Leperflesh posted:

How do you not notice a leak big enough to bleed off $2700 of water in one month? That's many swimming pools' full of water, at least.

Leperflesh posted:

To whom?

And I agree about alfalfa but really, are we going to individually legislate plant types? I think the broader question is, should we regulate farm use of water in ways that discourage its use for water-intensive cash crops grown primarily for export - which very definitely applies to almonds as well as alfalfa.

Rice is mostly grown in delta wetlands regions, and rice paddies actually can support native wetland wildlife. It's a more complex situation there.

Ron Jeremy posted:

Trabisnikof posted:

San Diego isn't the worst suburb of LA you could end up in...

Shbobdb posted:

Not really, police brutality results in bridges being blocked. It's a pretty direct relationship and disrupting traffic has become a signature move for BLM.

Kobayashi posted:

Blocking traffic is effective, cool, and good.

lancemantis posted:

Didn't the removal of that freeway in SF after the collapse actually improve traffic in the area as well?

jeeves posted:

What's funny is that UC Santa Cruz was actually considered the bottom tier UC before Merced.

FCKGW posted:

I mean I get that it would be a great way to replace air travel I just can't see what it's so important to spend tens of billions of taxpayer dollars to do it.

Sydin posted:

It's more to cut down on driving than air travel, I would think.

Shbobdb posted:

As someone who used to fly regularly and still flies more than most, I don't see how rail is competitive. Since it takes 2x as long, it kills the whole SD-SF and LA-SF one day trip which is the most common.

Rah! posted:

How does a HSR system to every big city (and a few smaller ones) in CA serve nobody's needs?

Leperflesh posted:

That's because banning "assault weapons" is fundamentally stupid, there's no hard definition of an assault weapon. It'd be like deciding for some reason we wanted to ban "sports cars." What's a sports car? Well, "I know one when I see one" is a reasonable working category but it doesn't work in the law. So you'd have to say, well, I guess it's a car with a large engine, and maybe only two seats. Oops, that includes pickup trucks! OK well, I guess it's also below a certain weight. OK, so, does an electric sports car count, it has no engine at all, it's got electric motors! OK so we'll define power output instead of engine capacity. OK, so now the manufacturers build sports cars with motors that produce exactly one point under the definition of engine capacity you defined, or, exactly one pound over the weight you defined, or, they add a jump seat behind the front seats to exceed the 2 seat limit, etc. etc.

It just doesn't loving work. We want to ban scary guns that are scary, but there's no hard line. And really it's stupid anyway, because if the goal is to stop people from going apeshit killing loads of people with guns, well, we're either going to have to completely ban guns, or we're going to have to enact restrictions that limit people to nothing but small-capacity pistols and shotguns and hunting rifles with no semiautomatic action. And even then people will figure out a way.

I'm a proponent of gun control, mind you. Waiting lists, background checks, maybe controls on some kinds of ammunition. But the gun genie is out of the bottle and you're not putting it back with pointless bans on particularly scary looking guns.

Arsenic Lupin posted:

ask the ER how many toddlers they see who've stabbed somebody or themselves.

FRINGE posted:

SA can never decide if they want white people to move in or they want white people to move out.

Small Frozen Thing posted:

This. This was the entire origin of the conversation, and why we were ragging on Family Values, because he was claiming this.

NAT-T Ice posted:

Wisconsin and Minnesota have it too.

Bast Relief posted:

Sac mayor Kevin Johnson got pied in the face. Does anyone care? I do.

lancemantis posted:

Berkeley bowl, or berkeley bowl west?