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Celexi
Nov 25, 2006

Slava Ukraini!

I think this one is the next in line to burn:
http://www.alertwildfire.org/southeastbay/index.html?camera=Axis-SRVFDStation31&v=81e002f

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Celexi
Nov 25, 2006

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Did I die and I am living in hell? I went outside and my throat feels like I opened a cremation oven while its blasting ash, and I had a mask on. loving hell

Celexi
Nov 25, 2006

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Ardeem posted:

Maybe, I'm pretty sure somebody in San Jose used some sort of weather magic around 5:30pm today.


Celexi
Nov 25, 2006

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Gangringo posted:

Is this just going to be the new normal in the Sacramento valley? I could barely deal with the pollution and the heat in the summer but if I have to deal with near-yearly smokeouts in addition to all that I don't know if I can hang.

I'm finally at a point in my life where I'm looking at houses to buy, and suddenly I'm wondering if I want to be tied to this city.

sac valley is horrible chud country, and coastal and sierra ca is full of "MY PROPERTY VALUE" people, at this point I would rather live in a Staten island studio than in california.

Celexi
Nov 25, 2006

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the 5 or i-5 m8

Celexi
Nov 25, 2006

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California's fascination with banning anything tobacco related quickly that somehow is always the products that poor people or people of color use is interesting. That and all the "can't smoke x distance from such" laws, or even entire cities like Nevada City, which leads to the laws being ignored.

Unless you are a minority, if you ignore those laws as a minority, you will get all the punishments on the law and whatever other things they added.

As idiotic as NYC making cigarettes expensive as hell and a rich people only thing but I guess the person blasting me with smoke in Manhattan will be some rich trader rear end in a top hat instead of someone poor?

Celexi
Nov 25, 2006

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cool its raining ash again

Celexi
Nov 25, 2006

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The high merv filters I keep taking out of the hvac are carbon black, and only really open the door to go in or out, but running air extraction now and then so we don't suffocate seems to bring in some interesting smells.

Celexi
Nov 25, 2006

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the other day various raging parties in bars downtown chico were going with almost no one on them using a mask and all packed, students in chico trying really hard to keep the county in the super spreader category.

Celexi
Nov 25, 2006

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Pretty brave to come in here to talk about speculation, capital gains and whatever else lmao

Celexi
Nov 25, 2006

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Alec Eiffel posted:

Did my beloved state just give pedophiles free reign to drive lovely 80's Toyota trucks up and down the 5 with big-rear end kid-catching nets?

????

Celexi
Nov 25, 2006

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The northern valley/central valley and the foothills will probably get dangerous if you are not white or if you are lgbt around the elections, I mean Chico has had People threaten BLM protest organizers so much that they barely happen and the proud boys hang out with the sheriff deputies in a bar, so uh please be careful.

Celexi
Nov 25, 2006

Slava Ukraini!

adoration for none posted:

There's a petition going around from the Asian Law Caucus asking Newsom to pardon Keola, 279 signatures so far:
https://twitter.com/anoop_alc/status/1326948136057622528?s=20

Biden can when taking office if he hasn't been deported yet let him go, will he and embarrass gavinbot though? time to find out in January !

Celexi
Nov 25, 2006

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I got the covid tracking, I thought it was available to all but makes sense that only campus as I live near one.

Celexi
Nov 25, 2006

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Cup Runneth Over posted:

Wow. How loving brave of you to go so long without.

A lot of poor people go years without going to a sit in restaurant. But he only managed 2 months

Celexi
Nov 25, 2006

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Arsenic Lupin posted:

We took the Coastal Starlight once from Seattle to San Francisco. We had a roomette. The sitting and watching the country go by part was great, the meals were pretty good, until. We got to the flood near Sacramento, and we just sat on the tracks watching the waves lap gently at their sides. Got in 14 hours late, and by "got in" I mean "fled the train in Oakland". It turns out that even without flooding the Coastal Starlight is routinely 12 hours late.

I have taken the coast starlight plenty without being late, when it does get late however it isn't as you said just 1 hour late but 12.

