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Joshua Davis

@byJoshuaDavis

4 months

The left really went from “Black Lives Matter” to “slavery can be excused in pursuit of anti-Zionism” in less than 4 years.

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4 months

I didn't want to entertain this whole "Houthi slavery" nonsense, but it's been going for far too long that I feel compelled to address what is always omitted: Historical context and socioeconomic nuance. Yemen is an incredibly poor country, and has been so for most of its modern…

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3 years

The Portland light rail for $2.50 was shut down because of the heat, so I had to take a Lyft for $43. Whoever says it’s too expensive to mitigate climate change is bad at math.

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Joshua Davis

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4 years

So Uber is saying, "vote to continue underpaying your driver by 25-100%." Anyone who is a worker should be deeply afraid of corporations running campaigns like this, this literally could happen to anyone’s job next.

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Joshua Davis

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11 months

If you care about children, don’t drive an SUV. Car crashes are a top 3 killer of children in the US (along with guns). And SUVs are responsible for a disproportionately high share of fatal crashes involving children, according to a study from University of Illinois. Buy a…

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Joshua Davis

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7 months

After a decade of building 8,000 apartments in Oakland, market rate 1-bedroom units are now affordable to low income people, as defined by HUD. Today the SF Chronicle reported: - Oakland has largest rent decline (-7.2%) among top 100 US cities. - Median one-bedroom rent in…

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Joshua Davis

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20 days

If you’re driving the wrong way on a divided street and hit a DFO at 7:15am on a sunny Thursday morning then no, society doesn’t owe you anything.

David Seater 🚶 🚴 🏳️‍🌈

@dseater

21 days

DFO is such an absurd term. The deadly object is the one careening down the road at high speed, not the tree that's been growing patiently in the same spot for decades. Some traffic engineers will do anything to avoid acknowledging agency.

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Joshua Davis

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11 months

@lodgepolepines One hour of cook time for chicken? That’s some really dry chicken. No wonder they need $5 of sauce.

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Joshua Davis

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11 months

@EWErickson If you’re a Zoomer, please read a history book. If you’re a Boomer, please take a memory loss test. I was born in 1990: for the first 20 years of my life anti-LGBT bias was considered acceptable among even politically moderate suburbanites. Without systemic legal and cultural…

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Joshua Davis

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3 months

We need to rescind the professional licenses for traffic engineers until we can figure out what’s going on.

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6 months

@abc7newsbayarea Why wasn’t UCSF using air? If hospital officials read the news they should have anticipated that between motorcades, protests and crowds traffic would be extremely unpredictable.

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Joshua Davis

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5 years

Google AI wants me to declare this striped median as a crosswalk. Needless to say, I still don’t trust self-driving tech.

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Joshua Davis

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11 days

@freganmitts It’s so you can put a tap in the tree and have the syrup fill up your glass jar. I assume it’s a vestigial design element from a time before maple syrup was industrialized.

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21 days

@JaJaJaRule It’s been a while since Twitter has had the “is reading books at bars ok?” discussion, so maybe start there?

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Joshua Davis

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4 years

Too many urbanists can imagine banning cars and single family neighborhoods, but can’t comprehend banning the police.

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Joshua Davis

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4 months

According to USA Today a Milwaukee pastor was using the first floor of his church building to help homeless people stay warm in Arctic temperatures. But local zoning prohibited residential use, so planning officials are suing him. The pastor’s argument? The suit is a violation…

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Joshua Davis

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1 year

No lie: I was a supporter of free transit fares until I asked my elected transit director about it and he listed the tradeoffs, like reduced service, fewer transit jobs, etc.

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Joshua Davis

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2 years

Someone parked in the bike lane. Their vehicle is now blocked in with 200 pounds of water-filled k-rails.

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Joshua Davis

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4 years

@thelastpinkcar @ryanstruyk I want the crosstabs, because I’m pretty sure this is caused by white men.

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3 years

@gretared @moleburps Well Harris kind of is the political equivalent of the Black Lives Matter / Thin Blue Line political mashup.

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1 year

Biden decided to subsidize 6,500 pound EV trucks for downtown office commuters instead of 60 pound e-bikes. Now, folks will start lobbying to spend climate budgets on retrofitting parking garages.

