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Sydin posted:Maybe not riots, but I'm sure a few upper-middle class students in Santa Cruz will find a way to block a freeway or two over it. You must be really confused if you think the students at Santa Cruz have been protesting over NIMBY issues. Meanwhile, Santa Cruz is still on mandatory water restrictions, ~7,500 gallons a month per residential home.
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# ? Apr 30, 2015 20:50 |
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Trabisnikof posted:You must be really confused if you think the students at Santa Cruz have been protesting over NIMBY issues. I thought we were talking about the drought and water policy? Didn't realize the that was considered a NIMBY issue.
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# ? Apr 30, 2015 20:58 |
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It's more of an opposite thing, a WIMBY issue. Water In My Back Yard (and screw everyone else).
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# ? Apr 30, 2015 21:02 |
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Kill the watered
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# ? Apr 30, 2015 21:08 |
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My landlords are switching us from a year-long lease to a month-to-month lease when the current one is up so they can increase the rent to cover any fines that are imposed due to overuse of water. They pay the water bill and we never see it, so we have no idea how close we are to compliance or noncompliance. There also is only one meter, so the downstairs neighbors washing their cars (still!) counts against us.
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# ? Apr 30, 2015 21:13 |
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Trabisnikof posted:You must be really confused if you think the students at Santa Cruz have been protesting over NIMBY issues. 7500 gallons seems like an insanely large amount, but then I realize just how wasteful most Americans are with water. We certainly got used to the 20th century being the wettest in recent recorded history real quick!
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# ? Apr 30, 2015 21:34 |
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CPColin posted:My landlords are switching us from a year-long lease to a month-to-month lease when the current one is up so they can increase the rent to cover any fines that are imposed due to overuse of water. They pay the water bill and we never see it, so we have no idea how close we are to compliance or noncompliance. There also is only one meter, so the downstairs neighbors washing their cars (still!) counts against us. In times like this, you should kill your neighbors to save your family. EDIT: Wait, in Oregon my landlord had me on a year long lease that still allowed her to raise my rent each month. That's not how it works here?
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# ? Apr 30, 2015 22:00 |
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CPColin posted:My landlords are switching us from a year-long lease to a month-to-month lease when the current one is up so they can increase the rent to cover any fines that are imposed due to overuse of water. They pay the water bill and we never see it, so we have no idea how close we are to compliance or noncompliance. There also is only one meter, so the downstairs neighbors washing their cars (still!) counts against us. Our landlord switched all our utility billing to a third party "to better serve us," so now we pay an additional fee to those guys just to tab our collective water/garbage/everything bill! And my upstairs neighbor bought a portable clothes washing machine, so I guess I'm paying for a chunk of that electricity/water usage as well. Can't wait to see what'll happen next when everyone's water bill goes up but no one has a self-interested reason to conserve.
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# ? Apr 30, 2015 22:07 |
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Hitlers Gay Secret posted:In times like this, you should kill your neighbors to save your family. Apparently not, unless your lease mentions it: http://www.dca.ca.gov/publications/legal_guides/lt-2.shtml I'm planning to ask for a year-long lease with a water surcharge clause added, to see if they're putting us on month-to-month for the rent consideration or if maybe they just want us month-to-month so they can kick us out with thirty days' notice. (That'd be a nice notice to get, after eight years of living in my current place!)
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# ? Apr 30, 2015 22:13 |
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Hitlers Gay Secret posted:In times like this, you should kill your neighbors to save your family. That kind of removes the point of a year long lease, at least from the perspective of the renter.
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# ? Apr 30, 2015 22:30 |
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computer parts posted:That kind of removes the point of a year long lease, at least from the perspective of the renter. A year-long lease assures both the owner and the renter that the renter can't/won't leave, or be asked to leave without cause, within the leased period. That's all it means. If there is provision for unlimited increase in rent, however, that does provide a landlord with the ability to effectively kick out the renter, by raising the rent to an absurd amount... and then, presumably, also penalize the renter for breaking the lease. Since that's blatantly unfair, I suspect most states/locales have laws disallowing that sort of provision. But... a lot of lease agreements have clauses blatantly in contravention of the law. A lease that says the landlord can raise the rent by up to x%, once per year (or something similar) is still likely permissible, and still provides the renter with the assurance that they won't be asked to leave (without cause) within that period.
