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FilthyImp posted:The new LA Mayor, Garcetti, is doing a decent job not being a total waste of space. Being more useful that Tony Villar isn't much of an accomplishment. Garcetti has done a good job of letting developers go hog wild, but he hasn't been on the job long enough yet to judge much of anything.
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Can we talk about how horrible the new primary system is? Open primaries with the top two candidates going on to the general destroys what little relevance third parties have. At least we have the orly taitz screed in the voter guide for entertainment purposes.
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May 9, 2014 01:56
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Ron Jeremy posted:Can we talk about how horrible the new primary system is? Open primaries with the top two candidates going on to the general destroys what little relevance third parties have. At least we have the orly taitz screed in the voter guide for entertainment purposes. The new primary system is definitely frustrating. I imagine it could work out, under very certain circumstances, but that it just isn't very realistic. I suppose we will see how it goes
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May 9, 2014 02:59
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I'd rather be rid of Ro Khanna in the first round, but I suppose it will feel good to vote against him twice.
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May 9, 2014 03:24
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Ron Jeremy posted:Can we talk about how horrible the new primary system is? Open primaries with the top two candidates going on to the general destroys what little relevance third parties have. At least we have the orly taitz screed in the voter guide for entertainment purposes. I just filled out my absentee ballot and found myself getting indignant at the lack of an "against all" option.
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May 9, 2014 04:46
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Jungle primaries are awesome because it means general elections are more likely to be some sort of contest instead of the primary deciding half the districts.
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May 9, 2014 05:08
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Leperflesh posted:Like, can you back this statement up?
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May 9, 2014 05:28
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Voting by ballot for everyone is pretty amazing coming from state that only had the absentee option for special cases. Also it has a list of instructions such as careful folding to make sure you are smart enough to vote.
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May 9, 2014 05:34
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One of the benefits of the system is that I can vote for a third party candidate in the primaries without feeling like I'm wasting my vote in the general. If by some miracle the third party candidate beats either the GOP or Dem one, it's a realistic two-way race in November.
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May 13, 2014 07:21
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ComradeCosmobot posted:I'd rather be rid of Ro Khanna in the first round, but I suppose it will feel good to vote against him twice.
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May 13, 2014 22:54
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AYC posted:One of the benefits of the system is that I can vote for a third party candidate in the primaries without feeling like I'm wasting my vote in the general. If by some miracle the third party candidate beats either the GOP or Dem one, it's a realistic two-way race in November. Yeah this system actually helps third parties because previously "safe" red/blue districts can be challenged by 3rd parties from their left/right rather than the general being uncontested. No longer is the Democratic primary the final election in SF.
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May 13, 2014 23:38
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Trabisnikof posted:Yeah this system actually helps third parties because previously "safe" red/blue districts can be challenged by 3rd parties from their left/right rather than the general being uncontested. No longer is the Democratic primary the final election in SF. I'd love it if an actual third party got onto the general this way. Has that happened yet?
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May 13, 2014 23:44
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AYC posted:I'd love it if an actual third party got onto the general this way. Has that happened yet? Since 2012 was the first year these primaries applied to Federal elections, we don't have much of a sample but 5 independent candidates did make it to the general for congressional seats in 2013.
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May 14, 2014 00:01
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TheOneAndOnlyT posted:Can someone explain to me what is so lovely about Khanna? I wasn't planning to vote for the guy but I'm having trouble finding information about him that doesn't come from a Honda campaign ad. Khanna is backed by many of the big tech CEOs and is basically the latest in a set of milquetoast corporate Unsurprisingly the San Jose Mercury-News (which I understand to be rather conservative) recently endorsed him to replace Honda (who likely has my vote in part for voting for the Amash amendment). While I agree we need younger representatives, I'm not inclined to support a pro-corporate representative who denounces the incumbent's support of the Progressive Caucus budget on the basis of "huge tax increases" and clearly is hoping to vote for a Grand Bargain in the name of "consensus and compromise." ComradeCosmobot fucked around with this message at 00:46 on May 14, 2014 |
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May 14, 2014 00:42
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Oh, dear, now conservative Texan shitlords are smugging it up about Sriracha and the CEO calling California "communist and anti-business"...
