For many of our longtime readers, an explanation of the Daily Bear Dumb (DBD) is unnecessary - it’s been a community-driven feature of CGB as soon as the move to SBNation back in 2008. But for the uninitiated, the DBD was created as a space for the community to talk about, well, whatever the hell they might want to talk about (within our community guidelines, of course). This is a great place to share links, meet new Cal fan friends, and plot our inevitable reconquer of Write For California North.
Because the DBD has always been community-drive, we’ll do all we can to adapt the DBD to the new environment here at W4C. That means we’ll make sure there’s a new DBD up each weekday for as long as this community gets value in having a dedicated space for conversation and/or work avoidance.
for the longest time I thought DBD stood for "Don't be dumb". TIL it stands for Daily Bear Dumb. Nonetheless, the constant reminder to not be dumb was helpful
In the great words of Steve Jobs, where he actually just quoted Picasso -- 'good artists copy; great artists steal'. We can forget his actions a decade later when Apple grew into a position of power and just accept the truth of the message.
Ten years ago a few dozen students came together to take back their food system from corporate interests; they ended up creating the nation's most radical grocery store. We are the Berkeley Student Food Collective: a student group working to provide more accessible, more sustainable, and healthier food to the Berkeley community — while learning how to run a democratic business in the process. We've run our nonprofit, volunteer-run collective across from Lower Sproul entirely by student volunteers for ten years; we want your help making our next decade even better.
We're requesting your support for our Decade 2 fundraising campaign to grow our student-developed work fighting food insecurity, supporting local farmers and vendors, and creating more experiential education opportunities. But your support goes beyond our individual programs and operation. It goes toward keeping an ever-larger part of the food system out of corporate hands and in the democratic commons. It goes toward ensuring that the community served by our grocery store remains in control of it. It helps us secure a food system for people — not profit.
This campaign is dedicated to growing capacity for our core programs. Your contribution will go directly toward: increasing the availability of local produce from farmers otherwise marginalized from the food system and organic growers at up to 50% off for EBT users; funding visionary student-designed programming educating peers about systemic issues in the food system; funding dignified food jobs for students; developing and funding new strategic initiatives; and core operating costs of running our nonprofit organization & storefront.
Super happy to be here. Really glad the content will continue, as always, love it all. You guys (maybe Rob) should look at potentially getting on the 12PAC podcast. Those guys are always looking to interview beat writers that can give their audience detail on each team. And it could spread the word about W4C.
For clarification, is this in addition to or replacing the old CGB/DBD? (Raptors gave me a short summary about this on Sat, but I've missed the whole story)
That said, CGB will still exist and continue to put out new Cal-related content, and our usernames will still work over there... but at some point soon it will start to be run by a new group of people whom we don't know. Is that about right?
In the spirit of magnanimity, why not? Doesn't mean that the mods would have to tolerate repeated stupidity and deliberately provocative behavior. Poking the Bear would be at one's own risk, as it were.
Perhaps you want to correct the typo in the first line of the article, as otherwise some stanfurd grad may get excited and repeat that label in the future.
Regarding the Princeton thing....My observation of many insulated folks is that they don't get Marshawn at all. They don't understand the man behind the hair and terse media interactions.
I read the editorial - they're not objecting to Marshawn specifically, but that they had not say in who the speaker was. However, as someone who was on the committee to choose MY grad year's speaker - adding more voices would not have helped the process. And people had plenty of opportunity to volunteer for the committee at the beginning of the year.
Just had the same happen to me. Earlier I closed the window but didn't log out. Just opened W4C in a new window and the top comment was from seven hours ago. Went to my profile and back to the DBD and top comment was from eight hours ago.
This is happening to me too! Also, this isn't password protected, so does that mean if someone goes to W4C and types in my email address, they'll be able to masquerade as me?
you should be able to log in with either a password or an email link, so I don't *think* anyone should be able to masquerade as you without access to your email inbox
That's correct -- and importantly, you need to set your first password after joining the site, and you need to do so by going into your account settings and affirmatively asking to set/change your password, otherwise Russian election influencers can set it themselves and you'll be effectively locked out of your own account.
