San Mateo, Silicon Valley, it is close to Oracle, once a 2nd largest software company in the world. It is 20 minutes away from Facebook, 25 minutes away from Google, 30 minutes away from Apple, Uber, Airbnb, Amazon in SF. So one time, I saw a policeman standing outside or sometimes inside of the Apple Store, San Mateo Hillsdale mall. So I thought, it might be related to $0 purchase (looting) that happened at some Apple store else where. So Apple may be just extra cautious. And then, I went to a Target Store in San Mateo as well. Once a friendly, neighborhood kind of feel type of store. It has cages and cages, locking up items after items. Even $19 phone cases, or some socks or underwear. My goodness, are we approaching the lowest point in morale and ethics, or are we a long way to go to hit bottom. Fortunately, 1960 was tough for the world, and 1900 also, and so is 1839, and a theory has it that every 60 years, there is the cycle repeating, making 2020 supposedly bad. So hopefully we are getting out of it. 1839: First Opium War 1901: Boxer Treaty: among the worst Treaty ever signed by China with 8 Nations 1960: The Great Famine. About 30 million people died. Not 3000 or 30,000 or 3 million. 30 million. Death. TC 390k
Lol these “cyclical” theories (60 years, 100, 4 generations etc) are all full of shit. They either use examples from a single region or take disparate examples from around the world. The world is a big place; it’s not unlikely you’ll find something bad going on somewhere. And the magnitudes of severity are hard to compare. What makes the singular event Boxer Treaty worse than the decades of economic decline in the Qing, or the turmoil of the republic after? There’s no way to compare — and no, number of deaths is not an accurate measurement
60 is a big cycle. Suspposedly, there is a 20 year cycle too, and it is related to the Great Conjunction: Jupiter and Saturn, the two largest planets, pulling people on the one side while the Sun pulls people the other way during the night, and during day time, all Jupiter and Saturn and the Sun pull one way. The Indian prophet Anand uses a system based on Great Conjunction for predictions.
Literally only cities like San Francisco, Seattle, and their surrounding areas are like this. You know why, I know why, and we know why we stay here anyway. Plenty of other cities in the US are not dystopian nightmares.
Kinda right but plenty of red cities in red states are total shitholes too. Meth ridden, white trash shitholes. I know I'm from one. However you'll never see my methed up shit hole on the news becuase it's a literal nothing. You WILL see NY, SF etc becuase they are highly successful, international cities. Which is why we are discussing their decline and not my shitty hometown
They’re from Hayward 😢
or even, just go to 3rd Ave Downtown San Mateo, and go a bit Northeast, and you will see some narrow and dirty streets, sort of like, every place need to have the poor class to serve the rich class, the San Mateo hill and Hillsborough folks.
Anything that isn’t an “avenue” is safe 😃
Yes I think 2020-2021 was the peak worst. The ultra-woke are now running themselves into the ground.