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Leperflesh posted:Giving places like modesto and bakersfield some infrastructure and interconnectivity may help to redirect some of the projected growth to those cities rather than just piling more and more into a totally saturated area like the SF bay. I’ve found people on the coasts dramatically underestimate how many people live on the 99 corridor between Bakersfield and Merced. And there’s so much room to expand. Communities like Tulare suddenly look a lot more appealing when you can commute to Fresno or Bakersfield in 20 minutes.
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Tacier posted:I’ve found people on the coasts dramatically underestimate how many people live on the 99 corridor between Bakersfield and Merced. And there’s so much room to expand. Communities like Tulare suddenly look a lot more appealing when you can commute to Fresno or Bakersfield in 20 minutes.
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# ? May 16, 2020 03:36 |
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Flight costs will rise when airports hit capacity, and if we ever start properly taxing fuel or doing much about climate change. But it's a fair point, that the HSR is probably going to cost enough that commuting a hundred miles a day on it is only for the quite wealthy. It's not just about daily commutes, though. What if you just needed to go in to work two or three times a month?
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# ? May 16, 2020 05:09 |
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Infinite Karma posted:Unless the fares are reasonable it won't matter. What's the point of trains when they're more expensive and slower than catching a flight? And likewise, who's going to spend $1000+ a month to commute to work on the train? I mean, people already spend $600/mo on Caltrain
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# ? May 16, 2020 05:22 |
Trains and Planes run all over the rest of the world in tandem and people ride both, dunno why that wouldn't be the case here if we had them.
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# ? May 16, 2020 05:24 |
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Goodpancakes posted:Trains and Planes run all over the rest of the world in tandem and people ride both, dunno why that wouldn't be the case here if we had them. Subsidies
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# ? May 16, 2020 06:17 |
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Infinite Karma posted:Unless the fares are reasonable it won't matter. What's the point of trains when they're more expensive and slower than catching a flight? And likewise, who's going to spend $1000+ a month to commute to work on the train? If you price it right people will take the train. In OC metrolink is like $8 to go anywhere in the county and is almost as fast as just driving. It's also great for going to the bars or a baseball game because you don't have to worry about how you're going to get home.
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# ? May 16, 2020 09:16 |
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Excuse my rant but holy hell I am never clicking on another SF Gate link. Every article has an unrelated autoplay video and if you try to close it, it keeps playing and says "closing video" for a couple seconds. Then a larger unclosable version of the video embeds in the body of the article.
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# ? May 17, 2020 01:25 |
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Sfgate is clickbait ad garbage. Sfchronicle.com is the actual news.
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# ? May 17, 2020 01:29 |
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Class Warcraft posted:If you price it right people will take the train. In OC metrolink is like $8 to go anywhere in the county and is almost as fast as just driving. It's also great for going to the bars or a baseball game because you don't have to worry about how you're going to get home.
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# ? May 17, 2020 01:36 |
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Ah yes, Surely a citizen of a county in the top 20 wealthiest zipcodes has a note worthy take on whether to re-open the economy or not.
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# ? May 17, 2020 06:58 |
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Please direct your complaints about the freefalling economic catastrophe to D.C., thank you
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# ? May 17, 2020 07:09 |
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He probably owns the truck I saw by the lumber yard with a shitload of Q-ANON stickers. People around here seem to be wearing masks inside or in crowds, but not when hiking. They're reopening some of the parks and trails on Monday, but keeping the super popular ones closed. Trying to encourage people to stay spread out and hike in their own area. The Glumslinger fucked around with this message at 07:20 on May 17, 2020 |
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WAR CRIME GIGOLO posted:
fun fact, marin county does have a few poor areas hidden in the sea of wealthy avocado baron estates, like the canal area of san rafael wheres theres some working class latino people, or marin city, wheres theres public housing with 90% of the county's black residents (like the rest of the bay area black people mostly first arrived during WWII to work in the shipyards, and then got confined to certain areas by redlining and psycho nazi whiteys threatening and attacking them). Tupac used to live in Marin City, he used to hang out with these dudes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRd1mAe_mOo america is a land of contrasts also lol marin
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# ? May 17, 2020 11:16 |
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The Glumslinger posted:People around here seem to be wearing masks inside or in crowds, but not when hiking. They're reopening some of the parks and trails on Monday, but keeping the super popular ones closed. Trying to encourage people to stay spread out and hike in their own area. Have people been directed by the county to wear a mask when exercising/hiking? My county doesn't require it, but does for being indoors or when social distancing isn't possible. Mostly people seem to be doing what they are told around here.
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Boot and Rally posted:Have people been directed by the county to wear a mask when exercising/hiking? My county doesn't require it, but does for being indoors or when social distancing isn't possible. Mostly people seem to be doing what they are told around here. I think LA is requiring masks while hiking, they put out a pretty blanket mask requirement
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# ? May 17, 2020 18:04 |
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I'm in Sacramento and saw yesterday that the riverfront was completely packed with people splashing about, barbecuing, and hanging out on the sand. I expect us to spike soon.
