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Seconding money more useful than goods. Unless it's a couple of fresh carafes of coffee in the early morning. Coffee from a licenced, commercial-grade kitchen only, we can't accept homemade stuff for safety and liability reasons.
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Dec 8, 2017 01:00
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I insist that you accept my six dozen dusty cans of creamed corn.
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Dec 8, 2017 02:22
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The central coast is starting to feel effects from the SoCal firestorm (Los Osos)
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Dec 11, 2017 04:30
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Well the mandatory evacuation stopped 100 yards from my door. I had a choice, stay at the POD / Prophets of Rage show and hope, or go home. It was a drat fine show and the house survived.
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Dec 11, 2017 04:41
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https://twitter.com/CAL_FIRE/status/941412133039890432
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Dec 14, 2017 23:22
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FCKGW posted:lol you picked a real bad time to visit It was all worth it to finally meet my buddy tho
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Dec 16, 2017 08:57
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https://twitter.com/CAL_FIRE/status/943892266409586688 Amazing that we only lost two people to this thing. The fires up north must have convinced people that when the evacuation order comes down, it's time to get the gently caress out of there.
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Dec 21, 2017 18:53
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The initial evacuation orders for the Northern CA fires weren't sent out over phones because of ignorance or laziness. They claimed it couldn't be sent in a way that was targeted. But they could, and for Ventura's Thomas response they were. To the point that a bunch if alerts hit our Ventura evacuation shelter at the same. Santa Barbara flubbed it by sending a vague alert countywide with no instructions at 2:14 am one night, but they got it right within a half hour.
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Dec 25, 2017 12:41
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Part of a tour group attending the Rose Parade. The tour group apparently gets special access to see some of the floats two days before the main event while it's being set up. Ask me anything
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Dec 31, 2017 04:44
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Does anyone gently caress in the floats?
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Dec 31, 2017 05:36
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Grand Prize Winner posted:Does anyone gently caress in... The answer to this question is always "yes".
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Dec 31, 2017 06:09
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What do they do if the float drivers have to poo poo? Do they have a bucket or just drop one on the parade route?
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Dec 31, 2017 06:20
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Thomas Fire is 100% contained at last. Two deaths from the fire and seventeen from the storm. I wonder if, should the investigation of the cause result in criminal charges, all nineteen deaths would count as having resulted from the fire.
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Jan 12, 2018 20:21
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Charges would probably be placed on So-Cal Edison. So a civil fine.
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Jan 12, 2018 23:43
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RandomPauI posted:Charges would probably be placed on So-Cal Edison. So a civil fine. Wait So-Cal Edison was at fault for the Thomas fire? Are you kidding me? We have two major fires this year both caused by the largest electric and gas companies in the state? I am finding myself more and more in favor of that crazy "nationalize all the power & gas companies and figure out the rest later" proposition by the second.
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Jan 12, 2018 23:49
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I think it's a guess because lack of maintenance on power lines and/or power lines downed by strong winds is a common cause of fires here in SoCal We did have some pretty strong gusts in the days preceding the fires
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Jan 12, 2018 23:57
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Tarezax posted:I think it's a guess because lack of maintenance Yes and those should be criminal charges, including the felonies for the deaths, brought against the entire c-level team and board for deciding to not "waste money" on safety. (Since the fines are trivial and they roll them into fee increases anyway.) "Nationalize it" is not crazy. History check: the organized attack against Davis (garbage that he might have been aside) happened concurrently with Enrons rigging, the fake "rolling brownouts", and the post-deregulation robbery: https://www.revolvy.com/main/index.php?s=California%20electricity%20crisis&nojs=1 quote:The California electricity crisis, also known as the Western U.S. Energy Crisis of 2000 and 2001, was a situation in which the United States state of California had a shortage of electricity supply caused by market manipulations, illegal[5] shutdowns of pipelines by the Texas energy consortium Enron, and capped retail electricity prices.