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[Ben @benjdj6]

@SgtWRC @stargazing90 @ann_mcnitt @martha___24 @ashleighlondon @DrEricDing Thank you for sharing! What a wild swing of emotions from "it's happening" to "whew not yet."

[Ben @benjdj6]

@HannahPosted The parents are also too focused on their phones instead of focusing on lived experience. They now get inundated with info telling them the world is dangerous for kids. Before you had to actually had to seek that information out, now it's automatically sent to you.

[Ben @benjdj6]

@ArkadiaCoast These are frequently made by fossil fuel astroturfing campaigns posing as grassroots groups or individual supporters. More about this here: https://t.co/FBfIpxHp6F

[Ben @benjdj6]

@flyingboris @LuannTam @ScientistSwanda You'll also notice that many healthcare experts still regularly wear masks on flights.

Finally, here are a couple studies.

62% inf rate in biz class long-haul flight: https://t.co/px8SN9DGaC

2-99% inf risk depending on length/prox to sick: https://t.co/qSINq18FlT

[Ben @benjdj6]

@flyingboris @LuannTam @ScientistSwanda Worth noting the air filtration system usually isn't running when on the ground, also small regional aircraft (smaller than 737/A320) may not have HEPA filtration.

Plus there aren't many *known* major spreading events on planes partially because that data isn't collected. 1/

[Ben @benjdj6]

@besttrousers End of Cold War and increase in democracies around the world stabilized international relations and brought about a rise in visa-free access to countries for Americans. Additionally airfare for international flights became way cheaper.

[Ben @benjdj6]

@DKThomp It'd be interesting to see this graph but w/ a salary to avg home price ratio (based on where respondent lives) instead of raw salary. People I know making $200K/yr tend to live in cities where you need to make >$300K/yr to buy a house.

[Ben @benjdj6]

@RealDianeYap @the_transit_guy @ArmandDoma 1) Lack of affordable housing
2) Lack of in-patient mental healthcare capacity
3) Lack of drug treatment capacity
4) Lack of decent paying jobs accessible w/ a GED
5) Lack of access to jobs, training, and housing if you have a criminal record thus reinforcing recidivism

[Ben @benjdj6]

@AGHamilton29 This didn't only use the city budget. >1000 LEOs from outside SF (including many feds) are involved. Plus outside funding was sourced from regional businesses (eg Apple). Finally the nature of the event being of international security interest cuts through most red tape.

[Ben @benjdj6]

@nomanautomata @YIMBYLAND "This city was at it's zenith when I moved here and it's been going downhill ever since."

[Ben @benjdj6]

@HaareBlond @Hendrixouthemud @Rainmaker1973 Ok. BTC comes out to 680KWh/person over the two hour span of the concert. Based on daily active users per: https://t.co/U7ty63ik1Q.

The Sphere comes out to 2KWh/person based on it's 18600 person capacity.

it's like BTC is wildly inefficient or something. https://t.co/LVULPXeL5G

[Ben @benjdj6]

@Hendrixouthemud @Rainmaker1973 The venue uses the equivalent of 0.075% of BTC's power consumption per year. At 125 minutes, the show used at most 42MWh which is equal to the energy used in 10 seconds by BTC.

BTC energy is ~128TWh/yr: https://t.co/7byc80H0RW

The Sphere is 96GWh/yr: https://t.co/IGYQThQwCO

[Ben @benjdj6]

@nextdoorsv Every single one of their replies and tweets are so amazingly brain dead that one has to wonder if they're actually the greatest satirist of Bay Area conservatives.

[Ben @benjdj6]

@LoveCodeTrade But the vaccines didn't bypass FDA approval? You can watch the FDA vaccine advisory board's meeting here and it includes data from the human trials that were run. https://t.co/Ephq4ZHhDE

Not that you've ever concerned yourself with research or facts.

[Ben @benjdj6]

@LoveCodeTrade @SFBART Genuinely curious what your proposal is to balance the budget. You need to cut $300,000,000 from the operating costs. You can see the budget here: https://t.co/E0wNAlLe6B

[Ben @benjdj6]

The last scheduled legacy @SFBART train arriving in Millbrae.

[Ben @benjdj6]

@OITOO @CDawgVA The video is long but if you watch it you'll see Olson argue that the issues with NFTs are mostly inherent to blockchain/crypto projects.

[Ben @benjdj6]

@0xZayn_ @CDawgVA Crypto/blockchain has been around for 14 years. How much longer until it's useful and no longer "still early?" WWW had Amazon, Wikipedia, and Craigslist in its first few years, I haven't seen anything that useful come from crypto.

[Ben @benjdj6]

@0xFastly @CDawgVA People have said this for well over a decade at this point and crypto/blockchain still doesn't have a truly useful application. You know what Web 1.0 had in its first decade? Wikipedia, Amazon, eBay, Craigslist, and Google. Actually useful things.

[Ben @benjdj6]

@OITOO @CDawgVA The problems are too numerous to fit in a non-paid for tweet. Dan Olson has a very thorough video walking through most of them: https://t.co/tgWntG2dTU