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# ? May 17, 2020 22:11 |
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SlimGoodbody posted:I'm in Sacramento and saw yesterday that the riverfront was completely packed with people splashing about, barbecuing, and hanging out on the sand. I expect us to spike soon. I bike into my office downtown during the week and there has been people on the riverfront pretty much any day it's not raining, and it's been like that for the past month. They should have just bitten the bullet and closed the parks/beaches in the area.
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# ? May 17, 2020 23:14 |
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Wicked Them Beats posted:They should have just bitten the bullet and closed the parks/beaches in the area.
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# ? May 17, 2020 23:32 |
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CopperHound posted:You and I both know any implementation of this will also involve a hamfisted shutting down of the american river bike trail, and you'll have to use ca-160 to get across the river. Horrifying. Ok I take it back.
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# ? May 18, 2020 02:04 |
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Well it seems like new cases in the Bay area are decreasing with the peak around April 1st. https://projects.sfchronicle.com/2020/coronavirus-map/ Still a ways from the criteria to allow a lift to SiP, but it's promising.
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# ? May 18, 2020 04:49 |
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Also, the public in general is still well in support of Newsom - at least based on a poll from LATimes from May 1. Republicans are actually divided on their support of Newsom while Dems and independents are strong in support. https://www.latimes.com./politics/story/2020-05-01/partisan-split-coronavirus-newsom-approval-poll (Remember the "com." jumps the paywall). Neither of my two posts are really news, but I want to keep it in mind that things are going kinda well, at least well relative to a major economic depression and global pandemic. Like we've fallen off a building and broken a few bones and need some help but at least we're not the guy in Texas or Arkansas that fell on some spikes. I'm trying to be optimistic if you couldn't tell... America Inc. fucked around with this message at 05:22 on May 18, 2020 |
# ? May 18, 2020 05:13 |
When the balkanization comes California will be united under the cool, smooth hand of our robo-governor.
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# ? May 18, 2020 10:01 |
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Robot overlords really were the answer all along.
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# ? May 18, 2020 10:20 |
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WOWEE ZOWEE posted:Also, the public in general is still well in support of Newsom - at least based on a poll from LATimes from May 1. Republicans are actually divided on their support of Newsom while Dems and independents are strong in support. Yeah, look at the steady but slowly decreasing rates of infections in CA compared to places like AZ and TX which are still accelerating and full of people who would be out there protesting today if they didn't flee the state 5 years ago.
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# ? May 18, 2020 17:22 |
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I drove by one of those protests on Saturday out here in Rancho Cucamonga and it was literally right outside of a Cheesecake Factory.
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# ? May 18, 2020 17:23 |
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FCKGW posted:I drove by one of those protests on Saturday out here in Rancho Cucamonga and it was literally right outside of a Cheesecake Factory. Suburban_Republicans.txt
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# ? May 18, 2020 17:27 |
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FCKGW posted:I drove by one of those protests on Saturday out here in Rancho Cucamonga and it was literally right outside of a Cheesecake Factory. This reminds me that the Cheesecaked Factory didn't pay rent for any of its locations in April.
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# ? May 18, 2020 18:22 |
That's Comrade Cheesecake Factory to you.
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# ? May 18, 2020 18:31 |
https://twitter.com/latimes/status/1262370919240003584
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# ? May 18, 2020 19:13 |
What dumbass is diving from Olympia to loving NorCal for a haircut lmao.
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# ? May 18, 2020 19:49 |
Probably some Patriot Prayer/Proud Boy loser weirdo.
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# ? May 18, 2020 19:54 |
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To own the libs. I feel so owned.
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# ? May 18, 2020 20:01 |
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without looking I'm going to assume he was going stir crazy and/or hates his family, also a huge idiot
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# ? May 18, 2020 20:04 |
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Skippy McPants posted:Robot overlords really were the answer all along. The Deus Ex Helios ending is best for the world.
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# ? May 18, 2020 21:40 |
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I feel kind of bad that someone is too dumb and/or so annoying that they couldn’t convince anyone closer than 600 miles to cut hair
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# ? May 18, 2020 21:40 |
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I finally got fed up with how unruly my hair was last week and just used an electric razor to shave my head. Took five minutes and a helpful double check from my roommate that I didn't miss any spots on the back of my head. Not trumpeting it as a perfect alternative to a stylish cut or anything but it definitely improved my overall mood to not constantly be fiddling with overgrown hair. Who knows maybe I'll be ready for a haircut again by the time we're all out of lockdown!
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# ? May 18, 2020 23:13 |
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1st AD posted:I feel kind of bad that someone is too dumb and/or so annoying that they couldn’t convince anyone closer than 600 miles to cut hair But also it’s exactly that kind of person that would do that and brag about it.
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# ? May 18, 2020 23:14 |
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Sydin posted:I finally got fed up with how unruly my hair was last week and just used an electric razor to shave my head. Took five minutes and a helpful double check from my roommate that I didn't miss any spots on the back of my head. Not trumpeting it as a perfect alternative to a stylish cut or anything but it definitely improved my overall mood to not constantly be fiddling with overgrown hair. Yeah, I'm tempted to do this as well. It's not like I'm going to be seeing anyone for any reason anyway.
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# ? May 19, 2020 00:03 |
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Between the lack of access to barbers and the extra time I've spent practicing my guitar, I'm gonna come out of lockdown ready to live my dream and start a hair metal band
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