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I love how they put him in the MAGA hat up front so you know not to feel sorry for himMan who just got 1.5 million dollars posted:We’re getting taxed to death here. I can’t afford it.
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Uh, but I was led to believe it was those dumb libs that were lazy moochers that blew their money on stupid poo poo? I can't believe a MAGA would do such a thing
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Jan 1, 2018 21:26
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$1m invested in the stock market with a modest 4% growth would allow him to withdrawal $40k/yr forever and live comfortably in whatever part of California he can buy a house for $250k. Instead he bought a Hellcat and is complaining about $10k in takes
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Jan 1, 2018 22:15
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50 YEARS AGO WHEN INFLATION WAS 7X LOWER AND THERE WAS A 90% TAX RATE ON THE WEALTHIEST 10%, I WOULD HAVE BEEN RICH!  Anyway that's not modern-day California in a nutshell, this is: 
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Jan 1, 2018 22:33
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Honestly it probably would make sense to move to a lower tax state before selling that thing though, especially if you're unemployed.
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Jan 1, 2018 22:39
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I'm just glad his state taxes will most likely go towards other struggling people.
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Jan 1, 2018 22:40
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Cicero posted:Honestly it probably would make sense to move to a lower tax state before selling that thing though, especially if you're unemployed. Could he have afforded to move?
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WHADDYA MEAN I DON'T GET MY DISABILICARE NO MORE? WHAT IS THIS COMMUNIST RUSSIA? :speeds away in lovely 'muscle car':
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Other people should pull themselves up by their bootstraps and stumble stupidly and accidentally upon priceless family heirlooms
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FCKGW posted:$1m invested in the stock market with a modest 4% growth would allow him to withdrawal $40k/yr forever and live comfortably in whatever part of California he can buy a house for $250k. Most people are shockingly financially illiterate. It's a problem.
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FilthyImp posted:WHADDYA MEAN I DON'T GET MY DISABILICARE NO MORE? WHAT IS THIS COMMUNIST RUSSIA? I really do think this is the silver lining: him losing his disability because he makes too much.
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FCKGW posted:Here’s a list of all the laws going into effect across California on Monday I'm actually pleasantly surprised by this list. There are a couple poo poo laws that snuck in there: quote:Anyone who “willfully recorded a video” of a violent attack that was streamed on a site such as Facebook could receive additional punishment in a California court of law.
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Jan 2, 2018 16:58
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I don't think there are seatbelts in Fresno's buses. They'll have to add them. Or does "commercial bus" have a specific meaning, like Greyhound buses?
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Jan 2, 2018 17:03
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For the busses, I assume they mean the charter bus style busses that take grandma to the Indian Bingo casino or trip around foreign tour groups, not like metro busses.Skyscraper posted:I'm actually pleasantly surprised by this list. There are a couple poo poo laws that snuck in there: Why is the Lyft/Uber intoxication one bad?
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Jan 2, 2018 17:03
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FilthyImp posted:The consumption by passengers thing just seems like it's anticipating a loophole (as it applies to alcohol already). Commercial drivers (correct me if I'm wrong) have their BAC limit lowered even when they're not driving commercially. Lyft/Uber drivers don't maintain steady employment, being that they're not technically employed, etc, etc so I suspect this'll be used by the criminal justice apparatus to permanently lower someone's BAC if they've ever driven for Lyft or Uber in the past. FilthyImp posted:For the busses, I assume they mean the charter bus style busses that take grandma to the Indian Bingo casino or trip around foreign tour groups, not like metro busses. Skyscraper fucked around with this message at 17:17 on Jan 2, 2018 |
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Jan 2, 2018 17:05
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FilthyImp posted:For the busses, I assume they mean the charter bus style busses that take grandma to the Indian Bingo casino or trip around foreign tour groups, not like metro busses.
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Most of the deaths from charter bus crashes are from people getting thrown down the cabin or crushed. City busses usually aren’t going that fast.
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Yeah, those charter bus crashes usually occur on winding mountain roads (heading for an Indian casino or some church retreat) and involve tumbling down a hillside. A completely different kettle of fish from Bus 522 slowly rumbling between stops every two blocks in the mid-city. Making the former install (and use) seat belts seems entirely reasonable.
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Not only that, but charter bus companies are often sketchy fly-by-night businesses that have considerably worse maintenance and training for their drivers. Many of them are a business that literally consists of just a single bus, and when some incident happens they just change the company name and proceed on as normal. Even express buses that zoom along the freeways, like the Highway 17 express, Dumbarton Express or local express routes use buses that don't have seatbelts. A lot of it has to do with oversight, maintenance, and training. However I won't be surprised if some charter bus promptly bursts into flame due to horrendous maintenance, and a bunch of people are horribly burned to death because they were tangled up in seatbelts and couldn't evacuate in time.
