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haveblue posted:Also from the not-poo poo-you-joke-about department: California enacts water restrictions. Restrictions like this are needed in Texas and all of the flat line states that depend on the Ogallala Aquifer. The coming dust bowl is going to be horrendous.
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Whatever that National Retail Federation thingy is they did a "study" showing that surveyed managers believe that being hourly with overtime instead of salaried makes them no better than the other retail peons or something. Also Obama is doing this to destroy the restaurant industry. God drat you Obama.
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Apr 1, 2015 22:06
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Raskolnikov38 posted:besides being an environmental disaster and the playground of the bourgeois? Artificial turf is fine to play on and yeah... more course need to be opened to the public.
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Apr 1, 2015 22:08
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Garrand posted:Is the $15 / hour rate that the protesters are asking for from a particular source or is it just a simple number they seized upon that would give living wages in most areas of the country? Looks like 10.55 would be the inflation adjusted if we used the minimum wage in 1968. Actually it would be 21.16 if it kept up with the growth of overall income gains in the US. "Fight for fifteen" is a pretty snappy slogan too. http://inequality.org/minimum-wage/ Grognan fucked around with this message at 22:41 on Apr 1, 2015 |
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Garrand posted:Is the $15 / hour rate that the protesters are asking for from a particular source or is it just a simple number they seized upon that would give living wages in most areas of the country? Yeah, it's considering a living wage (for one 40 hour worker supporting a family of 4) throughout the vast majority of the country. I think the average is something like 13 dollars, or 11 dollars for multiple household workers.
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Garrand posted:Is the $15 / hour rate that the protesters are asking for from a particular source or is it just a simple number they seized upon that would give living wages in most areas of the country? If America had the same income and wage inequality now as it had in the 60's, the minimum wage would be over $20, I presume $15 is a "compromise" value.
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Apr 1, 2015 22:44
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radical meme posted:Restrictions like this are needed in Texas and all of the flat line states that depend on the Ogallala Aquifer. The coming dust bowl is going to be horrendous. We do this in Texas, just on a county/municipal level. I can't recall a summer in recent memory where we haven't had water restrictions.
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Menendez is the 12th Senator in the history of the US to be indicted. Six of those were later convicted, though two of those convictions were later overturned. The first Senator to be indicted was John Smith (DR-OH) who was charged with treason for allegedly participating in the Burr conspiracy to lead the western territories in rebellion.
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Spun Dog posted:About time. The blurb mentions agriculture, but nothing about fracking. I'm digging into the actual executive order now to see if they will have to cut back as well. http://gov.ca.gov/docs/4.1.15_Executive_Order.pdf Well, seeing how all of Fracing in California uses as much water as 650 homes, I don't think its the best target for an emergency. karlor posted:We do this in Texas, just on a county/municipal level. I can't recall a summer in recent memory where we haven't had water restrictions. Most of California has had those same style of restrictions in effect for a long time. The difference is state level regulations can force richer water districts to actually conserve.
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Memories Pizza has been receiving death, arson, and bomb threats all day and is presently saying they may never open again, thus reminding us all that the real ideology of internet activists is "it's ok when I do it"
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Fried Chicken posted:Memories Pizza has been receiving death, arson, and bomb threats all day and is presently saying they may never open again, thus reminding us all that the real ideology of internet activists is "it's ok when I do it" Truly they are the Job of the modern day, blessed be their pizza hole.
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I like how slacktivism has progressed from "do literally nothing" to "commit felonies against people who do things I don't like"
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Oh man, internet death threats. That's a serious thing and definitely not something that has happened to literally every single person on the internet. Edit: this is too sarcastic but I'm always wary about internet death threats as a sign of "someone has gone too far". I get death threats when I beat people in Street Fighter or post my opinions on Twitter, it's just a rather repugnant outcome of internet anonymity.
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Raskolnikov38 posted:besides being an environmental disaster and the playground of the bourgeois? It ain't an environmental disaster in places that regularly get rain. Instead they're just a good park spoiled. Fried Chicken posted:Memories Pizza has been receiving death, arson, and bomb threats all day and is presently saying they may never open again, thus reminding us all that the real ideology of internet activists is "it's ok when I do it" It is though. Wah wah wah other people get literally killed for thousands of years and now suddenly the other side gets a 12 year old typing "u suk lol imma kill u im totally a marine" to their email, so we should really care about some dumb bigot? I hope they receive printouts of goatse in the mail for the rest of their lives.
