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Arsenic Lupin posted:This will never, ever pass the Leg, but wow. Scott Wiener's been a pleasant surprise.
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That seems like a great bill. Unrelated: Wow great lede there, Bee “He announced a run for Feinstein’s seat. Then a harassment scandal broke under his roof.” http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article192859954.html I also saw a great Facebook comment section on KQED’s page about the San Francisco skyline this morning. People get really mad about tall buildings in the downtown of a major city. “It looks like a penis!!”
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The Wiggly Wizard posted:That seems like a great bill. Oh boy, no one mention Coit Tower to them.
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If I were an evil wizard I'd have my wizard tower be Coit Tower. Provides excellent line of sight for casting Power Word: Piss Stench.
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The Wiggly Wizard posted:That seems like a great bill. A lot of old timers are still mad about the "Manhattanization" of of the loving financial district back in the 80s and the subsequent influx of yuppies. As if the Italians in North Beach were thrilled when their dope smoking asses came to their neighborhood back in '58.
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No lie, I'm kinda sad that the Transamerica Pyramid doesn't dominate the skyline any more. Not sad enough that I think it should have been illegal, duh.
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I support density but also think the Salesforce tower looks like a giant dick, wouldn't have been built without shameful tax incentives that basically shift costs back onto the city, and is indicative of an overall hosed up approach to development that serves corporations over people.
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Baby Babbeh posted:I support density but also think the Salesforce tower looks like a giant dick, wouldn't have been built without shameful tax incentives that basically shift costs back onto the city, and is indicative of an overall hosed up approach to development that serves corporations over people. This is why I'm worried when the attitude about housing becomes "do anything we can to make it nice and easy for developers." Investment profit driven housing development is a huge part of the problem that won't go away no matter how many tax breaks or luxury condos the developers get.
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I just made my first dispensary visit of the new year, and I'd like to announce that I'm now one of those guys who complains about the tax-and-spend bums in the legislature
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acksplode posted:I just made my first dispensary visit of the new year, and I'd like to announce that I'm now one of those guys who complains about the tax-and-spend bums in the legislature Maybe if we convince Republicans that smoking weed causes conservatism, we can make some progress on this nationally.
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acksplode posted:I just made my first dispensary visit of the new year, and I'd like to announce that I'm now one of those guys who complains about the tax-and-spend bums in the legislature you get out of the taxes if you get a medical card
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Here is the important question: can I pay for it with my HRA account?
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Raskolnikov38 posted:you get out of the taxes if you get a medical card Do you? My wife has a card and she paid the same as everyone else.
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Raskolnikov38 posted:you get out of the taxes if you get a medical card Only county sales taxes, which are a fraction of the total depending on where you buy. The state taxes are the bigger chunk, and they apply to medical as well, no getting out of them. And to bypass the sales tax you need a state-issued medical card, which costs $100+ on top of what you already payed for a medical recommendation from a doctor, and needs to be updated annually along with it. I'd have to buy a lot of weed to save enough on the 8.5% SF sales tax to come out even. I read up a little on how WA and CO rolled out recreational, and they both also had initially a really high tax rate that they had to bring down to keep people from fleeing for the black market. Boy do I hope that happens here. I am not paying rent in SF so that goddamn Portland can swoop in as the best city in the US for stoners.
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Also I was reading through a recent DEA report on drug use and they noted that they could only count the number of people who got the state ID and didn't have a count of the people in CA with a medical rec but no ID card.
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Yeah getting the state ID puts you on a public list, which is maybe not the best thing when Jeff Sessions is running the Justice Department.
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oh dang, well i guess i'm definitely not renewing my recommendation this year then
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My dad who is / was in the business said that Oregon grew 1 million lbs too much this last year and that the market really bottomed out. He was seeing people trying to off load 1lb for as low as $300.
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MarcusSA posted:My dad who is / was in the business said that Oregon grew 1 million lbs too much this last year and that the market really bottomed out. He was seeing people trying to off load 1lb for as low as $300. It occurs to me that in 20 years it's very likely that weed will be just another cash crop like sorghum and tobacco and there will be ag subsidies and price supports and a deep-pocketed DC lobbying operation and USDA extension programs holding classes and publishing pamphlets on the best way to grow and process and sell it.
