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Bast Relief posted:Approaching Los Baños on our way to Yosemite we always run into these Jerry Brown crazy train signs and signs blaming Pelosi for the drought. Like all up and down the freeway. Has anyone seen those? Where the gently caress am I when I see that poo poo and who the gently caress is responsible for all those signs? Jerry Manderbilt posted:https://www.nsfwcorp.com/dispatch/oligarch-valley/ there's an excerpt near the end of this book on where they come from; they're astroturfed by valley oligarch billionaires I mean, I guess maybe they're on the land those people own perhaps, but that's not where they come from. A guy named Russ Waymire puts them up: http://hanfordsentinel.com/news/signs-of-the-times/article_dba3e746-a9d0-11e0-afc2-001cc4c03286.html My dad actually knows the guy. This is of course related to all the kerfuffle with the "Delta Smelt" and the reduced water being sent from the north.
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Sydin posted:I have a couple gigantic trees in my backyard (which as an aside I really want to get rid of for a variety of reasons, but my landlord gave a firm no so Family has a small cabin up near Bass Lake... my... great grandfather built it by hand, probably with the help of a contractor; it had a very rustic look to it. Anyhow, PG&E used to come up and trim the trees back from the lines by the road all the time. They'd offer to cut down the trees fairly often iirc, and we'd decline, because gently caress you stop trying to cut down these really old trees. After the fire happened and burnt down the cabin (2.... years ago?), the trees near the road were okay, just the cabin and the stuff further back were burnt down. When the fire fighters were blocking everyone from going up, PG&E apparently went and cut down all the trees near the lines (They didn't have the mess of branches like you have though in the wires) along the road so they wouldn't have to trim them I guess, and not just our house, but our neighbors too. Last I heard a bunch of people in that area were trying to sue PG&E over that. The trees were probably like 50 years old and up. So yeah, I guess it varies on who from PG&E is supervising the cutting of trees in your area or something. Also nothing new but insurance companies are terrible to deal with and didn't want to pay out full coverage on the house unless we started constructing a new cabin almost immediately.
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Shear Modulus posted:Love too say that spending money on high speed rail is too expensive but the now-yearly devastating wildfires, exacerbated by climate change that will only get worse until every nonessential hilariously-polluting airliner is grounded, are nbd In the valley? No. I don't see that ever happening, unless he reversed it. The best thing that Brown got from those-who-vote-for-republican was "in hindsight, he was actually not a bad governor". Though given the way elections work at the state level in California and the two candidates are going to be democrat, republicans might vote for him if he's running against someone who's further left maybe? I don't know originally I thought this was going to get cut back to a HSR between San Francisco and Fresno/Merced, and it was going to deal with San Fran's housing crisis (I don't like that solution, being a valley resident). But just having high speed rail in the valley...? Eh... What's the point? It does seem like someone mentioned above that it's a last ditch saving effort not to have to pay back federal funds. That's not to say that there isn't -anything- going on over here, but I don't see much of a commute advantage, as opposed to say San Francisco to somewhere nearby with lower housing prices or LA to somewhere nearby with lower housing prices. At the end of the day whoever decided to break ground in Fresno just so they can force the issue with a sunk cost (in face of the lawsuits and like) is a jackass, and that's why we find ourselves in this situation of building a minimum viable product in the valley rather than in a place that may have been better served by it.
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Craptacular! posted:The train can be enjoyed by the cowpoke counties, the next big California project is giving everyone Doctors visits while the rest of the country plans to gut their poorest. Isn't that... optimistic? I mean last time Rendon deep-sixed SB-562. Is Gavin going to push it that hard, or just simply make more favorable noises when compared to Brown? Unless you think the makeup of the state congressfolk is going to shift that drastically?
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Xaris posted:Man as loving garbage as Feinstein is, Kevin De Leon is somehow even a bigger piece of poo poo by running the absolute worst campaign I've ever seen, intentionally just throwing it loving away! Like for gently caress sakes he ended up doing zero and still came out like 43% or something. Kevin "Ghost
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Admiral Ray posted:We can currently produce enough food to feed the world, but for how long given human-caused shifts in rainfall patterns and temperatures? Could we produce enough food to feed 8 billion+ without mechanized farming (probably, though it'd be far more human labor intensive), or without oil products? Can we transition from mechanized farming to non-mechanized while also dealing with climate change? Wait, how did getting rid of mechanized farming come into this? Why would we get rid of mechanized farming? Alternative power sources maybe, but getting rid of mechanization altogether? Are we getting rid of mechanized everything else also?
