“Nice,” “happy,” “joyful” — a selection of the cheery goop we’ve been swimming in since Kamala tapped Walz to be her running mate. The Coconut is still declining the assumption of actual positions. Trump has a bunch of positions that no one seems to care about enough to grill him on (what happened to the wall?). Are Republicans “weird”? Are Democrats “cringe”? Yesterday, AOC made fun of the way JD Vance was sitting. That post has 340,000 likes. Elsewhere, a prominent venture capitalist suggested what we really needed was a president who could sweetly read to kindergartners. Is the internet making us stupid nice, or is it only revealing our stupidity niceness? Don’t ask me, I’m just your friendly neighborhood “effective asshole writer,” or so I’ve been told. But as a man who genuinely thought we no longer had a bar, I do wonder how much lower it can get.

In a recent NYT op-ed, Jessica Grose (a former Jezebel columnist) tells us to “stop panicking about the birth rate,” and to just enjoy the decline. To make her case, she walks us through a handful of examples of women who were bereaved and downtrodden in the pre-contraception era, and briefly rails against conservatives who ridicule “childless cat ladies.” All in all, it was a good bit of historical trauma porn, but not a serious argument. Despite what over-libidinous leftists argue every election cycle, we’re not living in The Handmaid’s Tale, and most people concerned about the birthrate don’t want to ban the pill. They’re worried about the political instability and economic shock inherent in a population crash. Either Jessica didn’t bother to google the subject before she published her piece, or… ok, on second thought, this is a NYT op-ed. Of course that’s what happened.

X CEO Linda Yaccarino announced the company will close its San Francisco HQ, and relocate workers to its offices in San Jose. Though we don’t have official details about why, pundits have proclaimed the move as either 1) an indictment of the broken city, or 2) an indictment of the broken billionaire. My take? X’s upcoming payments feature could cause it to be reclassified as a financial services company, which — thanks to Prop C — would increase X’s gross receipts tax by nearly 20%. They’re leaving because it’s no longer affordable to stay. Regardless, X’s move is yet another notch in SF’s infamous doom loop: as the city’s tax base flees, the city becomes ever-more unlivable, with ever-less revenue to fix its problems. Congrats, idiot city supervisors, we could have had a 500-foot Colossus on Alcatraz Island. Instead we got DoorDash for drug addicts, and a vacant, haunted downtown.

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