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The Aardvark posted:Sir, sir, we can't do two things at once here. Sir. I thought this was an In-n-out drivethrough.
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HelloSailorSign posted:I thought this was an In-n-out drivethrough.
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Sydin posted:So I just got a postcard in the mail and apparently San Jose is switching residents over to a new energy provider. It's not complete freedom from PG&E: sounds like they still own the infrastructure and I'm still billed through them, but the bulk of my power is going to be purchased by the city and from at least 45% renewables, with an option for purchasing 100% renewable. Also it's supposed to be cheaper but that sounds like veering into loving magic territory so I'll have to wait to see my first couple bills after the switch over in the next month. Seems like a good thing though? SF has had a similar thing for a few years. Service/outages are identical to PG&E since they run the distribution network, the municipal part just does generation. Costwise, the prices go PG&E 33% renewables < municipal 40% renewables < municipal 100% renewables < PG&E 100% renewables So cheaper if you want to buy renewables, more expensive if you're fine with gas/coal
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Infinite Karma posted:My bad, sorry. We also need a solution to climate change denial and police brutality, I should have factored those in to my idea. You have to order the shake iceberg style and get the fries unchopped.
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Jaxyon posted:You must be new to DR. This is their shtick. Yep. Quick reminder:  Don't engage with Dead Reckoning
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I'll have my social services animal style, please.
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Listen people if you can't solve all the edge cases within your posts on an online forum then I don't know why you even talk about this stuff.
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Honestly the question of cost differential itself is beside the point. CA is the 5th largest economy in the world there's no fuckin way we can't house homeless people. Tax the gently caress out of 3rd residence or more esp on high value properties. None of this "oh well 3 properties owned by 3 separate LLCs lol" crap. Pay for housing and healthcare. Having homeless veterans in the richest state of richest country on Earth ever is some Nero poo poo Moridin920 fucked around with this message at 00:37 on Feb 6, 2019 |
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I am expecting San Luis Obispo to be washed in the Pacific any day now.
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I'm waiting for somebody to try kayaking down the creek that goes through downtown again and having to be rescued because that creek isn't exactly a navigable waterway.
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Moridin920 posted:Honestly the question of cost differential itself is beside the point. CA is the 5th largest economy in the world there's no fuckin way we can't house homeless people. We do have quite a lot of housing now being developed in Norcal. As my house burned I now live in an apartment that costs more than my mortgage,while my insurance pays for it its still wild. There is a row of people who live in their cars i see as its really horrible. This state has 50% OF ALL the homeless people in the entire country.
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Foxfire_ posted:SF has had a similar thing for a few years. WAR CRIME GIGOLO posted:my house burned
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PG&E actually doesn’t own many power plants anymore, they were forced to sell most of them except some hydro (staircase of power) and Diablo Canyon (rip).
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Newsoms "serving the homeless" where I work and his press team let out it's because he lost a bet, and PD is putting people's tents in a dump truck down the block
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man that's a heartless take. I've never met anyone who publicly stated they're solution was to just murder all the homeless and ignore them, but lol if I think for a second that you'd actually believe it. No in fact, the homeless do not deserve to die because they're mentally ill and scream awful poo poo. In fact that makes them even more deserving of our help, because they need so much more. Pomp posted:Newsoms "serving the homeless" where I work and his press team let out it's because he lost a bet, and PD is putting people's tents in a dump truck down the block but my allies
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:Prove it. https://www.deseretnews.com/article/865678779/Is-Utah-still-a-model-for-solving-chronic-homelessness.html quote:Despite a recovering economy, the total number of individuals who had contact with the state's network of homeless services rose in recent years, from 12,241 in 2014 to 13,614 in 2016. The Road Home reported that in 2016, its emergency shelters served more than 8,000 unique individuals, and it is on pace to top 9,000 this year — more than double the pre-recession annual count from 2004 through 2007. quote:The definitions matter, and are legally fixed by federal law. The nonchronically homeless are those on the street for brief periods, and they don't have a formal disability. The nonchronic group, experts say, include up to 85 percent of those who sleep in emergency shelters over the course of a year. These clients often end up couch surfing with friends and family before ultimately finding stable housing. quote:Tsemberis says the best estimates are that between 50 percent and 80 percent of the chronically homeless nationwide are out there at least in part due to serious substance abuse issues. And many of those, he says, are dual diagnosis, addicts who also suffer from mental illness, with the drugs often a form of self-medication. The program has had some successes, but the idea that Utah has cracked the code on homelessness and the rest of us just chose not to do it is simply false. Dead Reckoning fucked around with this message at 01:11 on Feb 7, 2019 |
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Dead Reckoning posted:https://www.deseretnews.com/article/865678779/Is-Utah-still-a-model-for-solving-chronic-homelessness.html So do nothing then? LA should be able to do more. Much more. Ditto San Francisco.
