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Jaxyon posted:West of the 405 and north of the 10 is some of the wealthiest parts of LA. throw in finally pushing PV into the ocean and I'm down
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Jaxyon posted:West of the 405 and north of the 10 is some of the wealthiest parts of LA. Yeah, generally speaking, we should be replacing low density-high value single family homes with taller buildings. It is the only way out of this mess that I can think of: build more housing where people want to live, not in Valencia. While we're at it, throw in Bel Air and Beverly Hills and I'll drive the dozer myself. The Wilshire corridor near UCLA looks like someone had a plan and then chickened out just after crossing the 405 to the west (Barrington Plaza and those brown office buildings come to mind) and certainly when approaching Beverly Hills to the east.
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Sep 30, 2019 19:06
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slicing up eyeballs posted:gently caress these people
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Sep 30, 2019 19:46
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It's cool that a whole community managed to come together and raise money to confront their homeless problem, but instead of actually doing that they just threw big have rocks in the sidewalk to own the homeless, uh, somehow. San Francisco was a mistake.
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Sep 30, 2019 20:13
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VideoGameVet posted:Wow. So the story is true. Yes and it's not just a restaurant here and there. All over San Jose / SV there are huge lots of corporate real estate (large multistory office building complexes etc.) that are entirely or mostly vacant, often for years on end. Honestly someone should just burn them down (no not rly hi FBI)
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Sep 30, 2019 20:21
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There's a gigantic office complex on 1st and Montague that has been empty for going on four years now. Tons of other similarly vacant complex in the area. Hell basically all of the west half of Rio Robles is empty offices, presumably because no company in their right mind is interested in paying those rents. Dont worry though they're still flawlessly landscaped and watered!  So much loving space going to zero use. Its infuriating.
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Sep 30, 2019 20:30
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california will yet make georgists of us all
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Sep 30, 2019 20:36
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What's interesting is that Riverside has a downtown that was built in the 1890s - 1930s (before the auto really got its hooks in) and it works really well. We were going to run a trolley between UCR and downtown - which would have been totally dope - but it was going to be something completely insane like 300 million dollars so they gave up on it. That's the other thing. Our infrastructure costs are absolutely nuts.
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Sep 30, 2019 20:41
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Jaxyon posted:Right, I'm saying that LA could really use high density housing on top of public transit. LA is already the most densely populated metro in the nation. It's spread out, but pretty compact with relatively small lot sizes and not a lot of empty land. Building up a story or two and adding tons of mass transit would do wonders.
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Sep 30, 2019 21:26
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Megaman's Jockstrap posted:What's interesting is that Riverside has a downtown that was built in the 1890s - 1930s (before the auto really got its hooks in) and it works really well. We were going to run a trolley between UCR and downtown - which would have been totally dope - but it was going to be something completely insane like 300 million dollars so they gave up on it. A lot of the older IE cities like Redlands have good downtown cores. There's just so much open land still out here that building upwards doesn't make much financial sense. Just crawl along the freeways, building out as far as you can.
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Sep 30, 2019 21:28
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MickeyFinn posted:Basically all of the area west of the 405 and north of the 10 could be converted to mixed use 4-6 story (I forget the height limit on wood frames) and it would be awesome. I live in a much smaller city right now and it’s built that way and it’s much better for it. Current building code is 6-stories for wood; however, you can do a podium structure with a concrete/steel podium for the first 1-2 floors and get up to 7-8. There's ongoing approval and work making its way through code committees and getting approval in IBC 2021 to build up to 18-story wood-frame buildings with a robust sprinkler and flame retardant systems. Currently It's much cheaper and easier on a per unit-basis to build mid-rise podium structures, often without requiring advanced large cranes, and better ecologically as a carbon sink and sustainably as well (concrete emits a lot of GHG). It'll be even better once we can push the mid-rise into low-high rise wood buildings. If we can turn most everything into varying 6-18 story wood buildings, with store-front commercial spaces, that would be perfect.
