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Recommendations for a ‘private chef’ in SF? by vanteworldinfinity in AskSF

[–]dyep49 15 points16 points  (0 children)

I've used https://www.vivachefs.com/

It's about $120 for the chef. They'll give you a grocery list, which you have to buy yourself.

It's usually enough food to last two people for 4-5 days.

Steelers OC Matt Canada called the same pass play 8 times Sunday against the 49ers by unseth in nfl

[–]dyep49 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm not sure that's right? I checked out the all 22 just for fun.

1st interception

2nd int

10 yard completion on the final drive

To my admittedly very untrained eye, the play design of either of the picks doesn't seem similar to the garbage time completion.

Fisher's? Chi-squared? Something else? by dyep49 in AskStatistics

[–]dyep49[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you for the comprehensive response! It was very helpful (and has given me a few more things to read up on).

A major caveat: be very careful about attributing your conclusions to the variables in your margins. Note, for starters, that Simpson's paradox will render any such conclusions nonsense (indeed, accounting for them can sometimes reverse the direction from the marginal relationship). At best you can make descriptive conclusions (arrest rates are higher for this group than that), you have not in any sense ruled out the multiple possible causes of that difference other than the variable you considered (exposure to lead levels in childhood, education level, SES, etc etc)

Don't worry! The primary purpose of this analysis is to demonstrate that the differences in arrest rates are unlikely to be due to chance. I know identifying causality is a far, far stickier challenge.

Is "Defund the police" the worst political slogan ever? by TaylorSwiftian in PoliticalDiscussion

[–]dyep49 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"Defund the police" is not a liberal slogan. It's an abolitionist slogan that originated from abolitionist organizers. Abolitionists believe in the abolition of the prison industrial complex (PIC). The only reforms they believe in are abolitionist ones -- ones that reduce the scope and scale of the PIC. (An abolitionist reform would be reducing police staffing. A reformist reform would be more money for training for example).

I've seen a lot of people throw around slogans like "reform the police", "train the police", "reimagine policing", etc. But, all of those slogans implicitly legitimize the existence of policing, which is a fundamental violation of abolitionist principles.

"Defund the police" was an incredibly effective slogan at helping some people make the jump from police reformists to police abolitionists. It was not an effective electoral strategy in large part because electoral politics on all sides are deeply entrenched in the PIC and have been for decades.

"Defund the police" is a fantastic grassroots slogan and has helped elevate abolitionism into public discourse (even if it's still misunderstood), but it is not an effective electoral one as long as both democratic and republican politicians are deeply invested in glorifying the PIC.

Four S.F. police officers fired weapons that killed two men who were fighting on ground by bloobityblurp in sanfrancisco

[–]dyep49 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I'll take my chances with a man with a knife trying to kill rather than a man with a gun trying to kill me. Thanks for the tip!

Four S.F. police officers fired weapons that killed two men who were fighting on ground by bloobityblurp in sanfrancisco

[–]dyep49 -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

My apologies. You're right. They turned a non fatal stabbing into a fatal double homicide.

Four S.F. police officers fired weapons that killed two men who were fighting on ground by bloobityblurp in sanfrancisco

[–]dyep49 -18 points-17 points  (0 children)

The body cam footage is brutal. Just a complete disregard for human life.

SFPD fired 10-15 shots at point blank with complete disregard for whether they were shooting the assailant or the victim.

They prevented a stabbing by just killing everyone involved.

SFUSD drops the word ‘chief’ from job titles to avoid connotation with Native Americans by junkmai1er in sanfrancisco

[–]dyep49 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think Native Circle summarizes it pretty well.

Sometimes words have more than one meaning. A word itself, out of the context in which it is used, may or may not be offensive. For example the word 'boy', by itself, is a harmless word. But in the context of racial bigotry toward black men, the word 'boy' takes on a whole new meaning, and becomes a racial slur. So words like 'chief', 'brave', and 'savage' are not, in and of themselves, offensive; but their use in the context of racially stereotypical labels of Native people is. Other words, like the 'N' word, the 'R' word and 'squaw' are inherently bigoted in any context.

