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My reactionary Sacramento family are like "the state should take over PG&E, it won't be the best but it's better than this. I like my SMUD." So maybe this nationalization/municipalization thing has legs.
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Good news, everyone, we're moving on to round two for power shutoffs.
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# ? Oct 21, 2019 20:42 |
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Power Outages Part 2: Candlelit Boogaloo
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# ? Oct 21, 2019 20:47 |
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Goodolences to anyone who already replaced the stuff in their freezer after the last blackout.
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# ? Oct 21, 2019 20:48 |
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Jokes on PG&E, we had an outdoor freezer big enough to throw everything into and the bottom didn't thaw.
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# ? Oct 21, 2019 21:36 |
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Morbus posted:Rather than try to nationalize PG&E outright, which I reluctantly concede there may not be a broad enough public consensus for, we should take a page out of the GOP book and just saddle them with increasingly punitive ballot measures (which I'm sure can pass) until their failure and nationalization is the only option.
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# ? Oct 21, 2019 21:43 |
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Meanwhile, in better news... https://twitter.com/BrandyZadrozny/status/1186398345029443584
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# ? Oct 22, 2019 01:53 |
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Rodenthar Drothman posted:Power Outages Part 2: Candlelit Boogaloo
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# ? Oct 22, 2019 02:16 |
Vincent Van Goatse posted:Meanwhile, in better news... lmao
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# ? Oct 22, 2019 02:52 |
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FilthyImp posted:And here I thought it was Winter Blend time! Climate change.
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# ? Oct 22, 2019 18:29 |
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Get ready for Power Shutoff 2: Non-Electric Boogaloo
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# ? Oct 23, 2019 18:06 |
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https://twitter.com/OakMorr/status/1187060745646694400?s=20 Huh, lol
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# ? Oct 23, 2019 20:35 |
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Hollywood Reporter ran a big article about AB5 https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/everybody-is-freaking-freelance-writers-scramble-make-sense-new-california-law-1248195
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# ? Oct 23, 2019 22:43 |
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I see this affects contractors outside of the 'classic' gig economy, but what about other contractors like tech workers?
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# ? Oct 23, 2019 22:56 |
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The East Bay Express loving sucks. My favorite terrible article of theirs was the one about how taxi drivers in Berkeley were screwed because the city refused to create taxi stands for them, written when there were at least three in high-pedestrian areas that I knew of just by walking around.
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# ? Oct 23, 2019 23:04 |
Jaxyon posted:Hollywood Reporter ran a big article about AB5 I volunteer at an arts organization in SF and there's a lot of worry and uncertainty since it seems like AB5 is going to cause a lot of collateral damage to the arts community. Like, in addition to what gentrification and rising cost of living has already done. I still somehow place the blame is on the tech industry for basically existing instead of legislators, but realize both are to blame. But seriously gently caress Uber.
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# ? Oct 23, 2019 23:11 |
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What if we build an app that will disrupt the political market? Instead of these stodgy politicians that you have to listen to, with my app, Votr, you can swipe right on your favorite politicians and immediately give them a
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# ? Oct 24, 2019 00:48 |
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Admiral Ray posted:What if we build an app that will disrupt the political market? Instead of these stodgy politicians that you have to listen to, with my app, Votr, you can swipe right on your favorite politicians and immediately give them a Does swipe left immediately send them to a guillotine? You might have a business model there.
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# ? Oct 24, 2019 00:51 |
A bunch of apps are disrupting politics. Facebook, Reddit, ect
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# ? Oct 24, 2019 00:54 |
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Admiral Ray posted:What if we build an app that will disrupt the political market? Instead of these stodgy politicians that you have to listen to, with my app, Votr, you can swipe right on your favorite politicians and immediately give them a Anything that makes the political system more about hoarding likes and favorites than dollars is probably a good thing. That kind of is what voting is, and it's the one last institution where money doesn't talk.
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# ? Oct 24, 2019 01:03 |
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https://twitter.com/DSAEastBay/status/1187196549266210816
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# ? Oct 24, 2019 03:45 |
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Backstory?
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# ? Oct 24, 2019 04:15 |
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WAR CRIME GIGOLO posted:Backstory? Some people are working their way through the charter school shock doctrine school-to-prison playbook, while some other people are working in the opposite direction.
