I don’t like how everyone is blaming the Supreme Court for actually functioning. There is no constitutional right to abortion. They created it out of thin air in Roe V Wade, and it’s been corrected here. This pushes the regulation back to a disfunctional legislature. Focus on their failings.

This could be the turning point in society putting up with a congress that constantly abdicates its responsibility to legislate…responsibly.

The Supreme Court is not a political organization. The rulings being made now are a continuation of 140 years of judicial precedent that alloted states enormous latitude in instituting their own laws, and that only ended in 1937, when FDR interfered with the SCOTUS's independence by threatening to "pack the court".

I really don't understand all the hyperbole about California "fire season." Is it like other places where people develop their opinion about it through social media rather than actually being there outside?

I've lived in the Bay forever and was affected by being without electricity once. There have been maybe 10 actually smoky days in the past few years. People only seem to talk about it online. Definitely not much fretting over it or "grinding to a halt."

But isn’t content cool? You see no point someone sees enjoyment.

It’s sad when teens die, but bring up any other phenomenon and you’ll see it that has its own victims too. E.g. look at love. How many people it killed or mentally crippled? Let’s get rid of it.

In my child/teenhood there was no internet at all and we found numerous ways to put ourselves in unnecessary danger. When I recall these times, I just wonder how almost all of us managed to live to adulthood.

I think that blaming worldwide platforms is pointless, because they are not the cause, they just aggregate the reality that you wasn’t aware of before, under a recognizable name.

If SF was attractive, then people would want to remotely work from SF. But it isn't. So, they're leaving. On the other hand San Diego seems to be blowing up.

Great, just make the city centres safe, clean, friendly places so that people who are "middle class, suburban, and white" want to live there. Then we can all live in four story walkups and ride our bicycles and eat fresh baguettes...without having to dodge heroin needles or human excrement or have abuse hurled it us or be assaulted.

I'm being genuinely serious here. I used to love the concept of relatively high density living. For years I walked or rode my bicycle everywhere in cities. But I got sick of the fights and the filth, got too many concussions, and now I'm out here in the country side where I "see the world as a foreign and scary place".

Make it nicer and we'll come back. If that doesn't happen, don't complain when we make rational decisions for ourselves and our families.

> ... high-level staffers at Affirm and Afterpay ... emphasized the accessibility of these services, especially for younger consumers looking to bolster their credit and consumers working to restore their credit scores

Something about that feels pretty dystopian.