Usually a union organizer, rarely an engineer, and formerly a media activist.
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Last Notes npub1gg5c62psj8vrpg00f54ydl263nrhha76ajct4ssfkvmrwvrcrzcsvlvxnm Chema Hernández Gil Some dude flying a drone over Crissy Field riding a fucking electric unicycle. It's almost stereotypical. npub1gg5c62psj8vrpg00f54ydl263nrhha76ajct4ssfkvmrwvrcrzcsvlvxnm Chema Hernández Gil A nice shot of a dead tree at Buckeye right below the crescent moon and the purple-tinged sky. npub1gg5c62psj8vrpg00f54ydl263nrhha76ajct4ssfkvmrwvrcrzcsvlvxnm Chema Hernández Gil My phone picked it at the Marina Green, coming back from Marin. npub1gg5c62psj8vrpg00f54ydl263nrhha76ajct4ssfkvmrwvrcrzcsvlvxnm Chema Hernández Gil The webcams in Europe are quite something right now. npub1gg5c62psj8vrpg00f54ydl263nrhha76ajct4ssfkvmrwvrcrzcsvlvxnm Chema Hernández Gil Thanks. This is helpful. So if we roughly doubled it to 25k kwhr/year, that would basically cover everything. That's a lot of energy, but also not impossibly high either. npub1gg5c62psj8vrpg00f54ydl263nrhha76ajct4ssfkvmrwvrcrzcsvlvxnm Chema Hernández Gil I've been trying to go camping up in Marin for a couple of months and I finally thought it was going to happen today, but then a couple of things came up and I ended up missing my window for the first-come, first-serve campgrounds. Oh well. Maybe next weekend. npub1gg5c62psj8vrpg00f54ydl263nrhha76ajct4ssfkvmrwvrcrzcsvlvxnm Chema Hernández Gil How much energy would it take for an average household to be self-sufficient and self-contained? And by that I mean normal electricity usage for everything, including cooking and heating, as well as water purification/treatment/desalination and biosolids incineration. npub1gg5c62psj8vrpg00f54ydl263nrhha76ajct4ssfkvmrwvrcrzcsvlvxnm Chema Hernández Gil @npub1xpm…mapu For sure. More free stuff! But the VR set would also fetch a pretty penny on Craigslist. npub1gg5c62psj8vrpg00f54ydl263nrhha76ajct4ssfkvmrwvrcrzcsvlvxnm Chema Hernández Gil Some company is having a free "AI" event at Moscone Center on June 6 (which is down the street from me) and since I like free food and stuff, I've just registered. They also gave out referral links, so if you too like free food and stuff, then use it. npub1gg5c62psj8vrpg00f54ydl263nrhha76ajct4ssfkvmrwvrcrzcsvlvxnm Chema Hernández Gil Apple's next iPad ad was going to be a big book bonfire with their device hiding among the ashes at the end, but this backlash is making them reconsider that idea. npub1gg5c62psj8vrpg00f54ydl263nrhha76ajct4ssfkvmrwvrcrzcsvlvxnm Chema Hernández Gil I spy a few 30 degree Celsius around San Francisco... npub1gg5c62psj8vrpg00f54ydl263nrhha76ajct4ssfkvmrwvrcrzcsvlvxnm Chema Hernández Gil I use Firefox with the uBlock origin extension and Proton VPN with Netshield. It allows me to sync my tabs on my laptop browser to my phone. Very convenient. npub1gg5c62psj8vrpg00f54ydl263nrhha76ajct4ssfkvmrwvrcrzcsvlvxnm Chema Hernández Gil I made the mistake of getting an iPad a few years ago thinking it would help me be more productive, but I've barely used it, even for browsing, because it is so hard to use ad blockers on it. So now I am trading it in for a new Pixel Tablet so I can throw GrapheneOS on it and have a tablet with an *actual* AdBlock. npub1gg5c62psj8vrpg00f54ydl263nrhha76ajct4ssfkvmrwvrcrzcsvlvxnm Chema Hernández Gil Nurses are getting super-disrespected at the bargaining table. It also happens to be Nurses Appreciation Week, so nurses and their fellow members are rallying at Laguna Honda Hospital today at 2PM in front of the Old Building, by the Florence Nightingale Statue. npub1gg5c62psj8vrpg00f54ydl263nrhha76ajct4ssfkvmrwvrcrzcsvlvxnm Chema Hernández Gil "RFK Jr. says a dead worm was found in his brain." npub1gg5c62psj8vrpg00f54ydl263nrhha76ajct4ssfkvmrwvrcrzcsvlvxnm