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BeAuMaN
Feb 18, 2014

I'M A LEAD FARMER, MOTHERFUCKER!

incoherent posted:

my mans "big dick" gavvy is putting the boot to the panders and starting beef

https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/07/politics/gavin-newsom-walgreens-california-abortion-drug/index.html
Great. Now do PG&E.

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jokes
Dec 20, 2012

Uh... Kupo?

“We’re done.” is a cool way to sign off a tweet telling off republicans and their sympathizers

Muir
Sep 27, 2005

that's Doctor Brain to you

BeAuMaN posted:

Great. Now do PG&E.

SlimGoodbody
Oct 20, 2003

BeAuMaN posted:

Great. Now do PG&E.

GoutPatrol
Oct 17, 2009

*Stupid Babby*

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/03/08/politics/ben-savage-boy-meets-world-adam-schiff-congress/index.html


quote:

The move comes after Schiff announced his plans to run for outgoing Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s seat in January in what is likely to be a competitive Democratic primary. Feinstein will not run for reelection in 2024.

Savage, who famously played the lead role in “Boy Meets World” starring as Cory Matthews, filed paperwork with the Federal Elections Commission to run for California’s 30th District seat back in January. The district includes West Hollywood, Pasadena and Burbank, and has one of the most diverse constituencies in the country.

This is not Savage’s first foray into politics. He previously ran unsuccessfully for a seat on the West Hollywood City Council in 2022.


1. lol
2. Topanga would be a better candidate

FilthyImp
Sep 30, 2002

Anime Deviant
Topanga the character, yes.

Danielle Fischell is apparently pretty racist so gently caress her.

Greg12
Apr 22, 2020

Combed Thunderclap posted:



The other reality I haven’t seen mentioned is the funding + inflation problem: the need to constantly go hat in hand to fund projects and/or wait for funding before you can begin work on the whole project’s actual construction reduces project efficiency as inflation quietly gobbles away at your spending power. Each time overrun thereby produces compounding cost overruns which then means waiting for more funding which means - etc. CA HSR still doesn’t even have the next tranche of funding it needs to even complete the project, so it can only plan and execute so far into the future before it’s running on pure hope that full funding materializes. Not efficient fuel for project construction.

EDIT: Oh, and don’t forget that each time you need to pass the hat you look more incompetent AND the number of dollars you’re asking for has gone up by an inevitably inflated degree which seems extra scary and will always produce a more hostile political environment for your request. Which means more delays.

love to try to build a sidewalk, do two years of outreach about the sidewalk where everyone but a few carbrain psychopaths says, "duh just do it." Then, after seven years failing to get grants to build it (we can't just fund it locally because prop 13, lol), Big Equity Consulting's friends in the granting agencies inform us that our outreach grew stale so the outreach has to be done again. Which means, duh, hiring more consultants to do more equity outreach.

This will be repeated until the only people left are the carbrain psychos who want to use that sidewalk space for another travel lane.

SlimGoodbody
Oct 20, 2003

A little surprised no one's talked about this yet. Silicon Valley Bank defaulted big time today and the FDIC stepped in and took it over before the work day even finished. Apparently like >90% of its deposits are uninsured and the total outstanding balance due for this bank alone is bigger than all of the 2008 bank payouts combined.

https://www.axios.com/2023/03/10/silicon-valley-bank-run-svb-stock

https://www.fdic.gov/news/press-releases/2023/pr23016.html

CPColin
Sep 9, 2003

Big ol' smile.
What else is there to say besides "lol. lmao."?

SlimGoodbody
Oct 20, 2003

Lol, lmao

Centrist Committee
Aug 6, 2019

Sydin
Oct 29, 2011

Another spring commute
Also this whole thing kicked off because two days ago SVB came out and said "hey any chance some investors are willing to buy a bunch of bonds to help us quickly raise $2.2B? What no nothing's wrong, we're fine, everything's fine, how are you?" which caused an immediate investor panic to the point they had to hit the breaker on trading SVB stock and the FDIC stepped in to take it over in the middle of a business day.

withak
Jan 15, 2003


Fun Shoe
And a ton of tech bros are all "today is payday, where is my direct deposit, wtf"

Bald Stalin
Jul 11, 2004

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withak posted:

And a ton of tech bros are all "today is payday, where is my direct deposit, wtf"

Mmm hmm yes that's what we want, workers not getting paid lol

luminalflux
May 27, 2005



Sydin posted:

Also this whole thing kicked off because two days ago SVB came out and said "hey any chance some investors are willing to buy a bunch of bonds to help us quickly raise $2.2B? What no nothing's wrong, we're fine, everything's fine, how are you?" which caused an immediate investor panic to the point they had to hit the breaker on trading SVB stock and the FDIC stepped in to take it over in the middle of a business day.

