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Shbobdb posted:BLM had a disruptive transit app. Thanks for the clarification. CopperHound fucked around with this message at 02:11 on May 3, 2016 |
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BLM=Black Lives Matter.
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May 3, 2016 02:08
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So Governor Brown just signed into law raising the smoking age to 21 from 18, and puts restrictions on ecigs in public places. Of all the things in this state that need fixing...and they have to pass more busybody laws? So someone who's 18 and can legally buy cigarettes is poo poo out of luck and has to have an older friend buy them, so now you've made two more people into criminals. Great job, Jerry  I don't smoke, I think it's gross and a waste of money but it's other people's business what they want to do with their health and cash.
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May 5, 2016 15:59
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I started smoking and drinking when I was 15 ffs. What point is raising the age limit when people will still continue to break the loving law?
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May 5, 2016 16:07
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They're being marketed to young people and children as a workaround to cigarette laws. Seems like a public health concern worth addressing.
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May 5, 2016 16:08
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Minarchist posted:So Governor Brown just signed into law raising the smoking age to 21 from 18, and puts restrictions on ecigs in public places. I'd agree with you if I could walk one loving block without having to smell second hand smoke.
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May 5, 2016 16:10
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Might as well not pass any laws ever, then
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May 5, 2016 16:11
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Yeah, "Why are they wasting time on X when they should be Y?" has always been a pretty lame argument.
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May 5, 2016 16:47
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Minarchist posted:So Governor Brown just signed into law raising the smoking age to 21 from 18, and puts restrictions on ecigs in public places. A limited number of studies have been done on the topic to draw a firm conclusion, but raising or enacting a minimum age requirement does appear to be correlated with a reduction in the experimental use of and casual access to tobacco. Strengthening existing laws seems to be as, if not more, effective.
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May 5, 2016 16:55
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ComradeCosmobot posted:A limited number of studies have been done on the topic to draw a firm conclusion, but raising or enacting a minimum age requirement does appear to be correlated with a reduction in the experimental use of and casual access to tobacco. Strengthening existing laws seems to be as, if not more, effective.
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May 5, 2016 19:30
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Minarchist posted:So Governor Brown just signed into law raising the smoking age to 21 from 18, and puts restrictions on ecigs in public places. Holy poo poo if you buy cigs for a kid you're literally the worst scum of the earth. Children can't effectively make the kind of long term decisionmaking that nicotine addiction is. It's one of the most addictive drugs and children will do almost anything to act cool with an older "friend" who's pushing unhealthy choices.
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May 5, 2016 19:37
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Arsenic Lupin posted:Raising taxes on cigarettes is the most effective of all, but is regressive (impacts the poor most) and creates a smuggling problem. And somebody needs to regulate e-cigs fast, because they're like any other over-the-counter drug and should be tested for quality and content. Speaking of regulating...
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May 5, 2016 19:41
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Trabisnikof posted:Holy poo poo if you buy cigs for a kid you're literally the worst scum of the earth. Children can't effectively make the kind of long term decisionmaking that nicotine addiction is. It's one of the most addictive drugs and children will do almost anything to act cool with an older "friend" who's pushing unhealthy choices. You are guaranteed to be the coolest person they know though.
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May 5, 2016 19:44
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AngryBooch posted:I'd agree with you if I could walk one loving block without having to smell second hand smoke. Whatever kind of weed the people in my neighborhood buy smells so rank it literally makes me wake up in the middle of the night, triggering flight or fight responses. The horrible recurring stench has been so traumatizing I'd literally hug a person for smoking something as fragrant as a crummy cigarette.
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May 5, 2016 19:47
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Essentially goes into effect in three years. quote:But federal health officials countered that the industry will have ample time to respond to the rules. Companies with products on the market now, including vape shops that mix their own liquids, will have two years to submit an application to the F.D.A. for approval of a product. It can stay on the market for another year while the agency reviews the application.
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May 5, 2016 19:48
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Good. gently caress cigarettes and gently caress smoking. I've watched enough people die because they had the "freedom" to get physiologically addicted to a poison.
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May 5, 2016 20:29
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If you vape you're probably fat and unattractive or gay and somewhat attractive or just very unattractive
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May 5, 2016 20:32
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Wow, lots of backlash to youth trends. Edit: I think the average age of posters is going up
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May 5, 2016 20:38
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Grognan posted:Wow, lots of backlash to youth trends. This isn't the time to practice fellatio for when Skynet takes over
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May 5, 2016 20:42
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Hitlers Gay Secret posted:I started smoking and drinking when I was 15 ffs. What point is raising the age limit when people will still continue to break the loving law? I also started smoking at 15 and I never had any problems buying cigarettes underage. Maybe it was a different attitude being the early 90s or maybe there just wasnt the aggressive enforcement, but if it can stop some marginal portion of people from starting and becoming addicted then I'm all for it. *furiously chews nicorette*
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May 5, 2016 20:55
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I started breaking <law> when I was <age>. What is the point of <law> if I can get away with breaking it?
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May 5, 2016 22:08
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Grognan posted:Wow, lots of backlash to youth trends. Most people on SA are mid 30's or older and it shows
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May 5, 2016 22:33
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Teflon Don posted:Most people on SA are mid 30's or older and it shows It had it's time but yeah SA is basically full of people that haven't actually left since they found it in the early 2000s. Also life imprisonment for anyone who smokes/vapes outside. Seriously though gently caress smoking. Freedom or whatever bullshit, I and the rest of California don't want to breathe that poo poo whatsoever.