Dude, it’s all just a set up for a buddy comedy in which Pence tries to get Pete to sign up for conversion therapy and his ex-gf Amy K intercede and hilarity ensues
Bright side for me is no more Bernie/Bloomberg/Biden after this I think, unless of course one of the wins the presidency. Warren probably could run once more if Trump were re-elected
On this note, does the Democratic VP pick take on extra importance as the presumptive heir for a candidate potentially too old to run for a second term?
I agree with O. Overall. The VP pick for Biden or Sanders is of immense importance. I see the top VP picks being Harris (55), Booker (51 in April), Castro (45), and Gillibrand (53).
Excepting Castro, all are US Senators, in their 50s, female and/or minority. Castro was Secretary of HUD under Obama, Mayor of San Antonio, and is 45.
If 2020 field is Trump, Biden, Sanders, and Bloomberg, then the Dem VP nominee will have to include a nod towards the future. Those candidates fit that description.
I think I'd go Castro for Biden (or Warren, he's been vocal in supporting her) and Booker for Sanders. Bernie would love an African-American dealmaker who emphasizes togetherness since those are all perceived weaknesses for him. Biden, meanwhile, could double down even harder on that Obama Magic while shoring up his Latino support.
Obviously helps Biden, but probably helps Warren hit delegate thresholds, at least. Her path to the nomination is unlikely, at this point, but really, campaigns generally end when the candidate runs out of money, not viability.
Warren probably gets VP candidacy over anyone now. I don't see Sanders/Biden working together, and while it's a bit cold to say it like this...Warren has the woman factor going for her politically. Biden is super centrist, too, so having someone like Warren has his VP will help him connect with the more progressive Democrats.
Warren's a bit old for an already old Presidential nominee, and she doesn't come from a battleground state. She'd be a fantastic pick for Secretary of the Treasury but I'd much prefer someone like Julian Castro as a VP pick.
Though Bernie might have second thoughts on the optics of picking a Castro as his running mate...
Pete & Klobs both dropping out now instead of Wednesday (after we see what might have happened tomorrow) tells me someone (the DNC?) wrote some big checks or made some other lofty promises in order to try to prop up Biden and try to bury Bernie & Mike B.
I don't think I need a DNC conspiracy theory to explain the drop outs. You can use self-interest just as well. You can look at polling and delegate math projections and decide, if your Presidential bid looks like it isn't catching fire, who do you want to win the nomination, and then act in a way that maximizes the likelihood of that happening. In this case, 15% thresholds to get _any_ delegates makes dropping out now and endorsing a favored alternative a high-leverage point that will be gone in a couple days, especially if you are unlikely to win many of those delegates yourself.
Exactly, you look hella lame hanging around and not getting any delegates - if you believe you have any future in the party, it behooves you to drop out.
Sure, my main point is that both Pete and Amy dropping out could be explained by rational self-interest without any DNC cabal pulling strings behind the scenes.
I agree with this. It's not hard to see why the results in South Carolina might have prompted some drop-outs. Biden did great there, effectively closing off the "moderate" lane that folks like Pete and Amy hoped to fill.
Also I was just reading a NYT op ed about how the race is now just Bernie v Biden, and a huge Bloomberg banner ad interrupted the middle of the article. Was hilarious
I sort of take find that line, oft repeated, a bit silly. I think ppl can vote for whomever they want for whatever reason they want. Also it seems presumptuous to assert that a particular candidate’s failings are the result of some complicated game theory going on in voters’ minds
I think any potential path will be a lot more clear after tomorrow.
But if you can raise enough money to stay in the race to amass enough delegates to matter, you can have an influence on the party platform, and I can see Warren valuing that leverage more than some of the other candidates.
Filled out my ballot yesterday; there was only one vote that I cared about for a primary election. In Los Angeles County, there is a vote on whether to give a civilian oversight panel subpoena power over the LA County Sheriff. I thought it was so critical to vote yes that I actually tried to sway how my wife voted on that measure. (though I kept my politicking to under a minute.)
I filled my ballot out on Saturday morning and voted for Pete - oh well! I suspect my votes authorizing local bond measures are likely more impactful in any event
For the first time in forever, I got hit up by a door to door candidate for president volunteer. It was very exciting. Though she was, I think, trying to be an 'anyone but bernie or warren' rather than actually supporting the stated candidate.