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Joshua Davis

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10 months

@jaketropolis It could be bird guts. Birds are non-human biological pilots. Sometimes birds crash in to flying objects, like when US Airways Flight 1549 crash landed on the Hudson. It's conceivable that a bird strike took down an aircraft the USAF was unable to identify.

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Joshua Davis

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2 years

Weird how the real estate industry is spending six figures to defeat the YIMBY-endorsed, pro-housing candidate. It’s almost like housing scarcity is financially rewarding for entrenched real estate interests.

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Joshua Davis

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9 months

@abughazalehkat Lots of people don’t know how to correctly compost. Then they ruin the efforts of everyone who’s correctly composting by contaminating the waste. The default should make it hard for people to do the wrong thing.

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Joshua Davis

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2 years

I grew up in the suburbs, riding the bus. The vast majority of people on the bus were working class. Let’s stop acting like busses are elitist, and instead ask why middle class suburbanites won’t also ride the bus.

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Joshua Davis

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11 months

It’s taken WMATA 14 years and counting to return Metrorail to full service after the 2009 Fort Totten crash. It took officials less than a month to reopen I-95 after a tanker crash. At the time, WMATA carried 1.2 million passengers daily, while 150,000 cars used that stretch of…

Governor Josh Shapiro

@GovernorShapiro

11 months

Based on the tremendous progress these crews made over the weekend, I can now say: We will have I-95 back open this weekend. We have worked around the clock to get this done, and we’ve completed each phase safely and ahead of schedule.

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Joshua Davis

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3 years

Bikes and pedestrians are banned from using interstates and even from some suburban arterial streets. It’s not radical to imagine banning drivers from using local streets.

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Joshua Davis

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8 months

Cancelling market rate units to scale down an apartment to exclusively low-income housing: - Doesn’t create new low-income apartments - Reduces potential foot traffic for local retailers - Doesn’t stop gentrification as Lake Merritt is already a super amenity - Strangles…

Your Obed. Servant, J. B.

@Jeffinatorator

8 months

The site at E. 12th/Lake Merritt got cleared recently. 10 years ago a developer wanted to build 360 units, 91 affordable. After a giant NPIC hissy fit, and 10 years of delay, EBALDC will build only the 91 subsidized units. When do "advocates" get held accountable for the outcome?

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Joshua Davis

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2 years

Given that America was only 13 states at the founding, I will only be recognizing votes from the 26 original senate seats (18/26 original senate seats are blue).

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Joshua Davis

@byJoshuaDavis

3 years

Biking to work isn’t greenwashing. Driving an electric SUV to the office is greenwashing.

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Joshua Davis

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20 days

A huge part of being a leftist is not understanding policy tradeoffs.

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@vigneshr4m

20 days

damn oakland

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12 days

At top speed @sfbart could shuttle passengers directly between SFO and OAK airports in 8 minutes. This is faster than the 11 minutes it takes to ride on the SFO AirTrain from Terminal 3 to the Rental Car Center. Therefore SFO and OAK should be one airport connected by BART.…

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Joshua Davis

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6 years

It's unfortunate environmalists and urbanists aren't unified. There's a section of environmentalism that views urban living ("Manhattanization") as an ecological nightmare. The real nightmare is Phoenix-style sprawl eating into pristine parks and farms and burning our planet up.

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Joshua Davis

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7 months

@yhdistyminen @reddit_lies After observing my parent’s marriage end over “irreconcilable differences” all I can say is that all love is conditional, including when people say their love is unconditional.

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Joshua Davis

@byJoshuaDavis

4 years

@SKenson @Hyper_lexic Not to mention how Muslim ban 3.0 is now here for Iran. Meanwhile northern Italians and South Koreans are still free to come to the U.S. This is as much about poltics as it is about public health policy.

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Joshua Davis

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4 years

Only 8% of Americans are vegetarian, 4% of plastics are recycled and 3% of cars are electric. We have barely scratched the surface of voluntary lifestyle changes. Climate change means adapting how we move, house and feed ourselves. Otherwise nature will change it for us.

