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withak posted:The data actually shows that COVID spreads less on weekends, they should be open today and closed Saturday/Sunday. Counterpoint: Orange County should be closed permanently.
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ratbert90 posted:Counterpoint: Orange County should be closed permanently. Well yeah, but baby steps.
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The Wiggly Wizard posted:I would really like to know if anywhere is directly appropriating the police budget for smaller public school class sizes. I thought the Federal gov't was handing out bearcats, and the main cost was that they're insanely expensive to upkeep?
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With how many of our neighbors are setting off fireworks in our dry shrubby area, I'm legit impressed the state hasn't burned down yet tonight
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BeAuMaN posted:California too. Apparently California gave no shits this year though.
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Word on the street was that if you went out to Pahrump, NV any time in the last two months people were lined up outside the fireworks stores and shopping by the pallet. Now I see they weren't exaggerating.
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Last night I just wanted to scream at the neighbor two blocks behind us. For the previous MONTH, he's been lighting m80s and m100s, and I'm just loving done with fireworks.
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https://twitter.com/laura_nelson/status/1279817257728667653 https://twitter.com/BrianUdovich/status/1279798296207167488
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That seems brutal holy poo poo. I feel very fortunate I'm living in a relatively rural area on the coast rn where the fireworks didn't pop off last night.
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Wow I was kind of skeptical that all that air pollution could come from fireworks but now I'm surprised there's any air left to breathe. That's way worse than the south bay area plus you have the smog-trapping geography.
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The Wiggly Wizard posted:Wow I was kind of skeptical that all that air pollution could come from fireworks but now I'm surprised there's any air left to breathe. That's way worse than the south bay area plus you have the smog-trapping geography. I'm in South SJ and our air quality is 39 lol I was actually pretty surprised at how restrained last night was. It popped off pretty hard between ~8-11, but after that I hear nary but the occasional crack. By midnight people were mostly done.
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Jul 5, 2020 19:25
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Jul 5, 2020 20:45
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It's past noon on the fifth and the ocean breeze still hasn't completely dispersed the gunpowder smell from SF's Outer Sunset.
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Jul 5, 2020 21:05
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I'm wondering if they at least put on a show for the cities to watch from their windows if this would have happened anyway or not. I'm out in the country so it was a little louder than previous years but not all that bad. Saw a variety of illegal firewroks.
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Jul 5, 2020 21:19
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I thought we were going to have a quiet night in Hayward since all the fireworks seemed to be concentrated to 1-2 areas in the evening. Nope, they just didn't start in earnest until 2-3AM.  How the gently caress does my 4-mo-old sleep through fireworks but not me clearing my throat? 
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BeAuMaN posted:I'm wondering if they at least put on a show for the cities to watch from their windows if this would have happened anyway or not. I'm out in the country so it was a little louder than previous years but not all that bad. Saw a variety of illegal firewroks. Yeah while it does not excuse the general idiocy at all, we're learning in this pandemic that just because the government tells the population at large they absolutely have to do something inconvenient for their own benefit doesn't mean people are actually going to listen. "You have to stay home + all fireworks shows canceled + oh and personal fireworks are banned too" was absolutely a recipe for a bunch of people independently deciding "well gently caress you I'm gonna enjoy my fourth even if I have to smuggle some fireworks in" and causing yesterday's clusterfuck. A couple official fireworks shows people could watch from their roofs or street corners + closing parks/beaches/etc where people might congregate to watch them would probably have worked a lot better.
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BeAuMaN posted:I'm wondering if they at least put on a show for the cities to watch from their windows if this would have happened anyway or not. I'm out in the country so it was a little louder than previous years but not all that bad. Saw a variety of illegal firewroks. judging from spending last 4th in LA, people absolutely would still do this
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Jul 5, 2020 21:30
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The real tragedy is that these firework shows were allowed to happen without mentioning all the wonderful Brands that provide for civil society
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I mean, the real reason that there were illegal fireworks going off everywhere is that there was a huge glut in firework supply because everything has been cancelled. The A's aren't doing their Friday fireworks if there's no games, Disneyland etc. aren't doing their regular small displays, and of course cities everywhere cancelled their regular shows. Fireworks can't really be saved and stored for next year (it's hideously dangerous to let them just sit around and get old), and there aren't any best practices for fireworks disposal. I'm sure distributors and factories have counted on a pretty stable demand for fireworks year-to-year, and when official demand tanked this year they had to move their product somehow. I've heard that there were places selling mortars at buy 1 get 3 free. Plus, people are in an insurrectionary mood, and are also just cooped up and stir crazy. I'm not sure there was anything that could have been done to stop the warzones from breaking out this year.