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If it's meant in a broad sense of "modern farming practices", sure, but in the sense that "mechanized" means the use of machinery to handle many parts of crop prep, planting, maintenance, and harvest, that's another thing, especially in relation to climate change. I could be wrong, but I doubt it's the tractors and harvesters (which would be the mechanized component) that are large contributor to climate change rather than the rest of the practices, and especially when offset by the amount of workers that would replace that mechanized component who are probably taking their own individual vehicles to work out in rural areas (or even shared vehicles). There's also various farm equipment engine retrofitting programs in California to help upgrade farm equipment to be more environmentally friendly, though I couldn't speak as to the efficacy of or how well these programs are run. That's what I was kind of raising a brow at. There's a lot of valid questions concerning the sustainability of modern farming practices.
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Jaxyon posted:Where can I find some good info on SB50? What Sydin linked. Analysis is prepared for when a bill goes to committee (and maybe floor also?). Hit the Text tab to read the bill (the blue is addition, red strike through is removal. On the text page this reflects changes made via amendment from the last version of the bill. You can change the version on the top right pulldown. Today's Law as Amended tab gives you a look at how the current version will fit into surrounding statutes that it will occupy and also what it will remove/change. History tab shows you past actions, but I usually check Status tab which shows the last 5 actions and how far it is down the path towards being sent to the governor. If you sign up for an account, you can also Track the Bill, and you'll get e-mail updates for specific actions when the bill moves (It doesn't track everything, but it tracks most actions). If you're feeling really nerdy you can lookup the videos for the hearing that the bill was voted on, and watch the testimony given by author, proponents and opponents, as well as comments by the committee. However, it's usually a 3-5 hours video and there's no tags as to when a particular bill is heard usually, so you have to skip around a lot. Edit: Senate Housing Committee on 4/2: https://www.senate.ca.gov/media/senate-housing-committee-20190402/video Senate Governance and Finance Committee on 4/24: https://www.senate.ca.gov/media/senate-governance-finance-committee-20190424/video My internet is poo poo, so I'm not going to find where they talk about the bill in either of those. That's more or less what I learned when trying to track bills in California. The analysis that's prepared won't give everything on a bill but it will give a pretty decent overview of what proponents/opponents are arguing, along with changes it would make relevant to that committee that the analysis was prepared for. It's fairly thorough, as far as executive overview type stuff is and the timeline that said committee lawyers have to prepare the analysis in. BeAuMaN fucked around with this message at 04:33 on Apr 30, 2019 |
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Wicked Them Beats posted:Shut up. SB-51 The TL;DR is in the bill Analysis pretty much. (I'd quote it, but it's kind-of long and you might as well just check the PDF) http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB51 Current Version if implemented into law (blue for additions, red strike through for removal): http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billCompareClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB51 Bill Analysis, with the latest one from the Senate Floor: http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB51 Looks like it had a large enough cost and made the suspense file cuts, so that's something... though Hertzberg is the author, and he's California Senate Majority Leader and on a bunch of committees so it was probably fairly easy for it to get passed out of the suspense file. BeAuMaN fucked around with this message at 12:42 on May 22, 2019 |
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VideoGameVet posted:The Starbucks there is probably the best bet. I'm sure they have some sort of code, but it's busy and you would get in if you just waited for someone to exit the head. I thought they just posted the codes on the doors now? After that whole situation they had at that one location that made national news. Or do some Starbucks still keep the codes hidden?
