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May 17, 2023 03:44
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She's one of the longest serving Democrats in the Senate, placement on committees, she's currently on five, including appropriations (budget), judiciary, rules, and intelligence (CIA etc) those are some pretty important ones Of note she was the chair of the intelligence committee for almost a decade, stepped down as chair in 2015/17 depending on how you count that I would imagine as a senator you wouldn't let go of the intelligence committee chair unless there was a serious problem, wouldn't surprise me if her mental facilities started to let go in the 15/17 period She's also still chair of the drug war committee, which, probably isn't a bad thing, that was a mistake to begin with and probably best they let her continue to chair it post humously
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May 17, 2023 18:49
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I think your ability to chair a committee is determined at least in part by how long you've been on that committee, I'm not sure how it works exactly. My guess is that an appointed senator has a pretty low chance of reelectability compared to someone who won the popular vote. Feinstein started as SF City council, was appointed interm mayor, then won reelection, later was elected to the US Senate so (to me) makes sense to put her on powerful committees since she'll probably be there until she dies (see thread for details) Democrats will probably put some up and coming person on the new junior seats in intelligence, judiciary etc. Feinstein stepping down means California loses a very powerful voice especially on the judiciary committee, I bet they were hoping to see her chair that one and let California help choose supreme Court justices etc. Even if he appointed CA senator gets on those committees they'll be junior members, barely above observer status. California also would have, I think, two appointed senators? Probably not good, going from a lvl99 Senate presence to a lvl1 with 100exp standing in half a decade I would imagine there's probably some prejudice against junior senators who were appointed This is all wild speculation, I'm not a Senate expert Hadlock fucked around with this message at 19:14 on May 17, 2023 |
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May 17, 2023 19:11
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Qtotonibudinibudet posted:wait do we live in the same california (or texas i forget is hadlock still in CA?) I'm back, baby. As of about three weeks ago If you put on your reading comprehension hat you'll note I was trying to compare two theoretical politicians up for reelection on reelectability, then used feinstein as a prime example of a strong grass roots candidate
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May 17, 2023 22:22
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Yeah I wasn't sure what happened with his situation. 2022 was a weird year for me
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May 17, 2023 22:51
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Yeah I'm not an expert on this Presumably feinstein is working with Californians interests first and Senate democrats interests second* so there's some kind of synergy between the gubernatorial office back home and the Senate out east and make sure our tax dollars are being routed back to our state, or something * 
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May 18, 2023 06:21
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Arsenic Lupin posted:encephalitis Encephalitis is swelling of the brain I think, in more extreme cars you're basically nonfunctional besides waking up to use the bathroom and feed yourself. Probably extreme cases are more common as you get older. I'm not a doctor but what we saw today might be close to as good as it gets. Hope she gets better but the fact that they decided to wheel her out last week is probably indicative that they don't have a lot of confidence she's going to improve substantially any time soon Kind of surprised they even bothered to waste everyone's time hiding it this long Sydin posted:The Dem establishment is already on record that they do not give a poo poo as long as they can prop her up on the Senate floor and have her vote with the party. So unless she declines to the point where they can't even do that it looks like she's absolutely going to serve out her term, lol. Hadlock posted:Weekend at Bernie's
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May 18, 2023 21:55
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https://www.latimes.com/california/...tial-californiaquote:As staff shield Feinstein from the press, a picture really is worth a thousand words 
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May 25, 2023 04:51
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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
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May 28, 2023 20:36
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Nationalizing property insurance would be very interesting
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May 28, 2023 22:05
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Yeah it did cross my mind that they're doing this during an election cycle Florida as always has been a swing state I'd love to know the political affiliation of both the CEO and CFO, and any of the other C suite
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May 29, 2023 09:53
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Brah I've had my Biden 2024 political sign out in the yard since January 1st Also my "anybody but feinstein" sign since April 2nd Maybe we should allow a 6 year first term, and a 2 year "extension " term still max 8 years. This 4 year cycle is exhausting and only benefits the news outlets
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May 30, 2023 06:26
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SlimGoodbody posted:Lol, lmao Whoops, is this cspam? I mean, id rather vote for anyone else, but apparently the rasin puppet masters will not give us any other choice I can see a 80 year old limit being added at some point (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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May 30, 2023 08:38
