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@BigmanLi @uberminch @nxthompson Bye.

@kets70 @uberminch @nxthompson It really is a nice solution. A good avenue to enforce it would be the criminal courts; drop some minor charges on condition they take the bus ride. If they can't make bond they'll go to Frisco just to get out of jail.

The stats here are kind of remarkable. BART's new fare gates have led to a 1,000-hour decline in clean up time; 41% drop in crime; and $10 million increase in projected revenue. theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/04/…

@TFlown4457 @murphymike Accusing of sexism while committing a sexism, nice!

@murphymike Porter was the only one targeted with “you treated a staffer bad” BS. They wouldn’t ask a man that question. I thought she was fine. Mahan is a big NO for me because he is tech bros supported.

CA Debate Grades: Becerra: D. No message. Mr Status quo. Weak sauce. No “surge” at podium Porter: B+. Job was solidify left, not throw podium at staff. Accomplished. Mahan: A-. Job was to break through. Mr Results. Big winner last night. Sets up his new Steyer level TV blitz. Steyer: C. Wobbly. Defensive. Hilton: B, was clever conservative. Bianco: B-, Mr MAGA rage. Knuckles dragging.

@Charles07788205 @susancrabtree @SteveHiltonx If you build more homes, people move there from cheaper homes. It has a down market effect.

@susancrabtree @SteveHiltonx "More homes", just not "More affordable Homes". How is that helping? He's gentrifying the entire city to the point nobody who works in the city will be able to afford to live in it.

.@SteveHiltonx with a zinger to San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan: "If San Jose is the template for housing affordability in California. God help us. It was just rated the least affordable city for housing in the world." Mahan responds by saying it's the least affordable because of all the jobs created there. "I know that because my parents had to move 50 miles away, even though my mom grew up there, just to afford to buy a home." "What I did as mayor, though, was take ownership of the problem. Unlike all the talk you're hearing on this stage, we reduced fees, sped up permitting, and now we have thousands of homes under construction."

@BigmanLi @uberminch @nxthompson Nice solution. You're as big of an asshole as all the criminals you want to bus out.

@uberminch @nxthompson Even a harsh prison is costly. The best feasible option is a bus to another jurisdiction. Bus tickets are cheap and bums/lowlifes are incapable enough that if you send 100 to Frisco at least a few won't come back. One less parasite pays for a lot of bus rides and raises QoL.

@katSam93 @SteveStuWill Your second one, specifically? Or did you just want to man bash and you saw an opening?

@katSam93 @SteveStuWill So that's your point then?

“In short, although we tend to worry more about girls’ disadvantages in math and science, boys’ disadvantage in reading is much larger and more consistent.” stevestewartwilliams.com/p/the-gender-e…

@katSam93 @SteveStuWill *male

@katSam93 @SteveStuWill Then let them read make centered books. It's more important to get them to read than to score SJ points.

@SmalllIvy @LisaBritton If the alternative is not existing at all?

@LisaBritton I rorally judge men who have kids in their 80s. Who wants to grow up never knowing his dad? And without someone to provide resources to them.

Evie vs. Glamour: Sienna Miller recently doubled down on the ‘40 is the new fertile’ myth. “We don't judge men who are having kids in their 80s. Why on earth is there any sort of narrative?" She asks. Well, Sienna… women can’t have babies in their eighties, for starters. There’s a thing called biology. Sienna can enjoy her third pregnancy in style and peace. I genuinely wish her well. But the rest of us, especially the next generation scrolling Instagram, deserve better than fairy tales. We deserve the truth: your forties can be wonderful, but they are not the new twenties when it comes to making babies. The data is clear. The window is real. And pretending otherwise leaves far too many women mourning what might have been. Read my latest for Evie: eviemagazine.com/post/40-is-not…

@SwtCharlemaigne @Ryan_Daigler Cinderella?

@Ryan_Daigler Every single one of your posts screams my mother who was a classic Fragile Narcissist. I was her only child that was adopted and she had 2 sons who were “perfect”. I was her scapegoat.

Narcissistic abusers make their victim sound like a monster so nobody notices they’re actually attacking and abusing an innocent person unprovoked.

@wil_da_beast630 It's a giant Dartmouth scar experiment.

The idea that the reason modern women don't like men (65% negative view among younger women) is that men don't like women - when we can clearly see that's not true in the same data (7% negative view) - is one of the more absurd examples of straight-up refusal to take responsibility that I have ever seen. Nor is the reason "declining male feminism since we started polling in 1944." Come ON. The obvious issue is that "woke" takes on race and gender relations have been the mainstream national narrative since the 1960s. We are a society that literally teaches kids that our own founding principles are evil. Gen Z women are more likely to think that they "will never succeed, because of sexism" than Baby Boomers were. This may not be the only relevant variable, but it's just beyond damned absurd to pretend ~70 years of this had no effect.

