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Raskolnikov38 posted:well that was a weird quake, felt like someone tried to give the building a shove I was visiting my parents near Walnut Creek a couple months ago and we had a huge streak of those. Like multiple per day.
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FCKGW posted:I think you missed the guy who's statement was just a hastag (you should look it up) or the guy who used this whole statement to rail against transgender people. Eh that's boring when we've had: Trek "Thunder" Kelly, 2003 recall election posted:Dear Voters, Please vote for me, thus breaking the Seventh Seal and incurring Armageddon. I will legalize drugs, gambling, and prostitution so they may be taxed and regulated, the funds derived would subsidize the deficit, education, and the environment. I believe in peaceful resolutions backed by a strong military; I don't care who you marry or have sex with Look, coke and rear end are nice and all but when it's raining frogs and blood I'm not sure the tax funds will cover the environmental damage caused from earthquakes and eternal darkness.
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This trek kelly sure seems like a fun du-quote:Before his first year, Trek traveled to Jerusalem where a half-blind beggar chose 12 countries for him, he then spent a month in each of these countries, symbolically delivering a key to the most inspiring 12 individuals he encountered. The second year, curious about solitude, he lived in a hogan and was a shepherd on and off the Navajo reservation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trek_Thunder_Kelly
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Cup Runneth Over posted:In case you missed that second one: gently caress I totally did miss this guy, drat. There's also Mottus who's entire statement is about how the FCC's "forced rollout of 5G wireless" will cause cancer and microwave poison us, or something. He's a senate candidate, though.
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I just got my sample ballot and all I've done so far is read the names of the candidates for governor, but I'm excited to vote for Governor WildStar.
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Sorry if this has already been linked, but it's something that more people probably should be made aware of.Slate posted:How did California, of all states, wind up suppressing so many votes? The problem lies in the state election code’s rules for counting absentee ballots. All registered voters can choose to vote by mail in California if they want to; they need only request a ballot, fill it out, sign the ballot envelope, and drop it in the mail. Unbeknownst to most voters, however, is the stipulation that their signature on the envelope must match the signature on their voter-registration form. If it does not, election officials do not count the ballot.
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rngd in the womb posted:Sorry if this has already been linked, but it's something that more people probably should be made aware of. I got hit with this in the 2014 cycle. My ballot was rejected because my signature on my license is a very carefully crafted work of art from 20 years ago while my current signature is just a fast scribble of nothing. They don't even tell you either, I only found out about it when I checked on my county's website and it said "Rejected: signature mismatch" with no info on how to correct it.
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May 16, 2018 01:21
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Also if your bring your mail ballot in and surrender it at the polling station, about half the time they will try to tell you that you must vote provisionally(untrue), in my experience.
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May 16, 2018 01:40
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There's a candidate who claims to be the first technodemocratic candidate and wants to upload our consciousness to the cloud or some poo poo.
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May 16, 2018 02:02
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The signature thing seems weird to me since I got hit with it last election and not only did they check with me to make sure it was, indeed, my signature, the election officials called me, email'd me, and mailed me a notification to check to make sure that I was the person who signed the ballot. Maybe San Mateo is doing better than everywhere else on this? Or maybe my name is white enough that I matter?
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May 16, 2018 02:37
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Ling Ling Shi will restore America’s heart! gently caress the 10 great chaos!!
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Bastard Tetris posted:gently caress the 10 agreed
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VikingofRock posted:I was visiting my parents near Walnut Creek a couple months ago and we had a huge streak of those. Like multiple per day. The thrust fault under Mt Diablo has been experiencing a steady swarm of small quakes the last month or so now. Given that fault is supposed to be capable of some pretty nasty shocks if it ruptures (and the fact that I live relatively close to the fault) I'm definitely not at all worried. On the plus side, I heard recently that earthquake swarms have no proven link to larger earthquakes, so 
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If we just space out gay marriages to maybe 1/2 per week near that fault we should be safe
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US Representative District 11 candidate Chris Wood (No Party Preference), Civil Engineer: https://www.chriswood-public.com/home It's just the right mix of pseudo-hippy nonsense, random capitalization and bolding, terrible web design, and completely reasonable (if a bit vague) positions on various issues. Here's the statement from the voter info guide: quote:Every human being has one obligation in Life, it is to find one's true Self-Purpose. Every individual's Journey is unique and can never be fully understood or appreciated by another. But if we have Patience, if we actively Listen, if we Compassionately and Positively Engage, we can coax another's Spirit to share their most Invaluable Experiences with us. This Facilitates Healing in the story teller, Growth and Discovery in the listener, and Deeper Bonds-of-Affection within All.
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May 17, 2018 03:51
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:Got my mail-in ballot this weekend and I have to admit, while voting based on nothing but the candidates' names is a very bad idea, I'm having a hard time not voting for a man named Kreep. Kreep is a birther, and a racist, and a sexist, and corrupt with election finances, and just generally an evil right wing nut job. He needs to be off the bench.
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May 17, 2018 23:36
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Hitlers Gay Secret posted:There's a candidate who claims to be the first technodemocratic candidate and wants to upload our consciousness to the cloud or some poo poo. Upload the rich to the cloud. Redistribute their wealth. make them fight in simulations.
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ElMaligno posted:Upload the rich to the cloud. TIMCOOK used Stun Spore! It's super effective! Foe ZUCKERBERG is paralyzed! It can't move!
