Daniel Farina

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I post the OPs cognitohazard comic to a friend with the message “misery loves company” and he responds “NOOOO”
A table from Wikipedia of the foreign born population in American states. California is at the top: ten million, 27.3% New Jersey and New York are 24 and 23 % respectively.
Heirloom Fresh Large Free Range Grade A Eggs, All Blues, 18 count: $9.78 after sameday Costco markup.
Brown: An example would be measuring each individual child from preschool to beyond college, and keeping those as permanent records in the computer, that would measure discipline and mental attributes. Just the general centralization of information, which is being billed as the way to help the poor but which will enable an authoritarian to totally monopolize and control the society. In fact, we have something called "Cal-PASS," a state computer, which I kept in check. And I think now it'll be full throttle to collect as much possible data and measure people in all sorts of ways. I think it's dangerous. I don't think it's very useful, except for academics who have to write theses and do research. We had one on the teachers, which we stopped. See, the trouble is the computer can collect a lot of information and regurgitate it in many different ways, and people are fascinated by that. Controlling and measuring everything.... We're all ranked. And who's it for? Now, if it's for the academics, they're relatively harmless. But then it's going to ultimately be used, at some point, and it has kind of a smell of eugenics, that we want to purify this kind of motley race called human beings and if we can measure all the different attributes, we can then make normative the right path and the right way to be. I think that is the absence of diversity and the absence of freedom.
A topological map with the granite domes between pingree and big lakes that we encountered.
A picture of a fire ring unused this season next to a stream. Amazingly, almost no mosquitos. My tiny titanium grate is seen between two rocks, awaiting to cook a kebab.
A short video of bear lake in the emigrant wilderness with morning vapor wafting off of it. It is ringed with granite boulders.
Two foot piece of granite with a perfect off-white racing stripe down it. Emigrant wilderness again.
A granite pool and small boulder with striped evaporation lines from various water levels in the year. The little basin is dry now.
Giant slab of granite I was hiking on in the emigrant wilderness
Arthas, from Warcraft 3, on the frozen throne
A blue long tail cargo bicycle with a rear bench, grab bars, and two panniers.
This is why I was wondering whether you had ever observed Donald Trump. I don’t know what motivated him. You know he is a Gemini? Geminis are not really ones to say the same things a lot. They change their minds. You know Geminis? Yeah, I’m a Gemini, so don’t be too mean. I’m a Gemini, too. But not like this.
A bar chart of dates and % foreign born in Santa Clara and San Mateo combined, showing a doubling to nearly 40% from 2000 to 2010. Gradual increase has since just pushed it past 40%
Bar chart from the cost of voting index. CA is moderately good, FL is moderately bad. WA is be best. MS is the worst.
A screenshot of “ISO Today” from CAISO showing renewables serving “102%” of demand.
> “I did learn one symbol that sometimes gets imported into right wing slop” “Which is?” > “♠️“ “Uh”
The decisive feature of Nazi political economy was not the quantity of state direction; it was the elimination of independent labor and constitutional politics from the corporatist structure. The New Deal moved in exactly the opposite direction on the labor question. The Wagner Act of 1935 federally protected the right to organize, strike, and bargain collectively. Union membership tripled between 1933 and 1940. The American state intervened to empower labor as an independent political force; the Nazi state intervened to destroy it as one. There was a comparable degree of state involvement in the economy, but an opposite vector with respect to labor relations. 22
Screenshot of the pretty cool CAISO app showing California grid *capacity* at 44 gigawatts, of such 23 is being used
An overhead shot of a data center cluster in Santa Clara, California.
A stock chart of eBay since 1997, showing mostly stable, steady growth. Its market cap is about 46 billion.
Bacon Sausage Cheddar Crispy $6.95 Mediterranean Frittata Sandwich $5.80 Cheesy Sausage Slider $3.95 Croissant Grilled Cheese $6.25
An Apple street view showing “bay pocha” with its “save water drink soju” sign lit, next to bicycle sharrows and a muni rail crossing. It’s not even a block from the stop.
A photograph of a Korean restaurant front with the sign “save water drink soju.”
