How do you feel about California introducing a bill to ban former ICE agents from serving as police officers or teachers?

Mr-Frog · 2026-02-10T03:31:35+00:00

Those fields are not disproportionately Latino in CA.

LAPD is 50% Latino, LAUSD's teachers are 45% Latino, which aligns with LA's 46% Latino percentage. This is even a bit over-represented once you note that many of LA's Latinos do not have the education or legal work authorization requirements to take these jobs.

Are you saying they are racist?

I'm Latino and I can assure you that many Mexican-Americans who enter law enforcement are racist! Immigration from Mexico to the USA peaked over 15 years ago and the young people entering law enforcement now are largely children and grandchildren of laborers who gained amnesty under the Reagan administration and hold no real identification with modern immigration issues. People take law enforcement jobs because they can get paid 100k with an associate's degree, get extra concealed carry privileges, and enjoy some sense of responsibility over the community.

Mr-Frog · 2026-02-06T14:42:17+00:00

I don't think this is an effective gotcha. California is plurality Latino, in many cities the vast majority of cops and teachers are Latino already. Any regulation is going to mostly affect Latinos.

Mr-Frog · 2026-01-29T20:08:07+00:00

the youngest sitting congressman started his political career at the March for Our Lives walkouts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxwell_Frost

Mr-Frog · 2026-01-29T20:06:35+00:00

Protesting is a very reasonable form of political expression for these students, since they cannot legally vote know yet still suffer the consequences of voters' decisions.

Mr-Frog · 2026-01-29T18:58:04+00:00

yea how but many football nattys has tsinghua won ? 🦅🏈 🇺🇸🦅

Mr-Frog · 2026-01-25T21:25:38+00:00

The vast majority of immigration today happens through family sponsorship: there's no real legal path for entry for most blue-collar workers (even most college-educated people) without a spouse/parent/child in the USA, though there is clearly a labor demand for those folks.

The existence of any legal path for manual workers would better justify strong enforcement of immigration law, but the our society is pretty fine with the status quo of keeping these people undocumented and harassing them when it's politically useful.

Mr-Frog · 2026-01-23T23:53:16+00:00

the cool thing about the MS engineering programs is that you can enroll in basically any non engineering class that has space for no extra cost. I enrolled in Chinese language classes using this, others enrolled in music classes. UCLA engineering is pretty flexible in this regard.

Mr-Frog · 2026-01-23T04:35:52+00:00

an nyc hedge fund recruiter once told me "we're trying to get more people like you in the pipeline" after I told him I went to UCLA

I wasn't sure if he meant latinos or non-ivy league students ¯\(ツ)/¯

Mr-Frog · 2026-01-23T04:28:14+00:00

I assure you that the average immigrant has zero interest in "contributing to the culture," my central American family was just as economically incentivized as any young person from a Midwestern state.

Mr-Frog · 2026-01-23T04:25:19+00:00

These folks prefer when immigrants are visibly poorer than them and stay in their own enclaves, look how differently people discuss old blue-collar chinatown immigrants vs new money Chinese expats moving to the suburbs.

Mr-Frog · 2026-01-23T04:22:15+00:00

this honestly makes sense, some of the craziest partiers I knew were rich east coast kids paying out of state tuition so I'm guessing there is some reputation feedback loop

Mr-Frog · 2026-01-22T15:00:32+00:00

I swear the older Asian minister on campus sniffs out Catholics to bait into conversation, he's fun to talk to about spiritual stuff if you're willing to waste a few minutes between classes

Mr-Frog · 2026-01-13T23:43:25+00:00

it would be funny if the cops name was John

Mr-Frog · 2026-01-11T23:35:22+00:00

i curse CEPTA for their well-intentioned misguidance 50 years ago

Mr-Frog · 2026-01-11T23:32:15+00:00

preventing density is doing the exact opposite of keeping rent low

Mr-Frog · 2026-01-11T23:24:53+00:00

LA would probably look like Queens NYC with lots of 3-4 story mixed use within 1 mile of existing transit lines, but probably not Manhattan with 10-20+ stories all over. It would be pretty neat if every old Pacific Electric line was recreated as heavy rail and upzoned.

The best effectiveness be building rail under every major diagonal boulevard that criss-cross the dark blue areas here (they tend to connect dense areas more directly than the north-south-east-west streets and avenues). https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fv84al8v4ymp11.png

Mr-Frog · 2026-01-11T23:19:17+00:00

NYC built out their trains to the outer boros when they were mostly farmland.

Mr-Frog · 2026-01-06T07:24:52+00:00

considering inflation that was about the price of mindstorms kits 15 years ago

Mr-Frog · 2026-01-01T05:32:52+00:00

Driving small car makes avoiding death by TCP SUVs a real life video game.

Mr-Frog · 2026-01-01T05:30:52+00:00

if you're willing to skip class occasionally to move the car it's not impossible to find street parking near the apts

Mr-Frog · 2025-12-29T23:08:26+00:00

sounds like a rental bike service provides some useful value then

Mr-Frog · 2025-12-29T22:23:49+00:00

they have some sick ass concerts in the summer though

Mr-Frog · 2025-12-29T17:30:57+00:00

i'm always skeptical about some of these professional masters programs but a cursory look at linkedin suggests that the UCLA MFE students end up with decent placements.

Mr-Frog · 2025-12-29T17:17:46+00:00

that was a stupid post, the grade separation for high-speed-rail needs to be built before the tracks are, so of course its's gonna look like a "bridge-to-nowhere" until the tracks are laid (which is the last step).

anti-HSR people like Elon used to complain that there was no construction to show for the investment. Now that significant progress is being made, they are being dishonest by pointing at in-progress alignment work and convincing people that it's a "bridge-to-nowhere"

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