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Trabisnikof posted:Once again I amazed by the blatant media bias on this. The only pro-strike quote in the whole piece is "so I kind of favor them." There are at least 10 anti-union quotes. Management gets 4x as many words as union leaders do, including explaining the management's bargaining position without any explanation of the union side. And of course they load the front of the article with opinions from random people and wait till the end to actually mention any facts. Man, I can just imagine people saying "WELL AT LEAST THE MEDIA IS TRYING TO BE FAIR BY INCLUDING THE UNION'S SIDE OF THE STORY, IF YOU JUST ASK ANYONE ON THE STREET THEY'LL SAY JUST FIRE ALL OF THE UNION PEOPLE  ".
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Xaris posted:VVVV Well, "better schools for my kids" is mostly just dogwhistle for not wanting their precious white snowflakes to be in a classroom with some poor black kid and in part with made-up media moral panics at the time of crack/AIDs/blahblah. Touche Prop 13--it's true that most major cities public schools are pretty much on par with suburban ones with a race to the bottom, but they have the luxury having very good private schools so I suspect most people will just move up to Marin or Kensington or Orinda or something close to be 'burbish' but still close to SF for that reason. Quite possibly, not even just "poor black or Latino kids"; my high school was ranked 36 in the nation in 2009, and it's over 80% Asian. It was still mostly white at the turn of the millennium and the proportion of white kids keeps falling.
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predicto posted:Lowell, I presume. Nope, Mission San Jose High School, which isn't a charter school (and it serves what has historically been, and still is, the very richest part of Fremont). Today it's about 85% Asian and less than 10% white, whereas twenty years ago it was almost 60% white. Most of the other high schools in Fremont have followed the same demographic trend we did, but are just five to ten years behind us. Jerry Manderbilt fucked around with this message at 17:14 on Nov 27, 2013 |
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Ron Jeremy posted:Fear is from LA? I guess "living in the city" made me think they were a New York band. I think he says he's from Philadelphia in that song. Learned something new... Everyone I know calls it San Fran (though for a disclaimer, I'm from the South Bay).
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Ron Jeremy posted:Anyone trying to get gun control legislation passed should just get a bunch of brown people to visit the Capitol with guns What, like with the Black Panthers and the Mulford Act and Reagan?
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FMguru posted:FOOD GROWS WHERE WATER FLOWS OBAMA CREATED DUST BOWL in June 2013 on my way back to Fremont from Irvine, I was wondering when they'd finally start blaming THE EVIL NOBONGOMER.
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etalian posted:It also has another important export the rest of the country enjoys especially the conservative states. A multibillion dollar industry at that 
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FMguru posted:FOOD GROWS WHERE WATER FLOWS Goddamn hippie environmentalists 
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Kenning posted:IF <state representative> HAS THEIR WAY All the signs I saw on my last drive through I-5 actually tried to lump LA and SD in with the valley; "WELCOME TO SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, RESTRICTED WATER DELIVERY ZONE, KINGS AND KERN COUNTIES AND LOS ANGELES AND SAN DIEGO" and "PROTECT THE VALLEY AND LA AND SD." A lot of SoCal draws its water from the Colorado, instead, though, doesn't it? Jerry Manderbilt fucked around with this message at 02:56 on Dec 31, 2013 |
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I haven't heard much of Jerry Brown's new state budget besides "What a true leader!" or "He's going to pay off our debt!".
