The Parking Professional

Curb manager. Proud resident of Oakland California. Views expressed are mine alone. I tweet about 🚲🛴🚉🚄🚠🛵🚕🏘, A’s⚾️, warriors 🏀

[The Parking Professional @kerbyside]

AV's have the potential to improve traffic safety by taking increasingly distracted drivers out of the equation, but not if those AVs are programmed to break the very laws that keep us safe.

Companies like @Cruise willfully disregard the law, with serious consequences 1/9

[M. Nolan Gray 🥑 @mnolangray]

For 45 years, Berkeley built virtually no new housing. By the mid-2010s, it was the most expensive college town in America. Shortly thereafter, YIMBYs took over and kicked off a building boom. Today, nominal rents are below 2018 rates—remarkable progress on affordability.

[Ramez Naam @ramez]

Everyone who cares about climate should understand this. Texas, with no pro-climate policies, has blown passed California in clean energy. In large part because Texas has less red tape and makes it easier to build.

[The Parking Professional @kerbyside]

@barbtassa @kane There is no space for parking lots and they generally don’t pay for themselves

[Conspiratorial Templates @mynamehear]

Every time there's a Republican president, they destroy the economy and drag us into a stupid war in the Middle East. You could set your fucking watch to it.

The only fresh wrinkle is that this time he's doing it to distract from his raping of children.

[The Parking Professional @kerbyside]

“The city’s finance department is on a fast track to take over parking enforcement from the department of transportation, alarming staff and business leaders. The turf dispute will get aired out at a Feb. 10 council committee meeting.”

https://t.co/Ae1KOhRcma

[Jordan Grimes (on Bluesky @cafedujord) @cafedujord]

There is a direct line from blue state anti-housing policy to population loss to the rise in authoritarian political power. We did this to ourselves.

[The Parking Professional @kerbyside]

@LuigiCPA @JoelEngardio This is from the last time I was out there. more than a dozen in this photo alone

[The Parking Professional @kerbyside]

@left_on_alpha @JoelEngardio No, he used his political capital for good. That’s what politicians are supposed to do

[The Parking Professional @kerbyside]

@LuigiCPA @JoelEngardio I’ve walked it a few times, it was beautiful. My family lives nearby in a small apartment and walks it nearly everyday. It’s how they get exercise and access to nature

[Darío Madrid @Dario_Madrid_F]

Hoy se cumplen 178 años de la ocupación de Los Ángeles por Estados Unidos, el 13 de enero de 1847, cuando aún era ciudad mexicana. Aquel episodio marcó el inicio de uno de los procesos más brutales y silenciados de la historia norteamericana: el exterminio sistemático de los pueblos indígenas californianos.

Antes de los yanquis arrebataran Los Ángeles a México, California contaba con una población indígena estimada en unos 150.000 habitantes. Tres décadas después, en 1880, apenas sobrevivían unos 16.000. No se trató de un colapso demográfico accidental ni exclusivamente provocado por enfermedades, sino del resultado de una política deliberada de violencia, desposesión y exterminio.

Como bien señala García del Junco:
«Antes de que los colonos ingleses y sus descendientes exterminaran a las tribus de las praderas, los exploradores españoles ya habían entrado en contacto con la mayoría de ellas sin necesidad de exterminarlas».

¿Y qué llevó a los anglosajones a desalojar de sus tierras a los indígenas que llevaban siglos ocupándolas?
El 19 de agosto de 1848, el diario New York Herald anunció el descubrimiento de oro en California. Miles de buscadores se desplazaron hacia esos territorios.

Cuando comenzó la extracción masiva de oro, los colonos emplearon inicialmente a indígenas en las minas. Llegaron a trabajar unos 4.000 indios para los blancos. Pero a partir de 1850, muchos colonos optaron por su esclavización y exterminio.

Con la excusa de que los “salvajes” suponían una amenaza para la soberanía estadounidense, el gobierno aprobó en 1850 una ley que permitía a los colonos blancos poner a trabajar forzosamente a cualquier indígena que no pudiera demostrar medios legítimos de subsistencia.

Al año siguiente, el primer gobernador de California, Peter Hardeman Burnett, afirmó ante los legisladores que
«debe esperarse que continúe una guerra de exterminio entre las razas hasta que la raza india se extinga».
Y actuó en consecuencia.

Burnett empleó fondos públicos para armar milicias locales y solicitó apoyo del Ejército federal. Estas milicias llegaron a exterminar poblados enteros. En 1850, asesinaron a unos 400 miembros del pueblo Pomo.

Entre 1851 y 1852, el estado de California pagó un millón de dólares a milicias que cazaban indígenas. En algunos pueblos se ofrecían recompensas por sus cabelleras, con precios que oscilaban entre 5 dólares y 25 centavos. Los cazadores reclamaban el pago exhibiendo ocho, diez o doce cabezas.

Incluso la prensa informaba de las masacres. Así lo relataba el periódico Alta California:
«La cuadrilla descendió sobre ellos y les voló la tapa de los sesos o les partió el cráneo con hachas. Incluso a los recién nacidos que llevaban en canastas…».

El asesinato sistemático de indígenas continuó hasta finales de la década de 1870. En conjunto, se extinguió alrededor del 80 % de la población indígena de California desde 1846, mediante masacres y asesinatos cometidos por colonos y fuerzas armadas estadounidenses.

[The Parking Professional @kerbyside]

@rationalhumanis @NateForUtah Texas started it

[The Parking Professional @kerbyside]

@s4141k @NateForUtah How did Republicans vote on the gerrymandering ban?

[The Parking Professional @kerbyside]

@WallStreetApes If congressional Republicans have their way, it’s about to get a lot more expensive

[(((Matthew Lewis))) cults & consequences @mateosfo]

West Virginia has the highest rate of fentanyl deaths in the United States, one of the highest rates of mental illness -- and among lowest rates of homelessness.

The reason is, drug use, mental illness, and homelessness are not related.

West Virginia just has plenty of homes.

[The Parking Professional @kerbyside]

@sbtan911 @cruise I think they just need to be programmed to follow the law

[The Parking Professional @kerbyside]

AV's have the potential to improve traffic safety by taking increasingly distracted drivers out of the equation, but not if those AVs are programmed to break the very laws that keep us safe.

Companies like @Cruise willfully disregard the law, with serious consequences 1/9

[The Parking Professional @kerbyside]

@zxi91 @micsolana They help when vented outdoors but indoor air pollution is still higher with gas. Many, if not most homes in SF don’t have outdoor venting hoods

[The Parking Professional @kerbyside]

@steverific @micsolana Range hoods that vent outdoors help a lot, but indoor air pollution is still higher with gas stoves vs electric. Most homes in SF are older, and don’t have outdoor venting hoods

[The Parking Professional @kerbyside]

@clinton_j_smith @micsolana https://t.co/gOSaICdFmh

[The Parking Professional @kerbyside]

@clinton_j_smith @micsolana Yes particulates are likely the same but combustion of methane releases many pollutants into the home including NO2 “Switching from a gas stove to an electric induction stove can reduce indoor nitrogen dioxide air pollution, a known health hazard, by more than 50 percent”