[6] The state suffered from multiple large-scale blackouts, one of the state's largest energy companies collapsed, and the economic fall-out greatly harmed Governor Gray Davis' standing. quote:Perhaps the heaviest point of controversy is the question of blame for the California electricity crisis. Former Governor Gray Davis's critics often charge that he did not respond properly to the crisis, while his defenders attribute the crisis to the power trading fraud and corporate accounting scandals and say that Davis did all he could considering the fact that the federal government, not states, regulate interstate power commerce. (Bolding to emphasize that the state-wide damage and losses were planned by Enron and Cheney in part to place a new Republican-friendly Governor in California.) Deregulation kills. (Even though the industry says "its not deregulated enough". http://www.latimes.com/projects/la-fi-electricity-capacity/ quote:Californians are paying billions for power they don't need quote:The missteps of regulators have been compounded by the self-interest of California utilities, Lynch and other critics contend. Utilities are typically guaranteed a rate of return of about 10.5% for the cost of each new plant regardless of need. This creates a major incentive to keep construction going: Utilities can make more money building new plants than by buying and reselling readily available electricity from existing plants run by competitors. FRINGE fucked around with this message at 02:16 on Jan 13, 2018 |
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Jan 13, 2018 02:13
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FRINGE posted:Yes and those should be criminal charges, including the felonies for the deaths, brought against the entire c-level team and board for deciding to not "waste money" on safety. (Since the fines are trivial and they roll them into fee increases anyway.) The lawsuit PG&E lost, which required them to pay big fines for failing to maintain their power lines, explicitly forbade them from passing those costs on to consumers: they were borne by PG&E's shareholders. The fact of that result directly feeds into PG&E's statements to shareholders after the Santa Rosa etc. fires warning of potential liability and reducing their next dividend; they are reserving shareholder money against the likelihood of losing another lawsuit that holds them accountable for billions in damages. This is not, of course, piercing the corporate veil and holding individuals responsible for damages or deaths, and I completely agree with you that - especially after they've already been hit for exactly this, and after the San Bruno gas explosion, etc. there is no longer any excuse and failure to perform maintenance that leads to people's deaths should result in lengthy prison sentences for every person who had the capability to determine or set budgets for maintenance and failed to do so. That fines and even jail time will do nothing to change the tendency of for-profit corporations to slash long-term maintenance costs in service of quarterly profits, which is a strong argument for nationalization of utilities, I'm in complete agreement with you there, too. I just wanted to make it clear that there is already legal precedent in California for utilities' shareholders bearing the costs of these types of liabilities, and not rate payers.
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Jan 13, 2018 03:39
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FRINGE posted:"Nationalize it" is not crazy. I don't think nationalizing is crazy in general, but the prop itself that was being floated had no real details, budgeting, or plan of action. It was just "Nationalize all the private utility companies in California and uh... figure it out as we go I guess. Also it would authorize California to issue a bond that would in no way even begin to cover the costs of buying and merging several multi-billion dollar public companies into a state entity."
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Jan 13, 2018 04:06
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Leperflesh posted:I just wanted to make it clear that there is already legal precedent in California for utilities' shareholders bearing the costs of these types of liabilities, and not rate payers. Why would they not? From there perspective there is no real risk. Worst case they take a severance payout and get a new job. There needs to be severe punishments, leveled against human executives, for corporate malfeasance of these types.
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Jan 13, 2018 04:21
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The only silver lining is that Darrell Issa put $2M of his own money for the recall with the assumption that he’d be the republican candidate to replace Davis.
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Jan 13, 2018 04:32
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Ron Jeremy posted:The only silver lining is that Darrell Issa put $2M of his own money for the recall with the assumption that he’d be the republican candidate to replace Davis. At least post the video of him crying about being bigdogged out of his own recall election. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VW0v7wwfkQ
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Jan 13, 2018 18:13
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Here we go again! Someone wants to split our great state and take the rural parts into “New California” https://www.cbsnews.com/news/new-california-declares-independence-from-rest-of-state/ EDIT: removing obviously political sentiments. I forgot that we actually have a politics thread. sb hermit fucked around with this message at 20:53 on Jan 16, 2018 |
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Jan 16, 2018 20:50
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https://twitter.com/NWSLosAngeles/status/953807194956468225 The 101's still closed between Santa Barbara and Ventura, due to mud. Now the 5 might have problems, due to snow. 
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Jan 18, 2018 17:21
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Someone tell the weather that freedom of movement in and out of the LA basin is a fundamental human right.
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Jan 18, 2018 17:37
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I used to live in Castaic right at the southern base of the Grapevine, and any time it snowed up there and forced a closure it completely paralyzed the entire valley. It was bad enough that my family really would walk several miles to the grocoery store - uphill - and then back like some kind of angry old man story because it was still quicker than fighting the resulting gridlock. Good times.
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