The chance of having your car stolen went up 26% in 2020 and 52% so far in 2021 (both vs 2019)
The number of violent crimes rose from 0.9 per 10,000 people to 1.2 per 10,000 people—up 34%.
On Muni—violent crimes per rider are up nearly 3X
**The chances of being a victim of a crime increased even as the overall crime rate decreased**
Innumerate, dishonest politicians and their stooges want you to believe "Crime is down" but the SF streets became more unsafe in real ways during the Pandemic.
“When you tell people in San Francisco, ‘crime is down,’ you completely insult what they’re experiencing." —@SupStefani
Melgar deactivated her account most likely because she broke laws when she said that the builders and the district supervisor needed to pay off TODCO to get approval
That's actually corruption and graft
As a reminder, this is corruption and graft, the kind that ruins San Francisco and makes this a far worse place than it should be
Deflect all you want, but I don't think we should let corruption stand.
We live in the Matrix of signal value. It's all around us. Baudrillard: "Depth, coherence, meaning, originality, and authenticity are evacuated or dissolved amid the rando swirl of empty signal."
The result? The continual and never-ending squid game of professional careerism
What does that look like? Ideologue careerists like failing District Attorney of San Francisco Chesa Boudin says the opposite of what is happening, yet claims they "took action"
The outcomes matter less and less. Image has become more important to sociopaths than actual outcomes
The startup world is infected with the same madness: "It's not about how much you earn, it's about what you're worth."
Looking successful becomes more important than actually being successful.
But in the long run, this fails. The lies get too big.
I wonder if Internet conspiracy researchers ever do a deep dive and then realize “oh these people are actually pretty much trying to do good.”
If you’re tuning in now from some elaborate plot to ruin me—
Hi My Name is Garry Tan. I grew up in the SF Bay Area. I grew up food insecure at times, child of Chinese immigrants who struggled in a new and unfamiliar land.
We lived in apartments. I got my first job at the age of 14 by cold calling the Internet section since I taught myself how to make websites.
I used those earnings to help pay my parents down payment for our first home. It was the American Dream.
Truepill has truly become Stripe for digital healthcare: nationwide availability, at home test kits, telehealth software and pharmacy fulfillment (cash and insurance) all through one simple API and tech platform
Allows startups and healthcare providers to go from idea to full rollout in weeks not months.
Who wins? Patients. Telehealth can be 50X lower cost with better care that meets the patient where they live.
This space has been massively accelerated by COVID.