Chema Hernández Gil Maybe one of the most immoral industries. Literally praying on vulnerable people using many companion animals. npub1gg5c62psj8vrpg00f54ydl263nrhha76ajct4ssfkvmrwvrcrzcsvlvxnm Chema Hernández Gil Spending tens of thousands to clone a dog or a cat, when millions of other dogs and cats are euthanized each year, is crazy. npub1gg5c62psj8vrpg00f54ydl263nrhha76ajct4ssfkvmrwvrcrzcsvlvxnm Chema Hernández Gil Big houses stress the fuck out of me. Like 3- or 4-bedroom homes with a living room, kitchen, a couple of bathrooms, a garage and a basement. That's just so much space that needs to be filled with *stuff*. So much time spent choosing it, then money getting it. I'd rather live in a shotgun house or an apartment. npub1gg5c62psj8vrpg00f54ydl263nrhha76ajct4ssfkvmrwvrcrzcsvlvxnm Chema Hernández Gil Last night, for the first time in years, I went to see a movie in the movie theater. A nice experience overall. I watched Civil War. I consider it to be both be a good antiwar movie and a good perspective on conflict journalism, the sort of people it attracts and its impact on them. Worth watching. npub1gg5c62psj8vrpg00f54ydl263nrhha76ajct4ssfkvmrwvrcrzcsvlvxnm Chema Hernández Gil “U.S. health officials on Friday warned that dairy workers remain at risk from the H5N1 bird flu virus that is infecting dairy herds, and urged them to wear protective gear to avoid infection.“ npub1gg5c62psj8vrpg00f54ydl263nrhha76ajct4ssfkvmrwvrcrzcsvlvxnm Chema Hernández Gil The November election polls are quite something. Trump leads Biden and Kennedy is almost at double digits. Six more months to to go... npub1gg5c62psj8vrpg00f54ydl263nrhha76ajct4ssfkvmrwvrcrzcsvlvxnm Chema Hernández Gil The so-called "Taxpayer Protection and Government Accountability Act" is also retroactive to Jan 1, 2022, with dozens of existing taxes across the state at risk of being nullified. There is a chance that the California Supreme Court will pull it after the hearing on May 8. I hope they do. Otherwise this will be a (the?) top priority for many progressive groups. npub1gg5c62psj8vrpg00f54ydl263nrhha76ajct4ssfkvmrwvrcrzcsvlvxnm Chema Hernández Gil And here is the Indian French of Pointe-au-Chien. The accent is hard to make out for me. npub1gg5c62psj8vrpg00f54ydl263nrhha76ajct4ssfkvmrwvrcrzcsvlvxnm Chema Hernández Gil One of my favorite Youtube channels is the French-language Télé-Louisiane channel, from Louisiana. In this video, they discuss yet another Louisianian (and Alabamian) language: the Créole Louisianais. npub1gg5c62psj8vrpg00f54ydl263nrhha76ajct4ssfkvmrwvrcrzcsvlvxnm Chema Hernández Gil Y sin hablar de lo que sucedió recientemente en Facultad de Contaduría... npub1gg5c62psj8vrpg00f54ydl263nrhha76ajct4ssfkvmrwvrcrzcsvlvxnm Chema Hernández Gil You can find dozens of videos on Youtube documenting attacks on peaceful students by porros at the UNAM and other Mexico City universities. Like at UCLA, authorities will stand back and let porros have a field day. npub1gg5c62psj8vrpg00f54ydl263nrhha76ajct4ssfkvmrwvrcrzcsvlvxnm Chema Hernández Gil Truly a beautiful #MayDay here in SF. It is such a treat to bike to the office on days like this. npub1gg5c62psj8vrpg00f54ydl263nrhha76ajct4ssfkvmrwvrcrzcsvlvxnm Chema Hernández Gil There should not be any overlap between the two, so someone with good walking shoes could attend both. npub1gg5c62psj8vrpg00f54ydl263nrhha76ajct4ssfkvmrwvrcrzcsvlvxnm Chema Hernández Gil Maybe the most random piece of improvised drug paraphernalia I've come across in SF: a scorched bent piece of brass with the Saudi Air Force logo. Seen outside the Rincón Hill dog park. npub1gg5c62psj8vrpg00f54ydl263nrhha76ajct4ssfkvmrwvrcrzcsvlvxnm Chema Hernández Gil Two more bikes were stolen out of my building's garage today. Always sad to see the evidence