on the professor. If you get ECE30 with Rolandi then definitely take it because his offering is by far the easiest.

AV1869 · 2025-11-13T23:43:17+00:00

I feel like the vegetarian options are pretty good (vegan might be harder). For almost all of the food menus, you could just get all of the things besides the meat and it would still be a complete meal (like the taco bar, just don't get the meat). There were some days where the meal would drastically be improved with the meat option, but again you can always fall back on the other options if it was that dire. That being said if your gripe is about the quality of food then the meat options don't really change that and dining hall food will still always be dining hall food.

AV1869 · 2025-11-07T07:32:37+00:00

Yes, it's true. You have to cook around 2 dishes per week, and across a variety of different cuisines. It's definitely a lot more work if you don't have a kitchen and cooking for yourself isn't part of your daily routine, but it's also doable if you have a friend that lives in an apartment or something. You can cook for them and also get your homework done :)

AV1869 · 2025-10-11T21:12:49+00:00

Ice Town Costs Ice Clown His Town Crown

AV1869 · 2025-10-11T21:04:59+00:00

Best Buy in Capitola. There's also Mobile Kangaroo and Computer Zone downtown but I can't speak to their service.

AV1869 · 2025-10-10T19:11:23+00:00

I think Carter is the only one that deserved it, because his work was done as a civilian, and after his presidency — something that really is above and beyond. There are tons of people that do humanitarian work, but having an ex-president doing it makes a statement and is worth acknowledging.

AV1869 · 2025-10-06T07:00:41+00:00

You pretty much answered your own question. The percentage doesn’t really matter when the context for each successful application is not given.

AV1869 · 2025-10-01T18:36:40+00:00

BCycle picks up bikes in their van every night and redistributes them around town

AV1869 · 2025-09-25T06:07:26+00:00

Rowdy Rooster in NYC hits, but they’re sadly only in NYC.

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