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sanae

@sanae@carfree.city

I mostly post about very local transportation issues in SF and car free life and activism, sometimes other interests like fibre arts or like a cool tree that I saw.

I generally won't approve follows from strangers with too few posts for me to see what you're about.

If I followed you cause you post art or something, you're welcome to follow back, but it's fine if you don't want to hear about bike lanes.

Originally from Canada.

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sanae, to random
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Don't ever sign a ballot initiative being circulated by someone not wearing a badge saying if they are paid or not and what the measure is

The law requiring wearing a badge might be basically unenforceable, but it's a good indication of their willingness to break other laws to trick you into signing something other than what you thought you were signing

Edit: this might be SF only

sanae, to random
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Every time I walk by the Internet Archive I'm like yup that's where they store the Internet. It's all in there

sanae, to random
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one thing I only just realized is why politicians perceive Asian people as being uniformly conservative, given that isn't my experience. I'd assumed I was just living in a bubble, but I realized -

It's gotten a lot harder over time to get citizenship in the US, and US immigration law specifically makes the process take way longer if you were born in certain Asian countries. So as a result, a huge demographic of younger people (who are generally more left leaning) are excluded from voting

sanae,
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@Alon I don't think necessarily - there are specific Trump-affiliated non English language news sources that are kind of popular that I can think of, but most of what I can think of is a kind of conventional, read too much about crime on Facebook type of conservativism. Evangelical Christianity can also be a big factor. The overt fascism I've encountered seems to largely come from more English speaking backgrounds and stem directly from American politics

sanae,
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@Alon generally I would say that within the Asian community, older people, wealthier people, more religious people and people who are in the more "suburban" and historically less diverse, majority white parts of the city tend to be the more conservative ones. What people think of as the "enclaves" tend to be less wealthy and thus less conservative

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I hate it when people say Someone Else Should Do This Thing, cause someone else is never going to do it

But someone should write an op ed about how the reason why driving has gotten so much worse lately is that all the transit cutbacks have lead to a huge increase in the number of people driving in our city, and the only way to fix the problem is by making transit fast and reliable enough that people go back to taking transit

And that future transit cutbacks will make this problem much worse

sanae, to random
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when I was in San Jose this weekend I was waiting for the bus, and a guy who had just moved here was having trouble figuring out if he was waiting for the right bus, and not that I knew much but at least I could tell him roughly which direction BART would be

and then he asked if we could connect on Linkedin

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I'm trying to find a good non-paywalled source, but it sounds like it will now be the case in the US that coal power plants have to either close down or capture most of their CO2 (lol) in the next 10ish years?

If this happens, this seems like pretty good news. The two biggest climate change issues are transportation and fossil fuel based electricity. Closing coal (and natural gas) power plants is harder for individuals to influence politically but it's just as important

sanae, to random
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Dear drivers, "oops I'm sorry" does not in fact make it ok to run a red light

sanae, to random
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I've been avoiding outside, how's the Earth Day Volleyball Game on hippie hill doing

sanae,
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Thanks to everyone who didn't drive to the festivities today

Apparently the fog machine is out of fog

sanae,
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Otherwise it's basically the same as any other sunny day in the park?

sanae,
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I really wanted to make fun of the city's plan to shut down 420 by scheduling a volleyball tournament on top of it but it seems to have worked

Hippie Hill has been labeled the "spectator area" for this unexpectedly popular volleyball tournaments

There are also cops on dirt bikes presumably to enforce mandatory volleyball

sanae,
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There are a ton of park rangers and cops around but none of them seem to care to do anything about the 4 different dubiously sober people I just saw drive through the pedestrian part of the park

sanae,
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Now there are a lot of people riding motorbikes on the mixed use path screaming at people to get out of the way and trying to pick fights with people

sanae,
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The fight did not happen because the pedestrian in question had a large and increasingly agitated dog (the dog was clearly not being aggressive, and trying to get away) and motorbike asshole's friend was apparently not keen on getting in a fight with a large dog

Also the motorbike guy was like threatening also to call the cops on the pedestrian for standing in the "bike lane" (there was no bike lane, it's a mixed use path)

sanae,
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it would be really nice if I could go on a little walk in the park on a pedestrian and bike only path and not have to worry that there will be a driver there threatening people

sanae, to random
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What are the best places (bike/transit accessible) to see wildflowers in the Bay area right now (or more likely this weekend)

sanae, to random
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Some people at my bus stop are l apparently taking Muni for the first time, coming from the ballet

We explained how everyone works - cash fares, how far the bus goes and how the route changes, why it says "on detour"
They were like good thing you were here to explain it! I didn't tell them we had just gotten out of Muni Diaries, a Muni-themed storytelling event for Muni fans

sanae, to random
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They're training waymos to block pedestrian crosswalks, if you wondered if self driving cars were going to be safer

skinnylatte, to random
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Anyone who wants to ‘help’ governments set up Mastodon or something erm, respectfully don’t understand governments. The problems are never ‘we don’t know how to do something’ (most of the times we know how to do something). The problems are why we can’t do something (never technical, always money, people, procurement and policies)

sanae,
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@skinnylatte I've wondered what the implications of "elected officials in the US are not allowed to block people" would be in a fediverse context

Like would a government run server be obliged to federate with everyone?

scott, to random
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While I previously found April Fool's to be annoying, I've decided it's actually a good idea. Keep an eye out for my joke post shortly.

sanae,
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@scott wait is this it

sanae, to random
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Yelled at these people a bit but they clearly think the law is for other people and it's totally cool to drive on a pedestrian path to get the perfect Instagram photo

sanae, to random
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https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/2-accused-of-turning-caltrain-stations-into-homes-19373865.php

California really has the best corruption scandals

sanae,
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It would be cheaper to let them stay there rather than put them in jail actually

Or maybe put them in charge of fixing the housing crisis, 8K to buy an apartment in Millbrae sounds pretty good to me

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