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# ? Apr 30, 2015 22:44 |
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jeeves posted:7500 gallons seems like an insanely large amount, but then I realize just how wasteful most Americans are with water. Yeah, that's only 7500 almonds.
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# ? Apr 30, 2015 23:46 |
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jeeves posted:7500 gallons seems like an insanely large amount, but then I realize just how wasteful most Americans are with water. per household. A single person or a family with 4 kids both get the same restrictions. It doesn't make sense.
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# ? May 1, 2015 00:02 |
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enraged_camel posted:Yeah, that's only 7500 almonds. Or 4lbs of beef!
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# ? May 1, 2015 00:04 |
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Leperflesh posted:A year-long lease assures both the owner and the renter that the renter can't/won't leave, or be asked to leave without cause, within the leased period. That's all it means. They just raise the rent until you leave. That's why I'm back in this hellhole of a state.
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# ? May 1, 2015 10:40 |
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You're getting screwed over by your landlord.
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# ? May 1, 2015 12:20 |
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drilldo squirt posted:You're getting screwed over by your landlord. Was. Not anymore.
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# ? May 1, 2015 18:25 |
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Hitlers Gay Secret posted:They just raise the rent until you leave. That's why I'm back in this hellhole of a state. Seriously, no, you can have a yearlong lease that allows a specified maximum increase of rent per year. It's not that uncommon. I had one.
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# ? May 1, 2015 18:45 |
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doctorfrog posted:Our landlord switched all our utility billing to a third party "to better serve us," so now we pay an additional fee to those guys just to tab our collective water/garbage/everything bill! And my upstairs neighbor bought a portable clothes washing machine, so I guess I'm paying for a chunk of that electricity/water usage as well. Can't wait to see what'll happen next when everyone's water bill goes up but no one has a self-interested reason to conserve. I loving hate places that do collective bills. It's like a prisoner's dilemma of gently caress you to just the be biggest hog of resources since the bill is split evenly. It's the most wasteful way to do things and so of course people do it and probably love it.
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# ? May 1, 2015 19:54 |
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Leperflesh posted:Seriously, no, you can have a yearlong lease that allows a specified maximum increase of rent per year. It's not that uncommon. I had one. Well then I guess that's what happened to me. Either way, I had to cancel my lease and drag my poor rear end back to California where I wait for sweet sweet death.
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# ? May 1, 2015 20:00 |
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They aren't allowed to raise it month to month if you have a lease, that's illegal.
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# ? May 1, 2015 20:54 |
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drilldo squirt posted:They aren't allowed to raise it month to month if you have a lease, that's illegal. Well I don't know what the gently caress to tell you other than that's what happened to me so
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# ? May 1, 2015 20:59 |
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drilldo squirt posted:They aren't allowed to raise it month to month if you have a lease, that's illegal. This is for California, but it's generally applicable: http://www.dca.ca.gov/publications/legal_guides/lt-2.shtml quote:Some tenants have leases. If you have a lease, your rent cannot be increased during the term of the lease, unless the lease allows rent increases.1 e. Basically, read your loving lease before you sign it, and don't sign a lease that lets the landlord raise the rent more than you're prepared to pay. Leperflesh fucked around with this message at 21:10 on May 1, 2015 |
# ? May 1, 2015 21:07 |
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I don't doubt they exist, but I've lived all over the country and never heard of something like that. gently caress if I'd sign a "lease" like that.
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# ? May 1, 2015 21:29 |
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It happens all the time. Especially in states with poor tenant's rights. In my experience, the poorer you are the more likely you are to encounter that clause. It's basically a way of loving over the poor.
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# ? May 1, 2015 21:39 |
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When you need a place to live right before school starts again and a friend needs a roommate you don't really care what you sign. Meh, whatever. I learned from it and it wasn't the end of the world. It was a good 9 months while it lasted.