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Dead Reckoning posted:That isn't even remotely the same. I looked at his campaign website, and what he wants to prosecute ICE agents for is conduct that pretty indisputably falls under the scope of their official duties. Because of the supremacy clause, the SF District Attorney doesn't have any jurisdiction to investigate that conduct. If he believes a crime has occurred, he would need to refer the matter to federal prosecutors and the relevant agency's Office of the Inspector General, and I don't think they share his belief that rigorous enforcement of immigration law constitutes a federal crime. Like, let's put aside the impossibility of SFPD actually arresting ICE agents for official acts, how would he even propose conducting such an investigation in the first place? Does he think ICE agents will sit for an interview with his investigators? Does he think that a judge will sign a search warrant for the immigration office on Sansome? Doc Hawkins posted:I don't understand the hair you're attempting to split. It is possible to break state laws in the intended service of some federal mission. Immigration agents do that, and are sometimes been arrested for it, and sometimes not. Why are you trying to defend an inconsistency in the application of the law? From the site: quote:Investigate and prosecute crimes committed by ICE agents. I contacted them using the contact form (I hate contact forms). I told them some people were excited about the campaign, but were having a discussion and I asked about how they mention in the quote above going after ICE for violating constitutional protections and the like (probably federal stuff), while also mentioning at the end that they'd go after them over breaking California law. I talked about how the Supremacy clause seems to cause issues with these attempts, and I asked if they perhaps had some cases they wanted to cite, or talk a bit more about how they were going to go about doing this (but I didn't need a legal brief or anything, just a better idea on how this would work). This is the response I received. quote:Dear BeAuMaN, Not as thorough as I'd like, but that's their answer. You can contact them for more info and in this case I received a response within a day and a half, which is fairly quick.
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Yeah I understand that. I just thought I'd post the response I received. I'm not in Chesa's area, but the question on prosecuting ICE agents and the Supremacy Clause is interesting, so I thought it was worth asking the campaign at least.
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Leperflesh posted:So, I'm arguing that, if we are going to ban assault weapons - and I think we should - then confiscation would be necessary to give such a ban any chance of being effective.
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Yes, this. Though I'm going to finish my point, since I only wanted to address this one thingLeperflesh posted:But that last paragraph is all just wishful thinking and hand-wringing about impractical and theoretical situations we can't possibly face in the near future. I probably made a mistake just to engage with the ideas there, because it detracted from the important points; that while horrifying, mass shootings are not a major or leading or statistically significant cause of death, and our policies and laws should rationally focus on the most significant deaths and how to prevent them. When it comes to violent deaths related to guns, that's suicides first and foremost. Right. I always try to imagine other people as engaging in good faith, so I believe that you and I are imagining different levels of non-compliance, hence why I wanted an idea of what you were imagining, and like you say: It is highly theoretical and there's not a great way we can estimate what kind "cost" that a newly defined "Assault Weapon Ban" would have. I imagine non-compliance would be... substantial. While I understand you're talking about a federal ban so as to try and cover scenarios where firearms flow in from out of state... I talk about California specifically because we did have another AWB (passed in 2016) recently, and while you brought up that it isn't very effective, I think we can glean a bit from numbers and compliance. Bear with me as I link the Firearm's Policy Coalition. They made this page with an infographics about the registration and how the registration is a failure, etc etc. Of those stats, they estimate that compliance (That is, people that attempted to register) is about 3%. This is a -bit- dubious because they compare the total number of AW applications (64,612) to the number of firearms sold that would theoretically fall under this ban (1,300,000) along with an estimate of "home-built" firearms that would fall under the ban (500,000) for a total of ~1,800,000 new firearms in California from 1/1/2000 through 12/31/2017. I believe the 1,300,000 number comes from comparing the data from the referenced CA Open Justice Page on firearm sales, which lists about ~5.31 million long gun sales and ~5.28 handgun sales for that period, and further separates out new versus used firearm sales... and from what I've read elsewhere they compared these total long gun sales to industry sales data from the NSSF (which isn't completely available to the public), probably of various models that are "California Compliant" firearms with bullet buttons, and came up with that 1,300,000 number. Most of these falling under the ban, probably like 90%, are rifles (There's a lot to be said about various laws surrounding handguns that makes the sale of "Assault Weapon" handguns much less likely during that period). No idea where they got the 500,000 home-made firearms number, though I imagine they contacted stores selling 80% lowers (or as DeLeon likes say "Ghost Guns") and got some idea on sales data. They then took that 64,612 and divided it by 1,800,000. I say it's a bit dubious because you're dividing applications, which is people registering as applications can contain multiple firearms (and a single person can make multiple applications), by the number of gun purchases, which is just firearms transferred without any data on how many to one person or whatever. It should be a person to person comparison if you make that claim, however, that data is probably not available, or at least not easily available. If you