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The question-answering iPhone app Siri will tell Americans the best places to see strippers, score weed and hide a body, but it won’t direct them to their nearest abortion clinic.
Megan Carpentier at RawStory.com investigated how reliable Siri is when it comes to finding abortion clinics or emergency contraceptives, and found it not only lacking, but sometimes downright interventionist.
For example, when asked where to get an abortion in Washington, D.C., Siri recommends anti-abortion pregnancy crisis centres, but makes no mention of the local Planned Parenthood.
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The RawStory.com article notes Siri will tell you where to hide a body, where to find strippers, where to find prostitutes, where to get illegal drugs, what to do if you’ve had an erection for over five hours, and where to get breast implants.
hen California teacher Mark Takano ran for Congress 15 years ago, he lost to Republican challenger Ken Calvert by a scant 519 votes. Two years later, things looked more promising. Police had caught Calvert with a prostitute; Takano should have easily clinched a win. But just three months before the election, Ray Haynes—a Calvert supporter in the state assembly—outed Takano as gay.
“I said quite clearly I personally don’t want a homosexual representing me in Congress,” Haynes said at the time.
Takano’s opponents sent a late mailer, which asked voters in pink letters to consider whether Takano should be “A Congressman for Riverside … or San Francisco?” He lost again, by a much wider margin than his first run.
But what once sunk his campaign could prove to be a boon as Takano runs for the U.S. House again next year. “I think the atmosphere has changed fairly dramatically,” Takano says. “A former regional director of the Democratic Party here [told me], ‘Your sexual orientation back in the early ’90s was maybe a liability, but now it’s probably an asset.’”
… We promised a substation as part of our efforts to revitalize Mid-Market, and I am happy to see this move forward,” said Supervisor Jane Kim, who represents the neighborhood.
The area remains one of San Francisco’s last pockets of skid row, where poverty and desperation have seeped deep over the decades. With a cluster of single-room occupancy hotels and programs serving the homeless and the destitute, many of whom are struggling with mental illness and drug and alcohol addiction, there is no easy way to fix the problems, which include a troubling crime rate.
“You name it, I’ve seen it,” Richard Rios, an assistant manager at Baldwin House, said early Tuesday morning as he worked the front desk buzzing in residents and signing in visitors. “I’ve seen muggings. I’ve seen prostitution. I’ve seen drug dealing. I’ve seen fights. I’ve seen all kinds of stuff.”
