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A friend of mine is family friends with Scott Shafer, and as such has encountered Michael Krasny in a social context. He said the thing that's immediately apparent about Krasny is that he thinks of himself as someone who could be a Great Mind of his Generation, but by hook or by crook has ended up as a journalist, and so instead spends his time interviewing the luminaries he thinks should be his peers rather than his subjects. That's why he's always dropping little facts and going off on his own stuff, because he feels that really it should be him that's being interviewed. When my friend laid this out for me it explained everything about the show. Marketplace owns, they have pretty interesting wealth and poverty reporting. They aired a very biting piece about racial discrimination in welfare, including how the moment at which black women were finally able to enroll in welfare in serious numbers was right when everyone got serious about ending welfare. However, because it's still APM/NPR/PRI/PRX centrist liberal bullshit, they aired that bit on the Fourth of July when precisely no one was listening to Marketplace. Reiterpallasch posted:Does Berkeley bowl have Buddha's Hand in right now bc if it does i need to head up there again You can usually expect them in November. Buddha's Hand are some of the earliest of the Advanced Citrus, along with Minneola Tangelos. A bit later than that and you see Moro Blood oranges, a bunch of ridiculously cheap navels, etrog citrons, and key limes. The latest-season citrus, sometimes as late as early January, is the Seville Orange, king of the winter fruits. If you're lucky there might be a few weeks of Bergamots in the middle of that, and also things like Satsumas and yuzu that I don't pay attention to. I am really serious about citrus season at Berkeley Bowl.
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I could eat satsumas every day
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If you're in the south bay I recommend milk pail in mountain view for your food acquisition needs
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Satsumas are literally the best fruit.
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Cold tangelos out of the fridge. The most refreshing thing because I don't ever call things refreshing. I always want an ice cold shot of vodka with a cold tangelo.
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You guys know wayyyy to much about citrus fruits and AM radio people.
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withak posted:Satsumas are literally the best fruit. 
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Safeway sells these GMO peaches that are loving delicious when they're verging on ripeness. Just the right texture and taste. I'm gonna miss you peaches, until next year  .Legislative Wrap up for this month.Apparently using your cell phone while driving is now officially illegal, loving finally.
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Progressive JPEG posted:If you're in the south bay I recommend milk pail in mountain view for your food acquisition needs best cheese and mushroom availability in the area their frozen croissants are excellent too
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A White Guy posted:Legislative Wrap up for this month.Apparently using your cell phone while driving is now officially illegal, loving finally. it wasnt already?
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paranoid randroid posted:it wasnt already? This law is a blanket ban on the using the phone, period, unless it's attached to the dashboard. Personally, I feel they should up the fines into the hundreds of dollars range, but progress is slow  .
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What's the definition of "attached to the dashboard"? Like if you buy one of those cheap $10 plastic holders that sticks to your dash and put your phone in it, are you free to text away behind the wheel? That wouldn't seem to solve much of anything.
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Sydin posted:What's the definition of "attached to the dashboard"? Like if you buy one of those cheap $10 plastic holders that sticks to your dash and put your phone in it, are you free to text away behind the wheel? That wouldn't seem to solve much of anything. i just use the one cops tend to use
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Here's the text of the bill: http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1785 TL;DR. Existing law is narrow in scope and only prohibits text or voice communications while holding a phone. This bill will expand that to include all use of a text or communications device while holding it. You can still use a telephone if it is mounted in a dash or windshield mount HOWEVER you can only interact with the device "with the motion of a single swipe or tap of the driver’s finger". So use of apps like a GPS or music app that can be used with a simple tap are ok, texting is still no good even if in a mount. Anything that is interacted with via a hands-free method has been and is still a-OK. Most people I see using their phones while driving are texting at red lights which has always been illegal, but it will also prevent things like browsing facebook at stoplights and backing up traffic (you jerks).
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FCKGW posted:but it will also prevent things like browsing facebook at stoplights and backing up traffic (you jerks). Some stupid highschooler was holding up the light the other day and he was on his loving phone, looking all dumbfounded why people were cutting him off in the middle of the intersection.