My building has a security code to get in but one of my neighbors is having some work done so the door was propped open Saturday afternoon. Two young guys knocked on my door and were stumping for Bloomberg. Said they had driven down from NY and Conn. They emphasized Bloomberg and didn't run down anyone else. I didn't talk long because I was busy watching the Olympic Trials marathon and do have priorities.
Currently only the writers are able to put these up. We are well-aware and willing to do this daily if interest remains/the comment system is robust enough to support full DBDs.
I don't foresee the permissions model changing anytime soon, so we may end up "deputizing" a couple folks to do these. It would be cool to allow someone permissions to publish only discussion threads, however.
Slept in until after 11. Showered, shaved, dressed; Mrs Slug (I am sooooo lucky) made me breakfast, I made coffee ☕, and now I'm reading the DBD on W4C and life is better than it was at midnight.
If you have other suggestions, please let us know. I've already been whining about needing read/unread and live-updating comments, so hopefully Substack can implement those for us.
Read/unread is immensely important IMO. That's what makes it more of a community because it makes it easier to come back into topics/posts and continue conversations. I don't want to wade through a post when I can't remember if I've seen all the comments before.
I believe the comments do a sort of live-update, or at least, if you hang out on the page, there should be a button that eventually appears prompting you to "load new comments". It is not as slick as SBN's, true, but I think it can do the job.
The button appears to load new comments, but it is for each sub-thread, and you can quickly wind up with several of them. It would be nice to figure out a way to not have to hunt them down and open all of them. I can see this becoming time intensive to the point of discouraging use. The automatic posting with contrasting background to make it easy to spot new comments was much better. And if you do load new comments, its not apparent which ones are the new ones, esp. if there are a lot of them. Would be good to find a better optimization of how to handle this.
We seem to have opt-in more than opt out. If a site doesn’t fit one of many categories, or they don’t know how to categorize it, it ends up blocked. It’s super frustrating.
They can't have already detected Twist and blacklisted the domain, can they? I haven't seen FireStarkey or DC yet either, so it can't be because of them?
Couldn't resist jumping into the DBD for old times' sake.
Bear dump😂😂😂😂😂
Yay! Thanks guys. Ready to make this my new home.
Got ma season tix GO BEARS!
for the longest time I thought DBD stood for "Don't be dumb". TIL it stands for Daily Bear Dumb. Nonetheless, the constant reminder to not be dumb was helpful
If you close the page and come back, seems like you lose the info on which comments are new replies :(
'SUP
yo!
Hey
Also what's WFC's policy on Wikipedia links for things that definitely need one?
Why would we have a policy on this?
*someone* is evidently not familiar with the CGB front page phenomenon that is Gobears49
Wait to ya get a load of DBD GB 49
the what now?
Tis a reference. A bad one but after I love to make awful jokes
I pringled.
Is this the most comments a DBD has had in years?
No, not even close.
Damn I've been missing out
Not really. It's been in the 100-300 range mostly of late. It did hit 500+ just this year though.
Can Substack steal - I mean borrow - the `z` functionality?
In the great words of Steve Jobs, where he actually just quoted Picasso -- 'good artists copy; great artists steal'. We can forget his actions a decade later when Apple grew into a position of power and just accept the truth of the message.
Just learned about this, but it sounds like one of my friends from college really supports it, and you all might be interested: https://crowdfund.berkeley.edu/project/18822
Ten years ago a few dozen students came together to take back their food system from corporate interests; they ended up creating the nation's most radical grocery store. We are the Berkeley Student Food Collective: a student group working to provide more accessible, more sustainable, and healthier food to the Berkeley community — while learning how to run a democratic business in the process. We've run our nonprofit, volunteer-run collective across from Lower Sproul entirely by student volunteers for ten years; we want your help making our next decade even better.
We're requesting your support for our Decade 2 fundraising campaign to grow our student-developed work fighting food insecurity, supporting local farmers and vendors, and creating more experiential education opportunities. But your support goes beyond our individual programs and operation. It goes toward keeping an ever-larger part of the food system out of corporate hands and in the democratic commons. It goes toward ensuring that the community served by our grocery store remains in control of it. It helps us secure a food system for people — not profit.
This campaign is dedicated to growing capacity for our core programs. Your contribution will go directly toward: increasing the availability of local produce from farmers otherwise marginalized from the food system and organic growers at up to 50% off for EBT users; funding visionary student-designed programming educating peers about systemic issues in the food system; funding dignified food jobs for students; developing and funding new strategic initiatives; and core operating costs of running our nonprofit organization & storefront.
