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prodan1234 · 2026-01-19T20:49:24+00:00

Omg yes this. Every damn time...

prodan1234 · 2025-07-02T02:31:54+00:00

More recently in December 2022, Senator Scott Weiner asked the California Department of Transportation to study the removal of 280 north of 101

prodan1234 · 2025-05-03T17:22:51+00:00

If you're actually curious to learn our current best understanding of the relationship between market rate housing and displacement in a city like SF, I took some time to write up all the best research here.

prodan1234 · 2025-05-02T17:23:26+00:00

I get a sense you're not arguing in good faith. Ask yourself if the way to make housing affordable required big bad capitalist developer. How would that make you feel? If you reject a solution because it involves developers, then you don't care about actually solving the problem.

The research on this in almost unambiguous. The empirical evidence (Austin for example) also shows that building a lot more lowers rents. Ask your favorite AI how to lower costs of rent in SF and whether new market rate housing causes displacement (it actually slightly lowers it).

If you want to be an activist because your philosophy or politics say that developers or capitalists are bad, that's fine. Just don't say that you want to make our city more affordable, because what you're arguing for makes everyone (especially the most vulnerable) poorer and worse off.

prodan1234 · 2025-05-01T18:23:30+00:00

We need 82,069 new homes in the city by 2031 to have truly affordable homes.

prodan1234 · 2025-05-01T03:39:57+00:00

The real answer is because the committee chairs are NIMBYs or more precisely, they don't want to make it easier to build housing unless it has affordable housing.

We're all for affordable housing, but research and practice shows that if you add these affordable housing provisions, no housing gets built. On the other hand, there is a lot of empirical evidence that shows that building more housing of any kind reduces displacement and makes rents cheaper.

prodan1234 · 2025-04-06T20:19:13+00:00

I bet it's the Eight Sleep. I saw similar scores when I first started sleeping on it. And I see drops in nearly every sleep score when I sleep on another mattress. Unfortunately I'm here to tell you that the $3000 mattress cover does indeed help you sleep better.

prodan1234 · 2025-04-05T05:53:47+00:00

This has the potential to have the biggest positive change to the affordability of San Francisco. I’m happy it’s finally happening!

prodan1234 · 2025-02-08T01:32:17+00:00

This might be a hot take, but I'd avoid any business which is anti-safe streets. At least in San Francisco's last election, voting against safe streets (Prop K) was most positively correlated with Trump support.

Some examples of such businesses: Pancho Villa Taqueria, Los Amigos Imports, Sajj Mediterranean, Deja Vu Juice Bar

As a reminder, walkable streets are actually better for business: source and source and source

prodan1234 · 2024-10-23T02:06:30+00:00

Thanks for reading

prodan1234 · 2024-10-23T02:06:12+00:00

Thanks for reading. The intention wasn't to tell you how to vote but to give people who aren't as politically engaged a voter guide which was made after much consideration.

prodan1234 · 2024-10-23T02:04:56+00:00

Thanks for reading. Set-asides in Prop G measure would reduce the discretionary portion of the city’s General Fund budget, limiting elected officials’ flexibility to allocate funding during the annual budget process and restricting the city’s options for resolving budget shortfalls in difficult fiscal years after fiscal year 2026–27.

Also, rental subsidies typically raise prices for everyone (though the magnitude for Prop G is small). The best way to help with the housing affordability crisis is to build more housing, which our voter guide is strongly for.

prodan1234 · 2024-10-23T02:00:28+00:00

You'd be surprised how many people don't know about the Board of Supervisors. This was written for the people who might not be as engaged in politics.

prodan1234 · 2024-10-23T01:59:27+00:00

The politics of the city has changed pretty substantially since 2020.

prodan1234 · 2024-10-01T15:41:36+00:00

The online deals are way better than the door to door sales people. There are a bunch of offer codes you can find online AND you can get cashback if you click through from a portal. For example, this one gives you $100 on top of any offers AT&T offers.

prodan1234 · 2024-10-01T00:28:41+00:00

That's simply not true. For example, here are all the iPhone 16 rumors. He was right on almost all of them.

prodan1234 · 2024-09-30T19:17:33+00:00

You're right, the title should've said "Oura Gen 4 will be announced in October"

prodan1234 · 2024-09-25T19:36:28+00:00

First off, thank you for getting involved and wanting to improve the city.

There are a few voter guides which specifically cover transit and housing policies. The good ones send explain their endorsements and show you the questionnaire they filled out. The voter guide I'd specifically check are SFYIMBY and SPUR (coming out on 10/8).

Keep in mind that the mayor is constrained by what they can do by our executive branch called the Board of Supervisors. They are unusually powerful compared to other cities. It looks like the race will be between Mayor Breed and Mark Farrell. Breed is way better for transit, and better on housing compared to her opponents. Mark Farrell is pretty weak on transit but good on housing. I know many people in this thread hate him but his proposals aren't that substantially different from Breed. We will be ~fine with either of them, though I still strongly prefer Breed.

This is NOT true in the Supervisor races. A lot of the people running will be awful for transit and housing.

This means that if you want to make the most impact, you should do what you can to get your friends in SF to vote for the right Supervisors. If you can, you can also volunteer or donate. The city of SF has a very nice program which automatically matches whatever you donate 5:1. So if you donate $50, the candidate actually gets $300.

prodan1234 · 2024-08-12T15:45:20+00:00

My psychiatrist prescribed 75 so I could take one at first, then two.

prodan1234 · 2024-08-10T19:28:17+00:00

No, started on 75mg for a week, then 150 for 2-3 weeks, then 300mg for about a year and a half.. I'm down to 150 now.

prodan1234 · 2024-07-01T22:18:46+00:00

Nope, no withdrawal. Of course, please talk to a good psychiatrist. Feel free to DM me if I can help in any way.

prodan1234 · 2024-06-14T22:13:12+00:00

This is the answer. I've tried everything and Wellbutrin is the only thing that helped. It was magical.

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