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# ? May 1, 2015 21:42 |
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Shbobdb posted:It happens all the time. Especially in states with poor tenant's rights. In my experience, the poorer you are the more likely you are to encounter that clause. It's basically a way of loving over the poor. I know I shouldn't be surprised at this point, but it still shocks me just how much this country shits on poor people.
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# ? May 1, 2015 21:47 |
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A targeted anti-tech protest action (https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2015/04/14/18771083.php) flopped pretty hard today: quote:"The sole tech shuttle that showed up at an Oakland protest intended to blockade them rolled away unhindered after picking up a single passenger. What's interesting about it is that the bus drivers for most of the major companies that run shuttle programs have unionized in the last year. The union asked the radicals in advance to call off the protest, but they went ahead with it anyway. Have we crossed peak tech bus outrage?
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# ? May 1, 2015 23:24 |
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Nothing to see here, SAFEST BRIDGE IN CALIFORNIA, etc.quote:Caltrans tests indicate that salt water from the bay may be seeping into the foundation of the new Bay Bridge eastern span’s tower, an ominous prospect that raises questions about the long-term viability of hundreds of massive steel rods that anchor the landmark structure. http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Ominous-signs-of-problems-with-new-Bay-Bridge-s-6244776.php
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gonger posted:A targeted anti-tech protest action (https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2015/04/14/18771083.php) flopped pretty hard today:
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# ? May 7, 2015 00:31 |
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Papercut posted:Nothing to see here, SAFEST BRIDGE IN CALIFORNIA, etc. BART is still my favorite masterpiece of superior californian engineering. Let's use non-standard rail gauge for North America and also cloth seats in mass transit.
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# ? May 7, 2015 01:00 |
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quote:a botched grouting and sealing job by bridge contractors How could this be?! The free market would have prevented it!
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# ? May 7, 2015 05:25 |
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Well at least the salt water will crash the bridge before the shoddy chinese provided steel assemblies break.
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# ? May 7, 2015 05:37 |
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etalian posted:...cloth seats in mass transit.
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# ? May 7, 2015 07:33 |
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TACD posted:What's wrong with this? All the mass transit I'm aware of in the UK (including the London Underground) has proper padded seating. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/06/us/06bcseats.html https://www.baycitizen.org/news/transportation/bart-seats-bacteria-blossom/ quote:Riders on the Bay Area Rapid Transit system have long complained about germs in the hard-to-clean cloth seats. As Bob Franklin, the BART board president, acknowledged, “People don’t know what’s in there.” quote:Allison encouraged riders to wash their hands and use hand sanitizers available at BART stations.
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# ? May 7, 2015 08:28 |
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quote:Fecal and skin-borne bacteria resistant to antibiotics were found in a seat on a train headed from Daly City to Dublin/Pleasanton. Further testing on the skin-borne bacteria showed characteristics of methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA, the drug-resistant bacterium that causes potentially lethal infections, although Ms. Franklin cautioned that the MRSA findings were preliminary. And then people wonder why public transportation isn't popular...
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# ? May 7, 2015 15:22 |
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Santa Clara County has halted its acquisition of a stingray.
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# ? May 7, 2015 15:35 |
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TACD posted:What's wrong with this? All the mass transit I'm aware of in the UK (including the London Underground) has proper padded seating. It creates a surface which is heaven for bacteria and also impossible to sanitize.
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# ? May 7, 2015 22:56 |
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Wasn't there an article a while back where someone did similar testing on a selection of couches in people homes and found an equally-horrifying array of microorganisms?
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# ? May 7, 2015 23:00 |
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Yeah the real problem with cloth-covered padded seats isn't the bacteria (which coat everything you touch everywhere, LOL your bathroom is probably the cleanest room in your house) but the difficulty in cleaning off the hobo slime and drunkard vomit. You can make padded seats that have a non-pourous cover. Of course, they get slashed, but no more often than the cloth-covered seats. These are the middle ground. The hardcore all-plastic seating with no fabric anywhere solution gives you a train car you can steam-clean from top to bottom, bleach, etc. Maximum "cleanliness" (until anyone has entered the train and the entire place is again contaminated), minimum comfort.
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