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Air Force One has landed at Moffett Airfield
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Sep 17, 2019 19:20
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Spazzle posted:The transbay tube is not underground, it is a cement tube fastened to the bay floor. I didn't know that! Thought it was a chunnel situation. Well, that sucks rear end!
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Sep 17, 2019 19:28
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Reposting from SFBA thread: KQED's Bay Curious did a bit on Transbay Tube
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Sep 17, 2019 19:44
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LOL. This is going to be litigated for years. Oh, uh, I guess this is also the space where we go States Rights?
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Sep 17, 2019 20:07
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FilthyImp posted:LOL. This is going to be litigated for years. Texas will obviously have our backs.
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Sep 17, 2019 20:21
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SCOTUS might actually not back him on it either since Gorsuch has been revealed to be a crazy anti-government libertarian in his rulings, he's already broken ranks with the conservatives multiple times because strong central government bad. I'm sure it annoys cop apologist Alito to no end. That said you dont even need SCOTUS to back California, just for it to get tied up in court long enough for a Dem presidency to come in and drop the suit.
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Sep 17, 2019 20:28
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Sydin posted:That said you dont even need SCOTUS to back California, just for it to get tied up in court long enough for a Dem presidency to come in and drop the suit. But, well... I'm spending Election Day 2020 drunk off my rear end or in a sensory deprivation tank.
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Sep 17, 2019 20:30
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HelloSailorSign posted:I always get nervous on BART when it goes through the Bay due to the concern of earthquakes and being in a tunnel underwater. that old ride at Universal Studios Hollywood didn't help any https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5XBfqc3rXs
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Sep 17, 2019 21:11
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I wonder if my dad still has the full-size VHS tape from the camcorder from when we went. We were right the gently caress next to the tanker truck, if I remember correctly. Made a big impression on young me. As did seeing a game in Candlestick in 1990 or 1991, during which I was terrified another earthquake would happen.
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Sep 17, 2019 21:25
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Candlestick stayed in one piece and the thousands inside had at most minor injuries. That’s the only good thing that can be said about it as a baseball venue.
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Sep 18, 2019 07:25
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Craptacular! posted:Candlestick stayed in one piece and the thousands inside had at most minor injuries. The new park is far nicer.
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Sep 18, 2019 17:50
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Craptacular! posted:Candlestick stayed in one piece and the thousands inside had at most minor injuries. You got one of those little "Croix De Candlestick" if you powered through an extra innings night game. That was p cool (at least the first time).
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Sep 18, 2019 23:22
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Newsom signed AB5  Now the Uber/Lyft shitheads are gonna probably bring a ballot referendum
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Sep 19, 2019 00:14
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Kill Bristol posted:Newsom signed AB5 I expect some absolutely insane commercials about how Crazy California is trying to kill your job that you're losing money on and the company outright states will eliminate you the moment it can make robot cars work.
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Sep 19, 2019 02:13
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Jaxyon posted:I expect some absolutely insane commercials about how Crazy California is trying to kill your job that you're losing money on and the company outright states will eliminate you the moment it can make robot cars work. Which, to be fair, is pretty good job security.
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Sep 19, 2019 02:16
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Cup Runneth Over posted:Which, to be fair, is pretty good job security. Uh I think you mean "unaffiliated contractor who has nothing to do with our business in any way" security.
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Sep 19, 2019 02:19
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Uber/Lyft/Doordash/etc will file a legal challenge and get a preliminary injunction halting the law. Meanwhile they'll work the other angle of trying to get a ballot proposition going and trot out the full on PR salvo about big government stifling innovation and hating all these working class drivers whose livelihoods depend on the gig economy. Even if that fails and the 9th Circuit inevitably doesn't buy any of Uber's bullshit and sides with California, it'll go to SCOTUS who will in a 5-4 decision agree that yes, saying Uber can't classify their workers as independent contractors even though they perform the key role of the business is a violation of Uber's First Amendment Rights, and the law will be dead. Not to get too  but the bill probably isn't going anywhere unless the Dems pull an upset of upsets in 2020 and not only control all three chambers, but also have the stones to upset the current ideological paradigm of SCOTUS.
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Sep 19, 2019 03:06
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It’s not “going anywhere”, it’s gone. It’s law. The lol nothing matters poo poo is tiring, especially when it’s not particularly accurate.
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Sep 19, 2019 09:57
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Uber is gonna run out of VC sooner or later, they lose a few billion a quarter.
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Sep 19, 2019 10:31
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Bastard Tetris posted:Uber is gonna run out of VC sooner or later, they lose a few billion a quarter. More or less immediately when we hit a recession. The infinite money spigot is going to dry up and a ton of companies that should have folded years ago are going to. The big ones might survive, but a big worry for me is all the people who pretended they weren't unemployed by doing gig jobs are going to lose their gig jobs.
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Sep 19, 2019 18:21
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Jaxyon posted:More or less immediately when we hit a recession. Even if the companies don’t dissolve as the economy softens the demand for rideshare services will decline, which will have a very similar effect.