@rastokke @KelseyTuoc @Kathy_Rice If two of your more influential people are Boaler and Culkins, the system that props these people up is the problem.

@Kathy_Rice No, it's not enough. People have been loudly calling out Boaler's work for over 2 years. But she is just one person - the canary in the coal mine. The issue is systemic and needs to be fixed at a policy level in my opinion.

Change in education moves at a snails pace… I’m glad to see more people are questioning Boaler’s work (data and conclusions) - it’s still not enough.

@MeghanEMurphy I mean, people divorce when they are unhappy with their marriage. People happy with their marriage don't divorce. So women getting happier after divorce does not necessarily mean that marriage is an unhappy arrangement, it likely says their marriage is an unhappy one.

Considering the amount of women I know who’ve gone through divorces and come out the other end, I feel 100% affirmed in my choice to not marry. Not-all-women, of course, but most are happier post-divorce and were unhappy-to-miserable in their marriages. I do understand the purpose of marriage—for the kids—but in general it doesn’t seem to make women happy so much as unhappy, stressed, and often kind of traumatized… I realize this is a gauche thing to say, considering the heterodox pro-marriage wave, but I think it’s generally true… Marriage just isn’t often an enjoyable or beneficial arrangement for many women…

@PNWSelina @FischerKing64 @GreenLeapFwd Good point

@FischerKing64 @GreenLeapFwd More likely than not it was the Porter campaign who shopped the story to press, no?

An apt comparison of what has happened to Swalwell would be Bill Cosby. The rumors about him drugging women circulated for years. Nothing came of them until he started telling black people to stop blaming all their troubles on whites. Then they took him out. It seems people collect dirt on prominent figures for years and years - and it all stays quiet if you toe the line. If you upset the powers that be - off with his head. It’s all a game of moral hypocrisy and sleaze.

@BGatesIsaPyscho Be ready for the Antichrist!

Any honest Meteorologists who know what these types of cloud are called…?

@throwawaytras @Idontgiveafk82 @wydblaise Why would that be surprising?

@kets70 @Idontgiveafk82 @wydblaise So gay men like younger just because it baked in?

Kate Hudson revealed that men are attracted to younger women because they believe the lie that women’s libido reduces as they grow older but in reality it only intensifies “Unlike men, women sex drive only increases as they grow older”

@throwawaytras @Idontgiveafk82 @wydblaise Why is that relevant? It's not a conscious decision to go for younger, it's baked in.

@Idontgiveafk82 @wydblaise Then explain why gay men also go after younger mates

@newstart_2024 To be fair, it was both men and women in the experiment.

They put scars on women’s faces for a job interview experiment… then secretly removed them. The women went in believing they had visible disfigurements — and came out reporting massive discrimination, with interviewers supposedly referencing their “scars.” Konstantin Kisin used this study to make a powerful point: constantly telling people they’re oppressed or disadvantaged primes them to see discrimination everywhere, even when it isn’t there. It’s the same psychological effect as buying a new car and suddenly noticing that model on every street. The ideology of victimhood doesn’t just describe reality — it actively shapes it. We should be teaching young people they’re strong and capable of overcoming adversity, not training them to see themselves as permanent victims. What’s one way you’ve seen this “victimhood mindset” play out in real life?

@FrancieNolan6 @UltraRunnerPod I think UC Merced is improving rapidly. Campus is quite nice.

@UltraRunnerPod They send everyone to Merced and claim that is "getting into a UC". No one wants to go there.

I'd heard how crazy the college admissions process is, but now seeing it in reality has blown my mind. My kid has great grades (4.2 weighted) with a ton of APs, leadership ec's, a very solid athletic resume, parents paying cash, etc., all at a private college-preparatory HS, and she has basically no chance of getting into a UC or CSU for her major. Not sure what needs to be done, but this is crazy. 🙄😩

@MakingSense010 @StevenZawalick @bronzeageshawty Somebody has to pay for that pension. Ultimately, that's the workers, either through direct contributions or a lower salary and indirect contributions. But you also run the risk having to pay for other people's pensions, if politically expedient. I rather control it myself.

@MakingSense010 @StevenZawalick @bronzeageshawty You don't think you pay for your pension?

401ks are stupid. "Wow, I can't wait to finally have 600 thousand dollars at age 65 to last me the next 20 years. I'm glad I spent 40 years as a slave."