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Tayter Swift posted:My "Harris 2032" sign is raising a lot of questions answered by my sign Is 2032 when black voters will forget she's a cop
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May 30, 2023 19:58
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That's fair, objection retracted
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May 31, 2023 02:47
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Someone link me to the forum power rankings plz
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May 31, 2023 07:21
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FYI some time in the last 24 hours this thread got moved (back?) to D&D and thus is under different rules than GBS I figured a badmin would point this out since most people browse via bookmarks, but I guess not 
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Jun 2, 2023 02:45
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im saint germain posted:This thread got moved without my permission (which is required) but I refuse to cede the territory
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Jun 2, 2023 04:04
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BeAuMaN posted:This whole situation is bullshit, [...]. No attempt at de-escalation, Serious question, is de-escalation even taught/advised in police academies outside of maybe Berkeley
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Jul 6, 2023 01:16
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FlapYoJacks posted:Didn’t that dude get fired for not shooting the person holding the knife? "for insurance reasons, I now have to shoot you, otherwise I'll lose my job" amazing society we live in
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Jul 6, 2023 02:18
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Law has only been in effect for ~1 full year; according to statista 93,000 police officers in california* and according to icma 66% of officers do patrol** = 61,000 patrol officers, 53 bans = ... 1 in slightly less than 1200 chance, per year, of getting banned from being a cop Although apparently the average cop only stays in the profession for 3 years***, so basically 1/1200 people who apply and ultimately are hired are criminally bad at their job. Or something. *https://www.statista.com/statistics/750805/number-of-state-and-local-police-in-the-us-by-state/ **https://icma.org/sites/default/files/305747_Analysis%20of%20Police%20Department%20Staffing%20_%20McCabe.pdf (page 9) ***https://www.zippia.com/law-enforcement-officer-jobs/demographics/
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Jul 6, 2023 06:36
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I mean yeah if you just have to own and maintain the infrastructure in an urban area that's super cheap. PG&E has to maintain all the infra for pretty much the entire state right? Urban areas probably subsidize rural customers to a huge extent, and rural customers (or, infrastructure that services them anyways) are almost exclusively the source of wildfires. If cities become their own providers of course it's cheaper, the risk of fire is pretty low and manpower needed to inspect/maintain power infra in urban areas is probably a third of what is needed in rural areas, maybe less.
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Jul 7, 2023 05:55
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How much does a Yale graduate worker make
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Jul 10, 2023 23:43
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Assuming they work around a two semester schedule so 2 x 5 months, that's about $30/hr @60 hrs/ wk or $23/hr @80 hrs a week which is honestly pretty fair given it's effectively a paid apprenticeship with a bunch of tax advantaged loans and other cost of living discounts and programs
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Jul 11, 2023 00:05
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enahs posted:Why do you count only 10 months here? from my post, "Assuming they work around a two semester schedule so 2 x 5 months" or did you mean "why do you assume only 10 months here?" to which the answer is merely "Assuming they work around a two semester schedule" fermun posted:You don't seem to be doing your time and a half calculations correctly. Salary workers don't get time and a half
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Jul 11, 2023 00:55
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Oh whoops when he quoted the $38,300 the word "stipend" wrapped to the next line I assumed that 's' word was "salary" and we were dealing with actual facts Still waiting on actual negotiated salary of a graduate worker
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Jul 11, 2023 01:01
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OMGVBFLOL posted:negotiated? they take what they get and make it work (meaning, accumulate debt) or they drop out. thats why they're unionizing dude from here quote:With the election results finalized, the union can now bargain with the university for a contract. In a statement, Stanford said it looks forward to working in good faith with the union. Presumably the union will negotiate for some kind of payment, I'm not sure what else they would negotiate for, or what other purpose they planned on unionizing for. I thought they were negotiating for salary, per my previous comment mixing up salary and stipend
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Jul 11, 2023 01:17
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Ranter posted:It surprises me that university workers haven't been unionized since the early 20th century. Is this unique to the uni in question given it's history? Like there were never many commies there? Stanford owes much (most?) of its prominence due to cold war era military radio and radar research contracts, they were basically a DARPA research lab for most of the 20th century; this is well documented
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Jul 11, 2023 01:31
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I have really good luck opening my windows at night and then closing them around 5:30-6am. Traps the cold air inside and even though it's 90 outside it's 76 inside. And the insulation in the house sucks.
