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Arsenic Lupin posted:I've always wanted a thyme lawn but constant bees;
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Some people are pissed Junipero Serra is going to be a Saint. http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-junipero-serra-vandalized-20150927-story.html
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Ron Jeremy posted:Some people are pissed Junipero Serra is going to be a Saint. Shh, Hitlers Gay Secret might hear you.
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Bah, that's old news. The new outrage is old Homophobe Francis saying Christians should reject gay marriage in America. I really hope that old fucker dies on the way back.
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computer parts posted:By which you mean Southern California? ill fight u irl
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Ron Jeremy posted:Some people are pissed Junipero Serra is going to be a Saint.
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When has being complicit in a genocide ever stopped the Catholic Church from canonizing anyone?
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Arsenic Lupin posted:Um, you mean like us? The classic expose on California water use is called Cadillac Desert for a reason. I am down with saying "death to non-native grasses", but we're in no position to cast stones with regard to our existing practices. Speaking of which, I did an investigation of low-water low groundcovers this spring. Every single one recommended for California was an invasive plant. I'm a landscape architect; there are tons of great low-water use plants for this application. I don't want to make a big derail unless there's interest, but you can PM me. Leperflesh posted:Basically all California-native plants are drought-resistant so just search for CA-natives and you'll have choices. There are also nurseries specializing in natives. If you're in the bay area, check Annie's Annuals in Richmond, they have a massive natives section. This is ... mostly correct, it all really depends on the type of habitat they are suited to. Tree of Life in Orange County is a great resource for SoCal, as is Recon Native Plants in Chula Vista. Hitlers Gay Secret posted:Tear it out and put stepping stones. Or gravel. Stone dust/decomposed granite can be good but gets messy.
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I've always wanted a thyme lawn but constant bees; a chamomile lawn is water-needy. More research is needed. Before you ask "why low?" I have a tiny snip of lawn in the front and a tiny strip in the back that need to be walkable-on.
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Governor Jerry Brown signed the right-to-die legislation into law today  quote:“In the end, I was left to reflect on what I would want in the face of my own death,” Brown added. “I do not know what I would do if I were dying in prolonged and excruciating pain. I am certain, however, that it would be a comfort to be able to consider the options afforded by this bill. And I wouldn’t deny that right to others." Modeled after Oregon's lay, it should take affect sometime next year.
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FCKGW posted:Governor Jerry Brown signed the right-to-die legislation into law today
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FMguru posted:Jerry's the best. I have no Idea how he manages it, but he is the only politician I can think of that hasn't been a disappointment to me once in office. It is almost as if he is trying to make the hard decisions to improve California even if they are unpopular.
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CopperHound posted:I have no Idea how he manages it, but he is the only politician I can think of that hasn't been a disappointment to me once in office. It is almost as if he is trying to make the hard decisions to improve California even if they are unpopular. That's because he is an immortal time traveling space alien. How else can you be the governor in 1975 and the governor in 2015? So was his dad. He is from the moon. Connect the dots, people!
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My dad still calls him "moonbeam", with disgust, any time he comes up in conversation.
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Space-Bird posted:That's because he is an immortal time traveling space alien. How else can you be the governor in 1975 and the governor in 2015? So was his dad. He is from the moon. Connect the dots, people! Oddly, he proposed a Herman Caine 9-9-9 style flat tax plan in 1992 when he was running for president.
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CopperHound posted:I have no Idea how he manages it, but he is the only politician I can think of that hasn't been a disappointment to me once in office. It is almost as if he is trying to make the hard decisions to improve California even if they are unpopular. Jerry Brown's definitely been good at a lot of things, but he's far from perfect. For example, he vetoed some legislation a few years back which would have allowed graduate student researchers to unionize, and he redirected a bunch of funds from prop 30 into prisons. Actually, the fact that he has done almost nothing to fix overcrowded prisons, despite an order from the Supreme Court, is pretty damning in and of itself.
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I am Governor Jerry Brown My aura smiles and never frowns Soon I will be President Carter power will soon go away I will be fuhrer one day I will command all of you Your kids will meditate in school (2x) California Uber Alles (2x) Uber Alles California (2x) Zen fascists will control you 100% natural You will jog for the master race And always wear the happy face Close your eyes, can't happen here Big Bro' on the white horse is near The hippies won't come back, you say Mellow out or you will pay (2x) (Chorus) Now it is 1984 Knock, knock at your front door It's the suede-denim secret police They have come for your uncool niece Come quietly to the camp You'd look nice as a drawstring lamp Don't you worry, it's only a shower For your clothes, here's a pretty flower Die on organic poison gas Serpent's egg's already hatched You will croak, you little clown When you mess with President Brown (2x) (Chorus)
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A UC Berkeley professor is being "punished" by a zero-tolerance sexual harrassment policy: http://www.mercurynews.com/california/ci_28961462/uc-berkeley-says-astronomer-was-appropriately-disciplinedquote:After the probe and the nature of the complaints first were reported by BuzzFeed News on Friday, UC Berkeley said Marcy had agreed to clear parameters around his behavior with the knowledge he would be subject to automatic suspension or dismissal for any violations.
