Well that's unsurprising since they have the largest population and trends usually scale.
I think it is important to note they have been moving more toward republican votes over the last presidential elections, which if anything shows why Newsom is a symptom, not the cause--and I say that not liking the dude.
Despite much ignorance and ado, California is politically moderate. Their own voters shot down basic protections for unsecured laborers for private equity-backed driver services who are then wards of the state; no workers comp, no unemployment, no flsa protections...these are the bare minimum of a society that doesn't eat children. The states voters did this after the state just went through the clear and costly lesson of a mass layoff situation due to covid and it was clear these predatory companies were designed to screw workers and the state to maximize returns to shareholders, even beyond how bad a standard worker has it. If the states own voters arent anything more than moderate, why would the hope be the governor of the state would be?
Anything to the left of Pinochet is being labeled as anarchist left wing terrorist by fascists who are actively dismantling government, legal, social protections.
The article is heavy on narrative but...did the CEO leave? Did they take him into custody? Kind of the important result of reporting on the arrest, which if something came of it is great. I assume it wasn't reported because the CEO just left and they didn't hold him by force and no one took him into custody.
There are few social spaces where people can meet in healthy ways without having to pay some private entity for the privilege.
The rungs of society have never been further apart, nor has it ever been more transparent.
Education has been systematically underfunded for 50+ years, the economy in accelerative wealth concentration. Adults suffer and the home environments for children suffer.
I can't stand street racing, and barely drive unless forced to but it's not hard to understand why many would find a somewhat cheap thrill attractive when their lives are filled with hopelessness or despair.
Did you look at the markets Friday? They was probably mostly tarrif response but it's also lots of articles in the last month about everyone acknowledging there is a bubble, lack of other gov data being released, it could come any day or be a few years away.
Altman said 2 months ago "yeah there are a lot of bad AI companies that money is being wasted on, that was my current to retreat to some more conservative assets. Have a bit of exposure still but more than ready to stop hearing about fucking AI.
The analytics are overblown, and coaches need to get back to the big picture. Stanford traded Hollins at the deadline for Wu, but picked up the player option on Candell for the 4th year. The performance bonus if they make the all-star team should provide enough motivation to ensure they don't get saddled with a mid-career ball hog. Team chemistry will be key, hopefully during the preseason they can get it together and not have any niggling injuries interrupt. There is concern about the defensive strategy on set plays, their specialist Franco just had their contract waived and stretched under the current contract, so the team may look to the transfer market mid season when it opens, or potentially to move up in the spring draft to fill needs. Still can't believe they traded Simpson and pay 2.7 per year for Johnson.
Universities run by MBAs and academics operating like sports franchises.Meanwhile, they're arresting students in campus for protesting genocide and fascism.
Have they even considered printing out 5 resumes with their limited work history, putting on formal clothes and making eye contact? They'd have to pick between family-supporting wage offers there would be such demand.
Napoleon's tactical errors leading to a ton of his skilled and valuable horse soldiers self inflicting and defeating themselves basically made it easy for wellington to triumph though he did enough to earn the w. That is just from memory 20 years ago when I read from Les Miserables, there is like a 100 page section--maybe 150 just on the battle of Waterloo which isn't that critically tied for the plot. Victor fucking Hugo, ladies and gentlemen.
Napoleon's defeat led to alliances across Europe for protection, which led to WW1, which guaranteed WW2 due to unsustainable concessions for Germans leading to Hitler's rise, which led to USA being gifted a churning economy almost undamaged and populace relatively unscarred by war compared to devastated Europe. Baby boom, relatively equal wealth distribution and a GI bill built the US might that is now imploding under it's own fetid weight of corruption and ignorance, as many empires fall to, but it's all pretty linear imo from Napoleon.
It's actually kind of what is reflected in this map: so many fewer deaths in the north because they have much less time per year when anyone, even reasonably motivated or inclined people are able to walk or bike due to harsh winter weather and poor public transit and urban planning.
Look at Oregon, it's got tons of bikers compared to a Wyoming, but greater density so many more deaths.
Pedestrian deaths are combo of transport options, culture, inclination, and environmental variables. Cleveland Ohio probably has much worse active/bike culture than Portland but the weather is so much harsher than Portland there are less pedestrians to hit as people are inside or in cars.
I remember learning a statistic in the early aughts that only 17% of US households were married man/woman married with child(ren), when so much of media and societal representation and expectations was based around norms from the 1950s or earlier. Society changed for real in the US mid century, and continued to evolve; single parents, adults with no children, skipping marriage, same sex and/or other sex/gender/orientation households, but the christian-facist propaganda kept up.
Just remember, something as basic as "what is a home or family group", the "standard" or "normal" is less than 1 out of 5. It's actually the exception! This applies elsewhere.
Don't discount imposter syndrome, it's powerful. We're all, mostly, normal.
It was incredible some boomers couldn't see that between college debt, and a radically different world of cost in housing to say nothing of food, transportation and energy costs, that their generation's corporate permissiveness and privatization had collectively taken away what was so generously given to them by society. The effects this had on relationships, marriage and even children is crystal clear--and that's maybe one of the most truly awful parts of it...the generation had a future life and maybe children they would have wanted taken from the by course of corporate economics.
Corporate PR pushed the narratives to be fair, it was an early attempt to confuse or distract the clear end of the American dream for young Americans. Your college degree is worthless and your enormous loans are non-discharageable even in bankruptcy, and you need 10 years at median gross salary to buy a home. Meanwhile, salaries are now aggressively managed down or to a "market average" under the guide of equity but more to control paying for the value of work. The trap was laid and 30 years or so of Americans were slaughtered in it's teeth.
For any Americans that don't know, China is taking over Europe as we speak and legacy companies are about to gut their companies to try to compete