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Sep 19, 2019 18:36
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I hope you all are right, I really do. My roommate just had to start doing Door Dash again because gently caress the non-STEM job market forever, and the benefits he'd see from being an actual employee with benefits would be tangibly staggering. Just feels like there's some fuckery around the corner to try and halt or distort the law. I hope if nothing else Dem state law makers can hold the high ground and continue to refuse the tech lobbies that tried to unsuccessfully get amendments added that would have watered down AB 5, and have apparently already started trying to work law makers to get somebody to sponsor a bill exempting Uber/Lyft/etc when the next session starts in January.
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Sep 19, 2019 18:56
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Sydin posted:Just feels like there's some fuckery around the corner to try and halt or distort the law. I hope if nothing else Dem state law makers can hold the high ground and continue to refuse the tech lobbies that tried to unsuccessfully get amendments added that would have watered down AB 5, and have apparently already started trying to work law makers to get somebody to sponsor a bill exempting Uber/Lyft/etc when the next session starts in January. While I hear where coming from, and Uber in particular is absolutely insane when it comes to ignoring laws(remember that time they hacked the phones of politicians? j/k they totally got away with that and nobody remembers), they are entirely supported by a pool of bored VC money that is hoping they become the amazon of taxi services and it's not remotely going to be a sustainable business model unless they jack their prices up to a level that's more or less similar to taxis, whereas Amazon is mostly a real-world logistics system selling actual goods.
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Sep 19, 2019 18:59
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Wrong thread.
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Sep 19, 2019 19:23
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Kill Bristol posted:It’s not “going anywhere”, it’s gone. It’s law. The lol nothing matters poo poo is tiring, especially when it’s not particularly accurate. Do you think these companies will actually comply with the law? Or throw a huge tantrum, do everything they possibly can to obstruct it, then (if it gets that far) declare bankruptcy and blame “burdensome regulations” rather than actually paying their employees well? Something something you can’t dismantle the master’s house with the master’s tools.
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Sep 19, 2019 19:28
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Fly Molo posted:Do you think these companies will actually comply with the law? Or throw a huge tantrum, do everything they possibly can to obstruct it, then (if it gets that far) declare bankruptcy and blame “burdensome regulations” rather than actually paying their employees well? Uber and Lyft going bankrupt because this law makes it impossible to run a business by exploiting contract workers at scale kind of sounds like dismantling to me idk!!
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Sep 19, 2019 19:35
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last night someone made me aware that California's primary was moved up to march and actually matters now  i must re-evaluate my volunteer priorities
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Sep 19, 2019 19:42
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Yeah California is Super Tuesday now, which by my estimate means the left has about 2-3 months to get its poo poo together, lol
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Sep 19, 2019 19:55
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Yeah, we all need to do our part to make Delaney the next president of the united states
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Sep 19, 2019 19:56
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Just let us please go for somebody who isn't Biden or Harris.
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Sep 19, 2019 21:08
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Currently that makes either Biden or Warren the next nominee.
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Sep 19, 2019 21:09
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Bernie, Biden, and Warren are basically in a three way tie for CA right now. BUT the results of the first few primaries are absolutely gonna change that.
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Sep 19, 2019 21:10
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Wow Harris isn't even doing well here? I heard she was losing momentum after she got 15 minutes of spotlight for calling out Biden, but drat. Not that I'm shedding any tears mind you, ACAB. Feels like California going with Bernie or Warren early in the primary would be huge.
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Sep 19, 2019 21:12
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It would be. Kamala, Pete, Beto, and Booker are most likely dead. The only reason Biden is competitive at all is because he's Obama's Guy and low-information think he has "electability" and dumbshit neoliberal voters support his actual trash policies.
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Sep 19, 2019 21:16
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Sydin posted:Wow Harris isn't even doing well here? I heard she was losing momentum after she got 15 minutes of spotlight for calling out Biden, but drat. Not that I'm shedding any tears mind you, ACAB. Harris is polling below Yang in California and it owns. Also Bernie now, Bernie forever.
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Sep 19, 2019 21:38
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Wicked Them Beats posted:Harris is polling below Yang in California and it owns.  quote:Also Bernie now, Bernie forever.  I was waffling between Warren and Sanders in the very early goings but then Warren came out and said "no guys capitalism actually works, it's just corrupt people taking advantage of a good system!" and now it's Bernie or death.
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Sep 19, 2019 22:05
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I like Warren ok and she's done some good. She's certainly better than a snake like Harris, a blathering corporate stooge like Biden, or a blando nothing like Pete. My biggest thing is she doesn't seem to have good political instincts, she hasn't agreed to reject corporate money in the general (on account that it would "hamstring" her), and also all the Pod Save America guys love her....those guys are 100% cult-of-meritocracy neolibs at heart so you have to wonder what's going on there. Basically Warren is a good second-string quarterback at a time where we need an All-Star Hall of Famer.
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Sep 19, 2019 22:19
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Megaman's Jockstrap posted:My biggest thing is she doesn't seem to have good political instincts But yeah, for all those other reasons, it's still Bernie. I'd vote for Warren, but I'd rather see her in Bernie's cabinet.
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Sydin posted:
Bernie's not trying to kill owners and former worker coops either, they're both social democrats. Bernie's just closer to socialism than she is. I'm going for Bernie in our primary but I'm not gonna cry if Warren wins. I like her despite being capitalist scum.
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