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Foxfire_
Nov 8, 2010

Rodenthar Drothman posted:

To bring it to politics: what the hell can we do to prepare for more storms like this? Things are only going to get worse, so uh maybe we should spend some of that rainy day fund on fixing things that’ll make going through this easier…
For tornadoes specifically, it is too expensive to build lowrise buildings to survive a low probability tornado hit.

In tornado areas, you build shelters for people to hide in during the storm, then insure buildings to pay for rebuilding them afterwards.

Tornadoes are different from things like hurricanes or earthquakes because damage is more intense, but localized. Buildings hit directly can be totaled while a block away they're undamaged. It's much easier to do insurance

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Foxfire_
Nov 8, 2010

Most reservoirs are currently doing okay/are releasing water to prevent overtopping.


The main thing in the executive order is changing some water agencies allocations from 35% of what they requested to 75%. The regions still in heavy drought are still under restrictions and stuff aimed at groundwater recharge is still restricted.

Foxfire_
Nov 8, 2010

Tacos are better than burritos

Foxfire_
Nov 8, 2010

What about from the tamale lady who walks through bars selling them to drunk people an hour before closing?

Foxfire_
Nov 8, 2010

Hadlock posted:

The state is going to have to update fire insurance regulations finally

A lot of people in rural areas have been complaining about how their fire abatement measures don't impact their property insurance rates, I don't know the specifics but it's a deep rabbit hole. A stucco house with a steel roof and no trees within 100' might fall under the same rate as their next door neighbor who has a cedar shingle roof nestled in a bunch of bone dry pine trees. Or something. Apparently rates are done very broadly because the calculations were designed in the pre computer era
That already happened. Nothing you can do individually actually matters to whether your house burns down when a wildfire moves through

I would guess the most likely outcome if other insurers follow suit is wildfire becomes an allowable and typical exclusion the same as other hard-to-insure hazards like floods and earthquakes. Then maybe you get a state/national level organization offering supplemental insurance like the California Earthquake Authority/National Flood Insurance Program

Foxfire_ fucked around with this message at 22:35 on May 28, 2023

Foxfire_
Nov 8, 2010

Zwabu posted:

Why did Newsom promise to appoint a black woman to the seat? It's not like Biden's situation in the 2020 national primary where he directly owed his win to Clyburn and black voters in SC.

It just seems like an unnecessary constraint.
The appointee doesn't hugely matter and is mostly optics. Butler's main job is to be a caretaker senator, vote the party line, and then not run in either the special election or the next full election. Appointed senator that has never won an election isn't a role where you are sponsoring new sweeping legislation

Foxfire_
Nov 8, 2010

𝓜𝓪𝓭𝓷𝓮𝓼𝓼? 𝓣𝓱𝓲𝓼 𝓲𝓼 𝓒𝓪𝓵𝓲𝓯𝓸𝓻𝓷𝓲𝓪!

Foxfire_
Nov 8, 2010

Hadlock posted:

Probably he vetoed it because he's got some sweetheart deal with the pharmacutcal industry/trying to keep their research campuses in California. San Francisco passed a big life sciences bond at the beginning of covid to attract more investment there
The state is in the middle of spending $100m on building and operating publicly owned insulin production, aiming at a price a bit below where this cap would have been/what existing vendors are charging. (That is one of the likely reasons why existing companies have cut prices recently)

Foxfire_
Nov 8, 2010

First of May posted:

Schools should teach useful life skills, like how to use a Linux command line.
:hmmyes: cursive's not gonna keep the velociraptors from eating your face

Foxfire_
Nov 8, 2010

I bet drawing the cool S would work even better

Foxfire_
Nov 8, 2010

:doubt: about the GOP's ability to pass any sort of legislation right now

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Foxfire_
Nov 8, 2010

America Inc. posted:

I don't understand how you can have Schiff vs Garvey for two senate seats. What happens when Schiff wins both?
Schiff is the replacement for the last bit of Feinstein's current term (Election #1), and then is senator for the following term for that Senate seat (Election #2)

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