OK. Finally settled on a new name
So - what is the actual abrieviation? W4C or WFC?
We’re hoping the community uses something and it all plays out. Haha
Super happy to be here. Really glad the content will continue, as always, love it all. You guys (maybe Rob) should look at potentially getting on the 12PAC podcast. Those guys are always looking to interview beat writers that can give their audience detail on each team. And it could spread the word about W4C.
Good looks. I’ll take a look tomorrow. Appreciate the tip.
whoo
im so discombobulated
fancy words
I used spell check, dont worry
You should eat more fiber
So, we gonna hit 1k comments today, or what?
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Good luck with the new site, y'all!
For clarification, is this in addition to or replacing the old CGB/DBD? (Raptors gave me a short summary about this on Sat, but I've missed the whole story)
To summarize, Common Cold:Coronavirus::CGB:W4C
Too soon?
sooooo, we're going viral?!?!
pandemic, here we come!
we're abandoning the old CGB/DBD. anything posted on CGB going forward will most likely be intended to drive people over to WFC instead.
When do you think you guys will be able to get a press pass from the AD?
Already taken care of
Wow look how fast things move when it's not Twist doing things!
Twist would've put the wrong name on the application.
Penis V.
noice!
That said, CGB will still exist and continue to put out new Cal-related content, and our usernames will still work over there... but at some point soon it will start to be run by a new group of people whom we don't know. Is that about right?
Basically. It's not going away, but we don't know what it's going to be like.
This may be a preview, however. https://www.bruinsnation.com/ucla-administration/2020/2/26/21153285/whats-bruin-uclas-search-for-a-new-ad-begins-in-earnest
You can see the BN commenters' reaction to this new change in the comments section.
Maybe it means they won't wield the banhammer as quickly. Time for everyone to create a new user (NotHeyAlumniGo) and start posting again on BN.
I'm still banned on BN. I think it's because I told them a lonngg time ago that I was accepted into UCLA and decided to go to Cal instead lol
lulz
Got it.
what about people who got banned at CGB? will they be given amnesty at W4C?
In the spirit of magnanimity, why not? Doesn't mean that the mods would have to tolerate repeated stupidity and deliberately provocative behavior. Poking the Bear would be at one's own risk, as it were.
Can we please not?
TBD? I'm not involved in moderation.
replacing! bye bye CGB, hello W4C!
wait if we're classified w4c now should we still itemize or ?
BURN IT TO THE GROUND!
There is one
very important test
we haven't done
just yet
so it seems
like we should get on it
now before the
rest of the herd
shows up and we
really dig in on
something important
Do you think Spazzy and PureSilence will come back now?
you forgot redonkulous bear
What name will fiatlux use to pretend he's not really fiatlux?
liatfux?
xultaif.
That was his screenname on BearInsider.
yeah I do remember that.
So he told us
Why am I getting emails for every comment reply to me?!? Can we turn that off??
hi atoms
hey dude!!!
how's it going?
How about for you? Are you gonna have time to DBD now?
Here and there, hopefully.
It's going well! No major complaints at the moment.
We're going to complain to Substack about this. I'm also getting emails for replies to comments that I rec'd.
I was able to turn this off by unsubscribing to the newsletter in My Account.
We're going to _give constructive feedback_ to Substack, is what we're going to do.
Are you suggesting that Atoms rec'd his own comments, and that's why he's getting all these notifications?
I am definitely gonna start rec'ing my own comments now that you say that.
you better check yourself, before you rec yourself.
You’re good enough, smart enough, and gosh darn - you like yourself.
No lies detected!
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ZA GOOGLE HAZ DA FILTERZ
Yup.
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CREATE FILTER list:(<writeforcalifornia.substack.com>) APPLY "Delete It" UPDATE FILTER
Can we get some more color on these pages? This ain't Utah
Seconded
Additional color feature- any chance we can switch the Like to a gold heart instead of a red one?
I assume this is already a top priority.
Take off that red heart! Take off that red heart!
Wait are people changing their names?!?
Might need to have a [NewName] (nee [OldName]) feature, to ease that transition
I got tired of BearOnAMesa. Wasn't fun enough.