Celexi
Nov 25, 2006

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My upstairs neighbors chainsmoke all day and the only time the smoke came down here was when one of the exhaust pipes was clogged and the air backflowed.

Celexi
Nov 25, 2006

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DoomTrainPhD posted:

Cigarette smoke is no match for a few sessions with a good ozone generator. NO smell is a match for an ozone generator. Also mold as well.

Edit: ozone generators are technically illegal in California so Amazon won’t ship them to California. eBay doesn’t give a single gently caress though. :v:

You can always keep a po box in reno for these purchases if you live in norcal and take the train, enjoy scenery to pick it up.

Celexi
Nov 25, 2006

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Goodpancakes posted:

I would argue the problem isn't the tax base, people already pay more than necessary for healthcare every year. What you need are strong mandated price controls and an understanding of what you can charge for stuff. Which is nightmare fuel for the current understanding of government among the masses.
The US supreme court would strike down those price controls as fast as I devour peaches and watermelons.

Celexi
Nov 25, 2006

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Kenning posted:

Lockdown for the holidays in the Bay Area everybody.

COVID surge: Stay-at-home order triggered after Bay Area ICU capacity falls


People are also officially prohibited from having any private gatherings or engaging in any non-essential travel.

Up here in butte county everyone is just ignoring the stay-at-home with my upstairs neighbor having nightly parties with visitors lmao

Celexi
Nov 25, 2006

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droll posted:

That’s what the article linked in this thread earlier said.


Join your union, and the big union.

I am not sure teamsters that work hard to kill freight rail and was headed by the mafia is worth defending, there is better.

Celexi
Nov 25, 2006

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fermun posted:

lol, loving shut up dumbass. UFCW don't try to kill freight rail and were never headed by the mafia, you're a complete utter moron.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Food_and_Commercial_Workers

I am talking about teamsters that threatened to strike UPS if they used more freight rail.

Edit: https://www.dcvelocity.com/articles/29848-ups-teamsters-agree-to-cut-use-of-rail-rely-more-on-sleeper-team-drivers

Celexi fucked around with this message at 08:42 on Jan 6, 2021

Celexi
Nov 25, 2006

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fermun posted:

That has nothing to do with the topic then. The grocery store drivers that are keeping their jobs are UFCW members. All the ones being replaced by gig-drivers are the ones that didn't join UFCW. It's grocery store employees so they're UFCW not teamsters.

Oh, okay, misread as teamsters being the union and not UFCW sorry.

Celexi
Nov 25, 2006

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I haven't gone out to eat for a year and I am not missing it so far, what's with people seeing it as some sort of weird religion

Celexi
Nov 25, 2006

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Kaiser misdiagnosed my grandmother in-law cancer as "just some pain don't worry" in various x-rays and ct scans. Only when it got too bad and was discovered on another place as having spread to whole body they decided to... send her to another hospital.
She died, and they been trying to stop my in-law parents from suing because of "binding arbitration" even though it doesn't apply to them as the one dead was the one that signed the binding arbitration.

Celexi fucked around with this message at 23:03 on Feb 2, 2021

Celexi
Nov 25, 2006

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Centrist Committee posted:

American healthcare is hosed? Big if true

yeah, I don't know why people glorify Kaiser as amazing.

Celexi
Nov 25, 2006

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Xaris posted:

Kaiser sucks but it's also the best american (physical) healthcare for us mere mortal plebs that don't have lots of money. Very low-maximums, no surprises, it's all been extremely by-the-books, $10-$50 co-pay. No surprise "ta-da actually we decided not to cover that now owe pay us $50,000" that Blue Shield and other garbage places do. It's by far the least stressful HC on the "cheap" (lol). The one trick to Kaiser is you really really need to be your own advocate and if your a meek pushover often you'll just be told to drink some green tea and exercise, also here's a prescription for ibuprofen, which is really stupid but also that's the system so do be forceful. Also its easy to swap GC so don't feel bad about just swapping around if someone sucks. I've got a younger australian-immigrant doctor and she rules, i've never had one before who was actually that thorough.

mental side is very god-awful though

There are examples of kaiser doing the " actually we dont cover now pay", one of them eve in the thread!

