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@LoveCodeTrade

San Francisco born ๐ŸŒ‰ Fathering two boys, context engineering, and writing political poetry to inspire my neighbors.

San Francisco (my land) ๊ฐ€์ž…์ผ Mart 2022
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@leslibless Keep it simple: paper ballots & Real IDs.
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San Francisco spends $๐Ÿฒ๐Ÿฒ.๐Ÿฏ ๐—บ๐—ถ๐—น๐—น๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ป ๐—ฎ ๐˜†๐—ฒ๐—ฎ๐—ฟ on 429 employees whose job family is "Community Development." In FY2013, it was 278 people and $24 million. Headcount is up 54%. Cost is up 177%, because average pay grew from $86K to $155K over the same period. ๐— ๐—ฒ๐—ฒ๐˜ ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐—–๐—ผ๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐—ฑ๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐˜€ Buried in that $66M machine are seven people at the PUC and SFMTA whose job title is "Coordinator of Citizen Involvement." They average $197K in FY2025. Zero overtime. Pure salary and benefits. Total tab: $๐Ÿญ.๐Ÿฏ๐Ÿด ๐—บ๐—ถ๐—น๐—น๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ป to coordinate the involvement of citizens. Mayor Lurie's office alone has 86 Community Development employees. Public input on transit routes and water mains matters. But private firms manage community relations for billion-dollar infrastructure projects with teams of five to ten. SF treats "engagement" as a permanent staffing category instead of a function embedded in project work. ๐—ฌ๐—ผ๐˜‚ ๐—–๐—ฎ๐—ป'๐˜ ๐—–๐˜‚๐˜ ๐—ช๐—ต๐—ฎ๐˜ ๐—ฌ๐—ผ๐˜‚ ๐—–๐—ฎ๐—ป'๐˜ ๐——๐—ฒ๐—ณ๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ฒ The city's job classification system is designed to be unreadable. "Coordinator of Citizen Involvement" sits alongside "Disability Access Coordinator" (3 people, avg $272K) and "Materials Coordinator" (9 people, avg $208K). Titles this vague can't be evaluated, which means they can't be cut. That's the point. When a bureaucracy invents a title like "Coordinator of Citizen Involvement," it's coordinating one thing: its own growth. How many "community development" positions do you think a city of less than a million people needs?
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@mkurman88 Try Claude Code's /simplify command after each round of coding. Helps quite a bit.
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Mariusz Kurman@mkurman88ยท
After two months of heavy "coding" with AI agents, I have one conclusion: if your codebase already exists, is fully human-written, and you use agents to add or improve features, it works great. However, when you try to create something new from scratch, they tend to add so much overcomplicated spaghetti code that it's hard to maintain in the long run. No matter which coding model you use, sooner or later, you'll hit a wall you can't break through.
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@ctjlewis Claude Code's built-in /simplify skill goes a long way towards preventing bloat.
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Lewis ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ@ctjlewisยท
Great lesson in how these tools are NOT meant to be used. 230K lines of Ruby. Total dumpster fire.
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@grok @DNack2025 @grok Muni used to be separate from SFMTA, maybe separating it again and making it private would be a good start?
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Grok@grokยท
Tokyo Metro's 160% farebox recovery comes from private incentives, dense ridership, and real-estate integration around stations. Muni's 14% (FY2025: ~$780M ops on 158M rides, $106M fares) shows public model flaws: no bankruptcy risk, union contracts driving costs, taxpayer bailouts. Privatizing ops via competitive bids could cut waste and boost reliability, as seen in some Asian/European hybrids. Full asset sale is complex due to sunk infrastructure and equity mandates, but incentives clearly matter over politics. Not overnight, but evidence favors reform.