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FMguru posted:Yeah, those charter bus crashes usually occur on winding mountain roads (heading for an Indian casino or some church retreat) and involve tumbling down a hillside. A completely different kettle of fish from Bus 522 slowly rumbling between stops every two blocks in the mid-city. Making the former install (and use) seat belts seems entirely reasonable. Ah, yeah, that makes sense.
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That’s exactly the reason people give for not wearing seatbelts in normal cars. It’s bullshit.
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Skyscraper posted:Commercial drivers (correct me if I'm wrong) have their BAC limit lowered even when they're not driving commercially. Lyft/Uber drivers don't maintain steady employment, being that they're not technically employed, etc, etc so I suspect this'll be used by the criminal justice apparatus to permanently lower someone's BAC if they've ever driven for Lyft or Uber in the past. They go faster than 12 mph city buses so yea
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Skyscraper posted:Commercial drivers (correct me if I'm wrong) have their BAC limit lowered even when they're not driving commercially. Lyft/Uber drivers don't maintain steady employment Using it as a way to perma-lower someone sounds like a court case waiting to happen. quote:Oh, are those less safe?  Oh that's precious.
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FilthyImp posted:Yeah, sounds to me like they want to prevent an instance of "I just got done with some drinks, an hour ago, time to Uber around". FilthyImp posted:
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Now that the cops have lost weed as a reason for arresting minorities, they will need a new mechanism. Since the gig economy preys on lower economic classes (which are enriched for minorities) this is a good way to continue criminalizing blackness.
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CassandraSupreme posted:Now that the cops have lost weed as a reason for arresting minorities, they will need a new mechanism. Since the gig economy preys on lower economic classes (which are enriched for minorities) this is a good way to continue criminalizing blackness. They can still arrest them for weed. What's stopping a cop from pulling over a black person, telling them 'I smell weed' and giving them a field sobriety test they conveniently fail, Refusing to let anyone else drive the car home and ultimately impounding it? I bet car insurance companies will get in on it too, in order to jack up premiums on weed smokers claiming they are a higher risk.
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Oh boy, I'm looking forward to these totally objective field sobriety tests. I don't partake but the cops that pulled me aside last time I went through a DUI check point a year or two ago seemed to think so. Before they sent me on my way they told me to make sure I get a '420 card'. I can imagine it could have gone much worse if I didn't look like them.
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Skyscraper posted:Ha ha, got me! I don't actually know my large passenger vehicle crash injury statistics, which I guess is enough to qualify as "precious" if you're a patronizing rear end in a top hat.  and chill with some  Maybe in the process you could Google up some comparison pictures of charter busses and commuter/metro transit busses and see why the law might benefit a vehicle with forward-facing seats that are usually riding higher than your average pickup truck. Though, from a devil's advocate position, I could see how some might take this as a Classic Californian legal overreach seeing as how it's such a small thing to be concerned about.
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FilthyImp posted:Though, from a devil's advocate position, I could see how some might take this as a Classic Californian legal overreach seeing as how it's such a small thing to be concerned about.
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Skyscraper posted:Or some might not have been familiar with accident statistics until they asked, and good posters like FCKGW, FMGuru, and Bumming Your Scene filled them in. Yeah, it might be that. G'head and take it personally though. It's really adorbs 
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FilthyImp posted:G'head and take it personally though. It's really adorbs
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I know on the East Coast some of the Asian buses had major issues with compliance. I know I was on one that got pulled over for dangerous driving and it turned out that not only did the driver not have a commercial license, he didn't have any legal US drivers license. I imagine many of the casino buses suffer from similar issues.
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FilthyImp posted:Nah, I was commenting from a non-Californian position. Hearing it as an aside before the end of the local news would definitely make it seem like a Dumb California Liberal thing to legislate. You're being an rear end in a top hat and I'm not sure you actually comprehended anything they wrote
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Cup Runneth Over posted:You're being an rear end in a top hat and I'm not sure you actually comprehended anything they wrote California's education system strikes again
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FilthyImp posted:For the busses, I assume they mean the charter bus style busses that take grandma to the Indian Bingo casino or trip around foreign tour groups, not like metro busses. This San Jose crash is part of the inspiration for the seatbelt enforcement on busses, which includes Greyhound as well as the casino shuttles: https://www.mercurynews.com/2017/03/28/san-jose-ntsb-blames-fatal-2016-greyhound-bus-crash-on-inadequate-road-markings/
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FilthyImp posted:G'head and take it personally though. It's really adorbs Their ignorance was fixed when they got the answer to their question, but looks like you won't be so lucky.
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Grand Prize Winner posted:California's education system strikes again What the gently caress
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Grand Prize Winner posted:California's education system strikes again You're the grand prize winner of this conversation
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Hawkgirl posted:What the gently caress something something layers of irony so i win at this poo poo somehow
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This will never, ever pass the Leg, but wow.quote:A dramatic increase in new housing near transit stations could be on its way across California under new legislation proposed by a Bay Area legislator.
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