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WampaLord posted:But...but all those politicians kept saying that all the businesses were leaving California to go to Texas! Well I think we had quite a bit of domestic migration out of the state during the 2000s (read: before Brown's election and the Democratic supermajorities). It's like Republicans' perceptions of California are stuck in the last decade, although you'll always get some businessman whinging about how "it's sooooooooo expensive to do business now, I think I'll head to Texas  "
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WampaLord posted:That makes sense, I moved here in 2011, so I haven't seen any sort of mass migration happening but Republicans keep acting like it never stopped or even worse, they're acting like it's picking up speed. Well, the GOP wouldn't be the GOP if they weren't stuck in the past and if they didn't think that conservatism can't fail, it can only be failed, and that California is rotting because it turned Democratic
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Some of my shittier acquaintances are already saying "LOL THE DELTA SMELT AMIRITE  "edit: after reading Oligarch Valley, does anyone have any sources on the "Latino Water Coalition" astroturf group, which apparently is on ice according to the book? Jerry Manderbilt fucked around with this message at 21:38 on Jan 18, 2014 |
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Jan 18, 2014 16:56
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I enjoyed walking through Little Tokyo and eating myself sick, but I dunno if that's something most LA people do.
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Leperflesh posted:Yes we should definitely let endangered fish species go extinct in order for the four or five major corporate farms in socal to have a marginally better crop of oranges. And to have even more water to sell to SoCal cities at gently caress off prices. Seriously, how many people actually know anything about the Vinovich and Resnik and Boswell and whatever other families owning the water rights and land in the valley?
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Jan 27, 2014 17:43
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I remember last time I was in Monterey, the Fisherman's Wharf had posters saying "BOYCOTT SEA WORLD, THEY ENGAGE IN ANIMAL SLAVERY."
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Grand Prize Winner posted:Wait, do they still actually sell fish there? Thought it was basically a tourist trap now. I was under the impression that they stopped fishing in Monterey ages ago. But yeah, it's basically a bunch of overpriced Italian seafood restaurants.
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Well, actually having a functional government and budget surplus was nice while it lasted, thanks for cocking it up Yee and co. 
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Trabisnikof posted:I mean, there's already another State Senator already convicted of felonies that's still serving, so Yee might last for a long while. I meant, our supermajority is toast this fall, right?
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Mar 27, 2014 16:53
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Chinatown posted:As a San Diegan that is loving offensive to be lumped in with Irvine. Hey bruh lets go to the Spectrum and ride the ferris wheel and look at the freeways and tract housing. As a UCI student without a car (so basically I'm stuck here), I'm pretty much bored to death on the weekends.
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So here's Jerry's logs at Celebrate UCI: There's a Young Americans for Liberty booth saying "THE ONLY WAY TO GET REAL CHANGE IS THROUGH R  UTION"there's also a booth saying "SAVE CALIFORNIA, GOT LIBERTY? TIM DONNELLY FOR GOVERNOR" 
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Apr 12, 2014 19:45
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I remember last time my dad and I were driving down to Irvine around 5, it took until like 7:30 to actually make it to Orange County. It was just a really slow crawl down I-5
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Apr 14, 2014 18:30
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Is there anywhere I can find Dulce de Leche around Irvine or the Bay Area? I found some at Wholesome Choice in Irvine, but it's chocolate and $8.49 a jar.
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Apr 20, 2014 03:31
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Ah, thanks. My Argentine buddy told me that it's tough to get it "juuuuuuuuuust right," and that his family usually just buys theirs from the store. Guess I'll try that recipe out. ...this really is a lovely place to not have a car. Jerry Manderbilt fucked around with this message at 23:55 on Apr 20, 2014 |
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Apr 20, 2014 22:59
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So some guy just approached me at my table asking me to sign a petition to split California into six states. They're really going forward with that braindead plan, aren't they?
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Apr 25, 2014 17:29
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Leperflesh posted:"Going forward with" in the sense that they're trying to get signatures, yes. I'd be amazed if they got enough to get it on a ballot, and if they did, it would fail spectacularly. I just hope they don't dupe enough college kids to get it on the ballot in the first place, anyway. After I told him to sod off he went at a girl near me pretty aggressively.
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Just to jog my memory, this proposition originated from Tom "Criticizing the 1% is JUST LIKE KRISTALLNACHT" Perkins, right?
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We get food trucks every Friday near City Hall in Fremont. Shame they're not too interesting, though.
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nm posted:Theres a reason for the saying the coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco. Hot it ain't. Now it feels like the warmest summer I've ever spent was a winter in Irvine.
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