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Sep 30, 2019 23:13
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Megaman's Jockstrap posted:What's interesting is that Riverside has a downtown that was built in the 1890s - 1930s (before the auto really got its hooks in) and it works really well. We were going to run a trolley between UCR and downtown - which would have been totally dope - but it was going to be something completely insane like 300 million dollars so they gave up on it. What the hell I'm in riverside and yes that would have been dope. College cities only work imo when there's easy flow between campus and dt
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slicing up eyeballs posted:What the hell I'm in riverside and yes that would have been dope. College cities only work imo when there's easy flow between campus and dt As am I, and I've thought that MLK could use a light-rail connecting the campus to downtown. I have no idea why everything is so expensive for the city. The latest city budget is loving dire for the next 5 years, and that's after passing a general fund sales tax a few years back.
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Oct 1, 2019 00:26
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Come to the next ie dsa meeting!! At the uu church dt, 7pm third uhh Tuesday of the month Update:  https://amp.sacbee.com/news/california/article235640082.html?__twitter_impression=true
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Oct 1, 2019 04:16
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It would be nice if Fast food places were required to show total calories of meal as you are ordering it. Aka total next to the cash total. Would be great for california Also sugary drink tax to the max.
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Oct 1, 2019 06:33
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What the hell? How many riverside goons are there? And yeah, Riverside’s downtown is exactly what a medium sized city’s downtown should be in terms of nightlife. They’re doing all the right things too with expansion, all of the new attractions are within walking distance. Getting between UCR and DTR via bus is stupid easy. Free if you’re a student too. Fill Baptismal fucked around with this message at 07:07 on Oct 1, 2019 |
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Oct 1, 2019 07:03
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WAR CRIME GIGOLO posted:Also sugary drink tax to the max. This is some Bloomberg shitlib think. Why not just limit the amount of sweetener allowed in soft drinks to solve the problem and not put the biggest impact on the poor.
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Oct 1, 2019 07:38
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Megaman's Jockstrap posted:You don't need to make tenement blocks. You don't need high-density housing. Medium density and good public transportation works 98% of the time, only the biggest economic powerhouse cities need anything more. I agree that you generally only need medium density, but I think bigass towers directly on top of/adjacent to major transit stations (subway/light rail/etc.) makes sense in terms of making walking + transit easily accessible to large numbers of people.
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Oct 1, 2019 08:37
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The IE goons are here, we’re just too embarrassed to let people know we live in the IE. IE owns
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Oct 1, 2019 14:59
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Grand Prize Winner posted:throw in finally pushing PV into the ocean and I'm down I'm always surprised when people, even people in so cal, know about my humble hometown. This sentiment is correct, however.
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Oct 1, 2019 15:07
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GrandpaPants posted:I'm always surprised when people, even people in so cal, know about my humble hometown. 
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Oct 1, 2019 16:22
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FCKGW posted:The IE goons are here, we’re just too embarrassed to let people know we live in the IE. Too drat hot. I hear the meth is good tho.
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Oct 1, 2019 18:38
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Craptacular! posted:This is some Bloomberg shitlib think. Why not just limit the amount of sweetener allowed in soft drinks to solve the problem and not put the biggest impact on the poor.
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Oct 1, 2019 18:40
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What we need are marginal sugar tax brackets. Under 3g per serving is free, 3-12g per serving is 10%, …
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Oct 1, 2019 18:44
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DeadlyMuffin posted:Too drat hot. Couldn't agree with you more, but before climate change hit us we were very nice a lot of the time. Only had 2 truly bad months of the year (and 2 sorta-bad) weather-wise. Now we start hitting the 90s in March and don't stop until November. Oh and the traffic has gotten worse. And worse. And worse. Still rep the IE but it's taken a hit. Everywhere has, though. Kill Bristol posted:What the hell? How many riverside goons are there? Riverside is in the top 50 largest cities in the USA, there's tons of people from here. They just don't generally say a lot about it because of Kevin and Bean. Megaman's Jockstrap fucked around with this message at 19:04 on Oct 1, 2019 |
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Oct 1, 2019 19:01
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WAR CRIME GIGOLO posted:The biggest impact to the poor is poor health. Swaying people away from drinking soda is a societal positive. If you just loving regulate the amount of natural and artificial glucose in drinks, you get the desired effect of a healthier populace without telling people they need to go work more to enjoy the things they like. But it’s not about health. It’s about either people spending money in ways that you personally don’t approve of (shitlibs), or about punishing the poor (conservatives). Craptacular! fucked around with this message at 20:11 on Oct 1, 2019 |
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Oct 1, 2019 20:09
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And while we're at it, let's double the FDA's budget, and then make all "nutritional supplements" regulated by them, because yeah people will buy snake oil and drink stuff that's basically slow poison etc. and we actually really need to basically stop manufacturers from shilling bullshit to consumers. Getting massive amounts of corn syrup out of our drinks is just one component of that larger issue. also end corn subsidies
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Oct 1, 2019 20:14
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Leperflesh posted:also end corn subsidies I'm from the Midwest with a corn farmer in the family. Death to corn subsidies
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Megaman's Jockstrap posted:Couldn't agree with you more, but before climate change hit us we were very nice a lot of the time. Only had 2 truly bad months of the year (and 2 sorta-bad) weather-wise. Been here since 89 and the infrastructure and heat just keep getting worse.