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May 15, 2014 16:07
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I heard on the news that California was on fire. Surely this is God's wrath against the sodomites.
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May 15, 2014 16:40
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Slipknot Hoagie posted:I heard on the news that California was on fire. Surely this is God's wrath against the sodomites. The fires are in northern San Diego county, which is suburban Republican territory. One of Mitt Romney's sons lives near the origin of the first fire on Tuesday, across the valley from where I live. So God is angry at Darrell Issa (my esteemed representative) or some poo poo. Or he's racist against Asians, there's a lot of us living here too.
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May 15, 2014 16:58
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Jerry Manderbilt posted:Oh, dear, now conservative Texan shitlords are smugging it up about Sriracha and the CEO calling California "communist and anti-business"... You should have seen them when Toyota recently decided to move their sales headquarters from Torrance to Plano.
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May 15, 2014 17:00
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Bizarro Watt posted:You should have seen them when Toyota recently decided to move their sales headquarters from Torrance to Plano. Yeah, that was still probably worse (though the jury's still out on how crazy Sriracha's CEO can get).
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May 15, 2014 17:21
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Moving your operation to the middle of nowhere in Texas or Arizona is a pretty good way to filter out any employees willing (and able) to change jobs to stay in CA. Whether these employees likely represent the good part or the bad part of ones workforce is left as an exercise to the reader.
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May 15, 2014 17:26
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Jerry Manderbilt posted:Oh, dear, now conservative Texan shitlords are smugging it up about Sriracha and the CEO calling California "communist and anti-business"... Yeah, I liked how the city lawyer was quoted as saying "Its hard to tell people that because you don't want to appear anti-business that they or their children with asthma just have to stay in their homes and not go outside." Bizarro Watt posted:You should have seen them when Toyota recently decided to move their sales headquarters from Torrance to Plano. My favorite part of this was how the tax breaks Texas gave Toyota had no impact on the move too.
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withak posted:Moving your operation to the middle of nowhere in Texas or Arizona is a pretty good way to filter out any employees willing (and able) to change jobs to stay in CA. Whether these employees likely represent the good part or the bad part of ones workforce is left as an exercise to the reader. When my company did this all the executives moved to CA 
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May 15, 2014 19:57
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Where did all the water go. What the hell.
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May 15, 2014 21:43
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If the slate article I read is to be believed, 10% of it went to growing almonds in the desert. 80% turns into the food our great nation consumes. And when it's all gone, let the bodies hit the floor.
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May 15, 2014 21:48
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Actually, a lot of it goes to things like fracking. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/15/us/californias-thirst-shapes-debate-over-fracking.html?hpw&rref=science
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May 15, 2014 21:52
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Slipknot Hoagie posted:If the slate article I read is to be believed, 10% of it went to growing almonds in the desert. 80% turns into the food our great nation consumes. And when it's all gone, let the bodies hit the floor. California grows 70%+ of the worlds almonds and of course you grow them in a desert!
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May 15, 2014 21:59
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 Well poo poo.
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May 15, 2014 22:03
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Slipknot Hoagie posted:If the slate article I read is to be believed, 10% of it went to growing almonds in the desert. 80% turns into the food our great nation consumes. And when it's all gone, let the bodies hit the floor. As much as a whole lot of Cadillac Desert is no longer relevant it's amazing how little has changed with water management. Edit: With regard to the map is the fact that the Mojave isn't listed as a super drought basically because it's as dry as usual there?