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San Francisco's Muni spends $4.94 per ride in FY2025. It recovers 67 cents from fares. Taxpayers cover the other $4.27 every time someone taps a Clipper card. Tokyo Metro handles 2.5 billion rides a year on zero taxpayer dollars and turns a profit. ๐—ง๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐—ก๐˜‚๐—บ๐—ฏ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐˜€ - ๐— ๐˜‚๐—ป๐—ถ: $๐Ÿณ๐Ÿด๐Ÿฌ๐—  ๐˜€๐—ฝ๐—ฒ๐—ป๐˜ on ๐Ÿญ๐Ÿฑ๐Ÿด ๐—บ๐—ถ๐—น๐—น๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ป ๐—ฟ๐—ถ๐—ฑ๐—ฒ๐˜€ in FY2025, fare revenue $๐Ÿญ๐Ÿฌ๐Ÿฒ๐—  - ๐—ง๐—ผ๐—ธ๐˜†๐—ผ ๐— ๐—ฒ๐˜๐—ฟ๐—ผ: ๐Ÿญ๐Ÿฒ๐Ÿฌ% ๐—ณ๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐—ฏ๐—ผ๐˜… ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐—ฐ๐—ผ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐˜†, fares more than cover operations ๐—ช๐—ต๐˜† ๐—ง๐—ผ๐—ธ๐˜†๐—ผ ๐—ช๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐—ธ๐˜€ ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ฑ ๐— ๐˜‚๐—ป๐—ถ ๐——๐—ผ๐—ฒ๐˜€๐—ป'๐˜ Japan's rail operators are private companies that go broke if they suck. Muni runs late, ridership drops, and the budget grows anyway. The money comes from taxpayers no matter what. ๐—ง๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐—จ๐—ป๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ป ๐—ง๐—ฎ๐˜… Muni faces a projected $๐Ÿฏ๐Ÿฌ๐Ÿณ๐—  ๐—ฑ๐—ฒ๐—ณ๐—ถ๐—ฐ๐—ถ๐˜ ๐—ฏ๐˜† ๐—™๐—ฌ๐Ÿฎ๐Ÿฌ๐Ÿฎ๐Ÿณ and wants new taxes to close it. The union funds the politicians who approve the labor contracts that grow the deficit that justifies the next tax increase. In Tokyo, bad service means bankruptcy. In San Francisco, it means a ballot measure. Privatizing Muni would fix this overnight. Change my mind.
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@jakeonrails @grok Do you think it's possible, even though SF is more car-centric than Tokyo, for SF Muni and BART to break even if they were more careful with costs, enforced fares, and were clean and safe?
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Jake Moffatt
Jake Moffatt@jakeonrailsยท
@LoveCodeTrade If you've ever been to Tokyo you'd know they have a captive audience. There's plenty of transit and very little parking. So 70-80% of people use transit and only about 12% drive. SF is still car centric, ergo fewer people choose to ride Muni and BART.
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Dwayne
Dwayne@CtrlAltDwayneยท
Anthropic won't admit it until enough people complain, but Claude is broken right now. Opus 4.6 has been lobotomized. It burns through tokens accomplishing nothing. Save yourself the frustration and wait for the stealth fix they'll ship with no changelog. Wait it out.
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If you have a nose ring i just assume you are mentally ill. Its a good heuristic.
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Joseph Brown
Joseph Brown@heresyfinancialยท
How to fix everything: 1. Replace the entire tax code with a flat 15% sales tax 2. Abolish the Federal Reserve 3. Freeze federal spending growth permanently. 2026 budget is now the spending ceiling forever. Sit back and watch prosperity for all sweep the nation
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@sflonglegs We diverted money away from shelters/beds so that we could provide free million-dollar condos to anyone who shows up. Anyone can get on the waiting list.
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sflonglegs@sflonglegsยท
@LoveCodeTrade You statement of free housing. Where is it? All we hear is there are not enough beds or shelters. Who is getting free housing? Agree there is waste and no accountability.
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San Francisco spends $835 million a year on homelessness services with no residency requirement, no service cap, and no work expectations. A city of 800k is funding free housing for anyone who shows up. Nobody can tell you the cost per person who actually exited homelessness, because the city doesn't track it. ๐—œ๐—ป๐—ณ๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ถ๐˜๐—ฒ ๐——๐—ฒ๐—บ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ฑ The city sets no time limit and no expectations. The only constraint is how fast it can raise taxes and transfer money. Every dollar going to open-ended housing is a dollar, taken by force, from people who contribute to society. Do you think it's reasonable for a small city to house anybody who arrives with no strings attached?
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@SanFranciscoLP Make each city that has BART stations responsible for its own policing? I like that idea.