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Trabisnikof posted:Well, seeing how all of Fracing in California uses as much water as 650 homes, I don't think its the best target for an emergency. I'm more concerned with them poisoning whatever is left to be honest, but I wanted to see if they were specifically mentioned in the EO. They were not as far as I can tell.
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Death threats aren't cool, but it's hard to feel sympathy for someone who thinks an entire group of people are abominations so...
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Trabisnikof posted:I presume they stopped taking take-out and delivery orders pretty quick. Might accidentally deliver to a gay.
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radical meme posted:Restrictions like this are needed in Texas and all of the flat line states that depend on the Ogallala Aquifer. The coming dust bowl is going to be horrendous. Are there any states that won't have issues with food and water in the coming years? Perhaps I should get out of Texas, if things are just going to get worse.
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Pinball posted:Are there any states that won't have issues with food and water in the coming years? Perhaps I should get out of Texas, if things are just going to get worse. The central thesis of this thread is that death is certain.
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Zelder posted:Oh man, internet death threats. That's a serious thing and definitely not something that has happened to literally every single person on the internet. http://www.nuvo.net/FoodDrinkBlog/archives/2015/04/01/restaurant-owners-freeze-out-mister-ice quote:One of the most outrageous parts of the passage of RFRA is it gave huge swaths of people who have never visited the state a blanket reason not to even try. For the hospitality business, this kind of legislation (and the horrific PR storm that followed) is nothing short of a nightmare. A lot of owners have expressed frustration over the bill because they've worked so hard to make sure the local dining and beverage scene welcomes all, and everyone knows they're welcome. We chronicled some of our favorite responses to RFRA on Nuvo.net/food, from the simple hand-drawn signs to professionally-applied, permanent window decals. The reply from the majority of the community has simply been a succinct "No."
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Pinball posted:Are there any states that won't have issues with food and water in the coming years? Perhaps I should get out of Texas, if things are just going to get worse. How much do you like corn?
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Trabisnikof posted:How much do you like corn? in the year 2050 the smell of popcorn has gone from delightful movie treat to hellish gruel substitute. Lets all go to the lobby and get ourselves malnutrition.
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Spaceman Future! posted:in the year 2050 the smell of popcorn has gone from delightful movie treat to hellish gruel substitute. Lets all go to the lobby and get ourselves malnutrition. Oddly enough that's probably how popcorn started as well. Popped in hot sand and then mashed into a gruel. 
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haveblue posted:Also from the not-poo poo-you-joke-about department: California enacts water restrictions.
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FlamingLiberal posted:Already seeing a lot of Agenda 21 nonsense when you search 'Jerry Brown' on Twitter I'm sure there are already people promising to leave their faucets running out of spite as well.
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Pinball posted:Are there any states that won't have issues with food and water in the coming years? Perhaps I should get out of Texas, if things are just going to get worse. I'm in Cleveland right now and I'm looking forward to our ample amount of probably okay to drink water being a big deal in the coming decades. Now you may be saying to yourself "Well, Business Gorillas, your lovely water was on fire not too long ago". Well, thanks to outsourcing, almost all of the steel plants that contributed to that minor incident are polluting all they want in China. I guess you can say that the free market really does work 
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ReidRansom posted:I'm sure there are already people promising to leave their faucets running out of spite as well. These people, much like coal rollers and everyone else who makes it their mission to destroy the environment out of spite, need to be fired into the sun.
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ReidRansom posted:I'm sure there are already people promising to leave their faucets running out of spite as well. Riverside/OC should be firebombed. Luckily nature agrees with this and we get huge wildfires regularly.
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Pinball posted:Are there any states that won't have issues with food and water in the coming years? Perhaps I should get out of Texas, if things are just going to get worse. East of the Mississippi, North of the 35th Parallel.
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ReidRansom posted:I'm sure there are already people promising to leave their faucets running out of spite as well. Wouldn't this do literally nothing since it would just go right back into the sewage system to be recycled anyways? For proper spite you should fill containers full of water and allow it to evaporate outside.
