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etalian posted:Actually real solution is to invade the NW and steal all their extra water by force. For real though, what ideas are being floated for this? By anyone. Anyone at all. Desal plants? Learn to drink ethanol? What do we do here?
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Pervis posted:And that's if Climate Change doesn't change our normal patterns for worse. Don't worry, it will. http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3453503
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FRINGE posted:The fact that Nestle is still pumping water to maximize future profits should have people out with pitchforks and fiery implements. Ever since I saw the interview with the CEO of Nestlé where he went on about how water is a product and he owns it and no human deserves it unless they can pay, I have unironically, truly believed the board and CEO of Nestle deserve to be clamped in public stocks, stripped of their belongings, and then told they can only drink what they can afford to buy with their now empty pockets. The dude is like a real life version of the lovely villain from awful movie Tank Girl.
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Hitlers Gay Secret posted:SoCalian eh? How's our water treatin' ya? Yes, excellent work on your meritorious choice of being born closer to where water exists, we're exceptionally envious of your foresight and of the brilliant work that you, personally, put into creating water in Northern California.
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Hitlers Gay Secret posted:Moved here, maybe you should do the same. I actually did. I live in Midtown Sacramento now for my girlfriend's job, and it's actually quite lovely here, but we do both miss LA quite a bit. Not the traffic, parking, heat, food deserts, rent, and douchebags, but all the other stuff.
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nm posted:Prepare to get pissed at people calling it "the 5," then accepting it, and then doing it yourself. THAT'S BECAUSE IT'S THE FREEWAY. You don't say "take freeway," you say "take the freeway," as in "take the 5 freeway to the 405 freeway." edit: I said freeway too many times. Freeway!!
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Mar 16, 2015 07:00
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Space-Bird posted:The 'gently caress off we're full, go back to where you came from' attitude some locals have is basically nuts. It's not like there are a lot of other thriving sectors of the US economy people can just jump into... The people complaining about it are either the hippies who moved there years to create their own (gross but well meaning) alternative culture, or the idiots who moved there recently to live 10 to a closet with other unwashed children so they can pretend to be the hippies mentioned above. But you see this anytime a culture changes too quickly, and the tech industry's penchant for hyperspeed change and constant "disrupting" of things people already liked, only to leave them a broken shambles owned by comic book villain techno-Libertarians isn't exactly helping tech win any culture war popularity contests.
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Mar 16, 2015 17:20
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Pohl posted:America is only full in places where people want to live. Climate change may shift that balance, but gently caress off we are full does not tell the entire story. It's true. When I helped my sister move back to California from Chicago, I was shocked at how devoid of civilization most of the country is. I had heard of the non-coastal regions being called "flyover states," but I assumed people meant it as a dig about the population there. Now I think they actually mean it as "no, really, just fly over it, there's nothing there but trees."
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Zeitgueist posted:Yeah well it's full on gentrified, all white and they had an umami burger. Correction: white and Asian, mostly. There's a huge set of apartment blocks adjacent to Little Tokyo that seemed largely comprised of young, professional, Asian Americans. Koreatown was a fun place to live, though. Rent wasn't quite as ridiculous, and the food/drink scene was outstanding.
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nm posted:Can we get rid of the proposition system yet? How is there no release valve for this. It's so nakedly stupid and unconstitutional.
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But like, isn't there some law that says "if your proposition calls for the murder of innocents, it is immediately invalid and can progress no further" or something??
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ComradeCosmobot posted:Tim Draper will not be deterred from trying to ~disrupt~ normal governance. One complete California for each citizen.