Celexi
Nov 25, 2006

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there is plenty of empty land in central valley that isn't used for agriculture and empty land in the bay area, worthless land enviromentally too which you won't be doing any damage by building a tall apartment building on it, however if you try that you will quickly find out that the only thing you will be building will be a massive pile of legal fees to fight lawsuits before you set first stone.

Celexi
Nov 25, 2006

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my entire family in EU of all ages has yet to get a vaccine, except for my cousin that is a nurse, I got my moderna shot 2 days ago in california.

the US and the Uk managed to gently caress it up into success, failing upwards is really a thing in america.

Celexi
Nov 25, 2006

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Ca ban on assault rifles just got overturned lmao

Celexi
Nov 25, 2006

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I had remote contractor work last year and adding my yearly internet bill to the tax as expense made me eligible

Celexi
Nov 25, 2006

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love to wake up and open the door to smoke and sepia sun


Celexi
Nov 25, 2006

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e.pilot posted:

another thing to get is a MERV13 air filter for your HVAC unit, then anytime your AC or heat runs, or just running the fan, it filters everywhere

just be careful as a lot of cheap garbage hvac units blowers don't like the added pressure.

Celexi
Nov 25, 2006

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Some have a switch but most people are probably confusing window units with single hose portable ones that throw air out which then makes air from outside come in.

Celexi
Nov 25, 2006

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WAR CRIME GIGOLO posted:


Can I count on you to advocate for a massive increase of public housing to stop the homeless crisis? Not talking shelters so don't give me that platitude.



California constitution prohibits public housing without a local referendum and good luck with that with all the NIMBY, its why there is lots of talk on "affordable housing" but never public housing as just like everything else in this state, the law is setup to "protect are propety values".

Celexi
Nov 25, 2006

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WAR CRIME GIGOLO posted:

We must re write the constitution from a Marxist perspective

The ca constitution needs to be thrown in the garbage and re-done, even a lightweight socialist one would be better than the current libertarian one

Celexi
Nov 25, 2006

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Cup Runneth Over posted:

California has actual culture

yeah, suburban sprawl, Reagan, killing transit, landlords!

Celexi
Nov 25, 2006

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Lamalfa really needs water for his rice fields or he starves!

Celexi
Nov 25, 2006

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dejoy is making a top notch job at making usps worse than fedex ground, the few times I have sent things over the past year sending it over usps takes always longer and costs more now somehow than ups. Letters are taking 2-3 weeks to arrive lmao

I dread when I buy something online and shows a usps tracking code now, as it will take forever, gently caress you Biden for not firing the board, the cvountry I come from this is similar how they ended up privatizing the postal service, make it so horrible and expensive that people don't even notice when it gets privatized.

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Celexi
Nov 25, 2006

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jetz0r posted:

Maybe if you count wearing a mask as having a mask somewhere on their body, not counting for it actually covering their mouth and nose. The only places I've been in with near 100% masking are the little asian markets. Even the bougie markets have their little enclaves of people sitting around without masks on, drinking coffee or whatever. Rough estimate from Grocery Outlet, Walmart, Target, and Safeways is under 5% wearing N95 masks, 50% wearing cloth/surgical masks somewhat correctly, 30% wearing masks incorrectly, 20% unmasked. Special shout out to the only N95 I saw during a Target trip. That was being worn on the dude's chin.

I stopped giving a poo poo about what other people are wearing, I have an N95 or P100 on whenever I leave my house. And I keep it on as long there's a possibility of sharing air a person outside my household. Yall can do whatever with your dicknosing, cloth masks, and rules lawyering a virus with technicalities. I'm using filters rated for this threat level, good luck with the magic charms and talismans.

The foothills and rural areas are way worse. No masks, and had a dude yell WUHAN WUHAN WUHAN at my gf and I while we were walking on a sidewalk a few months ago, lol.


Up here in the northern central valley we had a lawyer ask us to take out our masks in his office

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