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Jagchosis posted:Berkeley TAs are affiliated with UAW and go on strike seemingly every five minutes. I'm not really connected to the campus at all so I don't know, nor care, what their grievances are, but from what I've seen their pickets are kind of sad. Their chants are terrible, (if I recall correctly, I've seen "We have the power! What kinda power? (crowd chants) UNION POWER!" and "Lets show Governor Jerry/This is union territory!) and so nonthreatening cops don't even bother to show up and monitor the strikes. I'm pro-organized labor and all, but I found these displays somewhat embarrassing. California politics! You also have a reasonable health plan because the TAs unionized, FYI. Sorry you have to hear about chants.
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Shbobdb posted:A house before thirty? Not anyone who gets a Ph.D. I don't know anyone under thirty who bought in California in general.
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May 1, 2014 21:25
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UberJew posted:More accurate. I know plenty of people who've bought in their 30's. The big difference are which people bought a small place near their work and which people bought something in the burbs and now spend two hours a day in a car.
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May 1, 2014 22:57
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Telesphorus posted:The high ratio of conservatives among STEM majors was the first thing that surprised me about the UC system. Probably because they were more likely to come from high income families and less likely to take any social justice classes in college. It's also pretty much not true unless you're looking for everyone to be a D&D approved leftist.
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May 2, 2014 00:49
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For a good example of NIMBY and "environmentalist" forces working together here in Berkeley they're working to revise the rules to make it harder to build tall buildings downtown. http://www.berkeleyside.com/2014/05/05/initiative-aims-to-tighten-green-parts-of-downtown-plan/
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May 6, 2014 19:06
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Xaris posted:Ehh. The sad thing is, I don't disagree with about 80% of that. More public restrooms, more local and apprentice workers, more affordable housing, and getting rid of the absurd notion that dumping money into a "fund" is somehow equivalent to actually building affordable units are all noble endeavors. These are all relatively minor things that would help out and not really hinder development. There's just about 20% nimby stuff. The parking requirements are dumb, LEED Gold->Platinum can be relatively minor improvements and it isn't insurmountable unlike some claim yet it still shouldn't be an requirement but rather an incentive. I haven't read the language but "family-sized" requirement would probably be really bad. The problem you see repeatedly in Berkeley politics is the wealthy homeowners are thrilled to use anti-everything useful idiots that this place is ripe with to oppose any measure that would actually increase density and lower housing costs. The biggest problem I see is that people don't seem to realize that affordable housing is old housing stock. To get available old housing stock you need to build new housing stock which has been completely locked down for 40 years. Xaris posted:Ehh. The sad thing is, I don't disagree with about 80% of that. More public restrooms, more local and apprentice workers, more affordable housing, and getting rid of the absurd notion that dumping money into a "fund" is somehow equivalent to actually building affordable units are all noble endeavors. The issue is that the point of this isn't to get buildings built with those things. It's to not get buildings built. Bip Roberts fucked around with this message at 20:29 on May 6, 2014 |
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May 6, 2014 19:39
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Leperflesh posted:We have a history of robotic governors, don't we? Grey Davis, the Terminator, Pete Wilson. Ronald Ray Gun.
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May 8, 2014 06:08
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Slipknot Hoagie posted:If the slate article I read is to be believed, 10% of it went to growing almonds in the desert. 80% turns into the food our great nation consumes. And when it's all gone, let the bodies hit the floor. As much as a whole lot of Cadillac Desert is no longer relevant it's amazing how little has changed with water management. Edit: With regard to the map is the fact that the Mojave isn't listed as a super drought basically because it's as dry as usual there?
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May 15, 2014 22:14
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One of the big issues with water for agriculture is the price of delivering water has no bearing on any sort of market pricing of what water should cost and is more or less gifted to land based on archaic rules and grandfathering.
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May 16, 2014 03:21
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I always thought people made a lot more in Texas because employers realized they needed to pay people twice as much to get employes of reasonable quality to move to Texas.
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May 16, 2014 05:49
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redscare posted:It's one of the few things we can all agree on. San Francisco has way more terrible people per person too.
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May 16, 2014 06:15
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And even the Legion of Honor has a horrible art collection. It only has a nice view going for it.
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May 16, 2014 21:53
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enraged_camel posted:As someone considering moving from Long Beach, CA to Austin, I'm very much looking forward to it. I've visited the latter multiple times, and as far as I can tell, it has better beer, prettier women who are way less fake, friendlier and more down-to-earth people, and a way more interesting culture. Not to mention actual seasons. Cool finding a place to move with worse traffic than LA.
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May 17, 2014 00:40
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Trabisnikof posted:Wait doesn't that post makes it sound like the developer wasn't stopped by the meeting, but just had to listen to some idiots? That seems like a fair deal in exchange for a sweet payday. It's absolutely the issue because people are being pushed out in to Vallejo and Walnut Creek for 50 mile commutes they (and no one else) wants because the city cores are stagnant with regard to housing. If the suburbs in Marin or wherever aren't building housing that's great for everyone because it means fewer people are jamming everything up every day.
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May 20, 2014 01:50
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sincx posted:It's not even culture, it's girls. I mean it's all of the above. In short the Peninsula and South Bay are horrible and people with money are willing to spend it to not live there.
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May 21, 2014 18:12
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Don't all the really good public school districts raise a ton of money through PTA fundraisers?