White is a tertiary Cal color...
...is it, though?
Most people aren't a fan of the Stormtrooper look though
Need a polling feature around here...
I'm pretty sure we already have someone with data on Cal colors.
How else will I express my desire to punch Twist?
What if we avoid threading comments? No more replying to comments, you only post new comments, which show up at the top. FREE FORM DBD!!!
Hello world
whoa... back from the dead.
I think the new comments showing up at the top will be fine once we get used to it, but how do you navigate to new threaded comments?
Agree that a keyboard shortcut would be super-handy
Ctrl-F "new reply"?
Interesting. After refreshing the page now instead of "new reply" and "new replies" it shows "# replies"
too much work
GIFS PLS
We need to save some of our favorite content. Sunshine pumping being up there: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/proxy/I6f4x_-CJpddifAzSdsiWZcuX2qlDT-EQNibo-VCik0avgrlEKFlBYgU2qMhLnu7_uN2bQ (no preview feature, but I'm not optimistic this will work)
Perhaps you want to correct the typo in the first line of the article, as otherwise some stanfurd grad may get excited and repeat that label in the future.
Sorry, first line of the second paragraph of the article. LOL.
Thereby proving the point! 🤪
I just found out peanut butter is scarce at a reasonable price in Germany. I find this bizarre.
30 years it was completely unavailable except in a US base.
what's all this then
welcome back to the nonsense-dome
no u
Regarding the Princeton thing....My observation of many insulated folks is that they don't get Marshawn at all. They don't understand the man behind the hair and terse media interactions.
I read the editorial - they're not objecting to Marshawn specifically, but that they had not say in who the speaker was. However, as someone who was on the committee to choose MY grad year's speaker - adding more voices would not have helped the process. And people had plenty of opportunity to volunteer for the committee at the beginning of the year.
did Marshawn go back and finish his Cal degree? I couldn't find any info
He has not.
cornballs gonna cornball
why does the comment order rearrange every time I open the dbd?
Just had the same happen to me. Earlier I closed the window but didn't log out. Just opened W4C in a new window and the top comment was from seven hours ago. Went to my profile and back to the DBD and top comment was from eight hours ago.
and is that "edit your profile" box going to pop up every time I comment?
you should be able to "log in" and not have that...is that not the case?
Not sure why my other comment posted above, but I am logged in
This is happening to me too! Also, this isn't password protected, so does that mean if someone goes to W4C and types in my email address, they'll be able to masquerade as me?
you should be able to log in with either a password or an email link, so I don't *think* anyone should be able to masquerade as you without access to your email inbox
You can set a password from, I think, your profile page.
That's correct -- and importantly, you need to set your first password after joining the site, and you need to do so by going into your account settings and affirmatively asking to set/change your password, otherwise Russian election influencers can set it themselves and you'll be effectively locked out of your own account.
OR JUST HAVE SOME FUN WITH IT!
Yeah, just leave it to luck!
CAL
GO BEARS!
I went to the A's pre-season on Saturday. I gave and immediately received a half-dozen enthusiastic GO BEARS! So satisfying.
PRO
bought bleacher tickets to A's vs. Astros* on Monday, 3/30, to heckle the cheaters. GO!!
A's!!!!
OUR CRUMBLING DEMOCRACY
Oh shit I forgot to vote! I need to do it tonight and drop it off tomorrow
Mayor Pete drops out.
Looks like it's pretty much Bernie vs. Biden the rest of the way.
DO THE DANCE NOW PETE
I saw it stayed somewhere that if Pete runs for President in 2060, he will be younger then than Bernie is now. Mind blowing!
yes, we have a lifetime of pete ahead of us [sad.gif]
That’s it, I’m self deporting
Dude, it’s all just a set up for a buddy comedy in which Pence tries to get Pete to sign up for conversion therapy and his ex-gf Amy K intercede and hilarity ensues
Bright side for me is no more Bernie/Bloomberg/Biden after this I think, unless of course one of the wins the presidency. Warren probably could run once more if Trump were re-elected
On this note, does the Democratic VP pick take on extra importance as the presumptive heir for a candidate potentially too old to run for a second term?
I agree with O. Overall. The VP pick for Biden or Sanders is of immense importance. I see the top VP picks being Harris (55), Booker (51 in April), Castro (45), and Gillibrand (53).