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ratbert90 posted:Last night I just wanted to scream at the neighbor two blocks behind us. For the previous MONTH, he's been lighting m80s and m100s, and I'm just loving done with fireworks. it’s been non stop fireworks for at least two months where i live. some dude was setting off loving bombs at 4am a couple of nights ago. my neighbors are always celebrating something so are usually okay with noise late into the night, but even they started to walk around trying to find the perpetrator because ITS FOUR IN THE MORNING of course no one called the cops though because obviously
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Jul 6, 2020 00:29
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Our local facebook pages were blowing up with Karens trying to pinpoint all the illegal fireworks, and a 911 dispatcher replied and said "yeah stop calling us to report them, we have bigger fish to fry and are already stretched thin." That said, they were fun to watch and I even had babies sleeping by 9pm that didn't budge.
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Henrik Zetterberg posted:Our local facebook pages were blowing up with Karens trying to pinpoint all the illegal fireworks, and a 911 dispatcher replied and said "yeah stop calling us to report them, we have bigger fish to fry and are already stretched thin." Them’s good babies. You’re a lucky goon.
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Sydin posted:I was actually pretty surprised at how restrained last night was. It popped off pretty hard between ~8-11, but after that I hear nary but the occasional crack. By midnight people were mostly done. It was similar in Oakland around Lake Merritt; from 8-12 there were a ton of fireworks set off and then it calmed down. I'm surprised there was no news about people getting their hands blown off or smacked with falling shells. Given it was probably a bunch of untrained people basically launching explosives, things actually went pretty well. Anarchy in action!
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Jul 6, 2020 20:37
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Remember the super-racist facebook group with the SJPD officers came to light about a week and a half ago? The SJ police union president just apologized... https://twitter.com/sanjoseinside/status/1280615791608516608?s=20 not to the public, of course.
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Mitsuo posted:Remember the super-racist facebook group with the SJPD officers came to light about a week and a half ago? As nutty as alt newpapers can be, SJI has really hit it's stride the last few months. Probably helps that the Mercury News is terminally lib yellow journalism
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all I know is back in the late 80's we'd set off a few M-80+'s at a party on the 4th and there were cops at the door in 10 minutes. also, these "mortar" things or anything flying up in the air prob should be cancelled for private use.
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Jul 8, 2020 19:25
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Yeah all of those fireworks are illegal for private use in CA, but people smuggle them in every year from Nevada and Oregon. This year there was just a much higher supply and therefore lower prices.
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Jul 8, 2020 20:21
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Haha, we just hit 12k infected today.
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Jul 8, 2020 20:59
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My wife is a teacher and has asthma and high blood pressure. Thanks to all the "send the kids back to school" people. You're going to get her killed.
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The Wiggly Wizard posted:As nutty as alt newpapers can be, SJI has really hit it's stride the last few months. Probably helps that the Mercury News is terminally lib yellow journalism Yeah both San Jose Inside and SJ Spotlight seem pretty decent. Fun story about the latter - SJ Spotlight was started by a Mercury News journalist who covered the city council beat, and when she was about to publish a story about Mayor Liccardo and Carl Guardino (CEO of the Silicon Valley Leadership Group), they quashed the story and she got laid off. She and her (labor-connected Dem) husband went off to Vegas for a while, and she eventually came back with experience on non-profit newspapers that she used to start SJ Spotlight. So if you look at their donors, a lot come from her media contacts (Knight Foundation, etc) and his labor contacts (union locals).
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Kenning posted:Yeah all of those fireworks are illegal for private use in CA, but people smuggle them in every year from Nevada and Oregon. This year there was just a much higher supply and therefore lower prices. They're not legal in Oregon either 
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Ah, that's fair. My neighbors growing up said they got them from their family in Oregon, but maybe the supply chain was longer than that.
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Forceholy posted:Haha, we just hit 12k infected today. https://twitter.com/sfchronicle/status/1281030720937512963
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Megaman's Jockstrap posted:My wife is a teacher and has asthma and high blood pressure. Thanks to all the "send the kids back to school" people. You're going to get her killed.
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Jul 9, 2020 02:54
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Complaining on the forums changes things. Just got word last night they're not re-opening the school. The people that do are going to be horrified at what happens, btw. The case count is going to skyrocket, and the kids are going to end up home anyway when all the teachers are legit out sick or burning their accumulated sick leave to avoid coming in.
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Jul 9, 2020 18:13
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California officials are closely monitoring the Something Awful forums California politics thread to determine the best time to reopen.
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Cup Runneth Over posted:California officials are closely monitoring the Something Awful forums California politics thread to determine the best time to reopen. Most state personnel are probably furloughed, laid off, or pressed into processing unemployment applications. How are else are they gonna get information???
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Gavin, I know you're listening, so let me take this moment to just say you're never going to be president.
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Kenning posted:Gavin, I know you're listening, so let me take this moment to just say you're never going to be president. Gavbot predicts an 87.2% probability that you are wrong based on current simulations
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