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Joshua Davis

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4 months

Not only is Emeryville increasing their portion of Black residents while building new apartments, Emeryville Unified School District is also narrowing the achievement gap between Black students faster than other Bay Area cities. Whatever Emeryville is doing needs to be…

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Joshua Davis

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4 years

I’ve put on 14 pounds since the shelter in place started. For the first time in my life my BMI is overweight. My diet is essentially the same, but I no longer bike to work daily. We could be so much healthier if we designed streets to let folks have an active lifestyle.

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Joshua Davis

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2 years

No one in the WFH debate mentions this, but lunch with coworkers is really nice for breaking up the day. Twitter just does not replace informal, in-person discourse.

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Joshua Davis

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2 years

My city council member told @baynewsmatters that “bicyclists are primarily white.” But this doesn’t seem to be what I see on 14th Street in the blocks by my house. And as a Black bicycle rider, it stings to be told that biking is a white thing.

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Joshua Davis

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5 months

Do people realize it costs money to maintain a building, whether you have an HOA or not?

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Joshua Davis

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6 months

I was frequently the only Black student in my upper division STEM classes… And my university had more students of color than white students. The Black students on my campus were majoring in fluff like “sports management.” A better question to ask is how do we get more Black…

HeirJordan.eth

@HeirJ0rdan

6 months

@gdb Where are the black people?

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Joshua Davis

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2 years

This is what gentrification looks like. A modest single family home replaced with a beautiful mansion a half mile from a major transit stop.

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Joshua Davis

@byJoshuaDavis

1 year

The US right straight up opposes public transit, the left treats transit as a service for the poor. When systems (e.g. Caltrain) have a wealthy ridership, Democrats advocate to defund those agencies. Places with good transit instead view transit as a social good, not welfare.

Triple Net Investor

@TripleNetInvest

1 year

Genuine question - Why does the US have incredibly poor public transportation systems? Public transportation in cities like HK/Tokyo/Seoul is simply amazing Not only are subways/buses clean but people follow rules & don't make a scene. And it's incredibly cheap to get around

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1 year

When bicycle advocates ask for hard infrastructure we’re told it may cause pollution and needs years of study and community debate. When Salesforce requests k-rails they magically appear.

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Joshua Davis

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11 months

Alito apparantly “cannot recall if (we were) served wine” but he’s “certain” the wine was less than $1,000. And Kavanaugh admittedly drinks to the level of felony DUI, but says he remembers every part of what happened during drunken escapades. What an honor it is to live in a…

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Joshua Davis

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4 years

Before COVID I rode Caltrain every weekday with students, kitchen staff, security guards, bus drivers and nurses. About 40% of Caltrain riders earn less than the area median income. Gutting Caltrain is regressive. Caltrain actually provides an essential public service.

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Joshua Davis

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5 years

I have zero dollars in student debt. Even with a 20% down payment my income isn’t enough to qualify for a median priced home in Oakland — let alone in Silicon Valley. If you’re serious about this issue, please support legislation that builds more homes by jobs & transit.

Ro Khanna

@RoKhanna

5 years

Owning a home has been a staple of the middle class and the American dream for decades, but many millennials are locked out of that dream today. The reason: $1.6 trillion in student loan debt.

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Joshua Davis

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2 years

Newsom should walk up the stairs at Civic Center BART and then continue north on Market Street at 11pm on a weekday: no security, no handlers, no press... Then and only then should he decide whether safe consumption sites are worse than today's status quo.

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Joshua Davis

@byJoshuaDavis

3 years

The government really should be giving out free masks. But why in this neoliberal hell can’t we at least buy masks with an FSA?

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Joshua Davis

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10 days

Government workers should be paid above market rate salaries and receive full 401k matches. In exchange they become at-will employees who can be fired anytime for any reason and we abolish the government pension. This is how we make government serve the citizens better… We’ve…

Joe Patterson

@Patterdude

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Absolutely disgusting government salary. “New head of L.A. DWP will make $750,000 a year — nearly twice as much as her predecessor”

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Joshua Davis

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3 years

Trying to wrap my head around how bike lanes allegedly cause gentrification, but also they make the neighborhood ugly, drive away shoppers and cause businesses to loose money.

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Joshua Davis

@byJoshuaDavis

2 years

I didn’t realize Pleasanton, CA was so scary. Folks might want to consider moving to Oakland. Seems like it’d be a lot safer.

