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From my stay in California so far, its easy to blame landlords, and lets be honest most of them should be run through the guillotine. But, the main issue I see is that California has the single family home mentality that will be extremely hard to get rid of, and with that comes a bunch of people that will also block new housing as their houses would lose their value. They all want to solve the issue, "just not near my house thank you".
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Fly Molo posted:Well, yeah, it's a bunch of fuckin' people sitting around thinking, going hmmm, there has to be some solution to this problem... we just need to innovate, if only there was some way we could fix this... If only one could build high density tall buildings that have housing on them and business at ground level, they could even have underground parking, imagine something so disruptive!!
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Sep 29, 2019 04:33
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biofuels making food more expensive have sent a lot of people into starvation or killed them, the reason it is a thing is because the farmers get more money selling it as for biofuel than as for food
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Oct 3, 2019 21:52
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surely pge couldn't have seen the writing on the wall year after year and instead of setting money on fire to pay for fires they cause they could have started burying electrical lines and enclosing transformers. I don't live in an affected area but that sure is going to affect a lot of people
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Oct 8, 2019 02:51
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In other countries that do care for the environment it doesn't take 5 years to plan and 3 more to build a sidewalk, this is a unique problem in California and America. Things can be done quickly if they actually wanted to.
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Oct 8, 2019 18:31
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Goodpancakes posted:What other countries are you referencing, specifically, and what knowledge do you have of their planning process? Is it just the idea that California is so onerous of a process that this statement must be true? That you hear of other infrastructure projects being completed overseas and so it must be true? I am from Portugal and while we have quite the bureaucratic red tape it amazes me how in California it is 20 times worse, and it wasn't this bad either in Czech Republic where I lived for sometime.
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Oct 8, 2019 18:44
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I believe you can make an anonymous account tied to some random address closely and verify yourself with your real account.
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Oct 10, 2019 00:37
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Whenever I pay my pg&e bill it makes me mad that I am giving them any money.
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Oct 25, 2019 00:27
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I am sure the 99 year old transmission line that caused the camp fire had nothing to do with climate change
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Oct 28, 2019 02:19
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WAR CRIME GIGOLO posted:We life in commifornia. Its par for the course. Uhh, most of the "Democrats" in California are actually republicans that look down on republicans as they control states with "lesser people".
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Oct 28, 2019 17:52
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Think issue here is that corporations in america "have a legal duty to shareholders regardless of whatever" even if republicans try to hide that, and a public utility should not be bound by those rules. The CPUC has also failed its regulatory oversight mission entirely, they are as worthless as current FCC.
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Oct 29, 2019 17:17
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re: train talk As someone from outside of the US that uses the trains in California often, there are some things that have not helped it grow properly, first a lot of abandoned railroads could easily be put back into operation if they are not promptly converted into a walking trail. Second, the state needs to stop allowing private railroads from simply abandoning railroads, taking them over and running passenger services on them that actually stop on the cities on the way, the current services specially the coast starlight since it is mostly a sightseeing train skips a lot of cities on its way. Third it doesn't help that most of the tracks the current trains run on are mainly freight tracks that are not properly maintained or designed to have smooth rides and a lot don't have banked turns requiring trains to slow down on those turns. Forth, double-track lines for fucks sake, last week I was stuck on a train to San Diego for hours as a metro link ahead of my Amtrak had broke down on a single track section and right before that was an hour and half waiting on a coast starlight as a metro-link had run over someone because for some reason California is full of level crossings that shouldn't exist. Turning abandoned railroad tracks that could otherwise be used for commuter or intercity services into trails is something that house owners around them really love as they will get rid of the train, the poor people on them and have their house prices increase while making it much harder in future to have train service there, great for boomers, not so great for anyone else.
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Nov 21, 2019 00:06
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Kill Bristol posted:Regional rail is usually not bad. Metro link is decent and reliable in getting from the IE to LA and back. It’s when you try and go beyond that that it’s either slow, unreliable, too expensive, or some combination thereof. As I don't live in LA my experience with metrolink usually involves a metrolink ahead delaying my amtrak train.
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Nov 21, 2019 16:37
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DeadlyMuffin posted:Came to say this. I used to live half a block from a light rail stop and I stopped using it almost entirely not long after I moved because it was almost always faster to walk or bike where I wanted to go. Much like nightlife in California is dead as you can't sell alcohol after 2 am, California is a state that sleeps early.
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Nov 25, 2019 07:25
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sincx posted:The unfortunate truth is that most people consider higher density housing to be inferior in quality, and will pick single-family detached housing if they can afford it. Realistically the choice is freeways or trains, not sprawl or no sprawl. Stop building condos and apartments out of wood structures with lovely insulation and you got that fixed.
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Dec 12, 2019 05:21
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I was in paradise not long ago, and a year later it still smells like burn, the whole area being a ghost town, the whole trip up was so depressing that I was there the 5 minutes I needed to be to do something and bolted off.
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Dec 21, 2019 04:45
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Danann posted:tbf china is making a good argument that state capitalism is superior to neoliberal capitalism China is not really something to emulate, would rather have state socialism or communism than a repressive state capitalism which America partly is already.