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Oct 2, 2019 05:01
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Have you seen my apex seals? I seem to have lost them.
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Sydin posted:It's cool that a whole community managed to come together and raise money to confront their homeless problem, but instead of actually doing that they just threw big have rocks in the sidewalk to own the homeless, uh, somehow. They're trying it in Sacramento now, too
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Leperflesh posted:also end corn subsidies
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Oct 3, 2019 18:08
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Arsenic Lupin posted:There was a story in the paper a couple of days ago about Trump-voting corn farmers being upset, because there's not just the China thing, but Trump has cut regulations requiring ethanol in gasoline. (Which is a dumb regulation and should feel dumb.) Ethanol is a very renewable fuel. Why wouldnt we want it mixed with gasolene?
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Oct 3, 2019 18:39
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WAR CRIME GIGOLO posted:Ethanol is a very renewable fuel. Why wouldnt we want it mixed with gasolene? It’s worse for the climate, worse for the environment, and has the side effect of raising food prices in some of the poorest parts of the world.
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Oct 3, 2019 18:45
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WAR CRIME GIGOLO posted:Ethanol is a very renewable fuel. Why wouldnt we want it mixed with gasolene? Might want to check into the sustainability of corn.
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WAR CRIME GIGOLO posted:Ethanol is a very renewable fuel. Why wouldnt we want it mixed with gasolene? Almost all automobiles (unmodified) will run on E10 gas (10% ethanol), flex-fuel vehicles will run on E85 gas (85% ethanol). In some cases it's just a reprogramming of the computer. The issue with pure ethanol is its absorption of water. quote:Ethanol is hygroscopic, meaning it absorbs water vapor directly from the atmosphere. Because absorbed water dilutes the fuel value of the ethanol and may cause phase separation of ethanol-gasoline blends (which causes engine stall), containers of ethanol fuels must be kept tightly sealed.
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Oct 3, 2019 18:48
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Trabisnikof posted:It’s worse for the climate, worse for the environment, and has the side effect of raising food prices in some of the poorest parts of the world. Ethanol (corn based) is basically an inefficient method of converting natural gas into a liquid fuel, since massive amounts of natural gas are used in distillation and in fertilizers for growing corn.
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Oct 3, 2019 18:52
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WAR CRIME GIGOLO posted:Ethanol is a very renewable fuel. Why wouldnt we want it mixed with gasolene? The idea that it burns cleaner than traditional gasoline is mostly a myth pushed by the biofuel industry. I believe it does produce less carbon monoxide, but it's significantly worse for the ozone and produces more smog. It's renewable in the sense that we can keep growing corn (well, for as long as corn can still be grown in huge monoculture, which given the changing climate may not be much longer) but it's not a solution for climate change or air pollution.
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Oct 3, 2019 18:58
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Trabisnikof posted:It’s worse for the climate, worse for the environment, and has the side effect of raising food prices in some of the poorest parts of the world. Yeah, state mandates for ethanol blends aren't there to protect the environment, they're there to protect farmers by creating a bullshit market that will pay more for their corn than starving people.
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Unless things have gotten better recently, ethanol from corn requires more energy to produce than it yields (on top of all the other problems that people already pointed out).
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Family Values posted:Unless things have gotten better recently, ethanol from corn requires more energy to produce than it yields (on top of all the other problems that people already pointed out). Yes but have you considered it provides JOBS to America's heart and soul, its down to earth hard working farmers?
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