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The Story of Stuff Project, Center for Biological Diversity and Courage Campaign Institute have filed suit against the US Forest Service for allowing Nestlé to continue pumping Arrowhead water from the San Bernardino National Forest without a valid permit. EDIT: Oh and the latest challenge to Top Two was rejected by SCOTUS. ComradeCosmobot fucked around with this message at 21:41 on Oct 13, 2015 |
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I guess it's local referendum season again, got a good laugh out of radio ad in SF opposing proposition F. Please vote against it or Gavin Newsom will show real emotion. I guess the techies finally realized lobbying and running ad campaigns is really important for morally dubious high valuation startups that encourage illegal behavior.
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Trabisnikof posted:A UC Berkeley professor is being "punished" by a zero-tolerance sexual harrassment policy: http://www.mercurynews.com/california/ci_28961462/uc-berkeley-says-astronomer-was-appropriately-disciplined ... and he's resigned. I'm sure offers of tenure at other institutions were flooding in as soon as the scandal went public. Everybody wants a future Nobelist doing research on their campus, and a few grabbed asses are negligible.
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That's pretty disappointing. I was around when Marcy & Butler were first doing their exoplanet research and discovered the first few, at SF State - I even went to a talk on campus featuring not only Marcy, but also Dr. Frank Drake, who gave a talk about the Drake Equation and why discovery of exoplanets was a critical part of SETI. I never met him in person though or knew anyone who worked with him.
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My friend, who was in that department with him, said "everyone knew he was a sociopath" but I'm not sure if "everyone" was the larger exoplanets community or just the department.
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GrumpyDoctor posted:My friend, who was in that department with him, said "everyone knew he was a sociopath" but I'm not sure if "everyone" was the larger exoplanets community or just the department. Probably the former. Astronomy is a pretty small field to begin with, so everyone established within a given subfield knows most everyone else within that subfield. Rumors get around, and the guy had been abusing his students for literal decades. So chances are this was widely known in the exoplanets community.
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quote:"Women are not lining up at their poster for speed dating; they aren't signing up to work in your lab because they want to be sexualized or objectified So why are they wearing those sexy distracting lab coats?
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The problem with women in science is they're always making people fall in love with them or crying.
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In a surprise to no one, its been found that Bel Air residents suck down water like El Niño. One house in particular had a $90,000 bill for, like, June.
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KQED is trying to name names and it's great. Put these assholes up against the wall.
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FilthyImp posted:In a surprise to no one, its been found that Bel Air residents suck down water like El Niño. How the gently caress. My bill for my apartment this month wasn't even 10
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Jerry Manderbilt posted:How the gently caress. My bill for my apartment this month wasn't even 10 Rich people making their own version of Versailles with a lot of water features. Also a lot of tropical ornamental plants that have no business living north of the Yucatan so they have to dump water on them 24/7.
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Minarchist posted:Rich people making their own version of Versailles with a lot of water features. Also a lot of tropical ornamental plants that have no business living north of the Yucatan so they have to dump water on them 24/7. Doesn't even have to be that complex. Could be as simple as somebody owning acres upon acres of land that they insist be covered in Kentucky Blue that's perfectly manicured & vibrant green. Or poo poo like that rear end in a top hat from a few months back who was trying to get an agricultural water exemption for his loving backyard golf course.
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Kobayashi posted:KQED is trying to name names and it's great. Put these assholes up against the wall. http://www.insidebayarea.com/data/ci_28974747/database-east-bay-mud-excessive-water-users?source=pkg Much to no one's surprise, it's all you're standard rear end in a top hat sociopaths from Danville and Alamo, with some Orindians thrown in for good measure
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#3 is A's GM BIlly Beane who was quoted in the paper today "yeah, well I pay a lot for it"
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Xaris posted:Mercury News requested a freedom of information act from EBMUD and listed the highest water users in the bay area. Dennis Baca has three separate listings totaling almost 13k GPD, which is a mind-bogglingly huge amount of water. That makes him the #1 user! 
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Xaris posted:Mercury News requested a freedom of information act from EBMUD and listed the highest water users in the bay area. code:Jerry Manderbilt fucked around with this message at 03:43 on Oct 18, 2015 |
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Nope http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2015/10/16/ca17-this-is-not-the-ro-khanna-youre-looking-for
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https://grandlakeca2.nextdoor.com/news_feed/?post=17029550 One of the people on the list is there because they had a $2700 leak the month that the data was requested.
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How do you not notice a leak big enough to bleed off $2700 of water in one month? That's many swimming pools' full of water, at least.
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Leperflesh posted:How do you not notice a leak big enough to bleed off $2700 of water in one month? That's many swimming pools' full of water, at least. She says it was "far below the hillside" so there was no surface evidence. Apparently the repair cost $18,000.
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Leperflesh posted:How do you not notice a leak big enough to bleed off $2700 of water in one month? That's many swimming pools' full of water, at least. Its as simple as a pipe breaking overnight, or on a holiday. And really, the water bill is just the insult on top of the injury from the leak.
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Leperflesh posted:How do you not notice a leak big enough to bleed off $2700 of water in one month? That's many swimming pools' full of water, at least. If a pipe bursts when you're out of town it can fill your house with an absolutely ungodly amount of water.
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