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Trabisnikof posted:To be fair, half of Hawaii (the leeward half) is just as dry as Southern California, so the tropical look can be drought tolerant. But you know the answer to your question, its because its a rich community that can afford it. My experience on the leeward side was less 'tropical look' and more like 'desolate volcanic hellscape'. Still pretty though.
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Megaman's Jockstrap posted:I must have missed when Arizona elected a gay schoolteacher to Congress. Yeah, but it's hot and far away from the ocean, so Riverside still sucks.
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Megaman's Jockstrap posted:Only in the California thread would some doofus call a community an hour from the beach and whose average temperature high only breaks 90 during the summers as "hot and far from the ocean". Haha, are you for loving real? It was the most transparent joke imaginable.
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Zeitgueist posted:It's unreal how every city's answer to homelessness is to drive them to somewhere else. Now, now. Some cities try to set up a support network which last until some new people move in and then those new people try to drive the homeless elsewhere. See Venice, Santa Monica, and inexplicably Skid Row now. It still boggles my mind that people move to areas known fore mostly for their homeless population and then are shocked and outraged that they have to look at homeless people everyday. GhostofJohnMuir fucked around with this message at 20:51 on Sep 11, 2014 |
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Sep 11, 2014 20:00
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The most compelling demonstration of his political legacy imaginable. What more could a Presidential library ask for?
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Pohl posted:You failed to mention that budget was for firefighting. Yeah, but it is a sign of a new budget pressure. The cost of fighting fires is only going to go up as the climate changes and more and more sprawl rubs up against fire prone areas.
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Sep 23, 2014 20:26
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on the left posted:Students shouldn't be suspended or expelled from university without a guilty verdict in a criminal trial, doubly so when it happens off campus. The fact that it happens at all is terrible, it's not a good thing that only "29 to 68 percent were suspended". What about for academic dishonesty or other charges that aren't criminal charges? Are you suggesting they be civil court cases or something?
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Oct 21, 2014 05:22
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Bizarro Watt posted:I don't really see how Jerry Brown is a Republican in disguise. I don't see all the cuts state labor and public education have taken over the years being fully made up any time soon while he's governor. He's much too *fiscally prudent* to do that. To top it off he's got the legislative backing to do more for both.
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Oct 22, 2014 00:48
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Leperflesh posted:The budget is passed by the state legislature, which is dominated by the Democratic party. If Brown is a republican because of budget cuts, then so are the rest of them. Except as a senior statesmen with more political cred and depth then the whole legislature put together there's no real way for the legislature to challenge Brown's moderatism. The times they've tried to pressure him from the left he's spanked them like a bad puppy. Though that's not say all of the legislature has great credentials on the issues.
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Oct 22, 2014 00:55
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Leperflesh posted:No doubt his position and authority helps a lot. But I think it's a long way from being a moderate corporatist democrat with fiscally conservative leanings, and being a Republican; and I think most of the legislature is in the same mood as most of the public... coming out of years of fiscal crisis and not being too eager to spend. This would carry more weight if Brown weren't forging ahead with the high speed rail project. I mean I'm not against it on principle though I am a bit leery of some of the specifics. But it's hard to argue that you're all about fiscal responsibility and cutting costs in a time of excess and then break ground on a project which will take several billion dollars from the state at the least to complete.
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Leperflesh posted:So, Brown is a Republican because he hasn't gone nuts restoring the education budget to previous levels in the face of a slow CA recovery, but he's not a Democrat on the basis of being willing to break ground on a voter-mandated transportation/infrastructure project that will cost money in future years, much of which will come from federal funds? Honestly my bigger beefs are with the cuts to state labor and the state courts before those to education. And if you go by old school Republican values instead of the pants on head craziness that is the current Republican party, cuts to labor, education and a system chockfull of minorities while spending on infrastructure isn't unheard of. Even factoring in the benefits of moving now on high speed rail, Brown has pushed for bond measures and funding for other infrastructure improvements in a way that has been markably absent for other pressing issues. Obviously he's better than Kashkari and way better than whatever tea party nut was run out of the Central Valley, but I don't think it's a mystery why more leftist elements in the party might be grumbling.