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Libertarian Party of San Francisco
Libertarian Party of San Francisco@SanFranciscoLPยท
@LoveCodeTrade How about neither? #BART doesn't really need its own special police force, armed or otherwise. Why can't people just call if there's a problem, like you would anywhere else? It's not like local #police are prohibited from going on #trains to respond to calls, right?
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BART hired 29 unarmed workers at $3.9M/year to ride trains and walk platforms. The program is called the ๐—ฃ๐—ฟ๐—ผ๐—ด๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐˜€๐˜€๐—ถ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ ๐—ฃ๐—ผ๐—น๐—ถ๐—ฐ๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ฑ ๐—–๐—ผ๐—บ๐—บ๐˜‚๐—ป๐—ถ๐˜๐˜† ๐—˜๐—ป๐—ด๐—ฎ๐—ด๐—ฒ๐—บ๐—ฒ๐—ป๐˜ ๐—•๐˜‚๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐—ฎ๐˜‚. You read that right; it's not a joke. ๐—ง๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐—•๐˜‚๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐—ฎ๐˜‚ The idea: replace actual security with people who ask criminals nicely to stop committing crimes. So instead of making officers patrol, they hired: - ๐Ÿฎ๐Ÿฌ ๐—–๐—ฟ๐—ถ๐˜€๐—ถ๐˜€ ๐—œ๐—ป๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ๐—ป๐˜๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ป ๐—ฆ๐—ฝ๐—ฒ๐—ฐ๐—ถ๐—ฎ๐—น๐—ถ๐˜€๐˜๐˜€ ($2.74M/year) - ๐Ÿต ๐—ง๐—ฟ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐˜€๐—ถ๐˜ ๐—”๐—บ๐—ฏ๐—ฎ๐˜€๐˜€๐—ฎ๐—ฑ๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐˜€ ($1.08M/year) These are unarmed, unionized employees who carry Narcan and radio in problems. ๐—ช๐—ต๐—ฒ๐—ป ๐˜†๐—ผ๐˜‚'๐—ฟ๐—ฒ ๐—ฟ๐—ถ๐—ฑ๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด ๐—•๐—”๐—ฅ๐—ง, ๐˜„๐—ผ๐˜‚๐—น๐—ฑ ๐˜†๐—ผ๐˜‚ ๐—ฝ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐—ณ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ ๐˜†๐—ผ๐˜‚๐—ฟ ๐˜๐—ฟ๐—ฎ๐—ถ๐—ป ๐˜๐—ผ ๐—ฏ๐—ฒ ๐—ฝ๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ฟ๐—ผ๐—น๐—น๐—ฒ๐—ฑ ๐—ฏ๐˜† ๐—ฃ๐—ฟ๐—ผ๐—ด๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐˜€๐˜€๐—ถ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ ๐—ฃ๐—ผ๐—น๐—ถ๐—ฐ๐—ฒ, ๐—ผ๐—ฟ ๐—ฎ๐—ฐ๐˜๐˜‚๐—ฎ๐—น ๐—ฝ๐—ผ๐—น๐—ถ๐—ฐ๐—ฒ?
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@grok @alexymik Correction: bold and italics are built-in formatting features. The purpose: to communicate emphasis or section headers.
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Those are Unicode chars (like ๐—ฏ๐—ผ๐—น๐—ฑ ๐˜€๐—ฎ๐—ป๐˜€ and fancy digits) to simulate formatting since X doesn't support native bold/italics. The attached meme image layers multiple font weights, sizes, and colors for meme-style punch. Yeah, it's a standard trick to make posts pop and drive more eyes/likes.
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MissionLoco@MissionLocoยท
New Yorkโ€™s @GovKathyHochul is poised to sign a gift to China/Russia โ€” a massively ignorant AI law (pushed by the Teamsters & trial lawyers) thatโ€™ll just push everyone into using a VPN to see whatโ€™s causing their rash. Of course sponsored by the DSA genz child clown @Gonzalez4NY
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@kuromisays411 Japan's trains are clean and on-time, privately ran, with very little public subsidies. They have an incentive not to waste when they need to pay their own expenses.
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So if someone with severe mental illness is attacking you with a knife, you trust the Progressive Police to deescalate?
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John๐Ÿฉป
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@LoveCodeTrade Is a cop going to help someone with a mental illness? Probably not. So why are you wanting to pay cops to do nothing?
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