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The non-Democratic candidates for the Senate this year are astonishingly insane. Holy poo poo, Grundmann, THAT'S your candidate statement?
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Megaman's Jockstrap posted:Aeka might I suggest Joe's Italian on Alessandro? I haven't been there in a literal decade but it was really good when I did go. Good vibe too, far as I can remember. I'll check it out, thanks.
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Have you seen my apex seals? I seem to have lost them.
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Cup Runneth Over posted:The non-Democratic candidates for the Senate this year are astonishingly insane. Holy poo poo, Grundmann, THAT'S your candidate statement? To keep people from having to look it up like I did: Don J. Grundmann posted:Don J. Grundmann | NO PARTY PREFERENCE Edit: also for contrast Ling Ling Shi posted:Ling Ling Shi | NO PARTY PREFERENCE Get those 10 chaos emeralds with Ling Ling Shi.
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Apr 24, 2018 16:43
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No, that was their statement in 2016. This year's statement is a tirade against transgender people.
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Apr 24, 2018 17:33
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Cup Runneth Over posted:No, that was their statement in 2016. This year's statement is a tirade against transgender people. Ah, ok, I found it now. Don J. Grundmann posted:Don J. Grundmann | NO PARTY PREFERENCE also I like Kevin Mottus posted:Kevin Mottus | REPUBLICAN And of course, Ling Ling Shi still bringin' the chaos two years later Ling Ling Shi posted:Ling Ling Shi | NO PARTY PREFERENCE
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Apr 24, 2018 17:53
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Is the Constitution Party not recognized in CA? Why no party preference yet a push to join a party? Is this another dastardly deed by Sodom Inc?
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Apr 24, 2018 19:16
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It's not registered, no.
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Apr 24, 2018 19:59
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My Assemblyperson is such a loving idiot:
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Apr 25, 2018 18:08
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They finally got the the GSK\EAR.... ....dude was a cop and did cop things to evade capture and detection, was fired from being a cop for stealing items used in his attacks, and one of the profiles indicated the person was a cop or in law enforcement. But it was the DNA that got em 
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Apr 25, 2018 21:23
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Should have raped and killed in uniform on camera. He would be given paid leave and dismissed by a grand jury.
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Apr 25, 2018 21:30
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incoherent posted:They finally got the the GSK\EAR....
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Apr 25, 2018 22:20
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Some interesting new research into Climate Change impacts on the California water cycle: http://weatherwest.com/archives/6252 tldr: It will be worse in all ways. quote:We find that the occurrence of both extreme wet and extreme dry events in California—and of rapid transitions between the two—will likely increase with atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations. The rising risk of historically unprecedented precipitation extremes will seriously test California’s existing water storage, distribution, and flood protection infrastructure.  (Nature Climate Change article for those with access: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-018-0140-y)
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Apr 25, 2018 22:22
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FMguru posted:Also it was a completely cold case until Patton Oswalt's wife starting digging into it and unearthing all kinds of leads and getting some publicity which led the cops to blow the dust off the case file and which led to today's arrest. She connected the rapes to the murders right?
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Apr 25, 2018 22:41
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FMguru posted:Also it was a completely cold case until Patton Oswalt's wife starting digging into it and unearthing all kinds of leads and getting some publicity which led the cops to blow the dust off the case file and which led to today's arrest. Her book helped a lot and it was pretty lovely of the cops saying the book did nothing to help at the press conference.
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Apr 25, 2018 23:54
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Trabisnikof posted:Some interesting new research into Climate Change impacts on the California water cycle: http://weatherwest.com/archives/6252 We're going to have to radically readjust our usage of water to maximize during droughts (lets start a Lawn Tax if youre not in, like, Monterey Bay and poo poo), while developing infrastructure to mitigate collection capacity shortcomings and flooding potential during the weird 2-3 days when it looks like El Nino is dumping a lake on us????
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Apr 26, 2018 04:24
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turn san bernardino into a reservoir?
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Grand Prize Winner posted:turn san bernardino into a reservoir? And nothing of value was lost.
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Apr 26, 2018 04:45
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FilthyImp posted:(lets start a Lawn Tax if youre not in, like, Monterey Bay and poo poo) Why? Monterey Bay is well-to-do. Taxing the poors again, are we?
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Cup Runneth Over posted:Why? Monterey Bay is well-to-do. Taxing the poors again, are we? Honestly we have no goddamn business having giant lush lawns in SoCal.
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Apr 26, 2018 05:44
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Cup Runneth Over posted:Why? Monterey Bay is well-to-do. Taxing the poors again, are we? Not all of the Monterey Bay area is wealthy. There's a lot of working class people in nearby towns/cities, especially the inland agricultural areas like Salinas, Castroville, Watsonville, etc not that i think lawns there or probably anywhere in CA are a good idea or anything
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Apr 26, 2018 06:25
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FilthyImp posted:Thats wild. Is it basically that: Yeah basically we’re going to have to prepare to handle worse droughts, through conservation and use reduction, while also strengthing our flood infrastructure. But the additional impacts will be far reaching. You can’t generate hydropower if there is not enough water (or temperature demands downstream force releases times for natural rather than grid needs). And at the opposite end, it doesn’t matter how much water we have for the CVP if the Central Valley is under 30 feet of water. Just image if we had a flood event like the 1862 floods today: quote:The entire Sacramento and San Joaquin valleys were inundated. An area about 300 miles (480 km) long, averaging 20 miles (32 km) in width,[15] and covering 5,000 to 6,000 square miles (13,000 to 16,000 km2) was under water.[9] The water flooding the Central Valley reached depths up to 30 feet (9.1 m), completely submerging telegraph poles that had just been installed between San Francisco and New York. Transportation, mail, and communications across the state were disrupted for a month.[16] Water covered portions of the valley from December 1861, through the spring, and into the summer of 1862. And the valley has only sunk deeper since then....