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I just posted this to the LA thread but in retrospect it'd fit better here."Goleta sues to stop 'Law & Order' creator from selling water to neighboring cities posted:Wolf’s 780-acre Slippery Rock Ranch is perched in the foothills of the Santa Ynez Mountains on an aquifer. The ranch has said it wants to extract water and sell it to cities such as Montecito, Carpinteria and Santa Barbara, according to court documents.
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It seems like there's also a trend of thinking its ok to use your cellphone for calls however you like while driving as long as you use speaker I don't know how many idiots a day I see talking while holding their phone 6 inches from their face
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The speakerphone function should just be illegal anyway. I mean generally, not just while driving. How do people not understand that it is completely awful trying to listen to someone on speakerphone?
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Voter guide is the size of a phone book god drat Your mail delivery person has probably been not very happy lately
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Leperflesh posted:The speakerphone function should just be illegal anyway.
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coupbrick posted:Voter guide is the size of a phone book god drat I like the voter guide, but you should really be able to opt out of it. I can look it up online. I don't need a copy for every voter in my house
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FilthyImp posted:I'll sign, if there's an addendum that we can beat dickwads that have phone conversations while at the gym. I'm in the hall outside the courtroom with fifty other prospective jurors and this dude makes a phone call. Holding the phone up to his head, but everyone within 100 feet can hear it because it's on speakerphone. Eventually he figures it out. You can tell this dude just normally has all conversations on speakerphone. An older dude but no, not deaf at all, he had conversations with other jurors no problem. My stepdad also just uses speakerphone all the time for no loving reason. I have to tell him every single call "hey can you take it off speakerphone because I CAN'T GODDAMN HEAR YOU" but he won't learn. People who use speakerphone are assholes but goddamn people who use speakerphone in public should be slapped with a felony.
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One measure I've been paying attention to is the Monterey county band on fracking. https://ballotpedia.org/Monterey_County_Ban_on_Fracking_and_Extreme_Oil_Extraction_Methods_Initiative_(November_2016) Mostly because the anti people have been spamming the radio with ads. It's also interesting because the San Aldo fields straddle the Monterey and San Benito county lines down near Slo and iirc there's not an equivalent measure in San Benito county.
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I just got into Santa Criz and it's been nothing but ads against Measure Z. They keep going on about losing jobs, so I'm assuming this means Z is about prohibiting the rape of our shores for oil? Just guessing, because the ads didn't clarify. Banner ads on the subject feature stock footage of a disapproving elderly man. Anyway en route yesterday person in front of me was suddenly driving incredibly slow. When it was safe to get around her, I took a look to see her eyes cast down to her lap. So, it's okay guys, just leave ten car lengths in front of you and you won't crash into anything! I gave her a little honk. Didn't even look up or anything. Brain dead. gently caress that drive is already congested, you're not helping you idiot!
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Tell me about etrog -- are the peels tasty, or the fruit, or what? If you're in the mid-Peninsula, I highly recommend Sigona's Market in Redwood City and in the Stanford Mall (!) -- wonderful produce year-round, with lots of emphasis on local growers when seasonally available. Also lots of cheese sample cubes. E: You can opt-out of the paper information guide; I've been doing it for years. Go here: https://voterstatus.sos.ca.gov/ Arsenic Lupin fucked around with this message at 23:33 on Oct 1, 2016 |
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I like getting the physical voter guide because I like to mark it up. Is it worse up north this year than SoCal? Who has more measures?
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Leperflesh posted:The speakerphone function should just be illegal anyway. its useful if youre on hold and want to put the phone down
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RandomPauI posted:I just posted this to the LA thread but in retrospect it'd fit better here. This is one of those local issues that no one outside of those cities or part of the state give a poo poo but has far-reaching implications for the state overall. Ideally, you'd want a political solution to water rights but that's just not going to happen. You're left with things getting bad enough that the courts have to sort through it. How do you preserve property/water rights equally when those P/W rights holders drain from the same aquifer system and the needs of those holders run contrary to each other? In this particular instance with Slippery Rock Ranch, it's mostly about money. The system works when there's enough water for the most part but when it runs out, you get this. A fire burned out all their orchards so the ranch isn't making any money. So they want to take the water that would've been used for farming (SRR's argument) and sell it to a nearby city where they can get three times the amount of money. The article does a good job of hitting the notes of rich selfish cunts narrative but like most writing that goes on about water in California they really miss the bigger picture: we're running out and we need to figure a better way of doing this. Again, no politician, regardless of party, wants to deal with this because you'll always piss off enough people to end your career right there. My unlearned opinion with no basis in fact or reality, SCOTUS will be seeing cases about California water in 10 years.
