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[Marc Joffe @marcjoffe]

Under California SB 143 (2023), goat herders have to be paid ~ $17,000 per month effective July 1. That's because they are now entitled to minimum wage 24/7 plus applicable overtime.

Unless this is fixed, goats which protect us from wildfire by consuming grass in danger zones will be slaughtered because it will too costly to keep them.

Just another instance of sloppy, union-driven legislation in California!

https://t.co/YrRlamow64

[Megan McArdle @asymmetricinfo]

Because collectivization of agriculture, the most essential good, tends to end in famine.

[ABC @bcaulfield]

@SenecaSpeaks21

[ABC @bcaulfield]

@sapphyreblayze I don't care. I'd rather live in a shack in the wilderness like my great grandfather than give up the first and second amendments.

[ABC @bcaulfield]

@NASAAdmin @elonmusk

[Laura Powell @LauraPowellEsq]

It’s bad enough that state agencies routinely violate the California Public Records Act.

Now the Legislature wants to charge people for the privilege of gathering information about the government’s activities.

Outrageous.

[ABC @bcaulfield]

@theepicmap LOL, no.

[ABC @bcaulfield]

@micsolana yes, it's true, and it's annoying. i can be real about that, because i'm genx, and when i was a kid i drank out of the garden hose. now i have calcium deposits in my brain and a fixation on outdoor lawn care equipment.

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

The city of Oakland, California only has a population of 440,000 but passed a $4 billion dollar budget for themselves over 2 years

For reference Phoenix, Arizona has 1.65 million people and their budget is $2.3 billion

But don’t worry they say they need the money for things like “more traffic cameras” and more homeless spending

I also found roughly 55% of Oaklands massive budget goes to salaries and Admin spending…. I think we found the problem

[ABC @bcaulfield]

@Polymarket Creepy

[Fareed Zakaria @FareedZakaria]

California is one of the most dynamic places on the planet.

But it is a case study in how a rich society can spend more and more while producing less and less of what its ordinary citizens need.

My take:

[Garry Tan @garrytan]

Rent control subsidizes demand

We need to dramatically increase supply

Anyone who tells you otherwise just wants your rent to go up

https://t.co/hStnt8tdg3

[James Lindsay, anti-Communist @ConceptualJames]

Colleges can fix this problem for themselves by ceasing to be a vastly overpriced scam, but the market adjustment that's coming for them is going to be very painful.

[Neetu Arnold @neetu_arnold]

Update: 270+ professors have signed the social sciences/humanities letter to bring back standardized tests across the University of California

Strong showing from the following fields:

-Economics
-Political Science
-Sociology
-Psychology
-Business

[Neetu Arnold @neetu_arnold]

In University of California admissions, up is down:

“Today, the more successful a public high school is at preparing its students, the lower its graduates’ chances of getting into top UC campuses like Berkeley and San Diego”

[Neetu Arnold @neetu_arnold]

🔥Humanities professors unite w/ STEM faculty, demanding the University of California reinstate the SAT

“We call for the UC Academic Senate and the UC Regents to give up the failed experiment of the last 6 years & return to including both the math & the verbal reasoning components of SAT/ACT as part of undergraduate admissions”

[Steve McGuire @sfmcguire79]

Berkeley math professor:

“Today, the more successful a public high school is at preparing its students, the lower its graduates' chances of getting into top UC campuses like Berkeley and San Diego.”

Berkeley admitted 45% of applicants from a high school where nearly 94% of “students failed to meet the state standards in mathematics.”

It admitted less than 14% of applicants from a school where “nearly 100 percent of its students in AP Calculus BC pass the national exam with a perfect score of 5.”

[James A. Furey @JamesAFurey]

Many to most English teachers I’ve worked with think that writing instruction is all about volume rather than instruction.

Just get the kids writing, and they will get better at it.

But that’s not how it works. You have to actually, you know, teach them.

You can’t just have them free write and then assign essays in sixth grade.

[David Burge @iowahawkblog]

0 F = extremely cold
100 F = extremely hot
0 C = kinda chilly
100 C = you're dead

Conclusion: centigrade is a scale created by complete morons
https://t.co/IIRGmINWJi

[Tunku Varadarajan @tunkuv]

Why does it feel like Spencer Pratt is being robbed blind, mugged in plain sight?