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Next door in Silicon Valley
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Learn more about what your *real* neighbors are thinking in Silicon Valley! Comedy. Parody. Not official/affiliated with, or sponsored by anyone.

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This is how San Francisco and Silicon Valley's Economy actually works:
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we need a shorthand/heuristic for "thoughts and prayers but for coddled rich NIMBYs who may have to slow their Teslas in a school zone and whose nannies may have a chance to live in the same zip code"
Which oppressed group are you more concerned about?

Yellow: Palo Alto residents who will see a tall building

Blue: Atherton residents dealing with speed bump cause loud sounds

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December 9, 2025 at 6:00 AM
Pretty sus when this person talks about cars driven in Silicon Valley and doesn’t mention Tesla, Rivian, or Porsche.

It’s easily 100:1 Tesla:Range Rover at the local mall
December 9, 2025 at 6:28 AM
People's imagination of Silicon Valley: Starfleet HQ

Actual reality of Silicon Valley:
Which oppressed group are you more concerned about?

Yellow: Palo Alto residents who will see a tall building

Blue: Atherton residents dealing with speed bump cause loud sounds

REPOST TO SUPPORT
December 9, 2025 at 5:42 AM
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Do you love travel? Love working with a kid? Love big O notation? Dijkstra's Algorithm? Know game engines?

Here’s a job for you!!

(Also, you must love America and include a photo of you teaching.)

(I‘m guessing it would be a plus if you used the more trad terms “master/slave”, for USB of course)
December 7, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Santa Clara County voters.

For real.

Make a plan to vote for county assessor before or on 12/30. Yes there is a special runoff election. Vote for Neysa Fligor.

Do not vote for this guy:
I’m trying to honeypot him. He sent me his cell #.
December 9, 2025 at 4:16 AM
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December 8, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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Which oppressed group are you more concerned about?

Yellow: Palo Alto residents who will see a tall building

Blue: Atherton residents dealing with speed bump cause loud sounds

REPOST TO SUPPORT
December 7, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Someone really needs to update these 3rd grade worksheets. A police trainee starts at $133K!
December 9, 2025 at 2:02 AM
JFC. Rishi Kumar continues his Trump-style economic pandering by claiming his effort to ban property taxes for seniors across the entire **state** will help homelessness! These are people who are already have huge Prop 13 discounts!!

THE DUDE IS RUNNING FOR **COUNTY** ASSESSOR!!
December 9, 2025 at 1:17 AM
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Co-sign!
Periodic reminder to tell everyone you know to never vote for Rishi Kumar for any of the 1284719 offices he has run for, and will run for in the future.

If you're in Santa Clara County, please remember to vote for Neysa Fligor in this run off election for assessor. Fans of Rishi are... just look:
December 9, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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Newsstand closing marks the end of an era at Diridon station in San Jose trib.al/UWDJIhf
Newsstand closing marks the end of an era at Diridon station in San Jose
McCarthy’s Newsstand, which has been a fixture at the 90-year-old train depot since 1971, will end operations at the close of business Tuesday.
trib.al
December 8, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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And you think he would defend Taiwan?
December 8, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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Santa Rosa PD responds to viral video allegedly showing panhandler harass roadside flower seller Santa Rosa PD responds to viral video allegedly showing panhandler harass roadside flower seller www.kron4.com/news/bay-are...
SRPD responds to video allegedly showing panhandler harass roadside flower seller
(KRON) — Santa Rosa Police Chief John Cregan issued a letter to the community Thursday in response to a viral video, which seemingly shows a panhandler harassing a person selling flowers along Farm…
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December 7, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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DUFFY: You should wear a tuxedo to your flight.

ALSO DUFFY: But the airport will be a gym.
Duffy on what he's doing to improve the airport experience for travelers: "Maybe I want a workout area where people might get some blood flowing doing some pull ups or step ups in the airport."
December 8, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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<sigh> ok who greenlit the darker grittier reboot of HBO's Silicon Valley
it does feel like an intense societal problem that the founder of palantir, the biggest survellience company, thinks like this
December 7, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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People are dying over who gets to steal from a dude in Iowa who thinks the model who "accidentally" texted him has fallen in love with him.
December 8, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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as I've remarked before, cyberpunk isn't 'I glitch into the webframe and draw my katana', it's 'the life of a man working for a criminal syndicate in Myanmar who spends his days pretending to be different women online to steal from the elderly'
People are dying over who gets to steal from a dude in Iowa who thinks the model who "accidentally" texted him has fallen in love with him.
the Thai-Cambodian conflict is at least partially about control of the scam/gambling/prostitution compounds along the border.

foreignpolicy.com/2025/09/12/t...
December 8, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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Even accepting his premise that the real shortage is in larger units (I think @ebwhamilton.bsky.social has made a strong case in the past that this is not true), this analysis just seems incorrect. Many of the policies in the first paragraph *would* promote family-sized units!
December 8, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Periodic reminder to tell everyone you know to never vote for Rishi Kumar for any of the 1284719 offices he has run for, and will run for in the future.

If you're in Santa Clara County, please remember to vote for Neysa Fligor in this run off election for assessor. Fans of Rishi are... just look:
December 8, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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Some have noticed this job posting doesn’t have a salary range.

my guess is that you should be paying to take this job because of the exposure and networking!
Do you love travel? Love working with a kid? Love big O notation? Dijkstra's Algorithm? Know game engines?

Here’s a job for you!!

(Also, you must love America and include a photo of you teaching.)

(I‘m guessing it would be a plus if you used the more trad terms “master/slave”, for USB of course)
December 8, 2025 at 3:42 AM
Imagine how awesome it would be if every single new person who wanted to live in your community had to go through a Manhattan co-op building style interview (where other owners need to approve your purchase).

Check out this guide to acing the interview:
www.brickunderground.com/blog/2013/01...
December 8, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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Hands down least “masculine” person I met covering tech. One lunch I had with him in Palo Alto (he was urging me to run for mayor and wanted to give me $) I recall thinking what an incredibly whiny boy (I think I told someone at the time: what a limp dick) and could not get away fast enough.
December 7, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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Here's Rep. Ann Wagner (R-Mo.) raging about Missouri's elections being "decided in California" in response to an article about Missourians protesting a gerrymandering petition in California -- except the article is about the town of California in Missouri.
December 8, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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Watch Tesla Full Self-Driving v14.2.1 swerve out of the plowed road into an icy patch, and then back and forth until it eventually loses traction.

Elon Musk, road users did not sign up to be test subjects for this defective software.

It should be banned now!
December 8, 2025 at 4:40 PM
If you ever want to start a surprisingly vicious war on Silicon Valley Suburban NextDoor, post about how people should stop using their fireplaces in December for health reasons.
Someone in my neighborhood has started lighting a fire every night, and for some reason this year the smoke is collecting right in my front walk, where the laundry room has vents into the open air (thanks California home builders of the 1970s). We have to run an IQ air to keep my wife from asthma
December 8, 2025 at 4:43 PM