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Leperflesh posted:I'm in the hall outside the courtroom with fifty other prospective jurors and this dude makes a phone call. Holding the phone up to his head, but everyone within 100 feet can hear it because it's on speakerphone. Eventually he figures it out. You can tell this dude just normally has all conversations on speakerphone. There is some semi autistic shitlord at work that thinks having teleconference where he is on computer speakerphone in an open office is a fine idea.
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Progressive JPEG posted:its useful if youre on hold and want to put the phone down You can get a pair of headphones with a mic for like five dollars. If you can afford a phone you can afford a headset.
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Leperflesh posted:I'm in the hall outside the courtroom with fifty other prospective jurors and this dude makes a phone call. Holding the phone up to his head, but everyone within 100 feet can hear it because it's on speakerphone. Eventually he figures it out. You can tell this dude just normally has all conversations on speakerphone. Like 5 or 6 years ago my dad transitioned to solely carrying out phone conversations on the speaker. I have no idea what triggered it, but it's a thing I've primarily noticed in older people. Maybe his arm gets tired holding up the phone? It's pretty maddening. Arsenic Lupin posted:Tell me about etrog -- are the peels tasty, or the fruit, or what? If you're in the mid-Peninsula, I highly recommend Sigona's Market in Redwood City and in the Stanford Mall (!) -- wonderful produce year-round, with lots of emphasis on local growers when seasonally available. Also lots of cheese sample cubes. One of the Jewish holidays uses etrog, I can never remember which, but for Gentiles you mostly candy the rind or do something with the oils in the peel. Etrog do contain some juice, but it's a pathetically small amount and mostly just tastes like lemon.
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Spazzle posted:There is some semi autistic shitlord at work that thinks having teleconference where he is on computer speakerphone in an open office is a fine idea. sounds like they're in need of a good old fashioned passive aggressive speakerphone battle
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Or a private office. I mean, the guy is clearly executive material.
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Leperflesh posted:You can get a pair of headphones with a mic for like five dollars. If you can afford a phone you can afford a headset. When I'm in my own home?
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Kenning posted:One of the Jewish holidays uses etrog, I can never remember which, but for Gentiles you mostly candy the rind or do something with the oils in the peel. Etrog do contain some juice, but it's a pathetically small amount and mostly just tastes like lemon.
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Anyone have thoughts on this site? http://ballot.fyi/ It's getting posted around facebook and a cursory examination so far seems to confirm my suspicions that anything that talks about voting on propositions from a "non-partisan" point of view isn't.
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Artificer posted:Anyone have thoughts on this site? http://ballot.fyi/ For what it's worth, KQED's California proposition site seems pretty decent. edit: There's no substitute for ballotpedia though. Also yeah the site you linked is pretty far from "nonpartisan". VikingofRock fucked around with this message at 21:21 on Oct 4, 2016 |
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Any thoughts on Prop. 54 (state law transparency proposal?) Kind of not sure what to make of it, although I'm suspicious of ballot measures that affect the legislative process directly.
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StandardVC10 posted:Any thoughts on Prop. 54 (state law transparency proposal?) Kind of not sure what to make of it, although I'm suspicious of ballot measures that affect the legislative process directly. The principle is good and it will pass easily, opening the doors to endless political ad fodder and "the truth revealed!" video postings on the right-wing media. It's still probably a net good though even if it cuts the legislative session a few days shorter.
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VikingofRock posted:For what it's worth, KQED's California proposition site seems pretty decent. the league of women voters is also fairly decent they have clearly stated opinions but like they say they're nonpartisan
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