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divya, 3 months ago to random

"First U.S. moon lander in half a century stops working a week after tipping over at touchdown"

If this is not a perfect metaphor for private enterprises trying to fulfill social needs, I don't know what is.

https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2024-03-01/first-us-moon-lander-in-half-a-century-stops-working-a-week-after-tipping-over-at-touchdown

divya, 9 months ago to random

sdljfslmkjdfaldsjkdaljfd Amtrak is building a 90min train between Dallas and Houston!!!!! Thats as much distance as between SF and San Luis Obispo!!!

How is this not happening in California???? Shame on Gavin Newsom for not prioritizing trains within our state. Imagine if we had a 90min connector between OAK/LA. How amazing would our lives be?!

Imagine the possibility of living in LA and commuting to Bay Area for work!

https://qz.com/amtrak-texas-high-speed-rail-dallas-houston-90-minutes-1850724002

divya, 9 days ago to random

Some AMAZING results coming in from India's elections!!

• #1, the disgusting misogynist man part of the hindu majoritarian party who was representing my parent's new constituency has MAJORLY lost.
• #2, in Ayodhya – where hindu terrorists installed a new temple upon a mosque they demolished in the 90s ushering in the era of hindu supremacy – a Dalit candidate won against two brahmins.
• #3, a former model who claimed women must not wear scandalous clothes etc and was responsible for all of the horrendous incompetent handling of sexual abuse cases has lost her seat.
• #4, A nebo baby of a giant politician in Karnataka who had aligned himself with the hindu supremacy parties was found to have taken thousands of videos of his assault of women and posted them. He lost his seat while he is in jail

divya, 3 months ago to random

This is exactly the kind of architecture that architects in India need to build instead of building glass buildings with air conditioning that do not fit the conditions these buildings live in.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/feb/29/we-dont-need-air-con-how-burkina-faso-builds-schools-that-stay-cool-in-40c-heat

divya, 23 days ago to random

How is it legal for petition gatherers to get paid per signature??? this is nuts

"Dana said the petitioner told her that he receives $12 for every signature he collects for California Forever. Another petition circulator collecting signatures in Solano County, who preferred not to give a name, told the Vallejo Sun that California Forever pays $6 per signature and an additional $3 bonus for a total of $9 per signature if the initiative qualifies for the ballot. The other petitions the circulator was offering to voters paid $3 per signature."

https://www.vallejosun.com/solano-residents-say-california-forever-petitioners-spread-misinformation-about-voting-process/

divya, 16 days ago to random

This is what we do in the name of "civilization"

"How does she feel now about those religious zealots, not least Rachel Saint, the American missionary who lived in Nemompare throughout Nenquimo’s childhood, distributing sweets, dolls, bouncing balls and dresses in return for attendance at church services? The first thing she tries to understand, she replies, is that these women came from very different cultures, “and they saw my people as people that weren’t wearing clothes, that didn’t write, didn’t read, that didn’t know about the God who died on the cross…What Rachel Saint didn’t understand and didn’t care to understand was us: who we are, our identity, our history, our culture, our relationship to the earth. She othered us immediately and thought she could save us and protect us. And in doing so she weakened us and damaged us and hurt us profoundly.”"

divya, 6 days ago to random

Damn USA defeated Pakistan in T20 WORLD CUP???? Pakistanis can’t catch a break!! RIP.

divya, 3 months ago to random

I don't know why it never occurred to me until now, but did Black activists from the Caribbean ever talk about cricket and the West Indies team specifically?

divya, 8 months ago to random

the country to whom billions of dollars in aid goes. here is what the advisor to their President has to say about people like me and other asians;

"There is weak intellectual capabilities in these countries"

(thread below says sub-title translation is valid)

https://x.com/DanielDumbrill/status/1701720456708153637?s=20

divya, 8 months ago to random

wow all this while I thought Ruskin Bond was dead but he is actually alive??? Amazing.

divya, 8 months ago to random

OMFG Gavin veto'ed the bill that was sent to him to outlaw caste discrimination and he does so on the weekend? What a crying shame.

