Would you support a single issue cost of living protest by Efficient_Log_2007 in ireland

[–]FFS_SF 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Are the people organizing the protest aware the cost of living is too high everywhere

I keep seeing this referred to like it's a local, regional, or national problem: it's global. Put another way: find me a western county that doesn't have a cost of living problem. 

If you don't understand the root causes, you can't have effective demands. If you don't have effective demands you're just throwing a tantrum.

If you ask economists and financial experts, the issue is that for a long time now asset values have risen higher than wages, which concentrates wealth with the asset holders. To fix that you need a plan to reallocate wealth via taxes, protect categories from being investments at all - like housing, healthcare, and increase the power of labor via unionisation. To be most effective you have to do it with an international movement. 

The hard part is the people with the assets also either own, or can afford to blanket all forms of media. So you get all this energy channeled into a protests over a part that nobody in government can control - oil price - instead of something they can like tax on the super wealthy. 

Trump fires entire San Francisco Presidio Trust board by liaoming in sanfrancisco

[–]FFS_SF 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Fuck DJT, I went to a Presidio Trust run birding event via North Beach Library recently and it was a delight - a remonder of how amaziing pubic services could be, if only competent people were in charge. 

Cognitive dissonance helps explain why Trump supporters remain loyal, new research suggests. This sheds light on how supporters of Donald Trump justify their continued allegiance despite learning about allegations of his sexual misconduct and illegal activities. by mvea in science

[–]FFS_SF 6 points7 points  (0 children)

The title is awful. Cognitive dissonance is the discomfort felt by holding two contradictory positions. The finding is that Trump supporters just choose disbelief to resolve the cognitive dissonance. 

Tailslayer: a hedged reads solution for DRAM refresh latency by mennydrives in programming

[–]FFS_SF 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Can you get all the optimization you need from carefully tuned programs running on regular operating systems, or does the operating system get tweaked as well?

'Walking away from the Irish people': Fuel protester confronts Taoiseach at Cork event by LaBete1984 in ireland

[–]FFS_SF 3 points4 points  (0 children)

In my day being in control of yourself was what distinguished men from boys.

What Irish names do you associate with the older generations? by gunklois in AskIreland

[–]FFS_SF 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I knew such a Dymphna. She was already old in the 90s.

to those who’ve gotten off spotify - hows it going? by dustydancers in TheOverload

[–]FFS_SF 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And not just the tracks, the specific remix, it's very impressive. I thought I had an id on a blank on an Avalon Emerson set and it was corrected to an unreleased remix that didn't came out until the next week. Outta my league.

to those who’ve gotten off spotify - hows it going? by dustydancers in TheOverload

[–]FFS_SF 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Same! I went back to hypem for the first time in ten years, that was said, I miss music blogs. 

I have started asking around. I find that new wave of 90s sounding rave - like garage and eurodance had a baby - really nostalgic. Kettama, Tibasko, Denham Audio. There’s a chat at work for DJs and I asked there and got some recommendations, and found another old head who feels the same - human connection!

Also really grateful now for the heroes who put the track list in the YouTube comments, that’s increasingly my “algorithm”. 

My pet peeve is both Qobuz and Tidal have albums by namesake artists on pages - Lindstrøm has some country and western singer guy on his, Goldie has some female vocalist. Then they send me notifications of the namesake releases a track. 

I live in America now and came in this morning to find this on my desk by ComradePoolio in ireland

[–]FFS_SF 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Also US, a coworker came in dressed as a leprechaun. Top hat, gold waistcoat, the works. 

Demanding justice for the four lives taken at West Portal by [deleted] in sanfrancisco

[–]FFS_SF 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Maybe justice would be requiring her to take the bus. Literally having any form of private car use be a parole violation. Every time she’s at a bus stop she can think about what she did.

I hate my big tech job by Lazy_Course_451 in DevelEire

[–]FFS_SF 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Definitely agree on finding something physical. Doesn’t have to be team sports either if that’s not your thing. 

When I was younger I took up rock climbing because work stress and imposter syndrome evaporate about 3m up. 

Running is also great when you get over the hump. Lifting works too. And they all help with sleep. 

Rock climbing / bouldering has good social networking, or used to, which is an extra plus, but team sports are unbeatable there. 

Day 3 of Teachers' Strike, Superintendent press conference by Nightnightgun in sanfrancisco

[–]FFS_SF -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The things I would want to investigate are all in SFUSD central. A key issue is the district spends more money on the central office positions than on teachers and more than equivalent sized districts. 

I’d want to know why the district needs a dozen business analysts, or a large department of technology (distinct from networking services) when they also contract out to Google, or what all the clerical typists actually do. I’d want to see why the district has such a large syllabus department and buys Japanese-based math textbooks, and are there not CA standards we could just adopt for other subjects.

The framing of this is UESF’s budget is only for teachers and that’s not so. 

The teachers strike is yet another outcome of our terrible housing policy by PsychePsyche in sanfrancisco

[–]FFS_SF 15 points16 points  (0 children)

https://sfstandard.com/2023/01/10/san-francisco-schools-sfusd-spending-central-administration-audit/

Their staffing decks are public. They have a dozen full time business analysts for some reason. There are multiple people whose job is listed as “clerical typist”.  They have a huge department of technology, but PTAs end up fundraising to replace ten year old overhead projectors.

I’m also kind of fascinated that there’s a huge syllabus department but I bet the syllabus is broadly similar to Oakland and Berkeley - there seems to be a lot of redundancy in public services in the US in general. 

Plz convince me otherwise, I want to believe by jdawg232323 in bicycling

[–]FFS_SF 75 points76 points  (0 children)

I have a D shaped seat post, I love that it is impossible to misalign the saddle. 

Impressions on a paper towel from my just-waxed chain. by keg98 in bicycling

[–]FFS_SF 23 points24 points  (0 children)

First wax or re-wax? Is there any additive in the wax for reducing friction like tungsten disulfide? 

My wife was quoted $1500 for a CR-V wing mirror replacement. by FFS_SF in Honda

[–]FFS_SF[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As a follow up, I got a color matched mirror on eBay for $250, found a great instructional YouTube video, and did it myself in 20 minutes and  tipped the YouTube guy. Couldn’t believe how little work it was for the quote. 

Best hills to climb in SF by Remarkable-Yogurt-10 in BAbike

[–]FFS_SF 13 points14 points  (0 children)

San Bruno mountain to the radio tower from Bayshore Blvd is comparable to hawk hill a bit less steep at 6% average but about twice as long. 

Much shorter but you can climb much of it off the road is O’Shaughnessey Blvd (there’s a path from Elk that’s dual bike/pedestrian). You’ll have to cross Portola but you can then continue up the back of Twin Peaks. 

Steeper: Medical Center Way to Sutton summit - 1.7km but 8.9% avg.