San Joaquin Valley farms and urban areas. 95] In 2019, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) received nearly $2 million in Governor Gavin Newsom's first budget, and an additional $8.5 million via the Delta Conservancy (a state agency focused on the Delta) to be spent over the course of three years. 96. The state has adopted an eradication campaign based on the successful effort in the Chesapeake Bay, including strategies such as the "Judas nutria" (in which individualized nutrias are caught, sterilized, fitted with radio collars, and released, whereupon they can be tracked by hunters as they return to their colonies) and the use of trained dogs. 961 The
Zoox, based in Foster City, has tested its technology with safety drivers in San Francisco since 2017. Last month, the company began letting employees' friends and family test the service. Zoox went live in Las Vegas in September, offering free rides to select destinations around the Strip.
A 2008 cover of The Atlantic, titled: Is Google MAKING Us Stoopid? WHAT THE INTERNET IS DOING TO OUR BRAINS BY NICHOLAS CARR PLUS: WHY CRIME IS COMING BACK- AND WHY NO ONE WANTS TO TALK ABOUT IT by HANNA ROSIN THE RACE FOR THE ELECTRIC CAR by JONATHAN RAUCH FEMINISM'S DIRTY LITTLE SECRET by SANDRA TSING LOH THE 11½ BIGGEST IDEAS OF THE YEAR
A car napping among potted plants by a window in the sun. “Queen of jungle” is my title.
Screenshot of southwest San Francisco and northwest Daly City with *four* large gold courses
Claude screenshot < Opus 4.6 v Extended specs and typical LRV energy intensity, not SMTA's actual traction power meter data. Real numbers depend heavily on line profile (the Twin Peaks tunnel climb is brutal; the Embarcadero is flat), dwell times, and how much regen gets absorbed by other trains on the same substation versus dumped as heat. If you want the real number, SMTA's NTD (National Transit Database) filings report system-wide kWh and passenger-miles - I could dig those up if you want ground truth instead of a spec-sheet guess. Sources MwS Is there a tunnel climb? I thought the tunnel was flat You're right to push back — I was sloppy. Th
Headline from the author of “bombing to win” Why Escalation Favors Iran America and Israel May Have Bitten Off More Than They Can Chew Robert A. Pape | March 9, 2026
Before I left the country in June 2004, I asked dozens of Iraqis what the United States had done well and what it had done wrong. Almost all of them told me that looting and lawlessness had set the tone for a transitional period in which no entity was deemed authoritative. A few weeks after Saddam's removal, I clutched my seat while riding with an Iraqi colleague who sped over a highway divide and through an intersection, oblivious to a dangling traffic light. "When did Iraqis stop obeying traffic lights?" I asked. "The day Saddam fled, |" he replied, matter-of-factly.
A data series showing San Francisco voter participation in presidential general elections. It tends to hover at about 80% going back to 1912. A smooth increase in mail ballots can be seen, starting in 1964.
Tesla stock chart, showing “normal” company behavior until right after 2020.
She says she kept tracking the officers at a distance. But then the three vehicles she was following turned around and drove toward her. Federal agents hopped out. "They all had their guns drawn. I kept saying, 'What you're doing is illegal. You have no right to do this," she said. "At that point, they started breaking my window. All I could think about was not being shot." One officer shattered her driver's side window with a baton. At that, she opened the door. The agents pulled her out and handcuffed her. She was detained for about eight hours.
FRED chart screenshot of BLS coffee index, showing recessions and a run-up peaking in 2012 at the store. We are currently at the highest ever. There a pause and deflation between 2023 and 2024.
a yahoo finance chart of the coffee commodity price, nominal, showing a previous surge in 2011.
A geothermal energy resources map by the DoE.
When he was 10 years old, Huang lived with his older brother in the Oneida boys' dormitory. 16] Each student was expected to work every day, and his brother was assigned to perform manual labor on a nearby tobacco farm. 17 Because he was too young to attend classes at the reform academy, Huang was educated at a separate public school—the Oneida Elementary school in Oneida, Kentucky—arriving as "an undersized Asian immigrant with long hair and heavily accented English"[16) and was frequently bullied and beaten. 18! In Oneida, Huang cleaned toilets every day, learned to play table-tennis, l! joined the swimming team, 201 and appeared in Sports Illustrated at age 14.|21] He taught his illiterate roommate, a "17-year-old covered in tattoos and knife scars,"[21] how to read in exchange for being taught how to bench press. 6 In 2002, Huang recalled that he remembered his life in Kentucky "more vividly than just about any other" [21]
Coconut milk at thirteen dollars for six cans from Costco, parcel shipped
A stock chart of TSLA showing an amazing runup in the pandemic era even though there was not such a drastic change to fundamentals
Interviewee says: I was talking to an American analyst, a colleague of mine, and he made an observation, which I found profound, but will probably seem trivial to you. He said President Trump had a successful business career in many respects, but he was not spectacularly successful in one business that he tried, and this was the casino business. The problem is that in the casino business, in order to win, you should try to create the illusion that others are winning. Chotiner says: I think that's pretty good. I don't find that trivial, actually.