on the ground like this. I've learned my lesson after getting my share of bikes stolen: I now keep them in my place or in a storage unit. npub1gg5c62psj8vrpg00f54ydl263nrhha76ajct4ssfkvmrwvrcrzcsvlvxnm Chema Hernández Gil That's what I tell folks. Every meeting should be organized for a thousand people to participate. Rules of order help make that possible. npub1gg5c62psj8vrpg00f54ydl263nrhha76ajct4ssfkvmrwvrcrzcsvlvxnm Chema Hernández Gil The most challenging and emotionally taxing deliberative bodies I've ever dealt with are anarchist collectives. npub1gg5c62psj8vrpg00f54ydl263nrhha76ajct4ssfkvmrwvrcrzcsvlvxnm Chema Hernández Gil I never expected to become an expert of sorts in deliberative bodies and their members, yet here I am, dealing with trustees, commissioners, board directors, supervisors, etcetera, pretty much constantly. I now know much more than I ever expected on various forms of parliamentary procedure, operation manuals, Brown Act and the Sunshine Ordinance. npub1gg5c62psj8vrpg00f54ydl263nrhha76ajct4ssfkvmrwvrcrzcsvlvxnm Chema Hernández Gil I don’t actually need this Franklin-Christoph waxed canvas padfolio for my notebooks, but it is handsome and it is on sale, so…. npub1gg5c62psj8vrpg00f54ydl263nrhha76ajct4ssfkvmrwvrcrzcsvlvxnm Chema Hernández Gil Absolutely! npub1gg5c62psj8vrpg00f54ydl263nrhha76ajct4ssfkvmrwvrcrzcsvlvxnm Chema Hernández Gil Considering that I live in Rincón Hill, I am pretty certain most of my neighbors make this amount (or much more). We share the same physical space but live in such different realities. npub1gg5c62psj8vrpg00f54ydl263nrhha76ajct4ssfkvmrwvrcrzcsvlvxnm Chema Hernández Gil I know right? Even with half of that. The wealth inequality in this city is bonkers. npub1gg5c62psj8vrpg00f54ydl263nrhha76ajct4ssfkvmrwvrcrzcsvlvxnm Chema Hernández Gil At $700k a year, even if I had to pay half in taxes, I would still have nearly $30k a month. I legit do not know what I would with that much money. Probably save $20k a month and comfortably retire in a decade or less? npub1gg5c62psj8vrpg00f54ydl263nrhha76ajct4ssfkvmrwvrcrzcsvlvxnm Chema Hernández Gil “Based on survey and census data, our best estimation is that San Francisco metropolitan area residents would consider a household that makes about $700,000 per year to be rich.“ npub1gg5c62psj8vrpg00f54ydl263nrhha76ajct4ssfkvmrwvrcrzcsvlvxnm Chema Hernández Gil I thought this was a matching set of guns for a second. npub1gg5c62psj8vrpg00f54ydl263nrhha76ajct4ssfkvmrwvrcrzcsvlvxnm Chema Hernández Gil Ni yo. Y honestamente, no me molesta esa ignorancia. npub1gg5c62psj8vrpg00f54ydl263nrhha76ajct4ssfkvmrwvrcrzcsvlvxnm Chema Hernández Gil De acuerdo con este articulo, el tracoma es "una enfermedad infecciosa que hace que las pestañas crezcan invertidas y toquen la córnea". Gacha enfermedad. npub1gg5c62psj8vrpg00f54ydl263nrhha76ajct4ssfkvmrwvrcrzcsvlvxnm Chema Hernández Gil My take on the dude trying to turn SF into some sort of nightmarish, tech-controlled dystopia. Just another man that is unable to deal with normal political tension and turns to disenfranchisement via displacement. npub1gg5c62psj8vrpg00f54ydl263nrhha76ajct4ssfkvmrwvrcrzcsvlvxnm Chema Hernández Gil I get where you are coming from. I’ve had my share of tension with many leaders over there and even a couple I flat out refuse to deal with anymore. I’ve been around long enough now that we now have an entente cordiale since I have been consistent with my positions over the years and the credibility of organized labor. npub1gg5c62psj8vrpg00f54ydl263nrhha76ajct4ssfkvmrwvrcrzcsvlvxnm Chema Hernández Gil But for real, the amount of accusations and scandals (sexual or otherwise) that surround Latino political activist men in SF seems disproportionately high to me. npub1gg5c62psj8vrpg00f54ydl263nrhha76ajct4ssfkvmrwvrcrzcsvlvxnm