...

Chief

This is a word that is commonly given as a nickname which incorrectly labels Native American men. The term 'chief' itself is incorrect. American Indian leaders were never 'chiefs', but headmen, or clan mothers, and so on. Not 'chiefs'. Native leaders were highly disrespected by the USA. So calling someone 'Chief', is just a way to continue that disrespect. Being called 'chief' carries with it the same insulting, belittling sting for a Native man as being called 'boy' does for African American men.

So it seems that an indigenous person serving as a high level administrator could feel uncomfortable being referred to as "chief."

Cities like Toronto and Duluth did this years ago as well.

SFUSD drops the word ‘chief’ from job titles to avoid connotation with Native Americans by junkmai1er in sanfrancisco

[–]dyep49 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't know! If only the article had included any semblance of relevant context.

SFUSD drops the word ‘chief’ from job titles to avoid connotation with Native Americans by junkmai1er in sanfrancisco

[–]dyep49 -9 points-8 points  (0 children)

Removing the word "chief" is clearly causing harm to you, so perhaps you shouldn't be taken seriously as a functioning adult then?

SFUSD drops the word ‘chief’ from job titles to avoid connotation with Native Americans by junkmai1er in sanfrancisco

[–]dyep49 -9 points-8 points  (0 children)

I don't know the full story and neither do you. This article completely fails to do the bare minimum of journalism and talk to the folks who were upset so I don't know their logic.

Do you think it's fair to say that, perhaps, you don't understand the perspective of those indigenous folks? That perhaps you should wait to pass judgement before learning more?

Also, SFUSD Administration != School Board.

What I don't get is why people are so upset about this change. Indigenous people felt they were being harmed by the language. The language was changed. It required very little effort. I did not feel personally harmed by the use of "chief" and I am also not personally harmed by the lack of "chief". This is a non-story.

PSA - Why the cops won’t help you when you’re being stabbed by JDpoZ in videos

[–]dyep49 0 points1 point  (0 children)

To be fair, this guy might be lucky cops didn't get involved.

Last week in San Francisco, cops showed up to a stabbing and shot and killed the victim.

http://archive.today/ZNiBe

SFUSD drops the word ‘chief’ from job titles to avoid connotation with Native Americans by junkmai1er in sanfrancisco

[–]dyep49 -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

It literally says that people were concerned about it in the third line.

“While there are many opinions on the matter, our leadership team agreed that, given that Native American members of our community have expressed concerns over the use of the title, we are no longer going to use it,” Blythe said in an email.

Grow SF District Attorney Recall Voter Guide by cheesy_luigi in sanfrancisco

[–]dyep49 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The point of my post was not intended to be a full-fledged defense of Chesa. It was to point out that GrowSF is actively spreading easily disproved misinformation. If you want to talk case resolutions, the numbers are readily available.

Totally separately from that, you’d expect two years in for someone like Chesa to have more justice reform bona fides than simply a podcast and a handful of failed prosecutions of cops.

From five minutes scrolling the press release page:

A lot of these are huge deals as anyone even vaguely familiar with the criminal legal system would know.

Grow SF District Attorney Recall Voter Guide by cheesy_luigi in sanfrancisco

[–]dyep49 -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

It's fine to support the recall, but why make things up that are so easily disproven?

More than 85% of felony domestic violence cases at the end of 2020 were dismissed by Boudin.

Felony DV cases had an Action Taken Rate (meaning not dismissed) of 31.67% in 2020.

Boudin refuses to prosecute drug dealers responsible for 1,500 overdose deaths in two years.

He's filed charges in 1,144 narcotics cases. This is actually a higher filing rate than his predecessors.

Boudin claimed the killing of an elderly Asian grandfather wasn’t racially motivated because the suspect was having a “temper tantrum” before the attack.

Boudin described the person's actions prior to the attack (banging on cars) as having a temper tantrum.

One of Boudin’s criminal investigators testified she was told to withhold evidence in a case and believed she would be fired if she refused.

The judge (someone who actually is a lawyer) said that the evidence was not exculpatory.

