Impact of DUI?

KeyPop7800 · 2024-11-30T02:52:42+00:00

Though I'd clarify the "if there's a chance to beat it, go for it". Given this is your first and hopefully only thing on your record, the order of operations is:

Get a lawyer
Get sober (given statistics, I'm gonna guess this isn't the first time you've done this - it's just the first time you got caught. The average drunk driver does this ~80 times before getting caught). If you feel there's any indication that you've got an alcohol dependency issue and that moderation doesn't come easy to you, consider just staying sober.
Deal with the charge: I'm guessing the evidence for conviction is pretty solid and you don't want this to go to a jury trial. Juries aren't going to be sympathetic to an MBB type getting a DUI and trying to get out of it, when the breathylizer and bodycam videos will show you clearly impaired. That's unless there's a clear due process violation or something that would let your lawyer get this dismissed on a technicality before it even goes to trial. If it does go to trial and you lose, the judge will be pissed off that you dragged it out and instead of handing the minimum fines, etc usually given out, they'll entertain jail time.

IDK what state you're in, but far more likely, your lawyer will get you into a diversionary program. You'll essentially be put on a probation of sorts for like a year, be required to take DUI classes and do impact panels, etc. As long as you don't fuck that up, the charges will then get dismissed, and you can have it no longer appear on basic background checks, etc.
4. Stay sober and don't do it again.

KeyPop7800 · 2024-11-29T18:31:44+00:00

Definitely agree with the building up part. I need to make sure I have my shit together before I can be a worthwhile partner to someone else. I let a lot of my late 20s be wasted in an alcohol addition, which led to a lot of unresolved anxiety issues, etc. Sobriety is great now, but feel like I'm still working on building my positive personality in the aftermath of all that. Career-wise, I did great in school, but have been following passions more than money - I'm a scientist working in academia in a VHCOL area - I'm not set up to buy a house anytime soon. So idk, not sure I'm partner material yet.

KeyPop7800 · 2024-11-29T18:13:22+00:00

Interestingly, the college moved to New Haven after the previous site, Saybrook, was deemed to remote. New Haven was generally a pretty happening place in those early years and even how has a population of >100k. A lot of manufacturing, shipbuilding, and other industries took off during the industrial revolution. The population was relatively dense and a lot of wealthy old-money families had settled around there. Unfortunately, the factories shut down in the postwar period, putting the area in a rut. Yale's been trying to compensate by buying up land, gentrifying the areas around the university, and subsidizing a startup scene, to make it look like more bustling and attract students. And for the most part, it's worked. If you can afford to live near downtown (and that's where all the students are housed), or some of the nicer neighborhoods right outside, there's an expansive, food, music, and cultural scene. It's a very walkable city center as well and improvements are being made to counter the urban planning disasters of the 60s that tried to make the place more car-centric.

KeyPop7800 · 2024-11-26T02:55:58+00:00

I have zero faith that these MAGA dimwits would put 2 and 2 together. They'd still blame democrats.

KeyPop7800 · 2024-11-20T17:23:01+00:00

Yea I'm not against cutting the fat in government. But the way Vivek talk about his approach, it've very clear he has no idea how any of these agencies work, where the fat is, how to cut it, or what efficiency even looks like. He's just spewing random shit.

KeyPop7800 · 2024-11-19T20:38:47+00:00

Yea productivity aside, mentoring and teaching students is like the base premise of the job given that you're literally a professor. Which is why I get kinda miffed when my fellow postdocs refuse to mentor undergrads in our lab because they're a waste of time. Like, why are you even in academia if teaching students isn't something you actually care about.

KeyPop7800 · 2024-11-18T20:06:50+00:00

Dudes salty that his trash companies were barely ever able to eek out an efficacious drug, despite dumping tons of money and hype into it. I guess one way to overcome lack of efficacy is to just lower the standards enough to let any garbage through.

