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ProperGanderPusher posted:I always call myself a San Franciscan abroad, because identifying as a Californian invites lame jokes about how I probably surf to work and go to Disneyland every weekend. I got one guy start earnestly asking how they can get in on some sweet Silicon Valley VC capital for their business idea, but everyone laughed at him for it, including me. the FSB border agent that interrogated me asked me if i knew Arnold Schwarzenegger after he was done with his actual questions he was an okay guy, all said and done.
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One of the sweet things about living in California is regular access to good food. It's a shame we are going to lose that because 2% of our state economy was mandated by capitalism to focus on exclusively catering to the Chinese demand for almonds.
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I thought the film industry was here because it was too far away for Edison to be a dick with his patent consortium.
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Buffer posted:I thought the film industry was here because it was too far away for Edison to be a dick with his patent consortium. The sweetest fruits of all are those young twinks found in LA.
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I was at a random bar in Hollywood and it happened to be open mic night. They were apparently toasting some old dude that wrote a tell-all memoir about his life as a gas station giggolo. Lots of jokes about Full Service, but he apparently worked a two-pump setup down the corner from Sunset and would have tons of Leading Men proposition him and poo poo.
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Buffer posted:I thought the film industry was here because it was too far away for Edison to be a dick with his patent consortium. yeah, innovation. it's when you think up a way to do the same thing, but illegally
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Bodhidharma posted:Which part of California did you move to? I don't believe this is the case throughout the entire state. Just outside of Sacramento but I travel a lot for work and it’s been pretty universal around the state. The culture here is just kinda strange and not in a good way. I can kinda see why other states groan at Cali transplants now that I’ve lived here. e.pilot fucked around with this message at 08:04 on Jan 16, 2020 |
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Sounds like you moved TO THE GREAT STATE OF JEFFERSON
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I love how easy state of jefferson paraphernalia makes picking out idiots.
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e.pilot posted:I love how easy state of jefferson paraphernalia makes picking out idiots. Like actual no poo poo idiots. Esp the ones wjo are like "we can make our own decisions". With your 10 billlion dollar economy...
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e.pilot posted:Just outside of Sacramento but I travel a lot for work and it’s been pretty universal around the state. The culture here is just kinda strange and not in a good way. I can kinda see why other states groan at Cali transplants now that I’ve lived here. I've lived here all my life so it's normal to me but when I've talked to people from back east or the south yeah, it's very different.
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STOP THE DELTA TUNNEL bumperstickers going ontop of the 'Gavin newsom 2018"
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WAR CRIME GIGOLO posted:STOP THE DELTA TUNNEL bumperstickers going ontop of the 'Gavin newsom 2018" can't wait for GAVIN CREATED DUSTBOWL signs
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i mean socal, phoenix, and vegas collectively have completely diverted the colorado river, and if we dont keep the water supply going up forever, we might run out of investment properties
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if food grows where water flows shouldnt they flow the water on the ground instead of underground in a tunnel??? nice one gavindork
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Just FYI, a whole bunch of early westward agriculture was done under the idea that "with the plow comes the rain" i.e. if you just cultivated the land God would send rain to water it. LOL.
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gently caress SNEEP posted:can't wait for GAVIN CREATED DUSTBOWL signs we could make some
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Call them "NEWSOME CREATED" for authenticity
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This seems... good? Aren't they cracking down on trailer parks though?
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I moved to Texas several years ago (in the middle of nowhere) and by far the most annoying thing is when people volunteer how "socialist" and "liberal" policies are destroying California and then they remind me not to bring them here by voting Democratic. I'm happy to discuss Californian policies but generally they don't want to get more nuanced than that, especially when I suggest that maybe some of the policies contributing to the state's problems could be "conservative" rather than leftist. Mind you, liberal policies definitely are contributing to this state's issues depending on how you define the term. Other than that though, people from both states are more alike than they are different even if they don't want to admit it. They also do breakfast tacos instead of burritos for some reason.
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Breakfast tacos are superior to breakfast burritos since you can have a couple different ones instead of one big one.
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Texas is Sacramento's heat with Florida's humidity with more snakes and bugs. I don't care how cheap it is to buy a 3,800 sq foot shithouse in some dusty lot in "McKinney" I'm okay in something much smaller. I should add I'm not trying to be 100% insulting, I totally get why people transfer there, especially at near the same wage they'd get here........and I've been there and did fun stuff like golf, eat bbq, drink and go to sports events and liked it and had a great time but I really wouldn't want to live there. Playing golf there in June was......uh very very very sweaty. Like you need stickum to hang on to yer clubs. Keyser_Soze fucked around with this message at 00:08 on Jan 17, 2020 |
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Keyser_Soze posted:Texas is Sacramento's heat with Florida's humidity with more snakes and bugs. I don't care how cheap it is to buy a 3,800 sq foot shithouse in some dusty lot in "McKinney" I'm okay in something much smaller. In texas you want a big house because you never leave it
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I hear their entire state is funded by property taxes, though, so you're gonna pay some hefty property tax on that palatial texan estate.
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You’re going to pay out the nose in utility bills to cool your Texan McMansion too. Texas has plenty of ways of making up for not having a state income tax.
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Leperflesh posted:I hear their entire state is funded by property taxes, though, so you're gonna pay some hefty property tax on that palatial texan estate. Sounds like big government overreach to me.
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Incorrect. The only state with a Tax burden is California
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Leperflesh posted:I hear their entire state is funded by property taxes, though, so you're gonna pay some hefty property tax on that palatial texan estate. Still not enough to really have a functioning state government. The state version of the EPA for example has a $400m budget-- for a comparison, Cal EPA's is $1.8 billion. You can probably guess at how efficient it is at regulating industry.
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Bizarro Watt posted:Still not enough to really have a functioning state government. The state version of the EPA for example has a $400m budget-- for a comparison, Cal EPA's is $1.8 billion. You can probably guess at how efficient it is at regulating industry. What did you say? I couldn't hear you, on account of the exploding refinery
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I was looking at buying a cheap house on the east coast, and a lot of the property taxes are absolutely insane. In a lot of places, the house cost about $100k, with $8k a year property taxes, which makes the taxes more than the mortgage.
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Infinite Karma posted:I was looking at buying a cheap house on the east coast, and a lot of the property taxes are absolutely insane. In a lot of places, the house cost about $100k, with $8k a year property taxes, which makes the taxes more than the mortgage. And still less than my rent!
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Tarezax posted:What did you say? I couldn't hear you, on account of the exploding refinery i mean, despite what people from texas will tell you, california still has a capitalist economy. 1.8 billion is deffo a lot but trying to shore up capitalism into something that won't negligently blow poo poo up is a fools errand. the best we can realistically hope for is to keep chattel slavery offshore
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actually regulations (and inspections and especially enforcement via huge fines and lawsuits) do make a difference and are not a "fools errand" even if perfection is unachievable
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OMGVBFLOL posted:yeah, innovation. it's when you think up a way to do the same thing, but illegally It’s good to see that some old CA traditions live on in the modern era!
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It is unfortunate though that as much as I love my home state, I have resigned myself to the reality that I will probably never be able to afford to live there again. I hope y'all figure that out eventually. I have family back home that have working class salaries (50k-ish) and they really are struggling.
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Leperflesh posted:actually regulations (and inspections and especially enforcement via huge fines and lawsuits) do make a difference and are not a "fools errand" even if perfection is unachievable i didn't say that regulations do nothing. anything trying to shore up capitalism is a fool's errand, because capital is functionally incapable of valuing anything other than capital. you can steer the cost-benefit and get some good done but you're still working with a system that will kill people for pocket change ten times out of ten
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