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Nuscale ($SMR). Nuclear energy is the clean energy of the future if we stopped being ‘fraidy cats about it. At least Newsom is seeing sense as far as NOT closing Diablo Canyon prematurely.

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Up 0.25% *day-over-day* today.

DOW down 400+ points.

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Wasn’t the prevailing rate in the 1960s still 4-5%, which is higher than people were paying recently?

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Return to the mean.

The Dow is basically at its pre-COVID level and so’s the NASDAQ. Basically, assets that were artificially inflated by herd speculation during COVID are starting to return to their normal values, and items that are necessary (housing, transportation devices, food, clothing) are likely to follow.

It will actually be a good thing to have a slightly higher unemployment rate — right now, employers that provide public services but tend to have average pay (schools, universities, research, government, public transit, airlines, transportation, food stores) are having trouble finding workers. Being north of full employment is actually worsening many of the supply chain headaches that we’re suffering.

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There is no real crime wave in NYC, despite what the Murdoch fake news machine wants the deplorables to believe. And thankfully, we don’t allow the easily swayed voting rabble as much power as in CA — recall isn’t really a thing in Eastern states. Alvin Bragg is here to stay for a while, no matter what the low-information, NY Post-reading voters’ whims are.

Do people really want to go back to the good old days, when thugs in blue threw humans into a cage for horrible crimes against humanity … like possession of a mildly psychoactive plant?

Agreed that there needs to be a happy medium. Go after the serial thieves, the violent crims, but leave victimless crimes like personal use of drugs and sex work between consenting adults the hell out of it.

PS – and Chesa Boudin likely had the last laugh … he did what he set out to accomplish. Amass enough political clout to get his father out of prison. He’ll leverage his career as DA into a lucrative career, either as a defense attorney or as a media commentator, if not both.

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Everything will be OK now that bOuDiN iS oUt. AMiRITe?

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The idea of a city/state job isn’t unreasonable, assuming you can get the unions not to object that homeless people are competing with them for jobs. Because you just know it will happen.

Get them housing, get them clean up, get them counseling, and offer them a job.

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Or it could be done in California for the same price? California has trade schools, tech boot camps, housing, and SDSU, right?

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LOL. NJ’s average is $60 grand per year. You could rent them a nice apartment, feed them, offer them counseling, and send them to trade school or Rutgers for that price.

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Are you actually proposing a life sentence for repeated misdemeanors or violations?

If it’s not a life sentence, jail time doesn’t improve mental health, doesn’t generally improve job prospects, and is more expensive than providing housing.

Incarceration costs upwards of $100,000 per year in California.

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No, but some of the behaviors that people take issue with (theft, public defecation, camping where it isn’t allowed) are illegal.

How do you propose we fix this?

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OK, then they’ll continue to sleep on the street. Arrest them? Possibly. But jailing people costs the taxpayers more than just providing housing/food/services in the free world. We can try to fix the problem, or we can moralize about it.

What do you suggest as an effective means of fixing the issue?

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You’re implying the US is safer and more orderly than EU countries while complaining about safety and lack of order in SD and SF. Which is it?

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F-NO to the idea, or F-NO to this being why the homeless turn it down?

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