divya, 7 months ago to random

OMG instagram tells me the word "Cash" is from Tamil word *Kaasu *https://www.etymonline.com/word/cash

divya, 14 days ago to random

A very US phenomenon is the fact that any teen could SWAT anyone and police would simply respond with the violent force. Nobody has done anything about this whole infrastructure that exists for annoying teens to take advantage of for their petty quibbles.

divya, 13 days ago to random

Next time you find someone asking Hamas to release hostages, show them this official statement from Israel https://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-wont-end-war-for-deal-to-free-all-hostages-pms-aide-said-to-tell-families/

divya, 8 months ago to random

If SF had a real media they would be all up in this explosive investigation by the teachers union in sf about how SFUSD squandered money and is now blaming a "teachers shortage" for why it can't better the working conditions of teachers in SF.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OGk_92yCWxj0oLg6w5Dy-G-WfoGBjUdi/view

divya, 11 months ago to random

I am not seeing many toots on sfba.social about last nights SFPD arrest of children. But seeing a lot in twitter. What's going on :///

divya, 10 days ago to random

HOLY SHIT, update on the San Jose Police union employee / alleged drug dealer grandma:

"Segovia is alleged to have continued ordering drugs after being interviewed by federal authorities in February 2023. A package sent from China in March 2023 addressed to her and labeled as containing a “clock” was seized by federal agents in Kentucky. The attorney’s office said the package actually contained valeryl fentanyl."

https://www.kqed.org/news/11988510/case-of-former-san-jose-police-union-official-charged-with-attempting-to-import-illegal-drugs-could-resolve-by-august

divya, 26 days ago to random

Yes police really need billions of dollars to do more of this amirite

"US police departments quietly sell untold numbers of their used guns. Thousands of those guns have turned up at crime scenes."

https://www.cbsnews.com/police-selling-guns/

divya, 3 months ago to random

Oh I am ready for an expose of Jay Shetty.

"Much of Shetty’s spiritual education took place not in India but in Watford, an orbital town outside north-west London, they say. He was there not because of a spiritual discovery in college but because he grew up in the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (also known as Iskcon or the Hare Krishna movement)."

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/ng-interactive/2024/feb/29/jay-shetty-self-help-empire

divya, 8 months ago to random

Two Bay Area spooky movies to watch:

• The Fog: Doesn't actually feel that spooky but it's John Carpenter!!
• Coherence: Pretty spooky and very white culture specific feels. Very Lord of the Flies I mean.

Can you recommend other horror movies set in Bay Area?

divya, 14 days ago to random

NO SHIT SHERLOCK. Now you have to wonder why the billionaire class loves crime rates sky rocketing.

"To study these relationships, Maclean and her coauthors examined crime rates in Tennessee before and after that state disenrolled some 200,000 people from Medicaid, with little warning, in 2005. That was and still remains one of the most sweeping state-level Medicaid drop-offs in U.S. history.

By 2007, the study finds, the crime rate in the median Tennessee county had increased by almost 17 percent, with large increases observed in both violent and non-violent crime; the study attributes this to the disenrollment through a series of causal analyses. “Losing Medicaid induced changes in economic standing, housing stability, healthcare use, and health, all of which are documented to be determinants of crime,” the authors write."

https://boltsmag.org/medicaid-coverage-public-safety-study/

divya, 10 days ago to random

You should do a threat model for how much you are gonna piss off your former employees when you do a layoff.

"Google has accidentally collected childrens’ voice data, leaked the trips and home addresses of car pool users, and made YouTube recommendations based on users’ deleted watch history, among thousands of other employee-reported privacy incidents, according to a copy of an internal Google database which tracks six years worth of potential privacy and security issues obtained by 404 Media."

https://www.404media.co/google-leak-reveals-thousands-of-privacy-incidents/

divya, 9 days ago to random

So excited to hear what Hindu majority representative in Hollywood - Priyanka Chopra (narendra modi attended her wedding)- has to say.

divya, 10 days ago to random

Thanks to some of the ADHD mitigation strategies I have been doing, it only took me 4 months to install the Indigenous art work I purchased in India (i wouldn’t have done it without that)

divya, 11 days ago to random

I was so peeved Alameda Antique fair had port-a-potties — PORT-A-POTTIES — that were gendered. WHY?? I pointedly used a men's one.