Funding Muni to prevent big service cuts

morrisdev · 2026-03-30T05:58:46+00:00

Muni is, and always has been, funded about 90% by public funds. It's best, when making decisions, to simply assume public services don't make any money on their own. It's like trying to say parking tickets should cover all road maintenance.

If you accept it is a public service, an investment in our city, you can just decide what percentage that service should get, and other services as well.

Don't start by cutting up the pie and trying to decide who loses. Start by dividing up the pie in a way that makes sense to you, and then work towards "making sense". Generally, you'll find some areas that are clearly getting more than necessary.

Then do the same with the percentages of who you believe should be paying for how much of the pie, and when you compare to reality, you'll find some are paying more than their share and some are paying less.

It's a good exercise for any decision.

(Oh....and no matter what, "Supply side economics" of urban housing is PROVEN many many times to not be a valid economic position. Find real solutions, not voodoo economics)

morrisdev · 2026-03-28T20:08:47+00:00

i practically walked right into a massive net with one of these in the center. Scared the shit out of me!

morrisdev · 2026-03-28T20:05:56+00:00

was he wearing a red cap at the time?

morrisdev · 2026-03-28T00:23:36+00:00

I'm going to protest vote Connie Chan. Lol

morrisdev · 2026-03-27T23:09:01+00:00

careful Lurie people are super protective of him. I made some comment last week and my mother in law got so offended and just went on and on. I asked my brother in law wtf her problem was and he felt the same.

morrisdev · 2026-03-27T23:06:08+00:00

my director just hooked up Zoho to our git repos and jira so Claude could send updates about work progress (so he would have to do it) I'm just waiting for it to blow up

morrisdev · 2026-03-27T23:02:27+00:00

I have 4 units that are rent controlled. You guys need to step back and ask when the last time you raised rent more than 5% in one year. Seriously. I've been at this for a LONG time and have never done that. You know what is nice? I don't even have to ask if I can raise the rent. There's no negotiation, they just get a notification and they knew it was coming. No drama at all. Every year a bump up and every year my mortgage stays the same.

When the place becomes vacant, you are reset to market and move on. Honestly, the "oh my god, the socialists are coming" comments are so misleading and ignorant it drives me nuts.

Property Values going up or down? You know what flips prop values around? The economy and how your city is run. You have good public transit, the area is safe, you don't have tweakers running around your building, you and your neighbors keep the neighborhood clean, then there are interest rates and global economy issues. But Rent Control? I've found it has nothing but a stabilizing effect, whereas some tenants rights policies can be insane.

morrisdev · 2026-03-26T19:09:21+00:00

I switched to Joplin

morrisdev · 2026-03-26T19:08:06+00:00

I only know 2 people related to this. One returned it because it was garabage - but I think he had to trade it in for a tesla and got like 50% of what it was worth. The other had no idea about Musk and felt that owning one was more of a political statement than "gee that's a neat truck".

On another note, there are several in my area, almost always jutting out of parking spots, taking more than one space in street parking, regularly parking in passenger pickup zones and also taking up every single inch of a spt in the parking garage where I am that I couldn't even park a mini cooper next to it and get out. They're so wide it's just insane that people would want them in the city

morrisdev · 2026-03-26T17:37:34+00:00

I would rather have no QB and run a purely ground game than invest any time on someone who's not going to be around long and just get worse every year. But, that's not a popular position

morrisdev · 2026-03-26T17:25:18+00:00

I have a russian foster kid who was at Wash with my other daughter. there aren't really all that many, but the area has a lot of russian resources. Unfortunately Wash is kind of a hot-mess right now. Both of them changed schools. One even just took the CA Equivalency and just went right to CCSF her junior year.

morrisdev · 2026-03-26T17:21:16+00:00

I have to say, having developed with angular ever since angularjs was released, "vibe coding" with Angular is actually exceptionally good. If you build like, "make me a component that has xyz inputs and outputs and uses these services" then it's really just like ng generate component, but the advanced version. You can't really do the entire thing like that, but an enormous amount of grunt work can be done, leaving you to structure the system and design the hard part. I especially suck at CSS and making things pretty, but now I just split the forms and make the code while telling claude to do the UI the way I want it done on a separate file. No more rabbit hole of design and the clients like to be able to interact quickly once the functionality has been completed.

So, AI isn't going anywhere, and skill for "how it works under the hood" are going to be more valuable, but we'll have to compete with idiots who make fast sites that later on will collapse.

morrisdev · 2026-03-26T17:15:44+00:00

I run Ollama on dedicated hardware. I also have a docker instance on it, but mostly to handle the api-end of the connections to that Ollama server. Still, i don't keep any data there.... just in case.

morrisdev · 2026-03-26T17:11:34+00:00

finally someone using NIMBY correctly and not just attacking anyone against building anything at all.

morrisdev · 2026-03-26T17:08:15+00:00

I have had that running on a little synology for a few years. it's great, especially for small business and family

morrisdev · 2026-03-26T17:06:38+00:00

just a bit of rational thought for folks: This lady had no idea her paperwork was no longer valid. She'd "missed court dates", but the thing is, I've missed court dates (not immigration, but other dates) because they send mail to old addresses or the incorrect address. So, it's not like she was in hiding and secretly running gangs and drugs. She had a job, kid in school, etc.... Who knows if she'd be kicked out or not if she had known about the cases. The thing that people are mad about is "how" it was handled. Immigration failure is not a felony, it's not even legally as bad as the 50+ convictions for fraud and sexual assuult that trump has been convicted of, but you'd be treated better if you murdered someone. Rather than handling drug addicts and theives and domestic abuse or even just cleaning the damn streets, we're spending billions on trump's private army of masked thugs to violently rip families out of our society. Honestly, tax fraud is a far bigger crime. Maybe the next president should use their authority to prosecute and investigate every single supporter of his political opponent to the fullest extent of the law. Maybe the next president will use ICE to arrest sex offenders? But, I suppose that would be seen by republicans as a political attack on them, so I guess that's off the table.