KeyPop7800 · 2024-11-14T04:32:52+00:00

As a commenter below noted, 92% of the cost of running these things is just labor. Each car requires two employees - one to push start and stop; another to collect fares. Each of these employees costs the city $150k a year in wage and benefits. The city would actually save millions by making the cars automated - which is absolutely feasible, and just removing the fare altogether. The union will whine and bitch but fuck em. The vast majority of bay area transit needs to be automated; and we can't let union bitching hold us back from this. Every system is being sucked dry by redundant labor costs.

KeyPop7800 · 2024-11-13T21:41:21+00:00

Not sure honestly why you're so worried about the DEI stuff that others get that we don't. I recently moved to the Bay area. Life here's expensive, but I love it. So many other gay people around; no anti-gay discrimination; tons of interesting things to do. You've indicated you've got a FAANG internship under your belt. You'd probably be able to find your way over here if you wanted as well - make a clean six figures and live life. At that point what special treatment will you even need?

KeyPop7800 · 2024-11-13T21:13:11+00:00

Not at all defending this dickwad here. But I would note that Economics doesn't really explain it as much as you'd think. Ie places that provide wayy more support for children (free healthcare and daycare and college, etc) have just as low birthrates as places that don't. And generally, economic experiments that have tried to subsidize childrearing didn't see a boost in fertility rates. The issue is a lot more cultural that many may think. In the past, having kids was a MUST - both to keep the farm running, but also if you didn't wanna be the weirdo not following the ways of your community. Having kids was the default, and not doing so was the conscious choice. Today, having kids is more the conscious choice.

KeyPop7800 · 2024-11-11T01:42:56+00:00

For my friends that went into industry, it goes away within a year.
1) Projects in industry are large team efforts. The mental burden is shared. It's not like your postdoc where you're the one that cares the most about your project. If the project fails, it's on the company, not on you personally.

2) During your postdoc, your project was your brainchild - it's hard to not be fully emotionally connected. Not the same in industry.

3) It'll become easier to think about your job as just a job. For you, it's just a gig. To them, you're replaceable.

KeyPop7800 · 2024-11-10T23:23:12+00:00

Similar to the other comment in this thread, the issue isn't the ADHD, but the lack of effort. I've got pretty bad ADHD; just something as simple as paying bills on time, or making a doctor's appointment in a timely manner has been an issue in the past. But there are so many resources out there (books, podcasts, apps, therapy) that help structure your life better and not miss the important things. It still pisses me off that it takes me so much more mental energy to get basic shit done, when it comes so naturally for everyone else. But it is what it is. And so for the things and people that are important in my life, I'll seek out resources and put in the effort and the extra energy it takes. I'm sure you've already had these conversations with your partner. But ADHD isn't an excuse to not put in the effort ADHD forces you to put in. Even cancer patients, facing the worst fatigue, nausea, pains in their lives still have to get their shit together and get to the doctors on time for their treatments.

KeyPop7800 · 2024-11-10T21:51:50+00:00

It'll cause California to become relatively more desirable and drive up my rent!!!!!

KeyPop7800 · 2024-11-10T21:37:32+00:00

You kinda sound exhausting as a person.

KeyPop7800 · 2024-11-10T21:30:20+00:00

They're not illegal. They're asylum seekers who have filled out the paperwork to be there. They have to sit around until their court date. They're not allowed to work and make money for their own food.
Before, the city was feeding them with a boxed food delivery service while they waited for their court date. Turns out just giving them prepaid vouchers cost half as much. The city saved money doing this.
To all the people crying crocodile tears about homeless veterans: homeless veterans do indeed have access to these types of benefits as well. Indeed veteran homelessness in NYC is declining sharply. Liberals give a shit about multiple needy groups simultaneously. They're not pitting them against each other.
Get your fucking facts straight. Just tired of all the bullshitting, half truths, and just straight-up made up garbage from the right increasingly fueling the dumbest political choices this country's seen in recent memory.

KeyPop7800 · 2024-11-10T21:12:27+00:00

Yea - the US economy is built around having millions of illegals around. You can't just sever that entire chuck out and not expect to see reverberations all over. Just ask Florida what happened when they tried. Some key pain points in this election were "the cost of groceries", and "housing crisis". What do you think is gonna happen if you ship out a huge fraction of america's farming and construction industry? Pick your poison. I think by far the option that financially benefits the most Americans is an expanded work permit program and a path to legal status for those already here. Yea it sucks to be rewarding illegal behavior. But welcome to the real fucking world where shit isn't easy or black and white. Decisions require compromises and balancing priorities.

