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We’reTexas

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  1. This article came out today about where to eat and drink in Monterey and Carmel. It’s an interactive article so wasn’t able to paste the contents.
  2. …did you actually read her bio? You can obviously think what you want about a writer’s bias but I find it quite strange in this instance to stop at “Russian” despite the broader context. Surely you follow Simon Ostrovsky?
  3. Well, Housing First is a pretty good example of the moral hang up in our politics. It’s not a radical concept - W.’s administration adopted it as HUD’s housing policy, for chrissakes. It has shown success, but its successful implementations have shown that it requires substantial and sustained federal and state alignment and investment. But for some reason, conservatives have for years opposed it on some fundamental discomfort with what they perceive to be a handout to enable drug use. Progressives, on the other hand, have pushed initiatives in localities totally unequipped to handle the enormity of the task on the grounds that, despite its practical unfeasibility, it’s the right thing to do (see: basically every major West Coast city). There’s not really a pragmatic conversation going on.
  4. Anyways, back to decriminalization - I found this piece from the latest New Yorker insightful on the Oregon situation. In San Francisco, I’m frequently irritated at our tiny city’s effort to take on economic inequality and drug addiction for the rest of the Northern California, if not the country, so I was interested when Oregon adopted a comprehensive harm reduction approach as an entire state instead of relying on Portland. The article suggests that while there may have been mistakes with Measure 110’s rollback on carceral measures, a huge problem was that the pandemic delayed the rollout of most of its funding until late 2022. Did Measure 110 even have a chance? “A Drug De-Criminalization Fight Erupts in Oregon”
  5. Pretty good article in NYT today comparing San Francisco’s approach to that of Portugal, the model for many progressives of a harm reduction approach.
  6. When we talk about the drug addiction crisis, in my view we are talking about two interrelated but distinct issues: there’s drug addiction as a public health issue and there is drug addiction as a crime and safety issue. The former takes a structural view, while the latter focuses more on agency. For along time the US addressed the problem as a crime and safety issue, and we good urban liberals now wholeheartedly reject the War on Drugs and embrace a structural view of the problem. However, drug addiction does raise crime and safety issues, and efforts to treat them as such cause bitter fights in places like Portland about “returning to the war on drugs.” Meanwhile, states and municipalities lack the resources to adopt harm reduction policies at scale, and federal law prohibits one of the most important measure - safe injection sites. So what I see in Oregon and other coastal cities/states are half-assed approaches that lack clear direction and need federal alignment and funding.
  7. 1) Yes 2) No, proponents argue for both.
  8. Not a big fan of Monterrey proper, but there’s the whole Aquarium/ Cannery Row thing for kids. Pacific Grove is great - I believe @Hefeweizenwould be your local guide, but I like Passionfish a lot for their wine list. We’ve stayed at the Gosby and liked it. We stay in Carmel, no favorite place in particular but we seem to end up at Vagabond and La Paya frequently. You’ve got Ocean Avenue and the beach for kids, but Carmel is quite literally an old money enclave. Lots of tasting rooms, boutiques and art galleries. We like Stationaery for brunch, Casanova for dinner (epic wine cellar) and Vesuvio for late night drinks (Barmel for late late night drinks). La Playa bar has a great sunset view. Chez Noir is the hot new spot with the James Beard nomination; have not been but have heard good things If you want to hit up a winery, Folktale is a great all-around experience just 15 or so minutes down Carmel Valley Road. Obviously, there’s tons of outdoors stuff. Point Lobos is just a few minutes south and, of course, there’s Big Sur. That can be a whole trip or a 1/2 day from Carmel if you just want to head down for some views and lunch.
  9. You forgot the “whatever they stick to us” tax.
  10. Oh wow, totally forgot about that one. That spot on St Charles is a dead zone.
  11. I know they were planning on doing a full renovation and plans weren’t approved until a few months ago. I saw in the paper they were aiming for spring. Also, the family opened an outpost in LA in 2022. No clue what the arrangement is there, but presumably it’s helping keeping them afloat.
  12. Damaged by a bad fire last spring. You can go to Lil Dizzy’s if you want something up that alley.
  13. Oakland was 1500/100k last year, triple Austin. East and West Oakland are wild, all this outrage is sort of stupid because that area is worse than that around Hobby Airport. Awesome tacos tho.
  14. My guy East Oakland is like the hood of all hoods, why do you even care? (Oh wait…)
  15. They don’t call it the Industrial City for nothing.
  16. I mean, there are many law-school exam arguments you could make here, but I’m just a corporate guy and I give practical risk-based advice based on the totality of situations we see. As you seem aware, “insider trading” is not a bright-line law but a legal judgment. If a client came to me and asked “Yo, if a cabin door blows off and as we’re plummeting down 30k ft the captain barrels the aisle and whispers to me this is because of a fatal defect impacting the whole fleet and then tells me what his finance bros are thinking about FY25 earnings and preliminary thoughts on FY26 revenue and op margin guidance and I manage to get some wifi to YOLO puts and then just as the order goes through we right-size ‘Almost Famous’ style and I wake up the next morning ‘Radio on the Internet’ rich, do I have anything to worry about?”, I’d probably say that wouldn’t be worth the Enforcement Division’s time given how unique the situation is and regardless worth fighting for depending how many commas you’re worth and if your car doors now go “like this”.
  17. Try whipping your dick out on your next flight and see how that goes. I am a securities lawyer but not a litigator, and this is not legal advice. But seriously - you would be observing an event in a public space and making an inference about what happened and its significance. If something happened and the captain announced, “That was the result of a massive defect, we are making an emergency landing and the company has just grounded all 737s” then yeah you would be tipped.
  18. You aren’t receiving information from anyone, you are observing a public event and making an inference. And you aren’t misappropriating information either, so I don’t think there’s a basis under either theory. But if you were an Alaskan employee who had real-time knowledge of the incident and shorted the stock before it made the news, yeah you’d probably be fucked.
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