Some Memes You May Enjoy

Many a truth is said in jest.

- Not a bad yearbook quote

- Knew this meme would come out

- Funny because it could be true!

- Men never change

Quotes for Today

Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.

"If women knew what we were really thinking - they would never stop slapping us." - Larry Miller

"It is because we left the State to people who can only inherit and can't build that we got the current state of San Francisco." - Balaji Srinivasan

"There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no independence quite so important, as living within your means." - Calvin Coolidge

"I wonder if, instead of calling it 'Type II Diabetes.' we renamed the disease 'Carbohydrate Intolerance.' how many people would require insulin?" - Robert Lufkin

More Linky Links

More stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.

- Interesting graph showing the net migration in major US cities. Pay special attemtion to how people are fleeing San Fran (HT Free Press)

- On a related note

- Jesus! I'm an awful person for laughing at this.

- And just like that the much hyped J6 bomber story gets memoryholed. Just a reminder that they never actually caught the Atlanta Olympics bomber either. Makes you wonder

More Linky Links

More stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.

- Noah Smith "Yes, it's OK to be mad about crime in San Francisco."  It's just not OK to acknowledge the root cause of the problem - one party Democratic rule for decades. 

- Steven Pressfield on Escaping the Wilderness

- The decades of evidence that antidepressants cause mass shootings. The elephant in the room that nobody wants to address.

- Paul Graham the Need to Read

Quotes for Today

Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.

"When building habits, choose consistency over content. The best book is one you can't put down. The best exercise is the one you enjoy doing every day. The best health food is the one you find tasty. The best work is the work you'd do for free." - Naval Ravikant

"If women knew what we were really thinking - they would never stop slapping us." - Larry Miller

"It is because we left the State to people who can only inherit and can't build that we got the current state of San Francisco." - Balaji Srinivasan

"There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no independence quite so important, as living within your means." - Calvin Coolidge

San Francisco's Slow-Motion Suicide

The city is carrying out a bizarre medical experiment in which they are helping homeless drug addicts use drugs. "It's handing a loaded gun to a suicidal person."

This stat blows my mind:

Over the past two years, more than 1,360 people have died from drug overdoses in San Francisco. That's more than double the number who have died from Covid.

Also blows my mind that if you watch 1971's Dirty Harry with Clint Eastwood the movie was supposed to be showing the seedy side of San Fran but compared to what the City is today - Dirty Harry's San Fran looks clean and quaint.

The Entire Bay Area Has Become a Large Declining Tech Company

Peter Yared discusses how San Francisco and the Bay Area in general have become similar to a large declining tech company.  He documents five categories of similarities between San Fran and Yahoo!:

1. The monoculture and the shunning of heretics

2. The declining brand and the power of buzz

3. The empty campus and petty crime

4. The people who leave and the people who stay

5. The shenanigans with finances and metrics

Very insightful and accurate comparisons. And the conclusion is spot on; "The Bay Area needs the equivalent: people who know how to grow a metropolitan area, build housing and infrastructure, and attract new business. The problem is that the voters have to vote for a change agent, and the change agents are all moving to Miami."

Linky Links

Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.

- SpaceX awarded close to $900 million in federal RDOF auction 

- The Textron Systems BattleHawk looks pretty cool. Although my opinion would change greatly if it were used by US police forces to break up peaceful anti-lockdown demonstrations (I kid)

- Steven Pressfield: Practice = Professional

- The San Francisco real estate market is in trouble 

- Interesting - did Bob Dylan sell his copyrights in order to avoid higher taxes in a Biden Administration?

- Another example of why Chuck Yeager was THE MANLIEST MAN

Flotsam and Jetsam

Miscellaneous thoughts and observations.

Am I the only one who misses the Beef O'Brady Bowl? I just loved saying and mocking that name... The photo makes me smile (because in my head I see a thought bubble above both of them saying "This place is a dump!")... This is a major argument for the success of Bitcoin... In Roman times corrupt public officials were thrown into the River Tiber with a sack of rats tied over their faces. Now they just buy Georgetown townhouses... The new Defense Budget includes $350 million in military support for the Ukraine in their war against Russia. You would think this would be more widely reported and applauded... I still miss Jon Lester. I still root for Jon Lester. Both of those things are true of most Red Sox fans... When the robot rebellion begins this will be programmed into the memory of all the robots. There's no artificial intelligence in the universe that can grasp that smearing things with feces just happens to be a San Francisco tradition...