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Joshua Davis

@byJoshuaDavis

4 years

Politicians please stop seeing transit as only: 1) Assistance for low-income riders (e.g. poor service to captive riders) 2) Congestion relief for drivers (e.g. only running good service during peak highway congestion) Instead elavate it to an alternative to auto-dependency.

Michael Andersen

@andersem

4 years

A new $8m annual transit subsidy is better than $0 but KCTA spends $41m to run & maintain buses. Can’t help thinking a 20% service boost might have done more for both riders & ridership levels.

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Joshua Davis

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1 year

@EmFriedenberg My dog doesn’t really bark, I pick up his feces and I guide him to permeable surfaces to urinate. Walking dogs is a net benefit to the neighborhood: dog walkers are extra eyes on the street and walks provide an opportunity for neighbors to connect with each other.

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Joshua Davis

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5 years

A majority of zip codes in the Bay Area are unaffordable to people making $100,000. As a techie I can't even qualify to rent an average apartment in San Francisco. Yes, we should fight for a living wage. But a living wage alone is not going to solve housing affordability.

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Joshua Davis

@byJoshuaDavis

2 years

In New York HOAs can vote on whether a new neighbor is allowed move in (and if they reject an applicant, they don’t have to say why). There are a lot of progressives who think this is a great policy and would like to apply it to their own neighborhoods via strict zoning.

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Joshua Davis

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2 years

There’s no difference between a Harvard MBA pitching lean, just-in-time supply chains and a socialist advocating for 0% housing vacancy.

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Joshua Davis

@byJoshuaDavis

3 years

People talk about it being impossible to make the suburbs walkable. But my dad lives a 5 minute walk from the grocery store. All they need is a sidewalk and all of a sudden the suburban townhomes turn into a walkable community.

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Joshua Davis

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2 years

Uber will get me to my destination 14 minutes before the bus is even predicted to arrive at the bus stop. And this problem is solvable without billions of VC dollars… Officials only run two buses an hour on weekends.

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Joshua Davis

@byJoshuaDavis

4 years

The bus-only lanes on Broadway are being painted today. It’s exciting to see my street being turned in to clean, green infrastructure.

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Joshua Davis

@byJoshuaDavis

2 years

I’m heading to the coast. It’d take $17 in gas and tolls to reach the beach by car. But by bike it’s $0.

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Joshua Davis

@byJoshuaDavis

9 months

@umichvoter It’s “great replacement theory” for white collar Republicans.

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Joshua Davis

@byJoshuaDavis

2 years

Spent $180 on TurboTax this morning. They put the value “undefined” in to one of my tax forms instead of an empty string (it was a box I didn’t need). For $180 I shouldn’t be debugging type problems on documents that could send me to jail.

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Joshua Davis

@byJoshuaDavis

3 years

Each time Dean votes against SF apartments he increases gentrification & displacement in Oakland’s BIPOC communities.

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Joshua Davis

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1 year

Let’s talk about how design can reduce crime, even when it’s the police committing the crimes. My local dog park is a disgusting mud pit of dog waste, mud and weeds. The trash bins are overflowing. So this morning when an OPD K-9 officer came to exercise his dog he let it run…

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Joshua Davis

@byJoshuaDavis

7 months

Guys, do you think Oakland is a slum?

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@byJoshuaDavis Oakland CA is a dangerous slum. Do not move there unless you are a black belt martial artist or solid with firearms.

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Joshua Davis

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2 months

I was helping my neighbors put some mulch down along I-880’s Frontage Road to cut down on dust pollution. A guy from Caltrans stops by and asks “what company are you with?” Me: “I’m a homeowner, when is Newsom going to clean this area up?” Of course he had no idea or…

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@byJoshuaDavis

4 years

@OG_Alex_D @californianita My moms a preschool teacher. She says the preschoolers do not comply with social distancing. I feel like anyone who’s ever been a kid could’ve predicted this?

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Joshua Davis

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4 years

It’s great to see more planners riding bikes. But recreational biking is the least “woke” way to experience bicycling. To viscerally understand the needs of bicycle-dependent people one needs to ride every day and every night, in all weather: for work, for errands and for fun.

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Joshua Davis

@byJoshuaDavis

3 years

If every human drove an electric car global auto emissions would still be higher than they are today. We cannot continue building a car dependent future.

