ティージェーグレェ on Nostr: I don't even have words with how out of sync I feel sometimes. Missed two buses by ...
I don't even have words with how out of sync I feel sometimes. Missed two buses by such an infuriatingly short distance.
But, as I was walking I was thinking about how terrible the Bay Area seems to me now.
And how I see at least one outspoken person who moved here, from another country claim how the naysayers bad mouthing the Bay Area seem full of it.
I'm hardly rich, nor as well traveled as I would like to be, but I have been to: Canada, Mexico, the UK, Japan, Germany, The Netherlands, Hong Kong, Taiwan and mainland China (though that last one would insist the previous two belong to it).
But more than that: I have lived in the Bay Area in this human incarnation since the 1970s.
I remember what it was like, and it was: cleaner, more multicultural, more diverse, less insanely expensive, had fewer homeless, more wildlife, more greenery, less bullshit, less traffic, less pollution. In every appreciable way, it seemed as if it has only gotten worse as long as I have been alive.
No doubt, had I been alive before the Spanish Conquistadors came with their genocidal colonialism, wiping out or enslaving many of the Indigenous tribes in these regions, it would have seemed as if the trend of this area getting worse has been going on for centuries.
So no, I'm sorry. If you moved here, from some other place and think that it isn't as bad as the people who have lived here all of our lives are telling you?
I think you haven't walked a mile in my shoes and you will never be able to fathom my perspective, because clearly you seem more invested in yours and nay-saying those who were born here thank acknowledging how much worse things are now and how they only seem to be on a continuing trend of decline.
I have written previously, that if you were not born here, and you are not actively involved with remediating the 114 National Superfund sites in California (of which > 20 still remain in Silly Con Valley alone) I don't think you are meaningfully helping make this place better for anyone.
We don't need another web dev from anywhere else, I was doing web dev in my teens, unpaid for postdocs who seemed to have their heads shoved up their asses despite having hardware that cost tens if not hundreds of thousands of dollars and network uplinks I still can't dream of affording myself at nps.navy.mil and I wasn't alone in that. The world doesn't need more shitty code, it has more than enough of that as it is.
But, as I was walking I was thinking about how terrible the Bay Area seems to me now.
And how I see at least one outspoken person who moved here, from another country claim how the naysayers bad mouthing the Bay Area seem full of it.
I'm hardly rich, nor as well traveled as I would like to be, but I have been to: Canada, Mexico, the UK, Japan, Germany, The Netherlands, Hong Kong, Taiwan and mainland China (though that last one would insist the previous two belong to it).
But more than that: I have lived in the Bay Area in this human incarnation since the 1970s.
I remember what it was like, and it was: cleaner, more multicultural, more diverse, less insanely expensive, had fewer homeless, more wildlife, more greenery, less bullshit, less traffic, less pollution. In every appreciable way, it seemed as if it has only gotten worse as long as I have been alive.
No doubt, had I been alive before the Spanish Conquistadors came with their genocidal colonialism, wiping out or enslaving many of the Indigenous tribes in these regions, it would have seemed as if the trend of this area getting worse has been going on for centuries.
So no, I'm sorry. If you moved here, from some other place and think that it isn't as bad as the people who have lived here all of our lives are telling you?
I think you haven't walked a mile in my shoes and you will never be able to fathom my perspective, because clearly you seem more invested in yours and nay-saying those who were born here thank acknowledging how much worse things are now and how they only seem to be on a continuing trend of decline.
I have written previously, that if you were not born here, and you are not actively involved with remediating the 114 National Superfund sites in California (of which > 20 still remain in Silly Con Valley alone) I don't think you are meaningfully helping make this place better for anyone.
We don't need another web dev from anywhere else, I was doing web dev in my teens, unpaid for postdocs who seemed to have their heads shoved up their asses despite having hardware that cost tens if not hundreds of thousands of dollars and network uplinks I still can't dream of affording myself at nps.navy.mil and I wasn't alone in that. The world doesn't need more shitty code, it has more than enough of that as it is.