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Xenix posted:That's true. When my company buys concrete for projects in SF it always comes from Oakland, Martinez, or San Rafael. there's a cement plant in SF itself. Is it more expensive than those others or something?
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Dec 11, 2020 01:02
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Rah! posted:there's a cement plant in SF itself. Is it more expensive than those others or something? Cemex is generally more expensive, yes, and I've never bought from Allied. However, you generally only have a few days notice for when you need concrete, so you have to find the plant that can get it to you next Tuesday at 8 am instead of next Wednesday at 3 pm or you potentially have a work stoppage. edit: Also US Concrete has purchased all of the smaller suppliers in the area which has driven up prices substantially in the last 5 years or so. We were getting significant cost increases yearly from them every year for a while. I'm not sure if we've gotten one lately. Xenix fucked around with this message at 01:15 on Dec 11, 2020 |
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Dec 11, 2020 01:13
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Xenix posted:edit: Also US Concrete has purchased all of the smaller suppliers in the area which has driven up prices substantially in the last 5 years or so. We were getting significant cost increases yearly from them every year for a while. I'm not sure if we've gotten one lately. But the quality of the concrete, the speed of its delivery and the quality of support services from them has vastly improved. The market works!
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Dec 11, 2020 01:24
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Vox Nihili posted:This seems good? it is, thank you to everyone who scared Weiner into doing this, hopefully he'll actually help the campaign for it.
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Dec 11, 2020 02:36
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"oh I voted no on this because I thought it would help the black community" It'll come just wait.
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Dec 11, 2020 03:59
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Doc Hawkins posted:it is, thank you to everyone who scared Weiner into doing this, hopefully he'll actually help the campaign for it. Also hell yeah, Alex Lee (D-Fremont) is a newly elected 25-yr-old assembly member and a DSA comrade (and a NUMTOT, so he says). His district director (local constituent services, engagement, and organizing efforts) is also former SVDSA leadership. Seriously, this is like his second day on the job or something
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Dec 11, 2020 04:31
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Kenning posted:It's famously the case that it costs almost nothing to bribe someone. It's not like you have to get someone $50,000 in perks to get stuff done. Plenty of people can easily be bribe for a few hundred to a couple thousand bucks. Because the money isn’t the thing. People always assume that it’s people getting a sack of cash to do whatever, it that’s very rarely the case. The money is just the illegal thing, so that’s what gets charged and what makes the papers. But it’s a lot more subtle and relational than that. Politicians getting money to change their positions just doesn’t happen that much, it’s not the primary vector through which money influences politics. The bribe of a couple Gs or whatever is not the entirety of the corrupt relationship, or even the main part. It is just the part that is easily prosecutable and most explicitly illegal. Yes but I saw an empty house once, so this article is clearly neoliberal lies meant to oppress the least among us (Bay Area homeowners). CopperHound posted:
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Dec 11, 2020 04:46
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Craptacular! posted:First of all to my knowledge that building doesn't loving exist and second that person has clearly not seen that part of LA lately. Ah yes, noted ghost town ... :checks notes: DTLA
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Dec 11, 2020 04:49
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Genuine question, why not mix concrete on site? The oil business trucks cement in dry bulk and mixes on site with a pump skid. Maybe you can't mix the rock media?
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Dec 11, 2020 05:13
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Goodpancakes posted:Genuine question, why not mix concrete on site? The oil business trucks cement in dry bulk and mixes on site with a pump skid. Maybe you can't mix the rock media? some projects do. when we do deep soil mixing or jet grouting they have batch plants on-site but trucking in dry cement is still very expensive and time-consuming and unreliable. But having a batch plant is an insane setup and only for use in like >800 cubic yards a day consumption. if you're doing framing or other foundational work you just won't get a good mix on-site with smaller-scale equipment and also takes manhours to do, the qa/qc is better having it trucked in.
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Dec 11, 2020 05:33
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Vox Nihili posted:This seems good? this is going to go down in flames 40/60%. don't get too excited
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Dec 11, 2020 05:34
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Xaris posted:some projects do. when we do deep soil mixing or jet grouting they have batch plants on-site but trucking in dry cement is still very expensive and time-consuming and unreliable. But having a batch plant is an insane setup and only for use in like >800 cubic yards a day consumption. if you're doing framing or other foundational work you just won't get a good mix on-site with smaller-scale equipment and also takes manhours to do, the qa/qc is better having it trucked in. Interesting. Oil business regularly mixes <100 cf jobs. Maybe it's why these Wells always leak lmao
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Dec 11, 2020 05:37
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Xaris posted:some projects do. when we do deep soil mixing or jet grouting they have batch plants on-site but trucking in dry cement is still very expensive and time-consuming and unreliable. But having a batch plant is an insane setup and only for use in like >800 cubic yards a day consumption. if you're doing framing or other foundational work you just won't get a good mix on-site with smaller-scale equipment and also takes manhours to do, the qa/qc is better having it trucked in. also you need the additional space for it, which can be a tough ask on top of what's already needed for the staging/construction yard for an urban project and finally there are environmental concerns - primarily air quality: dust, volatile organics - concrete batching is nasty
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Dec 11, 2020 06:03
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Xaris posted:this is going to go down in flames 40/60%. don't get too excited Nah now that I'm invested it'll probably go down 48%/52% and I'll spend days checking the vote count updates as misguided hope slowly fades into dejection.
