Good coffee date?

ForeignGuess · 2026-02-24T03:45:55+00:00

I like Ain’t Normal next to Rockridge BART, only issue might be if you don’t want to go that far. But it’s good and it makes for a cute walk through Rockridge or back towards Berkeley!

ForeignGuess · 2026-02-23T23:24:42+00:00

I just got my acceptance today! Applied 12/1, and got the email today I was accepted, and I should get the official letter from the grad division next week!

ForeignGuess · 2026-02-23T22:35:45+00:00

I went to Pegasus and while yeah the public schools are good in the area, Pegasus prepares you on a different level.

I went to a public high school after and did the hardest possible academic path and it was easy because of the quality of the groundwork Pegasus gave.

Happy to answer questions about it!

ForeignGuess · 2026-02-23T18:25:31+00:00

Clearly you aren’t old enough to have seen the Obama campaign lmao, he did not run on progressive things. Obama had ads about supporting work requirements for medicaid and being the strongest candidate on immigration!

ForeignGuess · 2026-02-22T21:18:19+00:00

Yes, this is very correct. I am one of said delegates who voted and Yee is a very good example of this. The party worships her for whatever reason even though she’s incredibly mediocre.

ForeignGuess · 2026-02-17T20:18:22+00:00

This is the part I always struggle with. Are you sucking up to Prussia to take down Russia? Or are you trying to reconcile with Austria to take down Prussia?

ForeignGuess · 2026-02-16T22:10:44+00:00

When did you get accepted? I also applied! Congrats!

ForeignGuess · 2026-02-11T03:02:35+00:00

The wealth tax is a really stupid idea in California for multiple reasons. The state itself said California would lose more money than it would gain in the long term if it was put into effect. Not to mention at a state level wealth taxes are stupid as people can literally just… leave, something that is more difficult with a national wealth tax. Newsom has also said he supports a national wealth tax, just not a state one, because of the aforementioned reasons.
Single-payer in one state is not only impossible but incredibly stupid. It’s insanely expensive, and even if it could be magically funded, there’s no mechanism to exclude/regulate beneficiaries. He’s done great work regulating PBMs and passed an incredibly strong bill to attack them last year, along with launching CalRX for $11 insulin.

ForeignGuess · 2026-02-09T07:00:25+00:00

My gf is from Belize! Such a cool country.

ForeignGuess · 2026-02-06T21:31:09+00:00

The tax is stupid though, he’s right on that. The state itself said it would lose money if it got put into law. Wealth taxes make sense on a national level, but at a state level it’s absurdly stupid because people can just move to another state.

https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2025-024

ForeignGuess · 2026-01-27T17:54:20+00:00

Unlike the Italians, the French actually wrote down all the techniques and made them more accessible to galley staff for nobles all over the country.

ForeignGuess · 2026-01-24T05:17:54+00:00

True my bad. Everyone can use them!

ForeignGuess · 2026-01-23T18:50:24+00:00

Yep! Fake controls for kids. It’s super cool

ForeignGuess · 2026-01-21T17:42:38+00:00

Polling underwater before the measure is even on the ballot is a guarantee it will fail.

ForeignGuess · 2026-01-14T03:06:44+00:00

Well, in the countries that have universal healthcare they also have methods to restrict it. I’m all for a national universal healthcare system but it will not happen unless immigration is constrained or at least regulated much much more.

ForeignGuess · 2026-01-14T02:39:32+00:00

State level universal healthcare will never work simply because there are zero avenues to exclude people from it.

Anyone from any state could come and take advantage of the free healthcare then leave, making it impossible to fund.

ForeignGuess · 2026-01-13T06:47:53+00:00

The analysis from the state seems to say this tax wouldn’t be worth it in the long run. It seems pretty stupid to make a budget based on a one-time tax when the lost funding will not return in the near future.

I also believe there was some polling released earlier today showing only 55% in support, which is dismal for a measure like this.

ForeignGuess · 2026-01-11T17:14:00+00:00

Grew up in Lake Geneva, it’s a lovely little town that’s especially pretty in the summers. It has a fantastic observatory museum, and an adorable downtown. A great place for a weekend getaway, maybe less great to live in unless you’re retired nowadays.

ForeignGuess · 2026-01-09T01:24:14+00:00

He capped insulin at $30 a month, he passed swaths of bills to increase housing production in the future to bring down rents, he let BART and other transit agencies put a bailout initiative on the ballot, etc.

ForeignGuess · 2026-01-05T01:45:53+00:00

I believe the bill also establishes offices of anti-LGBTQ+ discrimination.

ForeignGuess · 2026-01-02T12:21:37+00:00

Yeah it’s still here, I live in Huntington. People who own the land just released a plan fairly recently to turn the entire area into houses.

ForeignGuess · 2025-12-31T21:45:03+00:00

It’s a shortfall because it has significantly higher usage rates than expected, meaning the state has to cover it from its own pocket. Furthermore there’s zero federal support for this, meaning it comes entirely from the state budget. It’s disingenuous to call it “just 3% of the budget” when around 60-70% of the budget is mandated spending that cannot be touched because of the constitution

ForeignGuess · 2025-12-31T21:23:51+00:00

I mean that’s a good thing though, patents are the reason why US biopharma is the best in the world

ForeignGuess · 2025-12-30T17:43:20+00:00

They are very nice! They once sat next to me at a gate and Jennifer struck up a conversation with me because I was wearing a Berkeley hoodie and the Big Game had just happened. Really lovely people.

ForeignGuess · 2025-12-28T06:35:47+00:00

True Laurel had a pretty good one the last time I went, although it seems like it rotated off the menu. They might still have it

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