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Joshua Davis

@byJoshuaDavis

2 years

Saw a reckless guy with a smashed front end almost T-bone another car on Broadway today. I know this is unpopular, but bad drivers should loose their license.

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Joshua Davis

@byJoshuaDavis

3 years

An old man on an e-bike sped passed me and shouted "see you later." Old people bike too. And they deserve safe infrastructure. (For the record, at a great physical cost, I caught up and passed him.)

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Joshua Davis

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4 months

It’s illegal to make budget-friendly homes in most of the US: • We could build 300 sq. ft. studios for single adults and childless couples. But that’s gentrification. • We could build family-sized apartments with 2 or 3 windowless bedrooms. But that’s block busting. • We…

Kristen Jeffers, MPA ✊🏽🌈 (she/they)

@blackurbanist

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Yes, people need to be compensated for their labor. Yes, building things costs money. However, the real question is, why are developers/builders/housers doing worse than the car people on making sure everyone has one in their budget?

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2 years

Middle class renters should be allowed to inhabit modern, well-maintained homes without having to make enough salary to buy a $1MM “starter home.”

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Joshua Davis

@byJoshuaDavis

2 years

@ndhapple After a shooting at my college there were similar mumblings. People wanted to feel safe. And people know we can’t change the 2nd Amendment. So we get proposals that’ll be used to target POC (police can’t scan everyone, so they’ll just pick “suspicious” looking people).

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Joshua Davis

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3 years

Apropos of nothing, In Mountain View these beefy bois are protecting outdoor dining. If your city isn’t doing this, their first priority is drivers.

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Joshua Davis

@byJoshuaDavis

7 months

Progressives last year: “Unbanked people should be able to shop with cash and women should have ready access to Plan B.” Progressives this year: “It’s OK if your neighborhood Target and CVS closes, you can just use a credit card to buy Plan B on Amazon Prime and hope it arrives…

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Joshua Davis

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11 months

“SUVs struck 14.7% of the investigated pedestrians and pedalcyclists, but were involved in 25.4% of fatalities. The severity of injuries, particularly head and thorax injuries, and hospital charges are also higher in crashes involving larger vehicles.”

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Joshua Davis

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4 years

COVID19 is not caused by density. It’s cause by stupidity. Cities like London, Paris & Hong Kong have extremely high density... Yet they account for a smaller fraction of global cases than NYC. A lack of urgency in the US, NY & NYC caused the disaster in NYC.

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Joshua Davis

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2 years

It cost $24.80 round trip for me and the partner to ride from Uptown Oakland to the Fillmore District. And there was a 20 minute wait just on the platform. Meanwhile the Bay Bridge would’ve been $6.00 and a 26 minute drive. I’d hate to even try this in a transit second city.

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Joshua Davis

@byJoshuaDavis

1 year

@jmrphy Isn’t this just the “school’s out” rush hour? Or are students quiet quitting now?

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Joshua Davis

@byJoshuaDavis

4 years

The socialist running for president is going to provide $2 trillion for private EVs and a measly $300 billion for public transit... That’s less than 4 California-size high speed rail projects. So yeah, our trains will continue to look like abandoned infrastructure.

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4 years

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I used to vehemently argue against the idea that “poverty is a mindset.” As I’ve gotten older and seen my family and randoms, I’ve changed my mind. Take for example the simple action of evacuating when the fire alarm goes off. In my market rate building, most of us leave. In…

Do Not @ Me, PhD

@UsingLyft

4 months

Not a single outcome for black ppl will improve until the majority of black ppl admit that their average group outcomes are the results of their average group behaviors and have absolutely nothing to do with the decisions or actions made by white people.

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7 months

@TVietor08 Per Yahoo! News, these words were actually from a "dicey joke" Biden made in reference to Jill Biden at a 2021 union event: "'By the way, of course, I sleep with a NEA member every night,' Biden told the crowd at an event in the East Room, adding: 'Same one. same one.'"

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Joshua Davis

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4 months

If people really wanted cocaine, why doesn’t Walgreens sell it? Well, because it’s illegal. And just like cocaine, building a 12-unit pre-war style walk-up apartment in most parts of NYC, SF and even the US is generally illegal. And yet, both sell for an exorbitant markup.