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Well he said some of them are making “moon rocks” with it which I guess is THC crack? I dunno. He also got out of growing because a lot of the new grow laws that came in are nuts and his county charges some crazy fees to grow which just encourages people to keep going illegally 
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MarcusSA posted:Well he said some of them are making “moon rocks” with it which I guess is THC crack? I dunno. Weed soaked in THC oil then rolled in kief. So basically THC crack, yeah. So what's the outlook for this since Sessions rescinded the Cole Memo today? Are we going to go back in time 10 years to where even the dispensaries that aren't doing shady poo poo are getting raided in the middle of the day?
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lol more like going back 6 years. My only takeaway so far is that weed is still cool and smoking it still means you're freaking out squares and standing up to the man.
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bango skank posted:Weed soaked in THC oil then rolled in kief. So basically THC crack, yeah. Probably gonna have a few raids in California because the Trump admin is babies and we're the biggest target.
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Jaxyon posted:Probably gonna have a few raids in California because the Trump admin is babies and we're the biggest target. I imagine they'll start up threatening landlords with asset forfeiture (without a trial) of all their properties if they don't kick out all dispensaries, just like they did before.
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bango skank posted:Weed soaked in THC oil then rolled in kief. So basically THC crack, yeah. Not much because the DOJ is prohibited from spending federal money to prosecute marijuana cases due to the Rohrabacher-Farr amendment in appropriations bills. Feds can't spend money to go after cases. If that amendment doesn't get added to the next appropriations bill, then it gets real murky. https://www.popehat.com/2018/01/04/lawsplainer-attorney-general-sessions-threatened-action-on-marijuana/
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FCKGW posted:Not much because the DOJ is prohibited from spending federal money to prosecute marijuana cases due to the Rohrabacher-Farr amendment in appropriations bills. Feds can't spend money to go after cases. If that amendment doesn't get added to the next appropriations bill, then it gets real murky. Rohrabacher-Farr only covers medical marijuana activities, DOJ could still take action against recreational businesses. quote:As long as Rohrabacher-Farr remains in every federal appropriations bill, Department of Justice policy is mostly symbolic — the Department of Justice will still be prohibited from spending money on prosecuting people for medical marijuana activities that are legal under state laws. (That doesn't limit prosecutions of non-medical personal use activities, though — but it will be difficult to tease them apart.) They'll search google for some unlicensed at-home nanny and then use that to slam landlords with "proceeds from a drug enterprise within 1,000 of a childcare facility" and it won't even have to go to trial before the business is evicted.
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Baby Babbeh posted:I support density but also think the Salesforce tower looks like a giant dick, wouldn't have been built without shameful tax incentives that basically shift costs back onto the city, and is indicative of an overall hosed up approach to development that serves corporations over people. I think as best as possible cities should facilitate large density low-income/market-rate residential buildings even if it means serving corps a little more with tax incentives and things, but yeah this one isn't that. It's mostly commercial with some luxury condos and no BMR/market housing at all, and what is there for condos is very very little. I'm not sure that new non-groundfloor commercial space is even the most important thing to be building right now, we have a bunch of vacant suites in our building and neighboring buildings in the financial district, though I guess bigcorps need that double-digit floors level of consolidated space so I guess their options are more limited.
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ShutteredIn posted:Scott Wiener's been a pleasant surprise. I guess I could see surprisingly effective, he seems to be getting more poo poo done in the Senate, probably because of a lower percentage of pretend-progressive NIMBY assholes compared to SF. edit: Wiener is the loving man: https://medium.com/@Scott_Wiener/california-needs-a-housing-first-agenda-my-2018-housing-package-1b6fe95e41da Besides the already-mentioned bill mandating higher zoning minimums near transit, in that blog post he also announced two other housing bills: quote:SB 828— RHNA Reform: Relying on Data, Not Politics, in Projecting Housing Needs Cicero fucked around with this message at 15:00 on Jan 5, 2018 |
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Oroville Spillway Forensic Report is out Executive summary: quote:The Oroville Dam spillway incident was caused by a long-term systemic failure of the California Department of Water Resources (DWR), regulatory, and general industry practices to recognize and address inherent spillway design and construction weaknesses, poor bedrock quality, and deteriorated service spillway chute conditions. The incident cannot reasonably be “blamed” mainly on any one individual, group, or organization.