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Dec 11, 2020 06:14
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Vox Nihili posted:Nah now that I'm invested it'll probably go down 48%/52% and I'll spend days checking the vote count updates as misguided hope slowly fades into dejection.
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Dec 11, 2020 06:19
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acksplode posted:Gascon never ran against Chesa. He resigned early to run in LA, the DA election that Chesa won was an open contest It should have been an open contest (the first open DA contest in ages in SF), but London Breed had to put her thumb on the scale and promoted his opponent Suzy Loftus to interim DA a month before the election so she was the incumbent.
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Dec 11, 2020 08:19
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It’ll be interesting to see how durable the trend of progressive DAs is. I worry that we’re only one high profile murder by a parolee away from a lot of this progress coming undone.
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Dec 11, 2020 09:11
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Vox Nihili posted:This seems good? it's going to be slammed as a racist sexist measure meant to cement white houseowner power over everyone else and any progressive who speaks in favor of this is actually repeating right wing talking points
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Dec 11, 2020 09:19
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Still Dismal posted:It’ll be interesting to see how durable the trend of progressive DAs is. I worry that we’re only one high profile murder by a parolee away from a lot of this progress coming undone. I was reading a story yesterday about a dad who beheaded his two kids and left them in the house with his other two kids for 5 days and the framing of the story was “This will be the first high profile murder case the new ‘no death penalty’ directive” so yeah it’s gonna be used in attack ads for sure.
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Dec 11, 2020 16:27
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The ink wasn't even dry on bail reform before detractors claimed that crime had exploded in LA and San Francisco. Like what criminal is thinking,  "I wasn't gonna carjack that boomer in the Buick over there but now that I don't need a bail bond my margins are so much better!"?
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Dec 11, 2020 16:43
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Panfilo posted:The ink wasn't even dry on bail reform before detractors claimed that crime had exploded in LA and San Francisco. The ones that everyone on Nextdoor talks about. There's thousands apparently.
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Dec 11, 2020 16:49
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droll posted:The ones that everyone on Nextdoor talks about. There's thousands apparently. No need to go to that website,.imo
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Dec 11, 2020 17:40
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Mitsuo posted:(and a NUMTOT, so he says). So... a literal teenager?
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Dec 11, 2020 18:08
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Homevoters are one part of the politics of housing. The other part is fragmented local government. People who drive two hours each way don't get to vote on the housing where they work. There is no politics through which the people of Tracy and Antioch can force the legislatures of the Bay Area's core to legalize more housing.
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Dec 11, 2020 18:19
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Yeah, the insane fragmentation of American local government into a million different little jurisdictions is a hugely underrated part of why we don’t have nice things, especially because it’s often a 100% intentional effort to exclude poor people from being part of a given polity. And like you said, the two reinforce each other too, because very often the answer to “Why is [wealthy city] so incredibly lovely on housing/policing/transit?” is that the electorate there is composed mainly of people who like it that way, because they’re the only ones who can afford to live within the city limits. FCKGW posted:I was reading a story yesterday about a dad who beheaded his two kids and left them in the house with his other two kids for 5 days and the framing of the story was “This will be the first high profile murder case the new ‘no death penalty’ directive” so yeah it’s gonna be used in attack ads for sure. I mean, someone who is straight up innocent and is later able to prove it being jailed can be a story that gains traction, but the much more common phenomenon of someone who did commit a crime but is given a sentence wildly disproportionate to the level of threat they pose is far less likely to dominate a news cycle (and even if it did, a non-trivial chunk of the electorate wouldn’t see a problem there). Fill Baptismal fucked around with this message at 21:09 on Dec 11, 2020 |
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Dec 11, 2020 20:59
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Yeah I was definitely having to say over and over on twitter to a bunch of people posting "HE DID THIS IN SF AND LOOK AT THAT HELLHOLE!" that no, Gascon had not implemented any of these policies in SF, that Chesa had and he's only been in office since Jan 8th so even if you think SF is a shithole these policies couldn't possibly be the cause and actually, crime in SF is down and has been on a (generally) downward trajectory for a number of years unless you're counting the pearl clutching techies calling 311 because they had to see a poor person as "crime."