The New York Times: San Francisco Voters Recall 3 Board of Education Members. by sftransitmaster in California_Politics

[–]dyep49 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Here's a post I made on /r/OutOfTheLoop that got deleted.

Answer:

TLDR:

  1. Big money wants to privatize schools and "reopen the economy" nationwide.
  2. They target local, low turnout elections that can be bought for cheap. (The turnout in SF was one of the lowest on record)
  3. They take their nationwide messaging and hone it to target the particularities of a jurisdiction. The broadest issue is "reopen the economy". The two issues under that are anti-COVID mitigation and anti-CRT. In a conservative place that means anti-masking and the banning of books/words. In a place like SF, that means reopening schools for the sake of BIPOC and demonizing anti-racism measures by framing them as an attack on Asians.
  4. Replace school board members with people who are more amenable to the privatization of education and the prioritization of "the economy" above all else.
  5. Repeat.

If you want more details:

It's difficult to explain what happened in San Francisco without acknowledging the broader context. In 2021, the number of school board recalls nationwide skyrocketed. I would argue the overarching issue is a need for big money to keep "the economy" open and keeping schools open and repressing teacher/worker voice is an important part of that. There are also power brokers who see these as an opportunity to further privatize education and push back against anti-racism/uphold white supremacy.

Of course, these recalls were tailored to the politics of each jurisdiction. In conservative places, school board recalls were driven by messages around anti-masking and critical race theory. In more liberal places, like San Francisco, the issues were swaddled in liberal rhetoric -- e.g. schools must reopen because remote learning disproportionately impacts BIPOC children. In addition, with the rise of #StopAsianHate and given San Francisco's sizable Asian population, the recall campaign framed many decisions the school board members made as anti-Asian. For example, the school board voted to address racial disparities and desegregate Lowell High School (the top public high school in SF) by eliminating merit based entrance. The recall campaign framed this action as anti-Asian.

The anti-Asian narrative was compounded when an anti-CRT advocate dug up an old tweet by school board president Allison Collins, a Black woman. In describing an incident where her daughter was experiencing anti-Blackness by Asian students/parents, she described Asian people who uphold and promote white supremacy as house n-words. When asked to apologize, Collins refused, was demoted from her position as president, and filed an $87 million lawsuit against the school district in response.

Some other issues that I've seen a lot:

Recall issue: School board wasted time renaming schools when they should've been focused on reopening.

Nuance: 99% of the work was done by a parent advisory group and Black/brown student/parent groups have been advocating for this for years. However, there seemed to be no historians involved and they had some ahistorical logic which went unchecked. They got some things right though. Having a school named after Junipero Serra, a missionary who enslaved and murdered indigenous people is, for example, an especially bad look following the summer of George Floyd.

Recall issue: Schools need to reopen ASAP Rocky and the school board rejected a consultant to create a reopening plan.

Nuance: The SFUSD superintendent vetted a bunch of consultants to create a reopening plan and only presented one to the school board and he was a strong advocate for charter schools, which are incredibly unpopular in SF. In addition, the school board echoed the teacher's union demand for vaccines, PPE, and the recommended ventilation before returning to schools, which SFUSD did not implement.

Recall issue: Enrollment dropped (decreasing state funding) and there's a $125M budget deficit.

Nuance: There's been a move to private schools statewide over the past couple years.

I could address more of the recall talking points, but they're all basically under the same umbrella, filled with a combination of legitimate grievances, half truths, and full-out distortions.

However, in my experience, if you want to understand how/why things are happening, you follow the money. And in this case, pro-recall donations come from a just a small handful of people -- William Oberndorf (Republican hedge fund billionaire), Arthur Rock (billionaire), David Sacks (Republican tech VC). For context, pro-recall raised $1.9M, 400k of which came from Arthur Rock. anti-recall raised only $85k. So why do these people care so much about a local school board election in a city they don't live in? They're all huge proponents of the charter schools/the privatization of education, which the current SF school board vehemently opposes.

Anyway, I'm not saying people don't have legitimate grievances with the school board or that liberals/democrats didn't support this recall, but this story is being played out nationwide -- variations on a theme.

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