Chema Hernández Gil Yet another Mission District political activist is being accused of sexual misconduct. Fucked up if true. npub1gg5c62psj8vrpg00f54ydl263nrhha76ajct4ssfkvmrwvrcrzcsvlvxnm Chema Hernández Gil I do not know how I got on the sales lead list for Chinese-manufactured steel fiber, but I want to get off it. npub1gg5c62psj8vrpg00f54ydl263nrhha76ajct4ssfkvmrwvrcrzcsvlvxnm Chema Hernández Gil If AI can help resolve captchas, then we are all good. npub1gg5c62psj8vrpg00f54ydl263nrhha76ajct4ssfkvmrwvrcrzcsvlvxnm Chema Hernández Gil The original Jurassic Park has aged really well. I remember I had read the book and I was really excited to see it in the movie theater. npub1gg5c62psj8vrpg00f54ydl263nrhha76ajct4ssfkvmrwvrcrzcsvlvxnm Chema Hernández Gil Thanks for highlighting this and confirming my suspicion that this fantasy reeks of casteism. Living in SF it comes up once in a while and it never fails to disappoint me. npub1gg5c62psj8vrpg00f54ydl263nrhha76ajct4ssfkvmrwvrcrzcsvlvxnm Chema Hernández Gil The clouds were in such a hurry here in SF a couple of days ago that @npub1fg0…7zxs noticed them and became very concerned. She kept glancing up during our afternoon walk, fearful they'd fly down or something. npub1gg5c62psj8vrpg00f54ydl263nrhha76ajct4ssfkvmrwvrcrzcsvlvxnm Chema Hernández Gil My laptop is starting show its age. The letter E is getting janky and one USB port is failing. I can probably get another year from it once I replace the battery, but I am starting to think 2025 will be a new laptop year. Six years isn't a bad run. npub1gg5c62psj8vrpg00f54ydl263nrhha76ajct4ssfkvmrwvrcrzcsvlvxnm Chema Hernández Gil If you write a lot and aren't prone to losing pens, it is hard to beat a modern machined fountain pen. Leaking and maintenance is minimal, ink variety is wonderful and even more expensive pens will pay themselves off in a few years. Upside is less waste and a more comfortable writing experience. npub1gg5c62psj8vrpg00f54ydl263nrhha76ajct4ssfkvmrwvrcrzcsvlvxnm Chema Hernández Gil After reading really positive reviews for "Ultem"/PEI fountain pens, I've been on the lookout for one and finally found one that seems ideal. It's an AliExpress special, but it is well reviewed, so maybe I will get lucky. npub1gg5c62psj8vrpg00f54ydl263nrhha76ajct4ssfkvmrwvrcrzcsvlvxnm Chema Hernández Gil People like this are turning their back not just on liberalism, but skipping and running towards feudalism and a caste-based society. Fucked up. npub1gg5c62psj8vrpg00f54ydl263nrhha76ajct4ssfkvmrwvrcrzcsvlvxnm Chema Hernández Gil Any plans to get the transit labor unions on board? Might be too late, but still worth considering. npub1gg5c62psj8vrpg00f54ydl263nrhha76ajct4ssfkvmrwvrcrzcsvlvxnm Chema Hernández Gil This makes me feel vindicated. I remember a tense conversation at the end of my time working at our local bike advocacy organization, where I insisted we should not be advocating for painted bike lanes. They were not much harder to get than protected bike lanes anyway and had little perceived benefit to me, but I got overruled. npub1gg5c62psj8vrpg00f54ydl263nrhha76ajct4ssfkvmrwvrcrzcsvlvxnm Chema Hernández Gil @npub18qs…0s8s Why not have a user-elected board of directors? A real missed opportunity to bring democratic values to Mastodon. npub1gg5c62psj8vrpg00f54ydl263nrhha76ajct4ssfkvmrwvrcrzcsvlvxnm Chema Hernández Gil Absolutely. It is a shameful situation that one of San Francisco's densest neighborhood is so under-served, despite a huge need for third spaces like libraries. The nearest library to me is the Mechanics' Institute. npub1gg5c62psj8vrpg00f54ydl263nrhha76ajct4ssfkvmrwvrcrzcsvlvxnm Chema Hernández Gil My segment of Beale Street is so frustrating. npub1gg5c62psj8vrpg00f54ydl263nrhha76ajct4ssfkvmrwvrcrzcsvlvxnm Chema Hernández Gil If they