My "SVB is fully solvent" shirt has a lot of people asking questions already answered by my shirt

OgNar
Oct 26, 2002

They tapdance not, neither do they fart
Oceanview Cremations, whose license was suspended in 2018, was found to still be operating.
Seems they were supposedly cremating and then scattering in the ocean, but were really just filling a warehouse with them.

https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/six-bodies-found-bay-area-mortuary-warehouse-17837013.php

"Five of the six bodies were successfully identified, but one set of remains from Sonoma County is still unknown after Oceanview Cremations owner Robert Smith was unable to provide information, authorities say. Of the 154 cremated remains, only four have been identified by family members, the Alameda County Sheriff's Office told CBS. In one instance, a family member who contacted the sheriff's office thought he already possessed his father's remains, only to allegedly discover they were found in the warehouse."

"Oceanview Cremations, located at 25180 Mission Boulevard in Hayward, has a history of alleged misdeeds."


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAwNHRsPFFE

Tayter Swift
Nov 18, 2002

Pillbug
I’m sorry but a scandalous crematorium owned by Robert Smith is just a little too on the nose.

Cactus Ghost
Dec 20, 2003

you can actually inflate your scrote pretty safely with sterile saline, syringes, needles, and aseptic technique. its a niche kink iirc

the saline just slowly gets absorbed into your blood but in the meantime you got a big round smooth distended nutsack

Ranter posted:

Mmm hmm yes that's what we want, workers not getting paid lol

wont someone please think of the gentrifiers

Steve French
Sep 8, 2003

Pretty questionable to assume that anyone affected is a gentrifying tech bro, rather than, say, an employee of a company that uses a payroll provider with an account at the wrong bank

Cup Runneth Over
Aug 8, 2009

She said life's
Too short to worry
Life's too long to wait
It's too short
Not to love everybody
Life's too long to hate


Steve French posted:

Pretty questionable to assume that anyone affected is a gentrifying tech bro, rather than, say, an employee of a company that uses a payroll provider with an account at the wrong bank

I wish all companies banking at SVB a very go out of business

ChaseSP
Mar 25, 2013



Doesn't look like any depositers will lose cash due to the Fed intervening and going to sell all stocks/investments of value to pay them, while investors and the bank itself are hosed.

Jaxyon
Mar 7, 2016
I’m just saying I would like to see a man beat a woman in a cage. Just to be sure.

ChaseSP posted:

Doesn't look like any depositers will lose cash due to the Fed intervening and going to sell all stocks/investments of value to pay them, while investors and the bank itself are hosed.

that's basically how this always works

the shrieking techbros were rich fuckers who were mad they'd have to wait or take a slight haircut and trying to put their hand on the scale to prevent the chance of that

Bald Stalin
Jul 11, 2004

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The ruling class sits back and laughs while the proletariat fights amongst itself, licking it's lips at today's crab dinner

Sydin
Oct 29, 2011

Another spring commute
Yeah most people seem to think the $250K FDIC insurance means that's all you'll get back in the event that a bank fails no matter what, which isn't the case. I actually had to just explain this to my roommate today when he went on an angry tirade about how SVB folks are getting bailed out (they're not). You will always get back up to $250K, guaranteed, if your deposits are FDIC insured. For any deposits above that, the FDIC will try to make you as whole as possible either by finding a buyer for the bank who will take on the deposit or by liquidating the bank's assets and treating you as a creditor.

What all the VC dickheads were mad about over the weekend is that they wanted the government to also reimburse investors for held stocks, because when these dickheads say "capitalism" and "risk" they actually mean they want to gamble in a casino that lets them pocket winnings and subsidizes losses with house money. All these parasites were rightly told to gently caress right off.

Jaxyon
Mar 7, 2016
I’m just saying I would like to see a man beat a woman in a cage. Just to be sure.
Yeah FDIC doesn't technically guaranty the deposits over $250k, but they have basically 100% record of recovering deposits for everyone. Eventually.