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Shbobdb posted:We need to man up and have a proper 24 hour system. You maniacs haven't earned that privilege. My girlfriend and I visited our friends in SF not too long ago on a weekend when the bridge was closed for maintenance, so the BART was running until 2 or 3 AM. We left the bar to go home and it was like the scene in loving Batman Begins where the League of Shadows gassed the Narrows. The subway platform was packed, shoulder to shoulder. The tile floor was slick and slippery with sweat and urine, which did not stop a half dozen couples from laying down on it to straight up rut like feral cats. A group of six guys relentlessly sexually harassed and rape-threatened our female friend for the whole train ride. We got in a shouting match with them and not a single person acknowledged that this squad of dudes were straight up trying to take her clothes off. We switched trains, and two guys on the new train immediately got in a fist fight, then proceeded to storm back and forth, screaming, punching and kicking walls, windows, and chairs. When we got off that train, HUNDREDS of people started running every which way. My friend got shoved into a turnstile and knocked over it, with her purse exploding everywhere. She tearfully gathered her belongings from the floor while people kicked them around, finally screamed "gently caress!" and stormed towards the escalator. Of course, some guy started chasing us, yelling at her to smile cause she's beautiful. She tells him to gently caress off, and some total stranger lady screams at her to "Work on your loving attitude! Get the gently caress over here!" We just bolted and hailed a cab. When we got to her house, a drunk driver missed her exiting the cab by two inches. So basically, the Bay Area is barely a loving civilization and you can't even have two extra hours of public transportation access without going full Lord of the Flies. That's not even touching on the shitheads at the bar and how no bars take cards. gently caress San Francisco. SlimGoodbody fucked around with this message at 00:31 on May 9, 2015 |
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Bip Roberts posted:That's normal BART nub I have ridden the BART many times before, but that was the first time I've seen a man get his butthole fingered while gyrating in a puddle of pissmud.
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The fact that no one seems to be in any way disturbed, or even surprised, by my recollections of Hell Night chills me to the bone. I officially want to know what each of you considers the worst thing you've seen go down in the city. edit: vvvvv????????! SlimGoodbody fucked around with this message at 08:23 on May 9, 2015 |
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FCKGW posted:Or just live in the suburbs and don't deal with getting pissed on every time you step outside, yup sounds good to me. yeah but something something culture
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The IE is a massively depressing purgatory full of dickheads, why would you move there from Switzerland?
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Leperflesh, your posts have been thoughtful and enormously instructive. I want to thank you for taking the time to compose them. I shared your first big response on my Facebook wall, crediting you, because I want everyone I know to read it.
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Kenning posted:I still want to know if he was loving that watermelon. You know he was.
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So my girlfriend and I were going through the ballot measure booklet that came in the mail today, and I was wondering if you all had any hot takes. There are a few no brainers for me (gently caress the death penalty, leave the porn industry alone cause every sex/porn worker I know hates the prop and the guy behind it has poo poo reasons for proposing it), but there are also a few that are hard to get a read on. Also, I actually laughed out loud when I saw that prop 65 and prop 67 are the perfect inverses of each other and are alternately pro/conned by the same people. It just reads like two people fighting on Facebook. SlimGoodbody fucked around with this message at 20:12 on Sep 24, 2016 |
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paranoid randroid posted:i might care more for In-n-Out if every single one in LA county wasnt, without fail, jammed to capacity like the last helicopter out of Saigon from start of business to closing every single day I wish this was less true
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Five Guys is totally better if the metric you're measuring is "is this burger better at not being very good"
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Police are an armed gang, surprising no one.
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For a hot minute they had this show called "So Well Spoken" that had black hosts and guests discussing race issues and it was really smart and interesting, but the callers were always racist NIMBY neolib types who would ask the cringiest poo poo imaginable, like "I wanted to show my young granddaughter how lively the black community is, so I started taking her to a black church and going to the black women's post-sermon coffee. They didn't make me feel as welcome as I think they should have; how do I let them know this is reverse racism?" I assume the show is no longer on because the hosts heads probably exploded.
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Doc Hawkins posted:ITT we reveal ourselves to be such bougie bastards that we have strong opinions about the tier rankings of NPR "news" shows. We're in the regional politics thread of a debate board of a dead nerd forum you have to pay to join. I don't think there was much doubt that we would also have NPR tier rankings.
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I'm surprised no one has said anything yet about the rampant slum conditions that lead to the Oakland Ghost Ship fire. I lost a close friend there and half the poo poo I see posted in news and blogs either leans toward saying or says outright that it was the artists' faults for being poor and living in a building that didn't meet code. I've also heard that some weird zoning rules meant the property owners paid almost no taxes on it and just collected profit every month, so it's not like they couldn't have used some of that money to give the place a sprinkler system and wiring that wouldn't eventually cause the horrific deaths of dozens of creatives. These people were there because there's nowhere else they could afford to be. Gentrification is literally killing people in the Bay.
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You're right, and those are good points. Everything I've been reading about Derrick Ion indicates he's a scumbag of nearly cinematic proportion. His reaction to a massive fatality fire that he figures as highly responsible for was to make a Facebook post about how unfair it was that he lost a bunch of fun stuff he liked owning.