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It is every citizen's final duty to go into the cloud and become one with all the people.
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predicto posted:Kreep is a birther, and a racist, and a sexist, and corrupt with election finances, and just generally an evil right wing nut job. He needs to be off the bench. If you need a judicial candidate for that race, Victor Torres is both exceptionally qualified and cool as hell in person.
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I’m going to lose my mind if the Democrats all split the vote and we end up with two republicans choices in the 48th because of the jungle primary.
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If that happens (well, every time that happens), I hope we at least get more converts to the concept of ranked-choice voting, instead of a straight repeal of that proposition that started this top-two business.
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May 18, 2018 17:51
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Leperflesh posted:It's just the right mix of pseudo-hippy nonsense ...not really? It's bog standard New Age speak.
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The neo-nazi running for Senate, Patrick Little: https://littlerevolutiondotus.wordpress.com/2018/01/28/a-proposal-for-terraforming-mars/ quote:We need to turn Mars into a giant ball of magma! You might ask why anyone who wants to permanently colonize Mars would do this. The answer is one word, something that none of the other proposals address, save one (granted with shortcomings that I will later describe). This one word is the most critical variable of sustaining long-term human colonization of Mars: MAGNETOSPHERE.
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The Aardvark posted:The neo-nazi running for Senate, Patrick Little: hmm, controversial take - but I agree. Destroy Mars! There can be ONLY ONE habitable planet in the Sol system! REMEMBER THE BELT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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tbf that's probably the most reasonable proposal i've read for restoring mars' magnetic field
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Megaman's Jockstrap posted:...not really? It's bog standard New Age speak. sorry for conflating new-age with pseudo-hippy, it's all the same category to me but feel free to slice it up how you like
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The Aardvark posted:The neo-nazi running for Senate, Patrick Little: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Csj7vMKy4EI
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Leperflesh posted:sorry for conflating new-age with pseudo-hippy, it's all the same category to me but feel free to slice it up how you like Well that means the propaganda is working then
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predicto posted:Kreep is a birther, and a racist, and a sexist, and corrupt with election finances, and just generally an evil right wing nut job. He needs to be off the bench. Which is why I didn't actually vote for him.
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Raskolnikov38 posted:tbf that's probably the most reasonable proposal i've read for restoring mars' magnetic field How many proposals about how to do that have you read
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Badger of Basra posted:How many proposals about how to do that have you read i dunno how many are on the terraforming mars wiki page
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Cows drink 2 gallons of water per 100 lbs of body weight per day. Multiple by 3 as cows are 300 lbs on the very low end. Your end result is 1800 gallons of water per year per cow. . X4 million cows (CA hs 5.15 mil cows circulating) end result being 7.2 billion gallons of water per year. Solely for beef. Now i was reading an article that says almonds use 3.5 billion cubic meters of water... this comes out to 924,602,183,253 gallons of water per year. Im no environmentalist but this feels like bullshit. Another webaite says LA uses 64 bil gallons a year, and almonds use 3x thst. Meaning 192 bil gallons a year. I mean how much water does almond production actually use? 
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Got another one of the weird email push-polls from Villaraigosa and it was the first one to not mention his union busting at all and instead presented all his talking points in extremely ambiguous wording that say absolutely nothing like "as assembly speaker he won healthcare for children" and "he doubled LA's high school graduation rates" and "he is committed to creating middle-class jobs" lol
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Shear Modulus posted:Got another one of the weird email push-polls from Villaraigosa and it was the first one to not mention his union busting at all and instead presented all his talking points in extremely ambiguous wording that say absolutely nothing like "as assembly speaker he won healthcare for children" and "he doubled LA's high school graduation rates" and "he is committed to creating middle-class jobs" lol i love answering those because i'll rate all those as decent things but then put extremely unfavorable for villaragiosa at both ends of the polls
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I got a text from Gavin Newsom's campaign like "Hi I'm Brenda, can we count on you to support Gavin?" and I replied back "Delaine Easton" and they said "ok" Gave me a little chuckle. They know their audience.
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got a text from the Genevieve Jones campaign for Issa's district. Was already planning to vote for her but I forgot to fill out my ballot this weekend. Guess I'll take care of it tonight
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Megaman's Jockstrap posted:I got a text from Gavin Newsom's campaign like "Hi I'm Brenda, can we count on you to support Gavin?" and I replied back "Delaine Easton" and they said "ok" Oh hey, I did this too. Except mine texted back with "okay, but will you vote for Newsom after Eastin loses the primary?" to which I responded "begrudgingly", and they finished with "great, thanks for your support!"  Our fantastic political system at work.
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Megaman's Jockstrap posted:I got a text from Gavin Newsom's campaign like "Hi I'm Brenda, can we count on you to support Gavin?" and I replied back "Delaine Easton" and they said "ok" Text UNSUBSCRIBE to all of those political texts and 99% of the time you'll get an automatic confirmation from a robot. They all use the same software to spam them out.
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I got pretty annoyed last weekend when I got one of those texts, for Prop 68, but they used my girlfriend's name. She's never shared a phone number with me. They said they got it from the state's voter information, but how would the state have made that association? I should have replied that I had no opinion until I got the text and would vote against the proposition based on getting a text for it alone.
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