were making a firearms to firearms comparison, there were 68,848 firearms registered (Not sure of that how many were ultimately successful), of the purported 1,300,00 and 500,000, which brings the number of firearms registered from the possible pool to 4%. However! That doesn't take into account how many people bought compliance devices, similar to bullet buttons, that allow them to comply with the new statute and regulation. It also doesn't take into account those who decided to sell, disassemble, or move out of state their affected firearms so as to not violate the law. This data is not easy to come by. Thus, the pool of compliance would be larger than 4%. This is further complicated by the fact that the state spent no money on educating people about the registration process or deadlines; none of these ads like from 1991 (lol). Only notice given was on the CA DOJ website and if people read stories or saw it mentioned on the news by outlets. Now, the reason I went through all this is we have imperfect data, but it gives us some rough bounds about how compliant people might be with one of these California AWBs that allow for registration and keeping the firearm until their death (at which point it must be sold, transferred or moved out of state, converted to a legal version, or destroyed/turned into police). We know that (if we accept the above numbers which are hard to verify) that the pool would be larger than 4% for people that used compliance devices and what have you, and if there were more education and information campaigns (thinking about it... I should probably look up what the estimated compliance rate was for the 91 CA AWB), the compliance is higher 4% but we're not how much. How does that change with a proposed ban like you mentioned where the firearms are confiscated instead of grandfathered until the end of their life, and it's done house to house at gunpoint. Kind of related to this topic: I don't think that the confiscating officers would be local law enforcement (as there would be a lot of non-compliance I think from local agencies). I don't know what agency would actually go through with this, and if it's some sort of military (even National Guard), that brings about another level of.... social complexity? TL;DR: I think that the level of noncompliance would still be very high, and I also think that the level of violence would be higher than... Leperflesh posted:(snipped some context here) BeAuMaN fucked around with this message at 03:32 on Aug 2, 2019 |
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I'm not seeing Otisburg on this map. (Though this is pretty nifty! Thanks for the book recommendation)
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Infinite Karma posted:Couldn't we do something like requiring metering and add a use tax per ac-ft or something? Making it prohibitively expensive to waste water on alfalfa is just as good as taking the water rights away. This is more or less on the way via the SGMA passed in 2014. It's mostly been in the setup stage until recently though.
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Craptacular! posted:So what’s this thread’s take on Urban Growth Boundaries? They have been really popular in the North Bay, presumably under the “limit sprawl” line, as if these suburbs will see higher density and developers will more efficiently use their land. But the usual effect is that the Slow Growth movement becomes a No Growth movement, the thing often can’t be amended without voter approval or until it sunsets in decades, etc. I mean I don't like the suburban sprawl around Fresno (which is the nearest large city to me) so yeah sure.
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Sydin posted:The fire in Calimesa was caused by a trash truck that dumped a load of burning trash that spread into vegetation, officials said. Somehow I imagine this story will develop that it was also being dumped on a homeless encampment for Peak California.
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Admiral Ray posted:What if we build an app that will disrupt the political market? Instead of these stodgy politicians that you have to listen to, with my app, Votr, you can swipe right on your favorite politicians and immediately give them a Does swipe left immediately send them to a guillotine? You might have a business model there.
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Leperflesh posted:I have very little sympathy for that couple, but it is bullshit that there's an appeal process for the appraisal of a house that is sold, but they can't access that appeal process because they don't live in the house they sold. That's going to bite a lot of other people on the rear end too, and property appraisal is itself often a kind of shady practice. Comps matter, but most appraisals don't even bother to go inside the house, so they can totally ignore poo poo that matters a lot like whether the kitchen is a dump or a fresh remodel.
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Boot and Rally posted:Does this mean that if people were able to set PG&E executives houses/money on fire, PG&E would stop setting our houses on fire? Only you can prevent forest fires... by setting PG&E Executives on fire.
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Craptacular! posted:Warren Buffett’s “the generous billionaire” image doesn’t exist on Nevada after he bought Nevada Power around 2010. Mostly because they tried to put the screws to rooftop solar by adjusting things so people who paid to have solar wouldn’t recoup their losses for over a decade. How'd he do that? Was it a decrease in rates from putting energy back onto the grid?
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Leperflesh posted:Generous "net metering" in which people with panels get paid per kw they feed back to the grid at the same rate they'd pay for drawing power, doesn't scale up because it ignores the cost of the infrastructure. So, after offering net metering to intice homeowners to install solar for a few years, you then use that argument to yank it back and only pay a small amount for that power. Is the small amount paid for excess house (and probably business roof) solar equivalent to what power generation companies get paid? I know I've at least heard that in California, while the amount paid is low it's supposed to be somehow related to spot market price., but I'm not too familiar with the specifics.