Excepting Castro, all are US Senators, in their 50s, female and/or minority. Castro was Secretary of HUD under Obama, Mayor of San Antonio, and is 45.
If 2020 field is Trump, Biden, Sanders, and Bloomberg, then the Dem VP nominee will have to include a nod towards the future. Those candidates fit that description.
I think I'd go Castro for Biden (or Warren, he's been vocal in supporting her) and Booker for Sanders. Bernie would love an African-American dealmaker who emphasizes togetherness since those are all perceived weaknesses for him. Biden, meanwhile, could double down even harder on that Obama Magic while shoring up his Latino support.
Booker's way too moderate to run with Sanders.
Oh hell yes, really both for Bernie and Biden. I’d be surprised if their VP picks are within 10 years of their age for this reason
Klobuchar too, to endorse Biden.
Obviously helps Biden, but probably helps Warren hit delegate thresholds, at least. Her path to the nomination is unlikely, at this point, but really, campaigns generally end when the candidate runs out of money, not viability.
Warren probably gets VP candidacy over anyone now. I don't see Sanders/Biden working together, and while it's a bit cold to say it like this...Warren has the woman factor going for her politically. Biden is super centrist, too, so having someone like Warren has his VP will help him connect with the more progressive Democrats.
Warren's a bit old for an already old Presidential nominee, and she doesn't come from a battleground state. She'd be a fantastic pick for Secretary of the Treasury but I'd much prefer someone like Julian Castro as a VP pick.
Though Bernie might have second thoughts on the optics of picking a Castro as his running mate...
Pete & Klobs both dropping out now instead of Wednesday (after we see what might have happened tomorrow) tells me someone (the DNC?) wrote some big checks or made some other lofty promises in order to try to prop up Biden and try to bury Bernie & Mike B.
Klobuchar only wanted to outlast Mayo Pete
Suicide pact like Rome and Juliet! Fitting
I don't think I need a DNC conspiracy theory to explain the drop outs. You can use self-interest just as well. You can look at polling and delegate math projections and decide, if your Presidential bid looks like it isn't catching fire, who do you want to win the nomination, and then act in a way that maximizes the likelihood of that happening. In this case, 15% thresholds to get _any_ delegates makes dropping out now and endorsing a favored alternative a high-leverage point that will be gone in a couple days, especially if you are unlikely to win many of those delegates yourself.
Exactly, you look hella lame hanging around and not getting any delegates - if you believe you have any future in the party, it behooves you to drop out.
Depends on whether you think you can come close to getting some delegates in some states. And on your tolerance for Biden.
Sure, my main point is that both Pete and Amy dropping out could be explained by rational self-interest without any DNC cabal pulling strings behind the scenes.
I agree with this. It's not hard to see why the results in South Carolina might have prompted some drop-outs. Biden did great there, effectively closing off the "moderate" lane that folks like Pete and Amy hoped to fill.
Could be, but I tend to doubt it, just because of the obvious differences of opinions between them & Joe.
I'd imagine they both strongly prefer Biden to Sanders, though.
^^this^^
I’m sure they got a phone call. But I agree they dropped out of the race out of self interest. They seem to be kind of betting on Bernie losing tho
Or they just figured they had more to gain by pleasing party bosses and dropping out than by pressing on. They both have decades left in the party
Hahaha "party bosses"
Also I was just reading a NYT op ed about how the race is now just Bernie v Biden, and a huge Bloomberg banner ad interrupted the middle of the article. Was hilarious
Elizabeth Warren is still there. Outpolling Biden in some California polls
Which must scare the DNC tremendously.
Doesn't seem like she has much of a path to a delegate lead though.
But I should be clear: if you like Elizabeth Warren the best, absolutely vote for her on Tuesday.
I sort of take find that line, oft repeated, a bit silly. I think ppl can vote for whomever they want for whatever reason they want. Also it seems presumptuous to assert that a particular candidate’s failings are the result of some complicated game theory going on in voters’ minds
I think any potential path will be a lot more clear after tomorrow.
But if you can raise enough money to stay in the race to amass enough delegates to matter, you can have an influence on the party platform, and I can see Warren valuing that leverage more than some of the other candidates.