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# ? Oct 24, 2019 04:21 |
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Already deleted, lol
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# ? Oct 24, 2019 04:34 |
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Don't know why it got taken down, hopefully not by moderation, but here are a couple of their tweets about the same thing? https://twitter.com/DSAEastBay/status/1187169191909982208 https://twitter.com/DSAEastBay/status/1187168684575358976
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# ? Oct 24, 2019 04:39 |
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It just seems to me that a billionaire can come in an get whatever he wants and run roughshod over average millionaires like myself https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/10/08/couple-who-sold-home-to-mark-zuckerberg-gets-a-property-tax-surprise/ quote:Couple that sold their home to Mark Zuckerberg for $14 million gets a property tax surprise dave-chappelle-gently caress-em.gif The Wiggly Wizard fucked around with this message at 21:35 on Oct 24, 2019 |
# ? Oct 24, 2019 21:30 |
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Shoot these people out of a cannon into the estuary and bulldoze their former and current homes to make way for high speed rail and BART
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# ? Oct 24, 2019 21:41 |
Never would have done what? Sold your house for 10 million above appraisal to skip 50k a year in property tax?
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# ? Oct 24, 2019 21:44 |
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Oh boo hoo, I can't retire on....13 million in profit from a real estate sale? I fuckin' flipped houses and I would kill for that kind of catch. I would retire immediately!!!!
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# ? Oct 24, 2019 21:47 |
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Here ya go
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# ? Oct 24, 2019 21:50 |
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Holy loving poo poo I'm looking at Atherton properties on Zillow. It's just. You can look on satellite pictures and tell what's the Atherton city limits because the lots are so large with so many trees and grass lawns that the area looks green in compared to neighboring Redwood City (which is still also probably stupidly pricey but houses are packed next to each other).
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# ? Oct 24, 2019 21:51 |
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I have very little sympathy for that couple, but it is bullshit that there's an appeal process for the appraisal of a house that is sold, but they can't access that appeal process because they don't live in the house they sold. That's going to bite a lot of other people on the rear end too, and property appraisal is itself often a kind of shady practice. Comps matter, but most appraisals don't even bother to go inside the house, so they can totally ignore poo poo that matters a lot like whether the kitchen is a dump or a fresh remodel. What I'd like to see is the courts telling the county that they have to let the former owner of a property appeal its appraisal, but then after their appeal the appraisal still comes in low enough that those people have to keep paying tax; and of course, obviously, prop 90 is poo poo and should be repealed. Old rich people don't deserve special lower property taxes.
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# ? Oct 24, 2019 22:02 |
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HelloSailorSign posted:Holy loving poo poo I'm looking at Atherton properties on Zillow. When I was living in Palo Alto ('88-'92) Atherton was crazy expensive even back then.
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# ? Oct 24, 2019 22:06 |
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lol 7br 13 baths, is this about variety in making GBS threads or what
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# ? Oct 24, 2019 22:26 |
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Of course the article doesn't tell us what the annual income of this poor elderly couple who did a $3 million dollar remodel of their house is. Gonna guess the property tax they're trying to dodge is actually a drop in the bucket or they're upset because the seven expensive vacations they take a year might have to get pared back to four or five.
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# ? Oct 24, 2019 22:53 |
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Wicked Them Beats posted:Of course the article doesn't tell us what the annual income of this poor elderly couple who did a $3 million dollar remodel of their house is. Gonna guess the property tax they're trying to dodge is actually a drop in the bucket or they're upset because the seven expensive vacations they take a year might have to get pared back to four or five. Also the fact that they've been fighting legal battles with two counties and one Fuckerberg Corp for years One is a tech patent law firm partner and the other is a NYC fashion debutante/consultant. I wonder if they'll land on their feet!
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# ? Oct 24, 2019 23:07 |
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https://twitter.com/sfchronicle/status/1187507378037510144 How have we not nationalized them at this point???? Why have we spent so much time bending over backwards for this poo poo?
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# ? Oct 25, 2019 00:22 |
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at PG&E not being able to turn off the power correctly.
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# ? Oct 25, 2019 00:24 |
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Whenever I pay my pg&e bill it makes me mad that I am giving them any money.
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# ? Oct 25, 2019 00:27 |
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PG&E more like FY&D
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