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The Glumslinger posted:https://twitter.com/mlevinreports/status/1083425012923547648 How reliable is this guy? I've never heard of him and he doesn't have a check mark.
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VikingofRock posted:How reliable is this guy? I've never heard of him and he doesn't have a check mark. quote:Matt Levin is the data and housing dude for CALmatters. His work entails distilling complex policy topics into easily digestible charts and graphs, finding and writing original stories from data, yelling at his computer for something he did wrong in his code, and complaining about his rent on our housing podcast. Matt is a former research associate for the Public Policy Institute of California, where he specialized in poverty and social policy. He has reported for KQED’s The California Report, PBS Frontline, and Private Equity International Magazine. He has a Master’s in Public Policy from UCLA and an MS in Journalism from USC, but he'll always consider himself a Cal bear.
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Keyser_Soze posted:"Do you like High Density Housing initiatives?" I get it.
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This and the single payer stuff, gotta say I’m warming to G A V I N a little. I guess this is what it looks like when psychotic ambition is focused on good, not evil. i love my murderous android governor
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Excuse me his name is G.A.V.I.N.
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i still chuckle about that joke about how gavin had to leave the candidate statement in the voter booklet blank because of the law that facebook bots disclose they are bots when making political posts
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Shear Modulus posted:i still chuckle about that joke about how gavin had to leave the candidate statement in the voter booklet blank because of the law that facebook bots disclose they are bots when making political posts Jesus, I’m stealing that.
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Hey look, Gavbot is proposing another good thing: https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5c377614e4b045f67689e0e0quote:Newly elected California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) on Thursday proposed what would be the most generous paid parental leave policy in the nation: six months of partially paid leave so parents or other family members can care for a newborn or newly adopted baby.
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6 months bro I'm gonna dopt a kid a year
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https://twitter.com/hiltzikm/status/1083761760031526913 Stop white house The dust bowl
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I'm pleasantly surprised at how hard Newsom came swinging out the gate honestly
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Jerry Manderbilt posted:I'm pleasantly surprised at how hard Newsom came swinging out the gate honestly I do wonder if he'd resign and run for feinsteins seat in 2024 given he'd only have 2 years left in office anyways.
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Jerry Manderbilt posted:I'm pleasantly surprised at how hard Newsom came swinging out the gate honestly He's a weathervane, but one that the winds are (for once) swinging in our direction. Fine by me, I'll take it.
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Jerry Manderbilt posted:I'm pleasantly surprised at how hard Newsom came swinging out the gate honestly I am too. Seems like he's certainly not loving around. Even John Moorlach didn't have much to complain about.
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Jerry Manderbilt posted:I'm pleasantly surprised at how hard Newsom came swinging out the gate honestly N.E.W.S.O.M. calculated all scenarios and determined this was the best path, 63.65% favorable outcome, to an eventual Vice Presidency nomination and favorable anti-trump comparisons. More data is required before AOC Protocols are integrated into legislative routines. Xaris posted:I do wonder if he'd resign and run for Feinsteins seat in 2024 given he'd only have 2 years left in office anyways. He gets to crow about her historic leadership and she gets to hand it off to someone who won't rock the boat too much. Bonus is he gets to sit in congress and push back against the GOP to get a cushy Cabinet/Veep nom down the line FilthyImp fucked around with this message at 18:41 on Jan 11, 2019 |
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gavinbot's immediate health proposal isnt single payer or opening up medical to the general public or anything (there is increased eligibility to medical for undocumented immigrants though which is good). it is just reimplementing the obamacare individual mandate on the state level. i havent seen anything that indicates that there will actually be cost or quality controls on the private insurance people will be compelled to buy and unless it does i dont see how this improves healthcare from the status quo where people pay assloads of money for lovely insurance they cant afford to use.
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How will Newsom respond to the PG&E bankruptcy?
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RandomPauI posted:How will Newsom respond to the PG&E bankruptcy? Sue whatever leadership/board there is for negligance and nationalize it? 
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Didn't they just get a massive bullshit bailout as Jerry was walking out the door that let them jack up rates to offset their losses from the fires?
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Sydin posted:Didn't they just get a massive bullshit bailout as Jerry was walking out the door that let them jack up rates to offset their losses from the fires? for 2017's fires, yes last i saw they were lobbying to get an identical bill passed for last year e: it was also not just a moonbeam thing it passed both chambers with overwhelming majorities lol Shear Modulus fucked around with this message at 19:32 on Jan 14, 2019 |
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FilthyImp posted:Sue whatever leadership/board there is for negligance and nationalize it? I would love this. Quick question on it: Would y'all want to elect a board of governors for PG&E or have a currently elected position appoint them?