A jokey side by side of John Brown and Will Stancil side by side: “died 1859 born 1985 welcome back John brown”
GTA San Andreas still: “ah shit, here we go again”
A FOMC recent rate change table, showing steady reduction in interest rates to shore up a softening economy. FOMC Meeting Date Rate Change (Bps) Dec. 10, 2025 -25 Oct 29, 2025 -25 Sept 17, 2025 -25 Dec 18, 2024 -25 Nov 7, 2024 -25 Sept 18, 2024 -50
An AMC stock chart showing a surge and then reaching new lows within a few years.
A screenshot of GME in Apple Stocks, showing meme sticks can remain trading for a long time.
A still from Lyndon Johnson’s “Daisy” political ad, in which a little girl is making a countdown while plucking petals of a daisy, as it cuts to footage of a nuclear detonation.
The economics of off-market peptides are undoubtedly appealing. Prescription GLPs like Ozempic (semaglutide) and Zepbound (tirzepatide) could cost more than $1,000 per month until fairly recently, while the "research use" equivalents went for one-fifth the cost. "Our average customer is closer to a Starbucks barista," said a San Francisco-based supplier of Chinese peptides, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because it is unlawful for suppliers to market them for human use. "But the techies were the first on this because of the willingness to take ridiculous risks." He observed that one person at a tech company would start using peptides, kicking off a cluster of users. "It always starts with the C.E.O.s, then C.T.O.s, then the C.O.O.s. A lot of hardware people are into it. Biopharma people are shockingly the most reserved - they're a little too deferential to the F.D.A."
A black tension rod in a white window frame.
VIll. Social Benefits of Rural Postal Service The report shows that the Postal Service has a lower cost of parcel delivery to rural areas than the private carriers which creates numerous social benefits for the nation. Without this lower delivery cost of parcels to rural areas, residents in these areas would either pay a lot more for delivery through private parcel carriers, be required to travel to the post office to pick up their packages and mail or drive to a larger city to shop for certain items at brick and mortar stores. Likewise, this value is also attributable to simultaneously picking up packages along the delivery route. The consolidation of these trips into larger loads and dense routes operated by the Postal Service lowers fuel consumption as compared to the alternative, thereby helping national objectives of reducing dependence on imported fuel. 2 USPS Rural Delivery Statistics, FY2010 PP 21 Proprietary Document of SJ Consulting Group, Inc. 11 Frequent trips from rural areas to urban areas to collect or send parcels and to shop at stores would also result in other negative aspects of driving. Increased traffic would lead to more air pollution and traffic congestion on highways. The congestion would increase the wear-and-tear on roadways, leading to higher costs of repair and maintenance of the roads. The delivery network also benefits the population in urban areas. Without parcel delivery and pickup in rural areas, some businesses might not establish offices in certain rural areas. That could result in people from rural areas migrating to urban areas, which would increase population density in urban areas.
A graph of federal defense spending as a percentage of GDP.
A map showing sunshine hours of Europe and the United States.
A close up shot of moo deng trying to get her mouth around a part of a human with a crazed look in their eyeball
A photograph of Henry George
Cary Lopez Alvarado, a U.S. citizen, was nine months pregnant when, according to her lawyers, federal immigration agents seized her in June while she was standing outside a gate on private property in the Los Angeles suburb of Hawthorne. They shoved her onto a parked truck and put shackles under her stomach, her lawyers said. She told them she was a citizen and that they were on private property, the lawyers said. She phoned local police and asked for help, but no one came, and while she was on the phone, a federal agent asked her, "You wanna get killed?" The lawyers said she was released after several hours.
“it appears my superiority has led to some controversy” in a crude line drawing over the outline of the United States