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GrumpyDoctor posted:They actually cut a bunch of them down a couple years ago specifically for that reason. Of course all the local hippies threw a fit. Really? They're invasive with strong allelopathic effect that crowds out pretty much any native plants. Surely the local hippies would be happy for the chance to plant some fire resistant Californian oak species? GhostofJohnMuir fucked around with this message at 21:31 on Nov 18, 2014 |
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Nov 18, 2014 20:52
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GrumpyDoctor posted:Nope. Trees good. Cutting down trees bad. Case closed. Do you know which agency was responsible for the removal, or have a link to an article about it or something? I'd be interested in reading about their approach to public outreach.
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Nov 18, 2014 22:02
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Slobjob Zizek posted:If you go all the way back to the financial crisis / CA's budget crisis 5 years ago, you'll see that the state substantially divested itself from the UC. The state chose K12 / prison / Medicaid funding over UC funding, mostly because of voter demographics (I think). Anyway, the only way to reverse the tuition hike trend is to raise taxes or push down costs in one of those other sectors. The state did make some serious budget cuts during the crisis, but the UC system has more than filled the gap that was left through previous tuition hikes. This latest increase isn't out of necessity, it's because they've realized the demand is going to be greater than supply no matter how much they raise tuition rates, so why not go hog wild with it.
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It's anecdotal, but in my experience the Tenderloin has the highest concentration of feces/vomit per square foot of sidewalk in the nation.
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This further confirms my creeping suspicion that my personal experiences are a completely suitable replacement for suitable data.
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My system used to be that if I felt cold I'd put on a jacket, but I guess from now on I have to consult strangers on the internet to see if it's actually an appropriate temperature.
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The storm watch stuff honestly makes a bit of sense these days, with all the burn areas we have now a little bit of rain has a good chance of bringing a hillside down on top of a community somewhere. Hell, I haven't been able to use PCH as an alternate route in my commute up to Oxnard in the last few days because a huge stretch of it is completely shut down and they're digging it out now.
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"Headed for the Frisco Bay" is an excellent Otis Redding lyric, thus all uses of Frisco are acceptable.
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Jerry Manderbilt posted:When I was growing up "SF" and "San Fran" were acceptable, but I never heard "Frisco". gently caress the OC, they don't get a say in what people call them, the crotchety mother fuckers.
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drilldo squirt posted:What if I dont wana buy a loving bag when they used to be free. Does anyone actually buy tote bags? I'm drowning in like a dozen of them and I've never bought a single one. Just keep an eye out for opportunities to snag free totes and you'll have plenty soon enough.
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doctorfrog posted:I hope in 20 years cats become the next plastic bag. Take that to mean the absolute worst of whatever you want it to mean. I may or may not know of "possum traps" that were actually meant to target cats near bird habitat.
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ComradeCosmobot posted:The good news is that parts of Northern California may get up to a foot of rain this weekend. The bad news is that it's supposed to stay warm enough that the snow levels will be 8,000 to 10,000 feet, resulting in no change to snowpack levels. Welcome to the new normal everyone.
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I'm aware of the historical variability in California's climate, I was mostly commenting on the global trend of increasing average temperatures which going forward is going to limit snowpack creation in California. As has been pointed out, California getting more moisture doesn't mean much if it's not in a form which we're prepared to utilize and I suspect our handy snowpack is going to become a think of the past, moisture or no moisture.
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Ardennes posted:It this case the city of Inglewood (almost entirely black and latino) would be saddled with it, it seems to be a thing now to find smallish cities in metro areas to build stadiums in. The article doesn't give any specifics about what the costs will be either. What really makes it crazy is that the NFL just did this last loving season only to pull the ball away just as Los Angeles was about to kick it. They made it really clear that they don't actually have an interest in moving a team to Los Angeles, but all the city institutions seem all lined up ready to desperately fellate them until we get a team.
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This morning on the 405 north, a little after the Mullholland exit, I noticed some California poppies in full bloom on the road side embankment, so that was nice.
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FilthyImp posted:No poo poo! I was there two years ago and saw nothing. Guess they peeled $29 off of the repaint of the Sun God to do it. That's not even touching on Deasy's involvement in the whole iPad roll out and subsequent revelations of possible sweetheart deals with software vendors. Dude had kind of a lovely run as superintendent.