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May 5, 2016 22:47
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i swear, on UCI's campus (which is no-smoking, mind you), the vast majority of smokers are fu er dai back around president's day the library's smoke alarm went off because a lit cigarette burned a few leaves on the ground nearby
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May 5, 2016 22:55
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Another company moves its headquarters from California to Texas: http://gov.texas.gov/news/press-release/22274 Mind you, I don't care, beyond it being another thing for Texans to be insufferable over.
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May 5, 2016 23:14
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Bizarro Watt posted:Another company moves its headquarters from California to Texas: http://gov.texas.gov/news/press-release/22274 quote:Will employ over 100 people, including newly hired team members in Texas
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May 5, 2016 23:56
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Ahahahaha, the company in question is the dynamic, high-tech economic powerhouse that is the managing franchisee of...all those Jamba Juice outlets.
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May 6, 2016 00:06
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Jamba Juice def needs a 25k sq ft HQ along with Cowboys stadium sized parking lots for 100 people. I'm sure the CEO can now afford that Pebble Beach home he deserves by moving the company out of Commiefornia and then himself back (Just like the Waste Mgt guy).
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May 6, 2016 00:23
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"A Texas Enterprise Fund grant of $800,000 has been extended to Jamba Inc., Gov. Greg Abbott's office reported Thursday." I'm sure free money has nothing to do with it.
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May 6, 2016 01:06
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That's like the salary of one executive, it's really not that much money, even for a company with only 100 employees. They likely spent more than that just on the cost of moving office equipment from CA to TX.
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May 6, 2016 01:19
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quote:Rescue America! Rescue America!! Rescue America!!! Californian! Let us together rescue America from turning into a third world country. Enough is enough of American deep suffering. People in Washington has collapsed this country. Therefore, electing Dr. Akinyemi Agbede, as your next United States senator representing the golden state of California 2016 is the answer in order for our country to be reclaimed back.
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May 6, 2016 04:46
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Leperflesh posted:That's like the salary of one executive, it's really not that much money, even for a company with only 100 employees. They likely spent more than that just on the cost of moving office equipment from CA to TX. Those moving expenses are a tax write off, so it's win-win.
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May 6, 2016 05:54
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I feel like the moving businesses to Texas thing is a race to the bottom. At what point will it actually bite Texas in the rear end when they need to start taking in heavy federal money for their lack of taxes. I think I asked this before, but they seem to be okay at the moment because of oil and gas?
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May 6, 2016 06:15
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Have you seen my apex seals? I seem to have lost them.
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Aeka 2.0 posted:I feel like the moving businesses to Texas thing is a race to the bottom. At what point will it actually bite Texas in the rear end when they need to start taking in heavy federal money for their lack of taxes. I think I asked this before, but they seem to be okay at the moment because of oil and gas? Oil, gas, and I believe they have a halfway decent tech-sector driven by aeronautics. They're not as tax-free as they claim though. They have a sales tax that rivals California's and they have some of the highest property taxes in the nation, which I imagine helps local governments plug a lot of budget holes that a lack of an income tax might produce.
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May 6, 2016 06:31
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Litany Unheard posted:Oil, gas, and I believe they have a halfway decent tech-sector driven by aeronautics. here's this article, which even predates the oil crash quote:Texas has sales and property taxes that make its overall burden of taxation on low-wage families much heavier than the national average, while the state also taxes the middle class at rates as high or higher than in California. For instance, non-elderly Californians with family income in the middle 20 percent of the income distribution pay combined state and local taxes amounting to 8.2 percent of their income, according to the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy; by contrast, their counterparts in Texas pay 8.6 percent.
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May 6, 2016 12:56
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*in valley girl voice* o m g let's get some jamba!!
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May 6, 2016 17:38
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a unique benefit texas provides to employers is the ability to opt out of workers' comp insurance which is particularly terrible since they also lead the nation in worker fatalitiesquote:Critics, though, say the system is stacked against workers. “They throw these workers away like tissue paper. They’re nothing more than a used Kleenex,” said Joe Longley, an Austin employment lawyer who served as chief of the consumer protection division of the attorney general’s office in the 1970s. “We don’t provide for the workers. We provide for the businesses.” gently caress texas
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May 6, 2016 18:55
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Question: How does Cali deal with homeless? I live in Hawaii, which is the homeless capital of the US and we don't really have any vagrancy laws.
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May 6, 2016 19:25
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amuayse posted:Question: How does Cali deal with homeless? I live in Hawaii, which is the homeless capital of the US and we don't really have any vagrancy laws. We don't. There are usually laws like no sleeping in your car (dumb) or other park curfew stuff and some cities go further with anti homeless laws. But really most California cities ship or subtlety encourage them over here to SF/Berkeley/Oakland so they don't have to deal with them, and we in turn mostly just rough em up and kick em around the city depending on if it's convenient to hide them for events but mostly let them go around doing whatever, or occasionally shoot them if they look minority. Quite a few are beyond mentally ill and need help (probably involuntary) and others are heading that direction but not that far gone. A lot could be helped or prevented by a well funded+maintained public housing projects instead of alleys, but there's a not insignificant that are beyond that levels. We do spend hundreds of millions on lovely results though! Thanks Reagan
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Remember that time the town of West, Texas physically blew up because of low regulations LMAO Texas is a disgrace. I am SHOCKED that an innovative company like Jamba Juice LLC would stoop so low.
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