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Another PG&E gas line exploded in SF. No one was killed but add it to the pile
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Sounds like somebody forgot to call 811:https://ksby.com/news/2019/02/06/gas-line-explosion-in-san-francisco-sets-building-on-fire-2 posted:Fire Chief Joanne Hayes-White says workers for a private contractor cut a natural gas line while installing fiber-optic wires at a business.
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VideoGameVet posted:So do nothing then?
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Its OK, PG&E crews struck a gas line today near where I live today and the area is still shutdown 2 hours later
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just spitballing here but i’m pretty sure that people would have an easier go about getting a job and getting off of substances if they had a roof over their heads and a stable place to live. just throwing that out there. edit: wait this is dead reckoning nevermind
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It's like the Onion. He fools you into paying attention until you realize the name.
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Pomp posted:Newsoms "serving the homeless" where I work and his press team let out it's because he lost a bet, and PD is putting people's tents in a dump truck down the block So I guess maybe you didn't know this, but the governors of the states the teams in the superbowl are from always have a bet - whichever state loses, the governor (and/or other officials) have to do community service while wearing the opposing team's jersey. Happens every year, and they usually use the opportunity to try to highlight issues they think matter. So, we can debate in general whether the community service bet is bad because it can seemingly trivialize an issue by reducing it to, "aw man, I lost a bet," but this isn't just 'Gavin ... bad?'
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Rodenthar Drothman posted:So I guess maybe you didn't know this, but the governors of the states the teams in the superbowl are from always have a bet - whichever state loses, the governor (and/or other officials) have to do community service while wearing the opposing team's jersey. I wonder what typically happens when the two teams are from the same state? I like to imagine that the Governor does community service in the losing team's jersey anyways.
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Rodenthar Drothman posted:So I guess maybe you didn't know this, but the governors of the states the teams in the superbowl are from always have a bet - whichever state loses, the governor (and/or other officials) have to do community service while wearing the opposing team's jersey. He was half an hour late and made my job 10x harder so screw him anyway
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VikingofRock posted:I wonder what typically happens when the two teams are from the same state? I like to imagine that the Governor does community service in the losing team's jersey anyways. The radio today said that the last time a ca team won was when the 49ers beat the chargers, and the governor didn't have anyone to bet. Mayors probably did though.
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AFCSME are planning on going on strike next week I think. Please support them in any way you can, my wife will be out there picketing.
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Katrina Foley just announced she's running against John Moorlach for State Senate District 37.
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Anchor Brewing workers have started a unionization campaign. Anchor can voluntarily recognize the union otherwise the union will file with the National Labor Relations Board and in 4-6 weeks there will be a vote (known as a card check) where every non-management employee votes yes or no on forming a union. If Anchor's Union is recognized or is approved in the card check, then Anchor will be the first craft beer company in the country to be unionized. http://www.sfweekly.com/news/anchor-steam-workers-unionize/ https://splinternews.com/one-of-the-worlds-most-iconic-craft-breweries-is-unioni-1832439046 From the second article: quote:Nationally, “average weekly wages in breweries decreased 25 percent over the 2006–16 period,” according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The BLS doesn’t differentiate between brewers at craft breweries and macrobreweries, and a spokesperson for the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, which represents about 5,000 production workers at the latter, told Splinter that its members’ salaries had not reflected that downward trend.
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i dont particularly love anchor steam but i may rotate it into my beer purchases more when the union wins
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At least Anchor Steam isn't like making love in a canoe. It's a decent beer. I wonder if any of the craft beer makers in San Diego are unionized? My dad ran a parking garage in Manhattan in the 70's and early '80's. Union shop and he was 100% good with that (family has a famous union guy, his great uncle or something).
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I was out last night distributing posters to sympathetic businesses in the mission, and the organizers repeatedly claimed that no craft beer manufacturers in the country are union shops. If anyone can be in SF at noon on Sunday, we're going to be hitting the neighborhood around the brewery. Jackson Playground.
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Are craft breweries known to be loving over labor? The BLS study linked above didn't differentiate between brewery size for wage depression, and I'm torn on what's more likely: that the big mega-breweries are loving labor because they know they're big enough to get away with it, that craft breweries have a startup mindset of "work 80 hours without pay for us, trust me it'll all pay off when we get bought out by AB-Inbev! And hey, free beer in the meantime!", or both. Wish I liked Anchor Steam but I'm just not a big lager fan, even good craft lagers.
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Sydin posted:Are craft breweries known to be loving over labor? The BLS study linked above didn't differentiate between brewery size for wage depression, and I'm torn on what's more likely: that the big mega-breweries are loving labor because they know they're big enough to get away with it, that craft breweries have a startup mindset of "work 80 hours without pay for us, trust me it'll all pay off when we get bought out by AB-Inbev! And hey, free beer in the meantime!", or both. Everybody gets hosed under capitalism, unionize everything.
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