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Leperflesh posted:I believe so but I'm not 100% sure. Could be some complication there. But if you think about it the efficiency per kilowatt hour of generation by a large power plant is far higher than rooftop solar, so effectively a rooftop solar install being paid the same rate is much less profitable for the homeowner than the owner of a power plant. Have you read anything on how much more expensive it is to manage the grid from a bunch of rooftop solar (from combined residential and commercial) compared to a dedicated power plants? Since I mean California really has peak sun in a lot of areas in the state (even if rooftop panels on residential aren't installed at the most efficient angles for maximum solar capture), and there's a lot of that peak sun during the hot months while there's also peak electricity demand (from everyone running ACs) which we use booster plants to meet that demand afaik. Seems like at least during those months it would be a win-win; especially utilizing marginal space to boot. I ask since you seem to be well read on the topic. Though yeah from my pv install and pv design classes (part of the electrical program here, though we didn't cover anything about the utility end stuff) if someone was dumping money to buy a residential system the math didn't pan out from a purely financial point (compared to... I think it was investing in CD accounts or bonds or whatever) unless they had a lot of household energy consumption, though obviously people aren't just motivated by financial concerns. At least the panels these days seem better and the installation practices and options also seem better (Lots of panels wired in series when I did that class which was terrible for partial shade, and a lot more plug and play now), though I never looked back on if that turned into a better deal for consumers or not. And yeah screw the aggressive panel pushers.
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CopperHound posted:Does your old one use the screw on pink disks? Let me know how it compares in regards to how easy it is to breath in and comfort during physical exertion. (That link is for the large size, other sizes have different product pages). However, the pink 2091 p100 discs are actually the old model p100 filters. New ones are the 2291 p100 that are white with pink webbing: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B009POHG2M/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1 They use 3 layers instead of 5 while supposedly achieving the same filter performance (or so the brochure says), and of course this makes it easier to breath. The webbing is to make them a bit sturdier. I noticed a difference though between the new ones and the older pink ones, and the new ones are indeed easier breathing They also offer the 2297 P100 filters which have added Organic Vapor Nuisance Odor Relief and for some reason are slightly cheaper: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B009POHH94/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER&psc=1 (While the p100 filter quality shouldn't have a shelf life, I think the Organic Vapor Nuisance Odor Relief feature does have a shelf life, though if they expire it just means that feature doesn't work afaik. Everything aside from the p filter rating has a shelf life iirc) Though I ponied up and paid for a 3M Ultimate FX full face mask for whenever I have to do tractor work, and given my terrible allergies it gets used for any yard work that kicks up a bunch of stuff. BeAuMaN fucked around with this message at 04:20 on Oct 31, 2019 |
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Did anyone ever math out how much non-HSR train we could have got with all the projected money we're expecting (or expected, given the plan has changed a number of times) to spend on HSR? How much of those budgets are land acquisition costs (Like a rough fraction)? I know this stuff isn't quite straight forward. BeAuMaN fucked around with this message at 03:46 on Nov 2, 2019 |
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Just going to bring this up respirators one more time in case anyone needs half face masks because California Never Not On Fire... the 3M ones I mentioned just dropped down to their Amazon historical low price of $12.65 a piece (not including filters which are linked in the quote): Medium: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B008MCUT86/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER&psc=1 Large: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B008MCUULW/ref=ox_sc_mini_detail?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER BeAuMaN posted:I'd be curious about this too, though I recommend the usual 3M 7000 series facemask: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B008MCUULW/
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Pump Jockey posted:Next we will see American flags with the stripes replaced with live and grounding wire colors. The Thin Bare Wire.
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DeadlyMuffin posted:Also, even setting aside public transit, why does almost every restaurant in San Jose shut down at like, 8pm? How is it that Fresno restaurants stay open later than San Jose? You should tell people in San Jose this and they should feel offended. (I still get annoyed that things close at 10 or 11 in Fresno on non-fridays but I'm on a night shift clock so, as that's the the closest place for me to drive in for restaurant food) So where in San Jose closes that early? It's not everywhere right?