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withak posted:Oroville Spillway Forensic Report is out Bob Bea's report is pretty good. https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bz1I1mIutSEnbFJuVUJZWWNNVlU/view But yeah real reason was when they were funding the SWP, they (Pat Brown (jerry's dad), et. al) didn't actually know how much it would cost and thought $2.75 billion would be nice attractive number to the voters on the ballot than the $6+ billion it really would have costed. So poo poo was super rushed, overbudget and made cheaply, and they knew it and figured they'd get the money to fix it and rebuild this poo poo later. lol that never happened. Anyways i'm evaluating a lot of spillways right now. Should be a fun year! It's kinda crazy some of the stuff they did that is a real headscratcher right now and of course no one is alive to ask about it. Xaris fucked around with this message at 00:24 on Jan 6, 2018 |
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FCKGW posted:Not much because the DOJ is prohibited from spending federal money to prosecute marijuana cases due to the Rohrabacher-Farr amendment in appropriations bills. Feds can't spend money to go after cases. If that amendment doesn't get added to the next appropriations bill, then it gets real murky. Thanks for the link, that was an informative read.
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The report has a lot to say about DWR's organization and internal culture as well as about the regulatory environment and the dam engineering industry in general. It will be interesting to see if/how DWR/DSOD get rearranged. I spent a few months on the project and it makes a good point of reference to calm me down when I run up against my own employer's bureaucracy. Physical causes are pretty much exactly what everyone expected (Bob Bea excepted, I think he lost his mind this year).
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One good thing about working for a small business, no bureaucracy. bad thing about working in a small business: most of my time is spent in illustrator fixing up plaxis output and drafting up old as-built and other graphical proposal poo poo like org charts, etc. Also gently caress writing proposals. Anyways I doubt DSOD is going to get rearranged. They're mostly putting out lots of requests for evaluations to pretend to be more proactive and will probably ramp up periodic inspections and adjust periodic inspections to be more detailed. I was reading inspection reports for the past 40 years at a lot of east bay dams and its all "looks good, no signs of problems. get rid of some vegetation" (which they cant actually get rid of because environmental reasons lol) and generally do not look that closely. My experience with DSOD is generally alright, we occasionally butt up against a new junior hotshot that wants to prove themself and requires a shitload of work and convincing for no real reason, others that are reasonably responsive with their own independent reasnable analysis for comparison, and some that just go AWOL for 6 months.
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Cross-posting from the state and local politics thread: Sacramento's mayor is extremely  https://twitter.com/Mayor_Steinberg/status/948988941364965376
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The CA GOP are concerned that they’ll gently caress themselves out of being on the governors ballot this year like they did with the senate last election by running too many candidates in the jungle primary (leading to the top two vote getters both being democrats), so that’s good. https://twitter.com/latseema/status/950113359478767616 Fill Baptismal fucked around with this message at 00:43 on Jan 8, 2018 |
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some dipshit posted:Mayor Steinberg, Californians never voted to make CA a Sanctuary State.Democratic lawmakers decided to force this down our throats.Travis Allen calling for the Federal Govt. to sue CA.I hope POTUS does this ASAP.I thank God for Thomas Homan!
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No, you see representative democracy is only legitimate when it's my party in power. Just like Big Governmenttm federal overreach is only an issue when it's the other guys.
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themrguy posted:The CA GOP are concerned that they’ll gently caress themselves out of being on the governors ballot this year like they did with the senate last election by running too many candidates in the jungle primary (leading to the top two vote getters both being democrats), so that’s good. Doesn't matter who they run they have zero chance of getting the governor's seat. I'm more concerned that the Democratic candidates are kinda lovely.
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