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I do not understand how you could have a functioning brain and look at for-profit utilities and think "yes this is a good thing that will work well." Come on dems you have a super majority, the governorship, and all the public anger and justification you will ever need. Grow a goddamn spine and raze PG&E to the ground, then plant the glorious flag of a state-owned and operated energy company on top of PG&E's corpse.
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Sydin posted:I do not understand how you could have a functioning brain and look at for-profit utilities and think "yes this is a good thing that will work well." a private entity is much more efficient at routing campaign contributions to lawmakers' checking accounts and post-political-career lobbying job offer letters to their inboxes
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just think of the seven-figure do-nothing job youll have for life if youre the assemblymember who manages to block the pg&e takeover
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CA should just do a hostile takeover while the stock is cheap, IMO
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The Glumslinger posted:CA should just do a hostile takeover while the stock is cheap, IMO  
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The whole point of going bankrupt is to give as much of the money that's left to investors and creditors and leave the state to deal with the decayed infrastructure.
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Bankruptcy involves screwing creditors because there's not enough money left to pay debts. What you return to investors is always only what's leftover after paying senior debt, which generally means creditors and bondholders. Typically stockholders get nothing. Where poo poo gets especially egregious is when executives have golden parachutes so they escape with their bonuses and incomes intact despite running a company into the dirt. e. In this case I believe PG&E's debts are seen as the undfunded judgements likely to be leveled against them in court. Bankruptcy is the option for dealing with the situation of being unable to raise cash to pay the presumed impending judgements on top of any existing debt and operating costs. I do not know whether a judgement would be seen as senior debt in a bankruptcy court. In the event the state seeks to take over PG&E, I think it would be best for taxpayers for PG&E to pass all the way through bankruptcy first; however, this could result in the beneficiaries of a huge judgement receiving much less than the court assigned them. From the perspective of seeing the company's operations continue, getting the infrastructure updated and maintained properly, and also paying whatever judgements come down as restitution to victims and their families, the state might prefer to take the company over pre-bankruptcy and then hit CA taxpayers up for many billions of dollars. I do not know if it would be possible to pay off the full judgement while sticking the company's investors (bondholders, stockholders) with maximum responsibilty for losses, up to and including zeroing out the value of both. Basically it comes down to what the goal is of a takeover. Long-term regardless of the details I want to see utilities provided by the government and not for profit, but in the short and medium term this is a complex situation where probably nobody is going to be happy with how things go down. Leperflesh fucked around with this message at 22:10 on Jan 14, 2019 |
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This story is nuts https://twitter.com/DavidZahniser/status/1084347915848474625
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So how about this rain. It's gonna go all week. Will unprepared drainage areas in LA see floods? Is the water table saturated from the rains a month ago maybe?
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https://twitter.com/passantino/status/1085035154140057601 Have fun LA goons I wonder if they'll have to flood Sepulveda Basin? I don't think they've had to in almost 20 years
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We're gonna have to come up with a new thread title. California's new Rain Forrest Weather
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The Glumslinger posted:https://twitter.com/passantino/status/1085035154140057601  rain during work week does suck tho, but I loving love weekend rain and we haven't had any of it really.
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Xaris posted:Man I should make a trip down to San Diego for the weekend. I loving love rain and we've got almost no rain here in the East Bay. Past few weeks they've been forecasting rain all week/weekend and then as the day approaches it just ends up being sunny/slightly cloudy. I love getting thai food or pho or something in the rain and reading a book in low light next to an open window listening to the rain I know I'm South Bay, but have you been outside or near a window today?
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Ardeem posted:I know I'm South Bay, but have you been outside or near a window today? yeah we got a very light sprinkle at around 8-9am and around 4-6pm but that was about it.
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Cup Runneth Over posted:
The fire comes later. Climate change is a mean motherfucker that hits you from every angle. California is predicted to see higher annual rainfall in the coming decades but constricted into a narrower timespan. That means more flooding, but also more fires because all the fuel sources that bloom during the wet season have plenty of time to dry out once the months-long droughts set in. Literally drowning and burning to death at the same time.
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I encourage everyone to get Red Cross shelter work training. We're planning on opening more shelters for longer due to the climate change.
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Ardeem posted:I know I'm South Bay, but have you been outside or near a window today?  I usually love rain, but this morning I biked to work for the first time in a couple months, so of course it was pouring rain and I had 15mph winds blowing against me. Looks like it's gonna rain through until Friday too. gently caress off nature I'm trying to be healthy over here.
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Skippy McPants posted:The fire comes later. Climate change is a mean motherfucker that hits you from every angle. California is predicted to see higher annual rainfall in the coming decades but constricted into a narrower timespan. That means more flooding, but also more fires because all the fuel sources that bloom during the wet season have plenty of time to dry out once the months-long droughts set in. Don't forget the mudslides!
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