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ReidRansom posted:I'm sure there are already people promising to leave their faucets running out of spite as well. "Environmental protection is a total joke because these people do nothing. And I'll give you the example and it doesn't sound like much, but as a builder, I build, and I build beautiful places. And I have great success with these places. I go out, and you buy faucets today. No water comes out. Because they have it restricted. So what do you do? You leave the water running five times longer to wash your hands. The shower. You turn on the shower. There's no water. What is it? They have restricters in. You buy 'em with restricters. EPA. So what do you do? You stay in the shower for three times longer than you want to. There's no saving! And it's terrible. And people come over to our country and they say, 'What the hell's wrong with your showers? What's wrong with your water?'" ~ Donald Trump, in New Hampshire last month.
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Business Gorillas posted:Wouldn't this do literally nothing since it would just go right back into the sewage system to be recycled anyways? It'd have to be reprocessed (needlessly) and the water shortage is causing some of our hydroelectric dams to go offline. Which is fine, its not like California has had power problems in the recent past or anything.
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Business Gorillas posted:Wouldn't this do literally nothing since it would just go right back into the sewage system to be recycled anyways? Never said they were very smart. Joementum posted:"Environmental protection is a total joke because these people do nothing. And I'll give you the example and it doesn't sound like much, but as a builder, I build, and I build beautiful places. And I have great success with these places. I go out, and you buy faucets today. No water comes out. Because they have it restricted. So what do you do? You leave the water running five times longer to wash your hands. The shower. You turn on the shower. There's no water. What is it? They have restricters in. You buy 'em with restricters. EPA. So what do you do? You stay in the shower for three times longer than you want to. There's no saving! And it's terrible. And people come over to our country and they say, 'What the hell's wrong with your showers? What's wrong with your water?'" ~ Donald Trump, in New Hampshire last month. Case in point.
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Fried Chicken posted:If the past several months have been a push against it being done to "your side" you drat well don't get to do it to "their side" Actions are either right or they are wrong, they don't magically become ok because you are the one doing it, and the belief they do is one of the major reasons why the world is in the shape it is. Death threats are wrong, you'll note I said that they're a repugnant outcome of internet anonymity. But complaining about them or using them as a sign of either sides moral depravity is silly, because you can fire off a death threat in ten seconds and there's no accountability. Now when people start doxxing others or posting pictures of people's houses, then things have devolved into the "totally hosed" range.
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Business Gorillas posted:Wouldn't this do literally nothing since it would just go right back into the sewage system to be recycled anyways? I'm sorry but are you such a disgusting person that you want to drink toilet water?
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FlamingLiberal posted:Already seeing a lot of Agenda 21 nonsense when you search 'Jerry Brown' on Twitter Two of the most worthless uses of water are golf courses and graveyards. Golf is a dying activity anyway, just stop this stupid poo poo already.
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Pinball posted:Are there any states that won't have issues with food and water in the coming years? Perhaps I should get out of Texas, if things are just going to get worse. Florida will be feasting on alligators, escaped snakes, and various sea life while sipping on delicious rain water once the aquifer sinks into the sea. Join our hybrid Mad Max and Waterworld future as we adopt the water conservancy ways of the Caribbean Islands. Just be careful, we're still not allowed to talk about lobalgay armingway.
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Joementum posted:"Environmental protection is a total joke because these people do nothing. And I'll give you the example and it doesn't sound like much, but as a builder, I build, and I build beautiful places. And I have great success with these places. I go out, and you buy faucets today. No water comes out. Because they have it restricted. So what do you do? You leave the water running five times longer to wash your hands. The shower. You turn on the shower. There's no water. What is it? They have restricters in. You buy 'em with restricters. EPA. So what do you do? You stay in the shower for three times longer than you want to. There's no saving! And it's terrible. And people come over to our country and they say, 'What the hell's wrong with your showers? What's wrong with your water?'" ~ Donald Trump, in New Hampshire last month. This quote still makes no sense to me. Who washes their hands longer because their water is restricted, aside from morons?
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radical meme posted:Two of the most worthless uses of water are golf courses and graveyards. Golf is a dying activity anyway, just stop this stupid poo poo already. And as for graveyards. we've had a solution to that since 1839
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