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Jul 20, 2023 06:37
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Highbrow Slick posted:It’s in Fresno single pane windows. Plus my wife and I WFH all week, You probably qualify for at least one kind of energy efficiency rebate on switching those windows to double pane Also maybe get your AC serviced and check your duct work for leaks. Being low on refrigerant makes your AC less efficient. Also track down all the leaks and cracks, cover up the gap under your front door 3M makes several different grades of thermal reflectivity window coating, usually is pretty affordable to get installed will cut heat from sunlight by half. Sounds like the payback period on this would be three years or less
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Jul 20, 2023 17:33
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acksplode posted:California Politics: Madame Senator, this is a Wendy's New thread title
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Jul 28, 2023 00:35
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Charlz Guybon posted:But why? Honestly this sort of thing should be encouraged at all levels of government. Cable news owns too much of the conversation, we should be televising actual conversations like this on a regular basis, at least quarterly Direct, live debate between politicians ought to be the norm, not the exception
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Aug 3, 2023 09:24
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GhostofJohnMuir posted:i don't think harris or buttigieg are less robotic and unappealing as newsom The only time i've seen buttigieg was after the new palistine rail disaster (a week after the fact) is he that robotic? He campaigned on mayor pete and seemed likeable enough during the 2020 race I thought kamala is dead weight that brought out the georgia vote otherwise she is serving her traditional purpose of being a do nothing say nothing VP (although secretly a cop)
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Aug 3, 2023 22:00
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jokes posted:because he was the best candidate because we have a two party system
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Aug 3, 2023 23:46
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OMGVBFLOL posted:every passing day makes me more convinced that you're the most prolific and accomplished troll in sa history i haven't been kicked out of TFR yet
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Aug 4, 2023 00:09
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I have very little pity for the desert dweller living in a 1000 year flood plain who had well over a week to get their poo poo in order and move to higher ground. Literally saw this coming 1000 miles away The burning man Facebook group has been with the head in sand posting going on over thereIf you're in an affected area I would plan on being stuck in your house for at least three days, poo poo is going to be off the hook. I'm not a weed dude but if I lived in socal I'd probably buy Skyrim for the switch and a 1lb bag of weed gummies and all the flamin hot cheetos Hadlock fucked around with this message at 05:49 on Aug 21, 2023 |
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Aug 21, 2023 05:47
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This is correct, and FEMA owns generating the maps, which are then important for land use and city planning Starting in 2018 FEMA updated their flood calculations which made a bunch of people in NC very mad as basically any land within 300' of water is now in a 100 year flood plain which has serious knock on effects to property insurance and major factor in whether or not you can even get a construction loan from traditional lenders. A bunch of narrow 5 acre river front lots went from future family river house, to, unbuildable mosquito ridden swamp selling for $10k/acre (down from about 60k/acre) If you have insurance and you have land you know if you're on a flood zone, and if so what kind. Like owning rural California land and knowing how many feet or miles you are from a calfire station
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Aug 22, 2023 02:10
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The Wiggly Wizard posted:I know... so very unlikely to flood. Go make this assertion over in the home buying thread  (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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That's mostly correct yeah. There was a recalculation done that uses more up to date data (2012?) but in a lot of cases what was a 100 year flood zone is likely to be a 10 year flood zone by 2050, current FEMA flood maps are way better than they were, but they're not forward looking The market has already responded though, waterfront property values in low lying areas already has global warming/future development/insurance costs baked in Also lol at the guy "1000 year flood zone  " and when challenging his assertion they just loving fold, in D&D of all places, ok
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Aug 22, 2023 20:54
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