You may have to wait months/years for the big ones.


Ranter posted:

The ruling class sits back and laughs while the proletariat fights amongst itself, licking it's lips at today's crab dinner

The ruling class was the ones whining. It was kayfabe.

And if they really cared about missed payroll they could have just given bridge financing for any startup in danger of missing it.

Bald Stalin
Jul 11, 2004

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Yeh no I had 2 friends that were genuinely frightened they weren't going to be paid on payday, gently caress you for laughing at them and insinuating the only people worried were bourgois. lol libs itt

Jaxyon
Mar 7, 2016
I’m just saying I would like to see a man beat a woman in a cage. Just to be sure.

Ranter posted:

Yeh no I had 2 friends that were genuinely frightened they weren't going to be paid on payday, gently caress you for laughing at them and insinuating the only people worried were bourgois. lol libs itt

Were they paid?

The people who told them to be afraid of missed payroll were the people you should be mad at.

LOL at you making this post just after


Ranter posted:

The ruling class sits back and laughs while the proletariat fights amongst itself, licking it's lips at today's crab dinner

Jaxyon fucked around with this message at 07:05 on Mar 15, 2023

Bald Stalin
Jul 11, 2004

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You're so loving stupid you can't even follow a 12 post thread.

(USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)

FilthyImp
Sep 30, 2002

Anime Deviant
Please won't someone think of this poster's techbros?

Jaxyon
Mar 7, 2016
I’m just saying I would like to see a man beat a woman in a cage. Just to be sure.

Ranter posted:

You're so loving stupid you can't even follow a 12 post thread.

So I'm guessing they got paid, huh, guy who definitely isn't getting played by the ownership class?

Cactus Ghost
Dec 20, 2003

you can actually inflate your scrote pretty safely with sterile saline, syringes, needles, and aseptic technique. its a niche kink iirc

the saline just slowly gets absorbed into your blood but in the meantime you got a big round smooth distended nutsack

Ranter posted:

The ruling class sits back and laughs while the proletariat fights amongst itself, licking it's lips at today's crab dinner

no, they're scrambling to keep up the facade that the managerial/professional class shares their interests

Tayter Swift
Nov 18, 2002

Pillbug
how many loving classes are there

The Glumslinger
Sep 24, 2008

Coach Nagy, you want me to throw to WHAT side of the field?


Hair Elf

Tayter Swift posted:

how many loving classes are there

I'm in Economy Plus

Sydin
Oct 29, 2011

Another spring commute

Tayter Swift posted:

how many loving classes are there

Yeah I was a Freshman once too. Don't worry, it's only like 3-4 a semester, you'll graduate eventually.

Tayter Swift
Nov 18, 2002

Pillbug
I’m never going to make it to chattering at this rate :(

Bald Stalin
Jul 11, 2004

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Tayter Swift posted:

how many loving classes are there

For our purposes of ending the oppression, 2.

The opportunists and revisionists want you to think it matters that there are pmc and petit bourgeois so you can argue some more about techbros on the internet as 'posting praxis '.

Cactus Ghost
Dec 20, 2003

you can actually inflate your scrote pretty safely with sterile saline, syringes, needles, and aseptic technique. its a niche kink iirc

the saline just slowly gets absorbed into your blood but in the meantime you got a big round smooth distended nutsack

The Glumslinger posted:

I'm in Economy Plus

i was in steerage, but i sucked off a steward and got a second class cabin

Ardeem
Sep 16, 2010

There is no problem that cannot be solved through sufficient application of lasers and friendship.
I'm a level 2 Expert myself, but I'm hoping to multiclass into something with a save throw.

OgNar
Oct 26, 2002

They tapdance not, neither do they fart
https://twitter.com/ABC7/status/1635657545779138560

https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/diocese-of-santa-rosa-files-for-bankruptcy-over-wave-of-sex-abuse-lawsuits/

"Those suits were made possible by a 2019 California law that opened a three-year period during which victims of alleged childhood sexual abuse could file lawsuits that were otherwise prohibited under existing statute of limitation rules. That period ended in December 2022 and since then the Diocese of Santa Rosa learned that it could be facing more than 200 such suits, Vasa said."


No drag queens involved.

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The Wiggly Wizard
Aug 21, 2008


drat growing up I knew a few kids who were altar boys or whatever in Petaluma and Santa Rosa. Hope they didn’t get diddled. Not really surprising news, though.

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