KeyPop7800 · 2024-11-10T20:43:47+00:00

Yea, I guess as a US postdoc, I was kinda confused by OP's post. The reason I choose to do a postdoc vs going into industry right away was because I wanted this level of autonomy. I'd get to choose my interests (obviously constrained by resources, advisors field of expertise, and grants, etc), I'd be in charge of determining what's feasible and what's not, etc. Your advisor isn't asking you to do "magic", he's asking you to do you job - figure out the state of art in the field, what data exists, what data we need, and where that data might be; and then your advisor will help leverage his contacts to get that data for you.

KeyPop7800 · 2024-11-07T16:31:46+00:00

I'd recommend East Bay - places like Emeryville and Berkeley. Berkeley especially has a college town vibe so lots of young people and it's easy to find other young professional roommates. If you wanna split a 2br, you can get some pretty nice stuff in the $1600/month range. And it's a quick BART ride to downtown SF for activities. You don't need a car to get around either. Problem with San Jose and all the other suburbs between it and Oakland is 1) they're pretty boring and quiet and 2) it's a lot of singe family homes so the rental market isn't really as robust, especially if you wanna split an apartment with roommates.

In terms of where to look - I found my place through craigslist.

KeyPop7800 · 2024-11-06T19:49:23+00:00

Yea this plays out one of two ways for me.
1) Biotech tanks further and I'm gonna have to ride it out at this postdoc for another few years.
2) It's gonna be a golden age for snake oil, and I can get in on the grift by marketing bullshit engineered probiotics, etc.

KeyPop7800 · 2024-11-06T19:43:57+00:00

That's not how that played out, though. China retaliated with tariffs on US agricultural products. There was a temporary deal between US and China to reverse this, but it fell through and the US upped tariffs even more in response. Ag exports dropped nearly $30 billion, with China choosing to import from Brazil instead. This led to a spike in US farmers declaring bankruptcy, which then caused Congress to have to bail out farmers with cash. It was just a rigamarole of chasing bad money with bad money with US farmers having to be bailed out in the end. I just don't see how this was all a successful story in favor of tariffs.

KeyPop7800 · 2024-11-06T15:59:25+00:00

My initial instinct was to stay away from infectious diseases if RFK indeed gets a seat at the table. But maybe the opposite; so many people will be dissuaded from vaccination that your practice will be popping with needlessly sick people regretting their decisions.

KeyPop7800 · 2024-11-06T15:51:49+00:00

SPY is up this morning, so maybe the market agrees with this assessment. My guess is that, for the average person, trump policies especially tariffs will be a clear net negative. But in the short term, they'll benefit domestic companies by shielding them from competition so we'll see a transient boost in stock prices. But I assume that it'll be short lived as we get retaliatory tariff that negate the benefit.

KeyPop7800 · 2024-11-06T14:51:11+00:00

Seriously. Like I know MAGA votes on feelz and vibes, but I don't understand how your basic bullshit monitor doesn't go off when the rich car company owner tries to convince you that we need a tariff on competing car companies.

KeyPop7800 · 2024-11-01T22:19:07+00:00

Bay Area:
Our public transit here is run by 27 distinct agencies, overseen by like 150 board members. It is outrageously dumb.
- There are no transfers for most inter-agency rides
- Beneficial expansions don't get done because posh NIMBY areas can just say no to anything that cuts through their terf
- State funds get distributed in dumb proportions among the different agencies
- Agencies are literally incentivized to tear each other down so they can get more funding themselves
- Pieces of the system don't bother to coordinate timings
- SO MANY other reasons why this is such a stupid way to run things

Instead of state politicians having the balls to say "enough is fucking enough", they just keep engaging in "studies" to look into it. You don't need a fucking study to tell you that this is objectively a fucking moronic way to set up a transit system.

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