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FlapYoJacks posted:Lol most of them aren’t even full. They are like, 10+ feet down. They're still pretty close, and most above historical average: 
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What are people in the south going to do if they can't talk about bringing Commiefornia to heel by cutting off its water
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FlapYoJacks posted:Which will be way before the summer lol, maybe you should take a look at the snowpack in the mountains before you throw claims out like this. There will be a fuckload of snow still on the mountains when summer begins, let alone being gone well beforehand
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Apr 9, 2023 04:05
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the stuff at middle altitudes is where the major danger is. big spring storms mean a bunch of low-altitude snowpack melting all at once as it gets dumped on, and the runoff running into low areas already soaked by the same storms. that's what happened in 97 that made everything go apeshit
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Apr 12, 2023 21:36
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People still angry about building in a dry lake bed. Tulare https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydFdxg6AD98
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As someone who is poor and lives near the desert where its 100+ half the year. Yes, please "Three major utility companies in California are looking to restructure customer billing, and part of that means customers could be charged based on how much money they make." https://www.latimes.com/business/st...more-affordable "The precise dollar amount and other details will be determined by the California Public Utilities Commission, with a final decision approved by mid-2024 and fully implemented in 2025." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZErfPbU7bpo
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That’s absolutely idiotic Let’s make eggs cost $5 per if you make over 100k And your internet doubles Your car insurance goes up too
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Apr 14, 2023 18:47
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watch PG&E just pocket the extra revenue rather than using this to charge the poor less
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Apr 14, 2023 18:58
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It’ll be easier to charge everyone more money and issue rebates based on income. Inefficient to be managing this at point of sale.
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Apr 14, 2023 19:17
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Or the state could just tax the rich and run essential utilities
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lol, and, I cannot stress this enough, lmao. https://sfyimby.com/2023/04/exclusive-skyscraper-proposed-for-2700-sloat-boulevard-in-outer-sunset-san-francisco.html
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I got a text from CA nurses association asking me to do stuff against SB 770, but it seems like a good bill? Anyone have the deets?
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quote:“Suppose you want to hook up your electric car and you want to electrify your home heating or your water heater,” Sallee said. “You’re going to be rewarded under this rate structure because you’re going to be consuming, on net, more electricity from the grid.” drat must be nice to not be a filthy renter. I'm glad it'll help low income people and I guess homeowners, but it's gonna suck rear end for my situation.
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Apr 14, 2023 20:09
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Greg12 posted:lol, and, I cannot stress this enough, lmao. How many miles down do you think they’ll have to dig the foundations to put it on something firm?
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Hawkperson posted:I got a text from CA nurses association asking me to do stuff against SB 770, but it seems like a good bill? Anyone have the deets? SB 770 requires years of negotiation on federal waivers for establishing a state singlepayer healthcare system before it requires passing a state singlepayer law but federal law says that it has to be done in the reverse order, so the nurses union worries that it's going to be used by state politicians to pretend that they're for singlepayer then not do anything about passing a bill because they can't get the waivers (because they didn't pass a bill)
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fermun posted:SB 770 requires years of negotiation on federal waivers for establishing a state singlepayer healthcare system before it requires passing a state singlepayer law but federal law says that it has to be done in the reverse order, so the nurses union worries that it's going to be used by state politicians to pretend that they're for singlepayer then not do anything about passing a bill because they can't get the waivers (because they didn't pass a bill) Another activist group (https://healthcareforall.org/), came out in favor of SB 770. I don't know enough about the poltical strategy to know which is the best approach.
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Huh, and the equivalent assembly bill, AB 1690 is supported by both the nurses union and that group, but AB 1690 would establish CA singlepayer a couple years sooner
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Yeah I’m real confused. I was all ready to call my rep but I don’t know what I’m demanding  might wait on it but I feel bad not taking action for something important to me
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Hawkperson posted:Yeah I’m real confused. I was all ready to call my rep but I don’t know what I’m demanding I'm right there with you and I *am* confused. I sent emails to people I know in the respective orgs asking them about it.
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Apr 15, 2023 13:35
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OgNar posted:As someone who is poor and lives near the desert where its 100+ half the year. hmmm if only we already had a way built into society to charge people for services on a sliding scale based on their income
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Apr 15, 2023 17:31
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Cup Runneth Over posted:hmmm if only we already had a way built into society to charge people for services on a sliding scale based on their income I can't wait for the first CEO that takes a $1 salary (but gets 50 billion in stock options) to get billed the poverty rate.
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Cup Runneth Over posted:hmmm if only we already had a way built into society to charge people for services on a sliding scale based on their income If you think about it, all retail pricing on essential goods and services is a regressive tax, since a fixed price is higher percentage of a lower-income persons total income. Maybe we should price everything as a percentage of income so that society is more fair. We could call it the Social Income-Sized Market Rate.
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Perhaps the state should guarantee essential goods and services, such as food, shelter, and healthcare, for free. Funded, potentially, by a progressive tax structure?
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jokes posted:Perhaps the state should guarantee essential goods and services, such as food, shelter, and healthcare, for free. Funded, potentially, by a progressive tax structure? That sounds hard, let's just empower private for-profit companies to collect income taxes without any guarantee of additional service.