Daniel Feldman 🟦

@d_feldman

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if people really want smaller homes with walking, biking, parks, small shops, gathering places, etc... Why don't developers build subdivisions like that?

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California’s $68 billion deficit is the best argument for abolishing the Gann Limit. The Gann Limit prevents California from saving money during booms… Forcing politicians to waste billions on the one-time “Middle Class Tax Refund” check in 2022 instead of saving for winter.

Kim-Mai Cutler

@kimmaicutler

5 months

👏 California’s 👏 revenue 👏 model 👏 is 👏 structured 👏 around 👏 capital 👏 gains 👏 aka 👏 Silicon 👏 Valley 👏 IPOs 👏

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4 years

@thelastpinkcar @ryanstruyk Cross tabs located and indeed I was correct:

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@byJoshuaDavis

4 years

I need non-Black housing activists to stop talking like Black folks don’t live in market-rate housing.

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Joshua Davis

@byJoshuaDavis

1 year

As someone who rides BART several times a week, what I want is more frequent service, more non-sworn ambassadors and more surveillance cameras (with facial recognition). I don’t want more bored cops looking for riders who look like me to harass.

San Francisco Chronicle

@sfchronicle

1 year

BART should hire more sworn police officers and double down on keeping trains clean if it hopes to see any significant boost in ridership, according to a new poll.

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Joshua Davis

@byJoshuaDavis

2 years

@ricardoalatorre @HarryBaker_MD @mtsw The only time my masked looked like anything close to that was after I got tear gassed and felt like I was coughing up my lungs. And I’ve literally worn N95 masks for over 12 hours straight before.

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Joshua Davis

@byJoshuaDavis

2 years

The first car of every train in America should be a “mask-required” car. This would protect immunocompromised riders way more than the totally unenforced TSA mask mandate has done so far.

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Joshua Davis

@byJoshuaDavis

11 months

Someone crashed in to the Oakland federal building last night. If they had run out with a weapon shouting “Allah is the greatest,” officials would have immediately installed traffic calming. I know because police HQ is the only street in my neighborhood that still has it’s…

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Joshua Davis

@byJoshuaDavis

11 months

@benshapiro So the Navy hears a boom, the Feds say everyone is dead and the search is called off. A year later explorers find the sub intact, salvage it, and discover what appears to be 5 corpses inside with signs of asphyxiation... It’s good the government waited until they found debris.

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Joshua Davis

@byJoshuaDavis

7 months

California transportation planners will spend years delaying infrastructure projects to ensure every single letter of CEQA is dotted and crossed… And then they’ll go out and violate California Vehicle Code and MUTCD by placing signs in bike lanes. (I moved the signage to a…

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Joshua Davis

@byJoshuaDavis

7 months

I've seen 4 patterns of shoplifters: 1) Homeless guy steals a bag of peanuts or a to-go sandwich, leaves without causing a commotion 2) Random guy fed up with short staffing / long lines bails out of the line without paying 3) Guy with addiction or mental illness grabs a shelf…

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Joshua Davis

@byJoshuaDavis

9 months

@ArmandDoma I thought Europeans created the Spanish language? Or are we know longer considering Spanish people white?

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Joshua Davis

@byJoshuaDavis

2 years

TIL neon signs are more sustainable (as measured by energy consumption) than LED signs. And California has the most historical neon signs of any state.

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Joshua Davis

@byJoshuaDavis

2 years

We’ll know if the Biden administration is serious about tackling energy inflation depending on what he announces tonight. Here’s some ideas: 1) Set the national speed limit to a photo-enforced 55 MPH. We did this in the 70s. 🏎📸 🧵1/3

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Joshua Davis

@byJoshuaDavis

7 months

The full story is in the SF Chronicle.

Rents in this Bay Area city have fallen more than in any of the other largest U.S. towns

The municipality’s median rent remains hundreds of dollars lower than it was before the...

www.sfchronicle.com

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Joshua Davis

@byJoshuaDavis

4 months

The University of California system is a public government agency that provided a path to the middle class for millions, not an evil corporation. Anyways, as a reminder, Beckles backed a city council effort to investigate if passenger airliners were spraying mind-control…

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