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May 27, 2014 09:08
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Kobayashi posted:Which leads me to the Google busses. Those things are roving fortresses. To see one of them at a stop next to a Muni bus is depressing. It's a striking visual of disparity. It's sad that the there's essentially a bus (often literally painted white) for white people and a bus for poor people. I don't blame Google or Apple or EA per se, but the busses are symptomatic of much deeper issues. They're illustrative of a nearer-than-we-think future dystopia. What do you mean by this? Google buses are normal coach buses. Also MUNI buses are decent buses.
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Jun 17, 2014 20:55
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Kobayashi posted:This is a Google bus: Right. Muni buses are fine. Also muni buses run local routes are completely different than the google buses. I'm not sure what you're on about. Bip Roberts fucked around with this message at 23:17 on Jun 17, 2014 |
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Having taking public buses around the bay area quite a bit I can say that i've never been delayed by a google bus before but I've been delayed by private cars almost every time.
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Jun 18, 2014 03:07
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Hedera Helix posted:How difficult would it be for the tech buses to get their own stops, independent from the MUNI ones? That way they wouldn't be blocking other buses during departure/arrival. Probably extremely difficult in San Francisco where a single street side parking space would fetch probably multiple tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of dollars if it could be meted out on the free market.
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Jun 20, 2014 21:13
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Also lots of people disagree with public transportation, they just go about blocking it by doing everything except saying outright that the measures they create are to block public transportation.
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Jun 21, 2014 04:16
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Trabisnikof posted:It's up to the municipality or water district. I want to hear where Michael J. Beverage is on this issue.
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Aug 30, 2014 19:28
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SirPablo posted:
It would be nice if they could normalize this by serving or mass or something.
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Sep 4, 2014 06:53
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Leperflesh posted:Lol at Palm Springs. What the gently caress are they doing there. Lotta golf.
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Sep 4, 2014 07:34
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FMguru posted:That's the problem all over the Bay Area - new apartment construction has been at the high/luxury end (fewer studios and 1BRs, more condos and townhouses). The SF skyline is full of construction cranes building giant apartment towers...that they'll sell you for seven figures. Things like the Blu tower right near the Bay Bridge onramp - 21 floor tall skyscraper, with six condos on each floor. Not exactly easing the demand for housing in the area. No one ever builds cheap housing. New housing is always expensive. The problem with the Bay Area is that NIMBYs have been blocking everything for so long that there is no intermediate housing stock. It's all either dilapidated or "luxury".
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Nov 18, 2014 02:41
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Arsenic Lupin posted:Enjoy your life in Houston. Ironically Houston's problem is that you can't stop anyone from building anything and there are no geographical restrictions keeping the metro area from enveloping all of south Texas.
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Nov 18, 2014 03:16
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Tenderloin is pretty frigging gross, fyi.
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Nov 30, 2014 05:47
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Kenning posted:That's like, 90% drug possession though. Actually looking at a crime map it's a whole lot of assault. There seems to be a lot of property crime everywhere in SF but violent crime is really concentrated in the tenderloin to a large extent. Also the tenderloin seems to be the only place where there's a whole lot of muggings during the day in SF.
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salted hash browns posted:California politics thread: bag chat But it's not even a derail.
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Zeitgueist posted:Hey now, they're expanding it so that the rich people in SM can go visit the rich people downtown. To be fair there weren't rich people downtown until they built the metro.
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Jan 8, 2015 05:20
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Boot and Rally posted:If the new stadium caters to the same type of people as the new 49ers stadium the train access will be useless. If people aren't driving two hours to go watch games in San Diego I can't imagine they'll do it on the hellscape that will be the 405 on game day. Sundays are actually relatively okay across LA. It's not like trying to make a 7pm Dodger game on a Thursday.
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Feb 12, 2015 04:42
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Bay Area is also full of great big babies.
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Feb 13, 2015 04:10
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Sydin posted:Basically gently caress the Bay Area freeway design. Also 880 is far and away #1 worse highway in California. Edit: Yes, worse than 101 in Sherman Oaks, and 405 south of Sepulveda pass.
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Feb 13, 2015 06:07
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Sydin posted:#TearDownCalifornia Like we need to do anything for that to happen. The ultimate in slacktivism. Do nothing, accomplish everything.
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Feb 13, 2015 07:12
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The best interchange is where the 10, 5, 101, 60, and 710 come together in East LA.
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Feb 13, 2015 09:24
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Ron Jeremy posted:If PV was that conservative, they'd ok an open hunting season on those loving peacocks. God I hate those things. I always liked the peacocks in Pasadena. The parakeets are another matter altogether.
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Feb 24, 2015 04:30
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Sydin posted:Why would you block the 17 to protest tuition hikes at the UC's? Shouldn't they be chaining themselves to something in or around campus? Say what you will about being couth but people did give a poo poo about this and no one would possibly care about some UCSC treesitter.
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Mar 4, 2015 06:01
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At UCLA the good news is you don't need a protest to block all traffic flow in Westwood. It once took me more than an hour to get from campus to 405.
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Mar 5, 2015 08:35
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FMguru posted:Behold, the greatest living American: This was not me (i wish) but I did a one day double tour of Reagan-Nixon libraries a few years ago and it was great!
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Mayor Dave posted:I definitely would not like to make the drive between the two on any single day. Yeah, Pasadena -> TO -> Yorba Linda -> Pasadena is about 3 hours driving (without traffic) mostly on 5. I think we did it on a Sunday and the traffic wasn't horrible.
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