were open on Sundays, it would be a no-brainer, but as it stands, I can only really make it out there on Saturdays and maybe a couple of evenings during the week. npub1gg5c62psj8vrpg00f54ydl263nrhha76ajct4ssfkvmrwvrcrzcsvlvxnm Chema Hernández Gil I really like the Mechanics' Institute library, but I haven't renewed my membership in a couple of years because I don't feel like I've been able to use it enough. It is like an intellectual gym membership. npub1gg5c62psj8vrpg00f54ydl263nrhha76ajct4ssfkvmrwvrcrzcsvlvxnm Chema Hernández Gil The only good thing about Pluto truthers is that they've brought attention to the sad story of Ceres, the original missing planet. npub1gg5c62psj8vrpg00f54ydl263nrhha76ajct4ssfkvmrwvrcrzcsvlvxnm Chema Hernández Gil Honestly, I'd be willing to even consider banning the entire internet protocol suite at this point. Bring back shortwave radio, telegraph, printed newspapers and snail mail, handwritten or otherwise. npub1gg5c62psj8vrpg00f54ydl263nrhha76ajct4ssfkvmrwvrcrzcsvlvxnm Chema Hernández Gil The Census data for mean household income of quintiles for San Francisco is pretty wild. The most recent data (2022) shows the 20% poorest households averaged $18,828, while the wealthiest 20% of households raked in $542,183. That is a ratio of 1:29. npub1gg5c62psj8vrpg00f54ydl263nrhha76ajct4ssfkvmrwvrcrzcsvlvxnm Chema Hernández Gil But this is a great example of why "self-driving" vehicles like these are such a false solution. They're only as good as their algorithms. Situations that exceed guidelines means we end up sharing our streets with a multi-ton conveyance that is driving amok. We should be focusing on making neighborhoods more walkable, bikeable and transit accessible. npub1gg5c62psj8vrpg00f54ydl263nrhha76ajct4ssfkvmrwvrcrzcsvlvxnm Chema Hernández Gil Here is the article with Google's excuse: npub1gg5c62psj8vrpg00f54ydl263nrhha76ajct4ssfkvmrwvrcrzcsvlvxnm Chema Hernández Gil The video of the Waymo #robotaxi driving the wrong way in my neighborhood was already bad enough, but Google's bullshit excuse makes it worse. npub1gg5c62psj8vrpg00f54ydl263nrhha76ajct4ssfkvmrwvrcrzcsvlvxnm Chema Hernández Gil You should email them those suggestions. Their email is [email protected] . Anyone can also self-nominate for the board. Might not make much of a difference, but maybe if they sense members are turning against them, they might react? npub1gg5c62psj8vrpg00f54ydl263nrhha76ajct4ssfkvmrwvrcrzcsvlvxnm Chema Hernández Gil About a decade ago, San Francisco still had a small direct current (DC) power grid for elevators which PG&E was dismantling. Seems like a real missed opportunity given the recent growth of other types of electric conveyances like cars, bikes, and scooters now. npub1gg5c62psj8vrpg00f54ydl263nrhha76ajct4ssfkvmrwvrcrzcsvlvxnm Chema Hernández Gil R.E.M. remains one of my favorite bands. I was going to qualify the opinion by saying "from the 1990s", but they're just good regardless. I must have listened to Monster a thousand times. "What's The Frequency, Kenneth?" might still be my favorite song from that album. npub1gg5c62psj8vrpg00f54ydl263nrhha76ajct4ssfkvmrwvrcrzcsvlvxnm Chema Hernández Gil The red heifer (from Texas, no less!) really ties the story together. npub1gg5c62psj8vrpg00f54ydl263nrhha76ajct4ssfkvmrwvrcrzcsvlvxnm Chema Hernández Gil Gun cultures are strange. American men love to show off their handguns at home sitting on the couch, meanwhile young Swiss recruits will nonchalantly walk around train stations with their assault rifles most any weekend. npub1gg5c62psj8vrpg00f54ydl263nrhha76ajct4ssfkvmrwvrcrzcsvlvxnm Chema Hernández Gil AI are postmodernist agents. LLMs reject the certainty of knowledge, confidently and eloquently articulating their algorithmic illusions. npub1gg5c62psj8vrpg00f54ydl263nrhha76ajct4ssfkvmrwvrcrzcsvlvxnm