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America: Turns out we are, in fact, the world's evil end boss
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Duckbox posted:Sometimes I think the Bay nimbys are just waiting for a chance to close the bridges and go battle royale on each other. Fun story: I went to visit some friends in SF a handful of years ago on a night where the bridges were closed for maintenance, so the BART was open much later. Specifically, the trains were running well past last call, which meant it was MTV Spring Break 2005 all up in that poo poo. Everyone knew they wouldn't have to drive to get home, so just about EVERYONE in and around the city descended upon the bars and clubs of San Francisco with the kind of dedicated fervor normally reserved for suicide bombers. The slovenly motley of shitfaced tech bro assholes and urban perverts piling into the train station after the bars closed was unbelievable. The tiles of the BART stop were dripping wet from the sweat and breath of the congregated mass, rendering the floor slippery with a fine, silty mud; a mud in which a number of people had decided to lay in so that they could sloppily neck and gently caress and finger each others various orifices. Everyone was screaming and fighting everywhere. My gf and our friend and I got on a packed train, and six large, drunken men sat next to us and proceeded to loudly tell us how they wanted to gangrape my friend and how nothing could really stop them. They did this for 10+ minutes, after which we fled the train for another train at the first opportunity, pushing past another crowd of rioting lunatics. On this next train, the man directly next to me got into an open, slugging, kicking fight with another man. They smashed each others faces into walls, got blood everywhere, the works. I should note that the only thing any local bystander did during either of these horrific events was to get their phones out and record, laughing. It was like the scene in Batman Begins, when the Narrows got gassed. The Bay Area is a powderkeg of psychopaths waiting to blow under anything even remotely resembling the right conditions.
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revolther posted:Gather evidence of a crime to support victims in prosecution of criminals is safer than getting involved, avoids you from violating the law yourself intervening, and is literally what cops would tell you to do in any situation that didn't involve cops actually committing the crime. Record it and report it isn't "doing nothing". No, that's a good point. I failed to mention that during the part when my friend was getting aggressively harassed, the three of us were casting about for anyone else in our packed car to come to our aid, to chime in that this behavior was disgusting and pathetic, to try and show these guys that the crowd was not with them, anything, and all they did was either pretend they couldn't see or hear us, silently watch us, or laugh with their buddies as they vined or snapped it. Like literally begging for nonviolent intervention and getting nothing, which just emboldened the dudes saying they were gonna follow my friend to her house.
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mazzi Chart Czar posted:Come on silicon valley. Where is my loving disruption tech for the telecom industry. Lol this will never happen, they only disrupt things that make it easier to be a rich adult child
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Listen to the Feinstein episode of The Dollop. She's a demon.
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Tacier posted:We also just re-elected Doug LaMalfa, a climate change denier, to represent District 1, which covers most of Northern California. My fiance and I were just recently driving through an area with a campaign sign of his was postedthat said "Doug LaMalfa: he's one of us" What... does that mean
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It's been a minute since I've checked the thread, am I a total rube for the State of the State actually making me kind of hopeful for California to finally address the homelessness crisis?
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Megaman's Jockstrap posted:Quoting my own pre-debate thoughts to say that I was half right here; I thought they were going to go hard after Sanders but they did not. Thank goodness. Bloomberg was exactly the dipshit I expected to see, though. I think if more people worked directly for billionaires there wouldn't be any. They are not worth the money they have, at all. Apparently he did zero prep for the debate because he thought everyone would treat him like his employees do, even after emailing several of them on the day of to tell them to drop out to make room for his candidacy. Billionaires have baby brains.
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Leperflesh posted:now imagine that you don't even have the basic level of creativity or curiosity to do something wild and fun with your enormous wealth like build a rocket ship, all your life has ever prepared you to do is pursue wealth and power for its own sake They do pedo poo poo on Epstein's weird cult island and, I dunno, probably bet on underground death matches or something. Other than that it really seems like the only thing they can think of doing with billions of dollars is hoarding it and warping the social structure of the planet like a black hole.
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Admiral Ray posted:If I had a billion dollars I would fund the development of nuclear powered passenger dirigibles. And a private, luxury nuclear reactor for myself, of course. See, this is what I'm talking about. Build air yachts! Genetically engineer a chocobo! Fund a film written entirely by an algorithm!
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Foxfire_ posted:(Police union is predictably being whiny babies about it) God they whine about every loving thing. It's so painfully clear that they want free reign to be psychotic bullies with Judge Dredd powers.
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WAR CRIME GIGOLO posted:sorry newsoms a baller in many ways. he's definitely the solid cali gov we needed. I was worried when he took office but he's been surprisingly decent.
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