San Francisco car break ins have dropped by 50% over the last three months.

1) People clearly do. High real estate prices = high demand. If it sucked as bad as you said, no one would want to live there and prices would be low.

Following up on crimes will take precious time away from the cops harassing the unhoused.

Yeah, like...we’re just going to try fascism, at some point. Actual, real-deal fascism. Couple that with our utter inability to learn until *after* a crisis hits, and yeah, not great!

And meanwhile, having lived in Texas since 2004 (after growing up in Vermont), the urban areas of the state are much more aligned with California than people seem to think. The major cities are pretty blue, and it’s just the small towns and rural areas (of which there are, obviously, a ton) that keep the state red. 

I keep repeating this, because I’m apparently on crazy pills, but thanks to the Electoral College, vengeful despot-wannabe Donald Trump is still only a few tens of thousands votes away in a handful of swing states from cheating his fat ass back into the White House.

I guess I don’t understand what y’all are seeing, because this made me sick to my stomach at how believable it is. By this time next year, we’ll either be in the midst of an armed uprising, or preparing to inaugurate America’s first real autocrat. I know it’s comforting to pretend otherwise, but it was also comforting…

Dude, this is all terribly negative, looks fun to me...also do not make the mistake of thinking a Brit couldn’t possibly work out your terribly complex culture, because, like, it isn’t. I do share your curiosity as to why the hell Texas and California could possibly find in common tho...”We have the most votes in the…

I see nothing to guarantee this is a dud, it looks lovely and everyone’s doing thier best acting, but I bet there’s a twist thier saving and its aliens or each side is being played by external forces (probably Madagascar, I dunno).

Yeah.

The big shock is that Alexander Skarsgaard was nominated for Best Supporting for his role in Succession. That’s...really fucking weird, because while I like Alex and Succession, his character wasn’t nearly as captivating or funny as the writer’s seemed to believe. When he was somewhat mysterious the previous…

I really think Jonathan Bailey was completely robbed for Fellow Travelers. 

Another in the long line of movie -> stage -> musical movie adaptions. I believe that Little Shop of Horrors was the first that did it. The original movie came out in 1960, the stage musical in 1982 and the movie version of the musical in 1986. 

Agnes is set in her ways but she’s also pragmatic. Her opinion of the Reverend changed after he married Ada, it would change again if the Reverend’s estate ends up saving the Van Rhijn townhouse.

Yep.  Still the era of dirty papist immigrant thinking.  Know Nothings weren't that removed time wise in the 1880s.

Another example being the Olympic games, which were conceived and existed for many decades as a venue solely for amateur athletes. Anyone who made money from athletic pursuits was ineligible. The reason ostensibly was to keep the sport “pure” but it was really a way to exclude poorer people who couldn’t afford to…

Poor Ada, what next?  She hires Mary Mallon for a cook?  Books passage on the Titanic?  Goes off to spend the summer with Archduke Franz Ferdinand?

Someone suggested it last week, but maybe we are setting up a scenario where the pastor unexpectedly leaves Ada money after his passing, and Agnes now has to bend the knee to her sister!

In other news, they are reallllly slow-walking the Marion-Larry relationship. We know that’s where this is heading.

Loved the butler’s…

In the show’s official podcast, it’s acknowledged that Maud Beaton is based on several women con artists of that era, in particular, Cassie Chadwick, who scammed millions out of American bankers by claiming to be the illegitimate daughter of Andrew Carnegie.

The no patent unless membership to some exclusive group is a fine example of the systemic issues that screwed poor people for centuries. If this was factual then the watchmaker would just steal the design and screw over the young guy.

isn’t he a banker?