Filled out my ballot yesterday; there was only one vote that I cared about for a primary election. In Los Angeles County, there is a vote on whether to give a civilian oversight panel subpoena power over the LA County Sheriff. I thought it was so critical to vote yes that I actually tried to sway how my wife voted on that measure. (though I kept my politicking to under a minute.)
I filled my ballot out on Saturday morning and voted for Pete - oh well! I suspect my votes authorizing local bond measures are likely more impactful in any event
I vote to change Super Tuesday to Super Taco Tuesday
We had super tasty pork shoulder tacos with mole last night, and panna cotta with wine infused pears for desert.
I was really hoping that Super Tuesday would coincide with Fat Tuesday so we could get Super Fat Tuesday
We already have that every week!
For the first time in forever, I got hit up by a door to door candidate for president volunteer. It was very exciting. Though she was, I think, trying to be an 'anyone but bernie or warren' rather than actually supporting the stated candidate.
My building has a security code to get in but one of my neighbors is having some work done so the door was propped open Saturday afternoon. Two young guys knocked on my door and were stumping for Bloomberg. Said they had driven down from NY and Conn. They emphasized Bloomberg and didn't run down anyone else. I didn't talk long because I was busy watching the Olympic Trials marathon and do have priorities.
happy 50th bday over the weekend to HeyAlumniGo
Happy B'day, HAG! Entering one's sixth decade isn't so bad as having plowed ahead into one's seventh. 😯😯
Thanks Fiat. I'm still maybe single digits or definitely teens mentally so I'm good!
HBD HAG!
Thanks
lold
Happy birthday!
Thanks rr22
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!!
Thanks
What? You didn't say anything this weekend, and I saw you Thursday and Saturday. HBD man
I know, WTF!? I saw him Saturday and he didn't mention it. Now I definitely gotta take you out to dinner, dude.
I guess I really don't care about celebrating my birthday
...he said, while kicking a rock and wiping away a solitary tear.
<sniff>
^^^ this comment is under the "1 reply" button every time I've loaded the dbd today. Every. Single. Time.
i guess i could have posted something on Fri ...
at least it wasnt the first thing that was flagged as "inappropriate"
Will anyone be able to put up a DBD or does one of the "writers" have to set it up every morning?
Currently only the writers are able to put these up. We are well-aware and willing to do this daily if interest remains/the comment system is robust enough to support full DBDs.
I don't foresee the permissions model changing anytime soon, so we may end up "deputizing" a couple folks to do these. It would be cool to allow someone permissions to publish only discussion threads, however.
i am logged in
:/
I am collecting feedback for Substack, will try and keep folks updated.
Is substack open-source? Could we help add new features?
I don't believe so, but I'd offer my part-time services to them if so.
the new reply buttons keep popping up after I've clicked them multiple times to reveal the same "new" comment I've already read.
MAYBE EVERYTHIGN OLD IS NEW AGAIN [mindblown.gif]
fucking annoying is what it is
and the page refreshing for every posted comment AAAAARRRRRGGGGHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!
is not ideal
...and today I have a cold. For the first time in about 7 years, I have a cold. Sheesh.
Testing comments to wish you a speedy recovery.
Thanks, Kod. I'm feeling better already.
Slept in until after 11. Showered, shaved, dressed; Mrs Slug (I am sooooo lucky) made me breakfast, I made coffee ☕, and now I'm reading the DBD on W4C and life is better than it was at midnight.
I see that this is reverse-threaded. Is that the default or will there be a different display option?
It is a feature request I am planning on making to Substack
If you have other suggestions, please let us know. I've already been whining about needing read/unread and live-updating comments, so hopefully Substack can implement those for us.
SIGs
ZZZZZZZ. Show unreads. Search!
After writing a comment being able to tab over to Post. Makes it much easier when doing everything with the keyboard.
test
Test
verdict: it already works
It works but it ain't obvious
I was expecting the outline around the active control like it was on CGB
Or like most sites...
test
oh...It's RtoL not LtoR. That's what I was confused.
We need an up button. I'm reading this on my Kindle right now and in a few instances, I'm unsure the comment to which another refers.
Z support
It's like the olden days before the edit feature was added to CGB
HEY LEAVE US OUT OF THIS
I guess we really don't need Z support. Support for @ @
Read/unread is immensely important IMO. That's what makes it more of a community because it makes it easier to come back into topics/posts and continue conversations. I don't want to wade through a post when I can't remember if I've seen all the comments before.
