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AYC posted:I was one of the votes for Laura Wells.  Vote Green every day Negative Entropy posted:It's such a razor-thin difference between the two D candidates and Evans that I suspect a recount will happen for the controller elections. I'm almost hoping we do end up with two Republicans in November, so everybody can immediately see the downside of Top Two primaries. Really, the media should be championing alternative voting systems like Instant-Runoff Voting or Range Voting; they'd have so much more fun stuff to explain on election nights!
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ComradeCosmobot posted:Are Greens that eager to vote for Obama? Maybe more Greens figure the GOP is weak enough now that they can stop voting for Democrats?
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"You are advocating equal treatment of everybody, and yet you want the illegals, who include underage gang members, to be more equal and have better treatment than the rest of us." Yep, that's what "equal" means, all right.
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Megaman's Jockstrap posted:We get it. You think everyone that's not currently paying 2k a month for a shoebox at the beach is a dumb hick moron idiot who lives in a scorching dustbowl full of poo poo. Feel better now? Yes.
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Pohl posted:I'm sure this isn't the proper thread for that type of question, but it seemed like a good place for honest responses. Thank you. There's a thread for general discussion, too, including what parts are nice or not: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3556974
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Trabisnikof posted:Keep it classy San Luis Obispo: http://calcoastnews.com/2014/09/supervisor-candidates-clash-hobo-bash/ Whew. Not my district!
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Gubernatorial candidate Neel Kashkari has his finger on the pulse of the people, what with tweeting this over and over every couple of hours: https://twitter.com/neelkashkari/status/514861837284687872 At least he's committed to his beliefs, I guess. I feel bad for small-C conservatives in this state.
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Looks like the California Green Party finally posted their reasoning for their positions on the propositions. Here's the breakdown:
My positions are pretty close:
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Sydin posted:there was no dem canidate. It was between Steve Knight & Tony Strickland, two republicans. Top-two primary! 
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Minarchist posted:I'm a cali kid born and raised... Then how come you use the word "Cali"? 
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I got a response when I sent her an email opposing the latest anti-flag-desecration amendment: "The flag, as a symbol of freedom, needs to be protected." I got the came response from Lois Capps. Boxer's response was like, "Right on, bro. poo poo's a waste of time."
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Signatures submitted to fight California bag ban It'll cost us joooooobs. Can the bag manufacturers not retool to produce other plastic stuff?
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And plastic bags are better? Do you have any reusable canvas or recycled plastic bags?
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Dec 30, 2014 21:02
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In SLO County, the stores charge you ten cents per paper bag, so be thankful they're free where you are? Or pay a few bucks, once, for a reusable bag?
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Dec 30, 2014 23:52
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I mostly just want the Blue Line to make it all the way to Union Station, so I can ride Pacific Surfliner from SLO to LA, then hop on the Blue Line to Long Beach, without having to ride two stops on the Red/Purple Line, then pay a second fare to get on Blue. (I'm supposed to pay a second fare, right?)
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I read somewhere that multiple Blue Line trains start to line up at at-grade crossings during rush hour, so adding trains wouldn't help unless they also separated the rails from the roads.
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Jan 14, 2015 23:04
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#ThanksJudgeDoom
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Sydin posted:Still looking forward to the couple inches I'm supposed to get this weekend, though.  Any precipitation is good precipitation, at this point.
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Meanwhile, the CSU system cruises along doing ????
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FRINGE posted:You can talk poo poo about SD, LA, Malibu, Ventura, SB, SLO ... no one says anything. ..But the precious OC! Oh my! If somebody says something bad about SLO, we just trick them into staying at the Madonna Inn, where they quickly go insane from kitsch overload. Then their khakis get all splattered from that stupid urinal that's shaped like a waterfall.
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Record numbers apply to Cal PolyThat article posted:The average grade-point average for first-time freshmen who have been offered admission is 4.0, up from 3.72 a decade ago and 3.88 last year.  I wonder what those numbers were like in 2000. The GPA one must have been way lower, for me to get in.
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U.S. Representative Lois Capps won't run for reelection, probably because she'd be blown up with how lovely her last campaign was. She took her opponent's quote, which was, "I do not intend to go to Washington to represent the 24th District to bring back baseball fields. That's not why I am going. I am going to fight for my country, and I happen to come from the 24th District." and put this part in her commercial: "I do not intend to go to Washington to represent the 24th District." Then she claimed it was an honest mistake and her campaign pulled the ad as soon as there were complaints. (It still ran for plenty of time, right before the election.) Anyway, she barely scraped by, so who knows if CA-24 will flip GOP!