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Speaking of things that sound good but maybe they're bad, I signed a thing at a table in front of the grocery store the other day that they said was about rent control, and I think it was supposed to be in favor of rent control? But I just recently recovered from COVID-19 and have gnarly brain fog, so when I hurriedly tried to read the proposal it all just turned to spaghetti in my brain so I said "gently caress it, we ball" and signed it anyway so I could stop having a weird conversation about shoes with the tabling lady. Something about Newsom having said rent can go up 10% a year? Idk. Any of you know if I signed a cool good thing or a dumb bad thing?
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SlimGoodbody posted:Speaking of things that sound good but maybe they're bad, I signed a thing at a table in front of the grocery store the other day that they said was about rent control, and I think it was supposed to be in favor of rent control? But I just recently recovered from COVID-19 and have gnarly brain fog, so when I hurriedly tried to read the proposal it all just turned to spaghetti in my brain so I said "gently caress it, we ball" and signed it anyway so I could stop having a weird conversation about shoes with the tabling lady. Something about Newsom having said rent can go up 10% a year? Idk. Any of you know if I signed a cool good thing or a dumb bad thing? Probably the second one (bolding per the above page)... 1942. (22-0008) posted:EXPANDS LOCAL GOVERNMENTS’ AUTHORITY TO ENACT RENT CONTROL ON RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY. INITIATIVE STATUTE. I'm of the opinion of "Please ignore signature gatherers", and if you must sign something, only sign referendums or maybe pure constitutional amendments. I've written at length on how I don't like the ballot initiative process (particularly initiative statutes) in California and how it typically bypasses the legislative process. Also we have enough crap on the ballot every election, which makes me really cranky. BeAuMaN fucked around with this message at 20:03 on Apr 15, 2023 |
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BeAuMaN posted:https://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/ballot-measures/initiative-and-referendum-status/initiatives-referenda-cleared-circulation Thank you, I appreciate it. And yeah, I do normally avoid signature gathering tables, this just happened to be a perfect storm of me being stuck next to the table as two of the oldest people on Earth stopped in the walkway to transfer their groceries from one grocery cart to another identical cart (???), hearing the phrase "rent control", making eye contact with the signature gatherer, and post-COVID brain fog making me an easily corralled livestock man for the time being.
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SlimGoodbody posted:Thank you, I appreciate it. And yeah, I do normally avoid signature gathering tables, this just happened to be a perfect storm of me being stuck next to the table as two of the oldest people on Earth stopped in the walkway to transfer their groceries from one grocery cart to another identical cart (???), hearing the phrase "rent control", making eye contact with the signature gatherer, and post-COVID brain fog making me an easily corralled livestock man for the time being. BeAuMaN fucked around with this message at 01:07 on Apr 16, 2023 |
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Good for Oakland not dishing out a bunch of corporate welfare to the A's, but I'm going to miss them  I don't really know the ins and outs of the negotiations, but it seems like building stadiums and hosting the Olympics are pretty consistent rug-pulls and boondoggles for the people living there.
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The Wiggly Wizard posted:Good for Oakland not dishing out a bunch of corporate welfare to the A's, but I'm going to miss them Yeah, but politicians get to say they brought X to their city which is a good boost to polls in the short-term for some reason, even if it breaks everything
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The Wiggly Wizard posted:Good for Oakland not dishing out a bunch of corporate welfare to the A's, but I'm going to miss them Interesting that Oakland lost both their football and baseball teams to Las Vegas.
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Vegas has been trying to put together a full slate of sports teams for quite a while now, if the A's weren't going to move there then they were first up as a potential expansion city. It's also got a ton of unused land and rich as gently caress private investment dollars which means whoever goes there is going to get a swanky state of the art stadium for pennies on the dollar. Absolutely sucks about the A's, I've said it in all the other threads and I'll repeat it here: John Fisher is a piece of poo poo, dude is worth over $2B and is the heir to the Gap fortune, and still runs his team like a goddamn poverty franchise. And now it looks like all his bargaining with Oakland to stay was just him laying groundwork to be able to justify jumping ship. Just absolute scum of the earth.
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The Los Angeles Anaheim Angels of Oakland
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CPColin posted:Rename the Angels back to California Angels and move them to Oakland I'd be ok with this besides the ducks, orange county won't really have any professional teams anymore and they can turn angels stadium to low cost hous.... well, a man can dream
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OgNar posted:OH NO!!!!!1 Is this one of those "disciplinary" proceedings where the committee clears everyone and those who it doesn't always succeed on appeal? I'm not being snarky, I genuinely don't know and can't figure out how to google for it.
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The Wiggly Wizard posted:Good for Oakland not dishing out a bunch of corporate welfare to the A's, but I'm going to miss them Pretty much. I don't travel often but I was in Vegas for a work related event, and talking to someone there, they said they're paying for the football stadium by raising the occupancy fee/tax on hotels, so it taxes the tourists and not the locals 
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The Wiggly Wizard posted:Good for Oakland not dishing out a bunch of corporate welfare to the A's, but I'm going to miss them My street in Oakland has been actively disintegrating for the past 3 years or so. Like multiple blown out 6+” deep potholes disintegrating. Like you don’t really want to drive down it disintegrating, and when you do you don’t go faster than MAYBE 10 mph. gently caress the greedy rear end Oakland A’s. I was a fan since I was a kid, and they’ve been playing stupid handouts-for-billionaires grabass for at least a decade or two without even a pretense of caring for the fans. Good loving riddance.
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