@It just means we all need a dedicated DBD window with tabs for each of the previous DBDs so we can search for "new replies"@
Why did I get an email for you replying to Leland? Is this following Slack rules now..?
probably. Any thread you're a part of you get a notification?
Looks like it. I guess there is a Mute Thread button I can use (like Slack)
this this ^^
I'm just assuming all replies are sarcastic unless otherwise indicated
That's fair
I believe the comments do a sort of live-update, or at least, if you hang out on the page, there should be a button that eventually appears prompting you to "load new comments". It is not as slick as SBN's, true, but I think it can do the job.
The button appears to load new comments, but it is for each sub-thread, and you can quickly wind up with several of them. It would be nice to figure out a way to not have to hunt them down and open all of them. I can see this becoming time intensive to the point of discouraging use. The automatic posting with contrasting background to make it easy to spot new comments was much better. And if you do load new comments, its not apparent which ones are the new ones, esp. if there are a lot of them. Would be good to find a better optimization of how to handle this.
agreed
Interesting, it looks like new threads show up at the beginning.
yes, it's rather disorienting, don't you think?
FIX_IT.GIF
RIP zoonewsbears
he was a good bear, and thorough
NSFW? https://www.reddit.com/r/berkeley/comments/fby28x/painting_of_evans_9th_floor_bathroom/
That is wonderful.
I need that painting. I spent too much time in Evans and now I need this painting on a spiritual level.
Heh. Yeah. Way too much time spent in Evans too.
Would be a good add to the decor of my game/sportyball cave.
Hmmmmm
Is this where we make venn diagram jokes?
Can we insert images? <img src="https://i.pinimg.com/originals/3a/ed/05/3aed050c5b0dde6f27e249e2bba04c8e.jpg"/>
guess we don't need the tags at least
Yeah, I am trying to figure out how the links embedding works. iFrames don't work tho which is a bummer.
On the other hand direct links embed cleanly in posts. Let's see if it applies to comments
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66M4bHJezCs
block quotes would also be nice to embed tweets.
z z z z z
Rec'd
Thank God the typos are coming with us!
Thank God YOU came with us! (To keep things in perspective.)
Sadly this is blocked from my work computer so I will only be here very occasionally. 😭
Interesting. I wonder what policy is preventing this li'l ol' site from getting through.
I've found the site works pretty well on mobile, however.
We seem to have opt-in more than opt out. If a site doesn’t fit one of many categories, or they don’t know how to categorize it, it ends up blocked. It’s super frustrating.
Same for me. We might work in just more a security focused arena
This site is blocked for me, though the old one was too after about 2013. I have done this on my phone the entire time since, is fine
They can't have already detected Twist and blacklisted the domain, can they? I haven't seen FireStarkey or DC yet either, so it can't be because of them?
Twist hasn't logged in yet
I’m having a hard time logging in on my phone but I think it might be working now?
Reading threads on the phone is a challenge tho
Your last comment is also six lines to the right of the post. So, there's that.
There comes a point at which they just go off screen and I can’t scroll over to them 🤷🏼♂️
Landscape helps in those situations. I was able to read all but the zoonews test.
even with that! however now I am on my oversized laptop screen and all is well
Far right wing now
our work has some inexplicables, best we can figure is certain IP ranges is blocked cuz a few within that ranges are [gambling, pr0n, ]
did someone say pr0n at work!? Ah I miss the good ole of days where I did nothing at work..
Now I'm trying to imagine the business model behind a gambling pr0n site, and it gets pretty wild...
Strip poker is a thing that exists...
A NEW ATOMS APPEARS
I just don't know if I'm enough anymore [shrug]
WHICH ONE AM I
but is it enough?
IT NEVER IS!!!
It really is a daily bear dumb!
I suppose I (or any other writer) could fix it, but at this point may as well roll with it.
How do I post gifs of bouncing boobs? asking for a friend
Depends on if it’s a hard(fake!) or soft G.
Not the hard/soft analysis I expected in this thread.
Just like Twist's surprise launch, some accidents are just horrifyingly appropriate.
Twist and accidents seem to go hand in hand.
something something wedding night?
Right, that's even an actual story, not just a fun joke
Rec’d.