Chema Hernández Gil Couldn't agree more. I outsource my email and cloud storage to Proton (who have zero access to the encrypted data), but everything else, including this fediverse instance and my website, run off my own home servers. I spend a few dollars a month to keep them going and it's been working very well so far. npub1gg5c62psj8vrpg00f54ydl263nrhha76ajct4ssfkvmrwvrcrzcsvlvxnm Chema Hernández Gil It is also useful for tracking health issues. Feel free to use her referral link for $50 off. npub1gg5c62psj8vrpg00f54ydl263nrhha76ajct4ssfkvmrwvrcrzcsvlvxnm Chema Hernández Gil It's fun to see @npub1fg0…7zxs Embark DNA profile match with her relatives. Over the years, it has found a full sister and a bunch of cousins. npub1gg5c62psj8vrpg00f54ydl263nrhha76ajct4ssfkvmrwvrcrzcsvlvxnm Chema Hernández Gil After reading a few letter, I am now persuaded that Srinivasa Ramanujan, perhaps one of the greatest mathematicians that ever lived, died in part by his English hosts' unwillingness to accommodate his vegetarianism. The man became suspicious everything they tried to feed him had meat (which I can totally understand) and ended up on a very restricted diet. npub1gg5c62psj8vrpg00f54ydl263nrhha76ajct4ssfkvmrwvrcrzcsvlvxnm Chema Hernández Gil I've been exploring Standard Notes a bit more and I am getting more and more excited about it. You can post a Listed blog directly from the Standard Notes app/web app. It's a cool idea that might encourage me to move away from Hugo. npub1gg5c62psj8vrpg00f54ydl263nrhha76ajct4ssfkvmrwvrcrzcsvlvxnm Chema Hernández Gil I bet most people are unaware that Twitter (and microblogging in general) predate the iPhone and smartphones as we know them. We used SMS and XMPP in the first few years. Simpler times. npub1gg5c62psj8vrpg00f54ydl263nrhha76ajct4ssfkvmrwvrcrzcsvlvxnm Chema Hernández Gil That's correct. In Nahua societies, they had a unit of organization called a calpulli, which is similar to the ejido of last century. npub1gg5c62psj8vrpg00f54ydl263nrhha76ajct4ssfkvmrwvrcrzcsvlvxnm Chema Hernández Gil That makes sense. It would require recurring maintenance to maintain productivity. And depending on how long these cycles are, then it might mean a society would cycle through individualist/collectivist cycles. npub1gg5c62psj8vrpg00f54ydl263nrhha76ajct4ssfkvmrwvrcrzcsvlvxnm Chema Hernández Gil @npub163z…rsv7 I imagine a lot of these challenges would be resolved on "artificial" land, like the chinampa, which were basically a next generation milpa. npub1gg5c62psj8vrpg00f54ydl263nrhha76ajct4ssfkvmrwvrcrzcsvlvxnm Chema Hernández Gil This is good to hear! I have been itching to move my homeserver from Linux and this current Pleroma fork and this might motivate me to do it one of these days. npub1gg5c62psj8vrpg00f54ydl263nrhha76ajct4ssfkvmrwvrcrzcsvlvxnm Chema Hernández Gil And then, of course, that leads to the political consequences. It would make Indigenous North American agrarianism very different from other types of agrarian socialism. Could it explain the anti-authoritarian/anarchistic Zapatismo and Magonismo of a century ago? npub1gg5c62psj8vrpg00f54ydl263nrhha76ajct4ssfkvmrwvrcrzcsvlvxnm Chema Hernández Gil That leads to the concept of an "ideal" milpa, sustainable over many generations of a family, with human labor as the only input and providing a complete and healthy diet. Barring drought, displacement or rapid climate change, could such an agricultural system avoid the tragedy of the commons and lead to an urban-like culture in a rural setting? npub1gg5c62psj8vrpg00f54ydl263nrhha76ajct4ssfkvmrwvrcrzcsvlvxnm Chema Hernández Gil And that makes me wonder if milpa size, linked to regional differences in climate and water access, also lead to individualistic/collectivistic cultural differences across North America. Do