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Jan 10, 2020 03:03
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high or medium density is a way to go, but california needs to fix more: 1- it takes years to get a permit to build anything in california, even a sidewalk, while in socialist european countries that gets done in a month or two 2- for some reason everyone that lives nearby or sees it from 100 miles away can have input, delay or sue to stop and many other issues
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Jan 31, 2020 22:23
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 You're expected 2 travel and infect everyone on the way and also meet up
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Aeka 2.0 posted:I see traffic is picking back up, businesses are taking a risk to pay the bills. This is hosed. I noticed this yesterday when I went to costco to the pharmacy that there was quite a bit of traffic
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Apr 2, 2020 00:33
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Californians saying federal elections don't matter and supreme court doesn't either when gay marriage was only made legal by the (US) supreme court is hilarious.
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Apr 13, 2020 05:31
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I have been avoiding safeways, I have a friend that works in one and its a clusterfuck on how they are handling this all. Even before I knew that, the last time I went to one there was no distancing being enforced, no ppe, the hand sanitizers and cart wipes were empty and the customers were behaving worse than customers at walmart(!) and the employees had the look like they had enough of this poo poo.
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Apr 18, 2020 21:34
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Rodenthar Drothman posted:Southern Californian spotted. over here in northern ca I normally use the five when I can to avoid the murderous ca-99 east ca/70 when going up to chico
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Apr 18, 2020 21:36
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It is disgusting that some people would put off calling cops if someone is being raped or beaten but whatever.
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Apr 18, 2020 22:28
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BeAuMaN posted:I don't think anyone in the thread said this though. sorry I misread an earlier post
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Apr 18, 2020 22:35
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Chomp8645 posted:Oh yeah, Arizona and Utah... great. God forbid we secede without taking our own little Mini-South with us. Have you been anywhere north of sacramento or in the central valley, because you will be surprised.
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Apr 28, 2020 02:37
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The counties that more or less form the racist north breakaway state want to get out of lockdown apparently as they don't have "too many cases" (they don't test anyone). The majority of the economy there being agriculture( the rich farm owners would like to go back to the restaurant please, drag the service workers back to work forcebly).
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Apr 29, 2020 09:52
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most cities north of sacramento in the valley are run down and extremely poor. the sierras/shasta/coastal not as much due to tourism.
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WOWEE ZOWEE posted:I'm surprised investors haven't kicked him out already. Tesla cultists hold the stock and are not going to kick out their prophet.
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Apr 30, 2020 01:09
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I had a job that managed to get myself fired out of and they paying a penalty for firing me, its not impossible but if you don't know the workplace that you are at cliques, who they relate with, politics can be difficult.
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Apr 30, 2020 01:47
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Most poor people are commuting on beat up $2000 cars, you can't buy an ev for 2000-3000, even if you add the state $1500 buyback program. Fuel taxes should not exist in a state that has terrible public transportation. Also, prop 13 needs to be repealed and schools should be funded and run centrally and not locally.
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May 8, 2020 03:44
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CSUS esp rural ones like Chico are full of rear end in a top hat professors and it is not going to be a full online, but some "hybrid" so you can fully expect engineering will be requesting the students to be there and die for capital.
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May 13, 2020 04:27
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droll posted:I'm sure the decision makers that saw the $$$ being lost care about this and thought this through. Have faith in the system. The engineering professors that are usually paid shills for some corporations were trying to defy the orders earlier for blackstone projects and ridiculing the whole thing so the faith is low.
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May 13, 2020 06:29
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Most public transportation in california sucks or like the high speed rail, won't probably see light of day to be judged because its all built on a "has to be self sustainable financially anynd rand school of theology" the state and federal goverment subsidizes people using roads and the later amtrak so I don't know why public transportation in this state has to be profitable or even break even.
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May 21, 2020 01:06
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silence_kit posted:Outside of bailouts during crises, what are the airline subsidies? I tried Googling this, but only found a program which subsidizes flights to small airports. I don't really think that is responsible for price reduction for most flights. If railroads had been getting money from the government for stations, serving remote areas and small places most would not have closed or stopped passenger service. Unlike airlines the railroad also have to do traffic control themselves instead of getting it for free from the government, nor do they get any subsidy to electrify lines either. Compared to air, rail has everything stacked against it, it is as if it is setup for failure. 
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May 21, 2020 06:34
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federal civil rights lawsuits won't go anywhere as the civil rights dep of the department of justice has been manned for a few years now by soem lawyers out of some christian school.
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Jun 12, 2020 04:36
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Leperflesh posted:Senator Arnold Schwarzenegger unlike most people that get old and get to be a boomer, arnold has turned to nice grand-dad
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Aug 12, 2020 03:41
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What I liked most from camp fire was almost running into the fire crossing over the 99 freeway part after leaving chico, which made us have to do an u-turn and go to i-5.
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Aug 20, 2020 03:37
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Lacrosse posted:I'm watching this nature camera go up in flames in (almost) real time: http://www.alertwildfire.org/southeastbay/index.html?camera=Axis-BonnyDoon&v=81e002f that's actually a pge firewatch camera but it is slightly funny that something pge is getting overrun by fire live on video.
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That camera died, rip.
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