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Trabisnikof posted:That sounds like a lot of effort, I'm just going to blame teachers instead. Hey man, they get pensions. Even I don't get a pension! Better cut compensation in order to boost the quality of teaching.
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CPColin posted:Meanwhile, the CSU system cruises along doing ???? Nah, it's pretty poo poo too. Major tuition hikes in the last 10 years, difficult time getting classes you need, consideration of cutting "unproductive" majors. It just doesn't get the exposure that the UCs do.
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SlimGoodbody posted:For real though, what ideas are being floated for this? By anyone. Anyone at all. 80% of all state water goes to Central Valley ag. 20% is for urban use, which includes industrial and landscaping uses. We're fine for drinking and cleaning water far into the foreseeable future, it's the business end of things where tough decisions are going to have to be made.
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Pervis posted:Sadly those millions of water users aren't actually downstream from this water, and don't actually have a right to that water beyond what federal law allows, so gently caress em. Getting 50% of the water from the Trinity river system instead of 75% is still good. This has been an hugely evident problem for years. A slow motion train wreck that people feel is too difficult to try to stop.
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enraged_camel posted:Yes, but those "business end of things" will have a significant impact on many people's livelihood. Not just farmers either. The price of produce will most likely go up as water gets more expensive, for example, and this will affect low income people the most. Of course, and some smaller communities may up getting such a short end of the stick on water rights that they actually just run out of all water completely and some residents might have to figure out a new solution for drinking water. But big picture it's not as if there's a serious drinking water shortage as the poster jokingly implied.
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nm posted:Remember though that ag props up the central valley (Sacramento exempted) and that is already the poorest part of the state. I think something that gets missed when talking about ag in the central valley is that by and large, water allocations is the limiting factor in a lot of operations. What I expect to happen and what most economic models (a very speculative endeavor to be sure) have shown, is that even with major cuts to water allocations, ag doesn't up and disappear. There is a shift to crops that are less water intensive, but with a smaller profit margin. This leads to a definite economic hit, but unless things begin to approach Mad Max levels of water shortages, things continue more or less on an even keel. Even then ag makes up less than 5% of California GDP. Yes that's significant and yes that would be increased by a knock-on effect from communities sustained by agriculture losing out, but it's not critical. Water management is definitely a critical issue for the state, and one that I don't think is being handled particularly well. It's not as if I want California's ag to suffer major setbacks from water shortages and climate change, it's just that someone was joking about drinking water and I wanted to make it clear that that usage is not something that even makes a blip in the radar and is not something that will be the major water issue for most Californians. I think you guys are reading some kind of intention in my original post that simply isn't there.
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Can we table nuke powered desal until after we've instituted toilet to tap?
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Trabisnikof posted:If you live in southern California you probably already do drink toilet to tap. I know a significant portion of Orange County is toilet to tap, but I haven't heard of any other extensive operations outside of that. Most other counties have recycled water, but not for human consumption.
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Zachack posted:What do you think toilet to tap is? Potable reuse, the recycled water is used to augment the drinking water supply. Orange County currently has indirect potable reuse, it's been squelched in the other Southern California counties, mostly because the public thinks it's gross. Even if, as I've previously stated, drinking water is a very small portion of California's overall water use, getting potable water through recycling rather than massive desalinization projects seems preferable. I've never heard the term used in reference to outdoor or industrial reuse. Trabisnikof posted:If you drink water from the Colorado river it went through a sewage treatment plant at some point. Fair enough, as this episode proved people are weird about human waste in their water that's otherwise exposed to the elements. I'd like to see it implemented as explicit policy and end the practice of discharging wastewater into the ocean outside of emergency situations.
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If we're going to post about straws...
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My secret shame is that I actually read a lot of popular short fiction and don't know much about funny pictures. I'm a disgrace to Something Awful.
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I've found that the hatred is pretty much one way. I have yet to meet a Southern Californian who has strong opinions on Northern California beyond rolling their eyes at the use of "hella".
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nm posted:Could have to do with the state paying almost 1/3 the amount per student today than they did in 1974. I once earned $20K a year working prep at a fast food restaurant.
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