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Shear Modulus posted:mocking groverhaus should be considered public domain
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Anza Borrego posted:Ahem, the gate must be self-closing and self-latching to meet code. Wouldn’t want small children accidentally guillotining themselves! There's also a Guillotine Safety test, a background check, 10 day waiting period, a Guillotine Safe Handling Demonstration, state fees, and Licensed Guillotine dealers charge their own fees. If you decide you need a pocket guillotine then you need to get a Concealed Pocket Guillotine Carry License, and there's a background check, training and fees, and the ease of getting one issued depends on how the locality feels about issuing such licenses to proles.
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Cabbit posted:Moreover, why does it need staircase resistant doors Maybe because the Shover Robot won't believe Gavbot when he says he's protected.
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BallisticClipboard posted:It showed up here during the fires but someone dropped a recommendation for a gas mask for the smoke. Seeing as everything lightning on fire will be standard from now on, I should buy it before the fires are back. This was recommended by Admiral Ray: Admiral Ray posted:If the state enacted my Dirigible Housing Project this fire risk poo poo wouldn't matter. Everyone could ride the drifting air currents and watch as the ground far beneath them twists and chars under the intense heat of our sins. I recommended a 3M 7000 Series mask with either 3M 2291 or 2297 white or grey webbed p100 filters (instead of the standard pinks), or you could even go full face mask with an Ultimate FX but probably not necessary (And probably extra weird if you're using it around town or something, though I enjoy mine for tractor and yard work). All links in quote below: BeAuMaN posted:I'd be curious about this too, though I recommend the usual 3M 7000 series facemask: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B008MCUULW/ And no, I don't know how the GVS compares to the 3M. They're probably both good masks. BeAuMaN fucked around with this message at 13:57 on Jan 10, 2020 |
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Craptacular! posted:For Sonoma specifically, keep in mind a significant amount of the largest city burned down and that decreases stock, reducing vacancy and making homelessness even worse. The local paper is full of how the residents who lost their homes keep getting screwed by contractors, while a mixed use project near my old home has been effectively cancelled because the developer feels the fires have increased the cost of materials and made a labor shortage. It’s hard to develop anything new when all hands are rebuilding what was already lost (and sometimes with lovely results.) Probably getting screwed by insurance too if it's like my grandmother's experience in trying to get the old cabin rebuilt after it burnt down in the fire near bass lake. They basically said that it had to be rebuilt right away, on a schedule, or they'd pay out only half, and we had to float costs before reimbursement, and basically get a lawyer to make sure everything got paid out. Anyone having to deal with that while their out of a house and without having resources to do so would be pretty hosed.
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OMGVBFLOL posted:how feasible would it be to have a municipal pick up / wash / drop off for cotton diapers? commercial customers have those kinds of laundry services pretty affordably and municipal garbage pickup is already a thing. my previous post had me thinking about how disposable diapers are one of the most commonly shoplifted items because of how dumb expensive they are I'd be curious how much water that would use and what quality water would be needed when doing it at a commercial/industrial scale.
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Billy Gnosis posted:So the question becomes just how lovely do your babies need to be? Parenting classes should require their students shovel manure for a week to pass. Then they'll know they'll be ready (at least for the poo poo).
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Henrik Zetterberg posted:So I register as "no party preference." I swear in every previous primary election I had Dems and Independents on my ballot, but no Republicans. This year I had no candidates on my ballot, and my voter packet said I had to fill out a form and request a Democratic ballot, which of course I didn't see until yesterday. What a pain in the rear end. They should just mail that poo poo out. I mean otherwise I like the fact that they're mailing out ballots, they have ballot boxes open (Are those changes state wide or just my county?) BeAuMaN fucked around with this message at 03:30 on Mar 5, 2020 |
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MarcusSA posted:Well this why the LA county number is so low. Googled related to this, and apparently the CDC strategy referenced on using old stockpiles of masks is this:: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/release-stockpiled-N95.html Noteable: quote:Users should take the following precautionary measures prior to using the respirator in the workplace. As I mentioned in a previous post when people were asking about masks for fire, stuff like the N95 or n99 on filters out particulates, so there's no chemical filtration element (at least in cases run across), but only a phsyical filter that doesn't break down that easily. So the stuff they're worried about breaking down seems to be the straps and foam, and the stuff that goes against the bridge of the nose. If it's stored correctly it should be fine, and if they have people inspect the masks it should be fine. (Also not an expert here, but I remember looking this stuff up when I was buying masks. Anyone who knows more feel free to call out whatever stuff in my post.)
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