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Have an article and a source: http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/comment.html?entrynum=2679 http://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/Home/StateDroughtMonitor.aspx?CA
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May 15, 2014 22:24
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Shbobdb posted:Actually, a lot of it goes to things like fracking. If by a lot you mean 1 well is less than 1 single family home.... The article you posted posted:an average of 127,127 gallons of water was used to frack a single oil well in California last year, below the 146,000 gallons consumed by a family of four throughout the year Edit2: wikipedia posted:2013 California's Department of Conservation director Mark Nechodom estimated the state "might see around 650 hydraulic fracturing jobs a year" So fracing as a whole in California uses less water than ~4,000 people. Fracing has water resource issues, but its not quantity in California. Trabisnikof fucked around with this message at 00:22 on May 16, 2014 |
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May 15, 2014 22:28
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Trabisnikof posted:If by a lot you mean 1 well is less than 1 single family home.... biggest waste of water is agriculture, residential makes up 15% of the total use even with east coast green lawn stupidity
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^^^^^^^^ Ag wastes a whole lot of water through inefficient practices, but it is hard to call a massive sector of our economy and the only thing stopping the right wingers in the valley from starting a war a "waste." Jerry Manderbilt posted:Oh, dear, now conservative Texan shitlords are smugging it up about Sriracha and the CEO calling California "communist and anti-business"... Expect he is on record saying recently, he's not moving the factory to Texas. He may open a second factory in texas if demand is there, and they can grow the peppers in Texas (apparently the peppers used basically can only grow in ventura county and they need to be fresh). He doesn't want to move to Texas because no sane person wants to, especially when they are rich already. The whole thing is hilarious and been over blown. He moved his factory near some houses and didn't factor in the possibility that processing tons and tons of peppers might cause a problem.
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Slipknot Hoagie posted:If the slate article I read is to be believed, 10% of it went to growing almonds in the desert. 80% turns into the food our great nation consumes. And when it's all gone, let the bodies hit the floor.
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May 16, 2014 02:26
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One of the big issues with water for agriculture is the price of delivering water has no bearing on any sort of market pricing of what water should cost and is more or less gifted to land based on archaic rules and grandfathering.
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May 16, 2014 03:21
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An engineer friend of mine is chomping at the bit to move to Texas someday. He's never been there, but he feels he'll save a shitload of money and be able to own a fuckton of land (which he'll proceed to do nothing with since all he does is play video games all day) if he moves there. I have it on somewhat good authority that the money-saving aspect of it is a bit misleading since Texas has a rather high sales tax, hence why so many techies demand huge raises before they agree to move (on top of places like Houston being suckfests in general). Is that basically accurate?
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ProperGanderPusher posted:An engineer friend of mine is chomping at the bit to move to Texas someday. He's never been there, but he feels he'll save a shitload of money and be able to own a fuckton of land (which he'll proceed to do nothing with since all he does is play video games all day) if he moves there. California's sales tax is 7.5% so it's less than a 1% increase (8.25%), plus there's no income tax either. I can also guarantee that coming from the Bay Area you will have cheaper cost of living no matter where you go (of course no where is really as good as the Bay Area but still). e: the 8.25% rate is also the maximum allowed rate in Texas; in California you can add another 1.5% on top of the baseline tax too.
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ProperGanderPusher posted:I have it on somewhat good authority that the money-saving aspect of it is a bit misleading since Texas has a rather high sales tax, hence why so many techies demand huge raises before they agree to move (on top of places like Houston being suckfests in general). Is that basically accurate? As someone who moved from Ventura to Houston, I can tell you that your somewhat good authority is not such a good authority. It is vastly cheaper to live in Texas.
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computer parts posted:California's sales tax is 7.5% so it's less than a 1% increase (8.25%), plus there's no income tax either. most places are 9.5% sales tax total The biggest delta for why Texas is cheaper is due to the better housing prices and Texas also has no income tax. etalian fucked around with this message at 05:01 on May 16, 2014 |
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May 16, 2014 04:59
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You have to account for the presence of all those Texans also.
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Texas has a very high property tax rate (~1.88% in a lot of cities) that helps make up for the lack of an income tax.
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