Hopi milpas versus Maya Yucatec milpas explain some cultural differences between these peoples? npub1gg5c62psj8vrpg00f54ydl263nrhha76ajct4ssfkvmrwvrcrzcsvlvxnm Chema Hernández Gil Goats on Rincón Hill don't impress @npub1fg0…7zxs anymore. npub1gg5c62psj8vrpg00f54ydl263nrhha76ajct4ssfkvmrwvrcrzcsvlvxnm Chema Hernández Gil I am happy to hear that @npub1zw2…2aln has acquired Standard Notes. I use Anytype and it's OK, but being able to have a faster, more complete alternative fully integrated in the Proton ecosystem is very welcome news. Looking forward to the next steps. npub1gg5c62psj8vrpg00f54ydl263nrhha76ajct4ssfkvmrwvrcrzcsvlvxnm Chema Hernández Gil I should add that there are still two remaining SEIU Local 1021 bargaining tables, with RNs and the SFMTA, but the largest table reaching a TA is important. npub1gg5c62psj8vrpg00f54ydl263nrhha76ajct4ssfkvmrwvrcrzcsvlvxnm Chema Hernández Gil San Francisco City workers reached a tentative agreement with the city earlier today. Organizing worked. Details on the TA are forthcoming. npub1gg5c62psj8vrpg00f54ydl263nrhha76ajct4ssfkvmrwvrcrzcsvlvxnm Chema Hernández Gil I was offered a job out of the blue today, which is always flattering. I'm happy where I am at, so I turned it down, but even if I was actively looking for a new role, I wouldn't have seriously considered it since it would have meant a nearly 40% pay cut and no pension. And that's the difference having a union makes. npub1gg5c62psj8vrpg00f54ydl263nrhha76ajct4ssfkvmrwvrcrzcsvlvxnm Chema Hernández Gil Not-so-fun facts according to the IPCC Climate Change 2021 Report: Methane emissions are the second most significant contributor to climate change after carbon emissions, responsible for more than 0.5°C of the observed warming. The livestock industry is the single largest anthropogenic source of methane, exceeding the annual imbalance of methane. npub1gg5c62psj8vrpg00f54ydl263nrhha76ajct4ssfkvmrwvrcrzcsvlvxnm Chema Hernández Gil @npub1j7y…23ds Haha, missed that. I had no clue that was happening but it isn't surprising. Food was solid though. npub1gg5c62psj8vrpg00f54ydl263nrhha76ajct4ssfkvmrwvrcrzcsvlvxnm Chema Hernández Gil The IKEA Saluhall on Market Street is great. It's exciting to have new vegan options in SOMA from small Bay Area businesses. A new reason to visit Mid-Market. npub1gg5c62psj8vrpg00f54ydl263nrhha76ajct4ssfkvmrwvrcrzcsvlvxnm Chema Hernández Gil I finally got to taste and compare Boichik bagels with other SF bagels and it stands up to the hype. Much better than Wise Sons and leagues ahead of House of Bagels. Just wish they had a bit more seeds, but I can manage. I am excited that they're opening up a store in the Financial District next month. npub1gg5c62psj8vrpg00f54ydl263nrhha76ajct4ssfkvmrwvrcrzcsvlvxnm Chema Hernández Gil Obligatory photo of the #eclipse, courtesy of a tree and some leaves. npub1gg5c62psj8vrpg00f54ydl263nrhha76ajct4ssfkvmrwvrcrzcsvlvxnm Chema Hernández Gil Following Mexican dog rescue groups has persuaded me most people who have dogs just do not like dogs. There are just so many people who treat them as things instead of companion animals. And I am not talking about actual abuse. There are just so many dogs getting lost, which is almost certain death. npub1gg5c62psj8vrpg00f54ydl263nrhha76ajct4ssfkvmrwvrcrzcsvlvxnm Chema Hernández Gil Non-humans are often my favorite type of person anyway. npub1gg5c62psj8vrpg00f54ydl263nrhha76ajct4ssfkvmrwvrcrzcsvlvxnm Chema Hernández Gil I've been reading about the fallout of the 1985 #Mexico City Earthquake and one thing jumped out at me: In the days that followed the quake, tens of thousands of displaced people took to the streets daily, leaving the federal government with no choice but to expropriate more than five thousand parcels to build new homes for the displaced people.
