Drew in SF

Fighting for a better SF. Tired of extremist nonsense - local & global. Centrist, pro-reason, pro-progress 🧠🏳‍🌈🌁

[Drew in SF @SFDrew300]

@saikatc No

[Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias]

Very funny to flop after spending $10 million on your campaign and then blame "the 7 million dollars of AI, Crypto, and AIPAC money that were put into this race" for your defeat.

[Drew in SF @SFDrew300]

@sfstandard @FitzTheReporter You mean the unaudited non-profits that keep getting exposed as huge frauds for funding lavish lifestyles of their executives?

[Lee Edwards @terronk]

Beyond parody.

Saikat spent $10M of his own tech money to get a fraction of votes necessary to make the runoff, but wants to blame AIPAC spending less than that for his embarrassing defeat.

You cannot fathom how blessed we are to not have this fucking guy in Congress.

[Drew in SF @SFDrew300]

@UnrigLA Just insane how the left has given up
on the issue of public safety so much so that supporting a decent quality of life in cities is now called right-wing 🤦🏻‍♂️

[Konstantin Kisin @KonstantinKisin]

There is something darkly amusing about the fact that selling victimhood to the most privileged people in history has become such a lucrative and big business.

When I was on tour with @jordanbpeterson he talked about many things, but probably the most common recurring theme was the "Spirit of Cain". It seems our ancient and sacred texts tell these stories for a reason: victimhood is easy, seductive and addictive. And now profitable too.

We are living through a perpetual victimhood escalation battle where people (and groups) now compete not on merit, but on the supposed disadvantages they face. Which makes perfect sense since this is the incentive structure our societies have been encouraged and forced to adopt.

[Drew in SF @SFDrew300]

@SonRanto @neilquinn 1) that would be plenty of time 2) it’s the landlords house

[Rick J. Caruso @RickCarusoLA]

California needs an experienced leader who is competent and has common sense. As Mayor of San Jose, Matt runs the safest large city in the United States. Imagine what a track record of success like that can do for our state. Vote @MattMahanSJ for Governor on June 2nd.

[Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt]

I don't even need to make campaign ads anymore. Karen and Nithya just keep making them for me.

[Mike Solana @micsolana]

almost every city in the country now sits atop a system in which a minority of highly-productive young people are expected to work away their best years around the clock, just to cover rent, while giving away half their income to crazy people, criminals, and bureaucrats.

[Kane 謝凱堯 @kane]

> graduates Harvard
> works at the world‘s largest hedge fund
> moves to SF for YC tech co
> makes >$100M
> diversifies into private equity and real estate
> “I’m a socialist!”

[Drew in SF @SFDrew300]

@Sharkyl Personally, I’m okay with law enforcement enforcing laws.

[Chris Williamson @ChrisWillx]

I’d like to speak to a manager (19 times a day).

In 2015, Reagan National Airport in DC received 8,760 noise complaints; 6,852 of those complaints (78%) came from a single household, meaning the people living there called to complain an average of 19 times a day.

This seems to be common both across airports and across complaint systems in general: the majority of gripes usually comes from a few prolific gripers.

Some of these systems are legally mandated to investigate every complaint, so this means a handful of psychotic people with telephones—or now, LLMs—can waste millions of dollars.

I keep calling to complain about this, but nobody ever does anything about it.” — h/t @a_m_mastroianni

[Jim Carroll @JimCarrollSF]

SF elected a moderate Democrat for mayor two years ago. Today he has the highest approval rating in the nation.

Now we have a chance to elect a moderate Democrat to congress. That’s why I’m voting for @MHurabiell--to send common sense to DC.

[Drew in SF @SFDrew300]

@BlackLabelAdvsr I would suggest you simply don’t buy one of these specific houses, and that should solve your problem.

[Ethan Agarwal @ethanagarwal]

This is really gross.

[Jawwwn @jawwwn_]

.@PalmerLuckey: "Patents are Chinese instruction manuals" and we need to reinvent the US patent system:

"Stop patenting everything."

"The Founding Fathers never predicted a world where you'd have a globalized economy, and the entire patent office could be downloaded every single morning, ripped off, and then used to fight a war against you."

" We need to really fundamentally revisit the patent system."

"I think we need to massively expand the national security patent process. You can obtain a classified patent. You can get a patent on something that you are not allowed to disclose to anyone, but you still maintain the exclusivity on those rights."

" We need to massively expand that program."

Via @HooverInst

[Garry Tan @garrytan]

Silicon Valley's congressman wants to tax the AI his own constituents build, while his household trades $34M in tech stocks.

CA-17 deserves a representative who understands that punishing American AI gives the advantage to China. Funny how the Ranking Member of the China Committee keeps doing things that benefit Beijing.

Vote @ethanagarwal and primary Ro Khanna

[kartik @sathaxe]

I believe San Francisco is the best city on earth and clearly on the rise.

The streets are cleaner, crime is down, and we're all enjoying the sunshine again.

Don't forget that SF voted 65/35 in favor of Prop 36 to get a handle on crime.

Scott opposed it.
Connie opposed it.
Marie was on the frontlines of PASSING IT.

Vote for sanity. Vote for continued progress. VOTE FOR MARIE.

[Kane 謝凱堯 @kane]

It’s incredible that @sfgov will ban every last random thing before banning junkies in public spaces.