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Dec 11, 2020 21:22
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Who knows, maybe the kid beheader guy is innocent and it'll take him ten years to prove it
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Dec 12, 2020 02:43
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The Cliff House in San Francisco is closing because trump broke the National Park Service. Covid-19 didn't help, but the current stewards say their issues stem back a few years. The website here has some more info in the form of an open letter: https://cliffhouse.com/ Not sure if this is the right thread to post about it, I'm just upset.
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Dec 14, 2020 11:15
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Aopeth posted:The Cliff House in San Francisco is closing because trump broke the National Park Service. Covid-19 didn't help, but the current stewards say their issues stem back a few years. I hated the last rebuild A LOT, but I'm sad, too.
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Dec 14, 2020 17:29
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Aopeth posted:The Cliff House in San Francisco is closing because trump broke the National Park Service. Covid-19 didn't help, but the current stewards say their issues stem back a few years. The NPS has a decent history of mismanaging concession contracts. Remember when they lost the rights to all the place names in Yosemite for a few years because of a poorly thought out concessionaire contract?
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Dec 14, 2020 18:32
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Aopeth posted:The Cliff House in San Francisco is closing because trump broke the National Park Service. Covid-19 didn't help, but the current stewards say their issues stem back a few years. That link didn't work, but the Merc one below does. Don't bother to read the comments, it's morons raging about evil Newsom shutting down businesses. https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/12/13/report-s-f-s-iconic-cliff-house-restaurant-to-close-permanently I never would've guessed it supported 180 people, that's way bigger than I thought
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Dec 14, 2020 21:42
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Reporting to you live from the Third World Country of California. Where we lose power daily in rolling blackouts while 45 miles away the techopolis exists in SF.
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Dec 15, 2020 05:33
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I heard there's been rolling blackouts in CA again these past few weeks but I must have completely missed it in my news. Did anyone here post about it? Who was affected?
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Dec 15, 2020 05:35
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droll posted:I heard there's been rolling blackouts in CA again these past few weeks but I must have completely missed it in my news. Did anyone here post about it? Who was affected? Sonoma county, marin county. That's what I have seen so far.
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Dec 15, 2020 05:45
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Aopeth posted:The Cliff House in San Francisco is closing because trump broke the National Park Service. Covid-19 didn't help, but the current stewards say their issues stem back a few years. wow that's some letter. Also that experience just sounds incredibly awful. I...uh...do have to say though that they probably made bank off of that contract for 47 years. Enough to justify floating expenses for a few year. Here's the RFQ, which NPS put out in 2019. It's apparently one of the top 100 grossing restaurants in the country ($14 million annually). That doesn't include the gift shops or parking lots. Also because it's NPS property they didn't have to deal with any of the San Francisco or California regulatory or tax burden that most restaurants face. Businesses operating on federal property in SF are all basically immense tax dodges. IDK. I think there's more to the story here than the letter makes out. I'll fully grant NPS is a tirefire, but the price is good enough to put up with the bullshit. e: I think the bigger issue was probably cashflow due to COVID. El Mero Mero fucked around with this message at 08:50 on Dec 15, 2020 |
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Dec 15, 2020 08:46
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El Mero Mero posted:wow that's some letter. I didn't know this info, thanks for the edification! That is quite a bit of money and upsetting info re: ever-present tax loopholes. Also, thanks to the other posters for the commiseration and the info about NPS and Yosemite (lol). Still bummed for those 180 who are losing their jobs.
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This is just speculation, but that letter sounds to me like a negotiating tactic aimed at drumming up public support prior to a potential change in leadership of NPS under Biden? Disregard if that’s not possible due to the contract deadlines...
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Dec 15, 2020 18:04
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Sharks Eat Bear posted:This is just speculation, but that letter sounds to me like a negotiating tactic aimed at drumming up public support prior to a potential change in leadership of NPS under Biden? I don't know. Encouraging the public to complain to the contracting official is a great way to lose business. If I had to guess they would have been fine waiting it out, but then coronavirus shut them down. They probably ran out of PPP money, and then other SBA money, and then didn't get an insurance payment and now they're looking at a cashflow crisis and super pissed that the contract situation is making the cashflow worse (but it normally wouldn't be mortal). Seems super valid thing to be pissed about, but absent coronavirus they probably wouldn't have put out the letter.
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businesses love blaming all their problems on government, crying that government should be run like a business it's fitting that a part of government that has a mandate to be run like a business is putting the screws to someone, trying to get them for as much money as they can
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