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Apr 9, 2015 18:17
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San Luis Obispo County is in the same district and generally leans more to the right. So do the 100k people living in Santa Maria. The district borders are actually really well done, in my opinion, because whoever wins might actually have to compromise, once in a while, instead of coasting along forever, like Capps did, after she rode her husband's death straight to D.C. in the special election to replace him (she took his seat). The final vote tally was 103,228 to 95,566, so I guess there's some margin there.
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Apr 9, 2015 18:38
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It's contiguous, if you count the little strip of SB city limits that extends out in the ocean!
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My landlords are switching us from a year-long lease to a month-to-month lease when the current one is up so they can increase the rent to cover any fines that are imposed due to overuse of water. They pay the water bill and we never see it, so we have no idea how close we are to compliance or noncompliance. There also is only one meter, so the downstairs neighbors washing their cars (still!) counts against us.
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Hitlers Gay Secret posted:In times like this, you should kill your neighbors to save your family. Apparently not, unless your lease mentions it: http://www.dca.ca.gov/publications/legal_guides/lt-2.shtml I'm planning to ask for a year-long lease with a water surcharge clause added, to see if they're putting us on month-to-month for the rent consideration or if maybe they just want us month-to-month so they can kick us out with thirty days' notice. (That'd be a nice notice to get, after eight years of living in my current place!)
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Most of that is probably natural seepage. It's a rite of passage for kids who grew up on the Central Coast to come home from the beach and get out the rag and the turpentine for scrubbing the tar of their feet.
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My landlord installed a bunch of rain barrels like two weeks ago, in anticipation of the upcoming El Niņo. They're all full today, after fours hours of rain. Except for the one that shifted off its paver and broke the seal around its drain spigot.
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Eucalyptus is tough. The trees are obviously non-native and have a disastrous effect on the biodiversity of everything under their crowns, but some stuff has figured out how to use the trees as its habitat. (Migrating Monarchs, especially.) That stuff would be displaced during a clear-cut operation. They definitely leave highly flammable poo poo all over the place and explode when burned, flinging flaming oil all over. I'd be more in favor of a controlled removal process that replaced them with native trees, assuming native trees could even grow naturally in the places that supported the euks. (Ever seen an old picture of basically any Californian town?)
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What would happen if Prop 13 suddenly ceased to exist and all property taxes immediately adjusted to be based off of current assessed value? It seems like homeowners would pretty quickly have to leave and landlords would have to raise rents as soon as possible. Would that drive everybody out of the more expensive parts of the state, causing a housing market crash? Would the assessed values then crash and take the higher taxes with them? Would everybody then be able to move back in? Could we skip over the huge adjustment and crash somehow?
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Jul 28, 2015 21:11
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All the bicyclists around SLO who blast right through stop signs have the car drivers so nervous that they tend to wave me (on my bike) through stops that I haven't even stopped at yet, screwing up the flow of the intersection and making everybody confused. Bicyclists who refuse to stop at stop signs because of the lost momentum are complete babies. One bicyclist I yelled at for sailing through a stop yelled back, "I'm a biker! The laws don't apply to me!" so I'm all for stepping up enforcement.
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My local Haggen had a six-pack of Firestone Union Jack for something ridiculous like $14. The 7-Eleven down the street tops out at $10. A freaking 7-Eleven! Every time I have to go to Haggen (it's in walking distance, so I go there for things like milk or bread), I fill out the customer satisfaction thing and take a poo poo on their prices. The weekly groceries trip now involves driving across town to Vons. Maybe they did it on purpose! Also, they have the new credit card readers with the chips, but nobody knows how they work and nothing happens when I insert my card. But the slot is still lit up, suggesting that you can.
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I figured out how it was scored a while back: http://appliedpc.crappycomic.com/scoring.php
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Erin Brockovitch posted on Facebook about how the chloramine being added to the Nipomo water supply is poison and everybody is lying to the public. She also slipped in that they'd be adding fluoride, but "I'll let you do your own research on that." Great. Thanks, Erin. I am grateful that, because she mentioned fluoride, I can dismiss the rest of her post as a crazy ramble!
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I am going to keep drinking unfiltered tap water and not living in Nipomo!
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^^ Good news. In bad news, the Haggen saga continues: http://www.ksby.com/story/29991782/haggen-grocery-store-chain-files-for-bankruptcy
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Wrap it up, Haggenailures: http://www.ksby.com/story/30112094/haggen-grocery-chain-to-close-all-california-stores I'm sure everybody saw this coming from miles away. I bet this'll be touted as an example of anti-monopoly regulation being bad.
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FMguru posted:LMAO at your choice of source. It's my source because I live in SLO. v  v
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Losing federal highway funds because of our lower drinking age would be interesting.
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The top trending hashtag on Twitter spells "San Bernardino" wrong. Nice.
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