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Apr 26, 2018 06:41
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Instead of taxing lawns, you could just have radically graduated prices for water usage (with household size factored in). Enough for the basics of cooking, cleaning, showers, etc. is super cheap, but enough to keep a fancy big lawn green through the summer is expensive. Also there should be a state law forbidding any city laws or HOA rules that mandate keeping a (green) lawn.
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Apr 26, 2018 10:18
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Trabisnikof posted:Yeah basically we’re going to have to prepare to handle worse droughts, through conservation and use reduction, while also strengthing our flood infrastructure. One thing that's nice is that urban water use in California has been pretty steady, even dropped a little, over the last 50 years despite population growth. There are still plenty of cards to play before desalination too. Our district has been doing long-term PR for purified recycled drinking water, and a lot of the infrastructure is in place. Over time people will get over "toilet-to-tap" and also realize how wasteful it is to wash their car and water the grass with drinking-quality water. Flooding wise things are gonna get really bad though. More hardscape than ever plus everyone wants to live right next to the water. Rah! posted:Not all of the Monterey Bay area is wealthy. There's a lot of working class people in nearby towns/cities, especially the inland agricultural areas like Salinas, Castroville, Watsonville, etc They have water problems too. Watsonville overextracts groundwater to grow strawberries and now the ocean is intruding to replace it.
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Cicero posted:Instead of taxing lawns, you could just have radically graduated prices for water usage (with household size factored in).
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Apr 26, 2018 18:16
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FilthyImp posted:I could see local municipalities loving with the system tho. Brentwood and Bel Air had fuckers running their spacuzzi infinity golfcourses during the drought to little shame.
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Apr 26, 2018 18:20
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im sure once we get rid all lawns all of our water problems will be solved
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Apr 26, 2018 18:38
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Heavily tax the farming of alfalfa and tree nuts to the point we cut production in half, and there will be enough water left over for everyone to have their own swimming pool and golf course. I'm exaggerating of course, but not by much. "BUT IT'S FOOD WHY DO YOU HATE FOOD" yeah OK it's food for cows and it's luxury nuts for export, it's not like this would lead to anyone starving. For example, https://newrepublic.com/article/125450/heres-real-problem-almonds every almond uses a gallon of water, and we grow 80% of the earth's almonds.
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Apr 26, 2018 18:39
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Yeah seriously you're focusing on stuff that doesn't even use 10% of the total water usage in California. Start banging the drum on assholes growing high water usage crops with massive sprinklers.
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Apr 26, 2018 18:41
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Why not tax farmers and assholes with giant lawns?
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Apr 26, 2018 18:46
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Now you're talking my language. Man I wonder how the signs in the Central Valley has shifted. Always fun to read about conspiracies.
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Leperflesh posted:Heavily tax the farming of alfalfa and tree nuts to the point we cut production in half, and there will be enough water left over for everyone to have their own swimming pool and golf course.
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Good point about priorities. Lush Lawns are definitely one of those high visibility things, so definite myopia on my part for getting  about them.ChaseSP posted:Now you're talking my language. Man I wonder how the signs in the Central Valley has shifted. = No amount of empirical reality will cause that idiocy to shift. FilthyImp fucked around with this message at 19:05 on Apr 26, 2018 |
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Apr 26, 2018 19:02
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it's just frustrating during the last drought when you see all these stories about lawns and see neighbors snitching on each other about water run off when you have the largest almond farmer in the valley using more water than the entire city of LA and SF combined.
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Apr 26, 2018 21:19
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I mean, it isn't like we should be increasing total demand for water use in any water sector. We will need to conserve across the board. The point isn't to take water from that almond farmer to double the water LA and SF get, the point is that all will have to conserve and agriculture as the largest consumers of water will have to bare the burden of most of the conservation. And don't get me started how the size of your water fine is a badge of honor in some hyper-wealthy communities. Since it shows how much you care about your lawn and how little you care about money.
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Apr 26, 2018 21:44
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Use huge water fines to fund transit imo
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Apr 26, 2018 21:48
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Then lets make water fines on an exponential scale! "Oh yeah? Well I hit the 5th power with my last fine!"
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Apr 26, 2018 21:52
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FCKGW posted:it's just frustrating during the last drought when you see all these stories about lawns and see neighbors snitching on each other about water run off when you have the largest almond farmer in the valley using more water than the entire city of LA and SF combined. Counterpoint: an average Concerned Suburbanite can't meaningfully effect the water usage of a giant agribusiness, but they can snitch on their neighbor for watering their lawn every day.
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FCKGW posted:it's just frustrating during the last drought when you see all these stories about lawns and see neighbors snitching on each other about water run off when you have the largest almond farmer in the valley using more water than the entire city of LA and SF combined. hmm yeah but have you also considered CONGRESS CREATED DUSTBOWL
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Apr 27, 2018 02:53
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FOOD GROWS WHERE WATER FLOWS. Maybe the Central Valley should be made to switch to drip irrigation instead. That would seem less wasteful to me... 
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Instant Sunrise posted:FOOD GROWS WHERE WATER FLOWS.
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