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They know it kills you. Gen Z is smoking cigarettes anyway

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By Lauren Saria Verified, Kevin Truong Verified
| The San Francisco Standard Verified
Zay, 27, is working the door at the divey Mission bar Horsies, the kind of place where a youngish crowd sports stick-and-poke tattoos and pretends to enjoy natural wine. In his left hand, heavy with silver jewelry, is a thin Capri cigarette. “I like looking incredibly cunty,” he says with a raised eyebrow and a smirk. He’s in “the industry,” the byword for the waiters, service workers, and sound engineers that keep a city alive after dark. In that world, smoking is a sacrament.
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Masked federal officers seize man from car in Glen Park

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By Kevin Truong Verified, Max Harrison-Caldwell Verified, Garrett Leahy Verified
| The San Francisco Standard Verified
A group of masked federal officers took a man into custody after forcing him from his car Wednesday morning in Glen Park, according to video and witness accounts. Charlie Steinberg, 17, was walking to a friend’s house on Mangels Avenue shortly before 8:15 a.m. when she saw a large SUV pull up. Steinberg, the daughter of a Standard editor, said people got out wearing masks and bulletproof vests and carrying rifles.
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We asked chatbots how to vote. Most said no, but Grok went there

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By Kevin Truong Verified
| The San Francisco Standard Verified
Voting is hard. Don’t you wish a computer could do it for you? The sheer volume of TikToks the typical Californian consumes daily has left precious little time for quaint obsessions like “policy platforms,” “civic responsibility,” and “the democratic process.” With the June 2 primary rapidly approaching, maybe we could outsource our thinking to AI. First, a note in defense of the overwhelmed. Ballots have become increasingly weighed down with a vast array of issues and candidates.
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