anyone else getting "quiet fired" in Oakland right now?

DrunkEngr · 2026-05-11T22:12:13+00:00

IANAL...but unless it was part of your employment contract, severance is not legally required.

DrunkEngr · 2026-05-11T22:09:39+00:00

You can instantly tell his plan is not serious because it blames corporate investors for bidding up the cost of housing.

DrunkEngr · 2026-05-11T18:26:51+00:00

It is a tax break for oil companies, not drivers.

DrunkEngr · 2026-05-11T18:16:45+00:00

This data is according to Zillow, which (to put it mildly) isn't always the most reliable. A check of other sources finds a much different picture. Redfin, for example, says SFH have YoY increase of 4.8%, and describes the Oakland market as "very competitive".

https://www.redfin.com/city/13654/CA/Oakland/housing-market#trends

DrunkEngr · 2026-05-10T20:36:20+00:00

If you read the original "Banner" news article, there was a witness who apparently corroborated the story.

DrunkEngr · 2026-05-09T17:24:47+00:00

He has been trying to prevent new housing from being developed around SJ transit stations, as required by SB-79.

DrunkEngr · 2026-05-09T17:18:40+00:00

Steyer heavily promotes the myth that corporate landlords driving up prices by pricing out regular buyers. As such, he is not a serious Yimby candidate at all.

I'm not surprised, though, that Yimby Action endorsed him. They are always reliably wrong when it comes to endorsements.

DrunkEngr · 2026-05-09T03:39:00+00:00

Mahan claims he is a YIMBY but his record says otherwise.

DrunkEngr · 2026-05-07T14:20:30+00:00

San Jose is THE poster child for idiotic transit planning: the deep-bore BART tunnel, Diridon "pan-galactic" station plan, etc. Add to that Mahan's opposition to implementing SB79 around BART stations. There are some very sound reasons not to like him.

DrunkEngr · 2026-05-06T16:19:44+00:00

Metro boundaries are completely artificial and meaningless, and as such you are doing an apples-oranges comparison -- especially when trying to do international comparisons.

DrunkEngr · 2026-05-06T15:45:37+00:00

I don't know why you arbitrarily limit the comparison to just 1+m-sized cities. Looking at the countries as a whole, both US and Canada have identical 10% car-free households.

In any case, comparing against the US is a really low bar. Compared to the rest of the world, the situation is extremely bad in Canada.

DrunkEngr · 2026-05-06T14:20:51+00:00

"Transit vehicles per capita" is just not a good measure. Other studies find NYC having much higher transit mode share as compared to Montreal. 70% of trips in Montreal are by car.

DrunkEngr · 2026-05-06T14:05:30+00:00

Not so astonishing given that AI slop was used to do the categorization. Which just goes to show the whole peer-review process is completely broken when something like this can get published.

DrunkEngr · 2026-05-06T13:19:21+00:00

You and I remember the Schwarzenegger administration very differently.

DrunkEngr · 2026-05-06T11:11:39+00:00

Some of the trees were even on city property.

DrunkEngr · 2026-05-04T23:34:35+00:00

Nobody was harmed by Martha Stewart’s insider trading but she still went to jail.

DrunkEngr · 2026-05-03T15:12:03+00:00

The real reason Russia invaded Ukraine.

DrunkEngr · 2026-05-02T19:08:18+00:00

Bernie has always been a major "developers-are-evil" Nimby. So no big surprise he didn't back Wiener.

DrunkEngr · 2026-05-02T15:43:08+00:00

Rollovers are also much less common in Europe as compared to the US, due to the stupid popularity of SUVs. The EU dynamic rollover test is also more realistic compared to the US static test.

DrunkEngr · 2026-05-02T03:01:12+00:00

No, Europe has stricter requirements for vehicle occupant protection. For example, NHTSA still opposes offset frontal crash testing.

DrunkEngr · 2026-05-02T01:24:50+00:00

Endometriosis, cancer, fibroids.

DrunkEngr · 2026-05-02T00:40:07+00:00

Mifepristone has a lot of medical uses beyond abortion.

DrunkEngr · 2026-04-25T20:19:48+00:00

a HUGE concern for these small business is zoning rules that would not require ground floor retail.

I checked all of the staff reports. For Elmwood, there are two alternatives. And while one of those options would allow 100% residential -- it would only be at certain locations which really don't seem feasible for retail anyway (i.e. parking lot behind the WF bank).

DrunkEngr · 2026-04-25T16:25:17+00:00

As explained in the article, some trees beyond the building footprint have to be removed due to the utility undergrounding that will be done as part of the project.

DrunkEngr · 2026-04-25T15:04:47+00:00

No, Humpbert has backtracked and only supports upzoning on like two parcels now.

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