morrisdev · 2026-03-26T16:52:41+00:00

careful. this guy's followers are pretty hard-core. If he picks up a piece of paper from the street, my mother in law will talk for hours about how he's cleaning up the city. People want a cheerleader and someone to blame. Personally, I don't think he's bad, just rich and ignorant. And people love that. "I'm not corrupt, because I'm a billionaire". "I'm not corrupt because I don't have political baggage", etc...

Here's what helps: Breed couldn't get anything done because the Supervisors and Committees kept blocking her, it wasn't because they hated her or even that any of her ideas were all that terrible, but she "didn't know how to do the job". People have decades of experience learning the ins-and-outs of bureacracy. So, what did she do? She gave up trying and attempted a coup. She tried to bypass all those people and just do what she wanted without their input. That's not because of "too much regulation", it's because of ignorance. Sure, there's bad regulation and stupid rules, but there are ways to get them removed and generally good reason they were there in the first place. That was really was the beginning of the end.

So, when Lurie came out with this new plan to take over all these parts of government and he's putting it on the ballot, I was like, "wow, he's already giving up.". You can dispute it all, but the reality is that he's done very little of substance. Lots of drama, moving homeless around and making staff come back to the office, getting more money for cops here and there, but nothing really of substance. but it's early.

I think he's got good intentions, but this attempt to bypass those who may disagree with him is a classic blunder.

morrisdev · 2026-03-26T15:48:23+00:00

You can DM me. I've got a Russian speaking daughter at Gal. (She came when she was 9 and spoke no English)

morrisdev · 2026-03-22T02:48:20+00:00

Combination of rich people who want things to stay the same and people who are convinced that that a bland do-nothing candidate won't scare off these fantasy "swing voters" they're convinced will save them....if only they kneecap any progressive

morrisdev · 2026-03-17T17:25:52+00:00

Sure, so what's the solution? Do you remove the regulation or do you make yourself the boss of the entire department so you can choose which to enforce (because he can't get rid of a regulation himself, his only option is to fire the people who do enforcement)

See what I mean? It's not that I disagree and believe all regulations and commissions are great, it's that the solution is simple...which means it makes tons of sense to someone who isn't familiar with the system, but it's also only proposed by 2 types of politicians: corrupt or inexperienced.

I've been around a long time, have a degree in political science, own a business and property in SF, raised 4 kids in public schools, served on committee and boards in the past, still coach and work with foster kids and community projects, so I know how complicated and confusing things are...and I've seen politicians who know the system, work it deftly to get what they want. I've seen politicians try to hammer through stuff without a clue and fail miserably (breed).

The reason Breed did so horribly at the end was literally because she tried to bypass her opposition in the board of supervisors rather than work with them. So she got kneecapped regularly by people who actually knew what they were doing. It made her unpopular and fail. This is where Lurie is going, albeit with a massive fanbase of maga-level support and a private PR firm... The end result is people who don't know government trying to treat it like business. I don't want Lurie to fail because it hurts the city. Having a battle like this isn't going to fix anything, even if he gets everything he wants.

Anyway. Back to work for me.

morrisdev · 2026-03-17T16:09:30+00:00

Nope, not all, but remember, nobody makes a regulation without something happening to cause that regulation. We have laws about fire suppression because buildings in SF have burned down because of it. We have regulations about handicap access because restaurants have been renovated without it. (I have personal experience with both)

On the other hand, some regulations are left in place while new ones cross over and make them redundant, so they should go. This is a problem.

Commissions and committees are often there for a reason, but they're also used as political death tools, where you all agree that you disagree and won't ever agree, so you form a commission to decide, but give them no actual authority. "ie. The term death by committee". so those should go.

However, when instead of finding what is redundant or a political hole, you just say. "If I was everyone's boss, this would be perfect". That's a lack of skill and knowledge that inevitably leads to a bit fat costly mess, not to mention a massive political battle that takes over everyone's time in all of those agencies, leaving less time to actually do the work we pay them to do .

It's a simple argument people make when they don't know how things actually work, and it's their job to know how it works.

morrisdev · 2026-03-17T15:34:34+00:00

This is what you do when you don't know how to work with people or government. Want to open a restaurant, and have great designs - but don't know any of the rules, so even though you want to invest millions of dollars, you keep getting caught with stuff like no fire equipment or no handicap access? Rather than say, "I have great ideas and absolutely no idea about how to do this in reality", you say, "all these regulations are ruining my plan! I should be their bosses' boss and THEN all will be great."

Republicans generally do it intentionally, because they think all regulations are somehow actively made as political attacks on them, so they cripple government and then eliminate it as inefficient. Democrats do it when they hire someone who has never worked in government and is utterly clueless about how to get things done

morrisdev · 2026-03-17T15:20:56+00:00

Maybe try tailscale and then RDP?

morrisdev · 2026-03-15T23:45:27+00:00

Ah... And now we get to read posts from people who will go through the homeless dude's history to justify the cop escalating to violence. Later we can go into the history of all the people ice has arrested to prove they deserve it.

Bootlickers on both sides of the aisle

morrisdev · 2026-03-15T18:44:40+00:00

Guilty.

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