there are rich people there, I'm sure some of them own wineries!
― sarahell, Friday, 17 September 2021 18:12 (two years ago) link
my only Eureka memory was having to go to the Eureka Kaiser ER when I was 7 and had a severe asthma attack ... it was quite nice! Much nicer than the Kaiser ER in San Jose.
― sarahell, Friday, 17 September 2021 18:14 (two years ago) link
I'm pretty sure most of the money in Eureka is coming from marijuana, tbh
― I'm a sovereign jazz citizen (the table is the table), Friday, 17 September 2021 19:03 (two years ago) link
I guess that it's just that in comparison to Arcata, Eureka is a total dump.
― I'm a sovereign jazz citizen (the table is the table), Friday, 17 September 2021 19:04 (two years ago) link
Parts of Arcata are a total dump, to be fair.
One thing about driving through Eureka on the 101.. normally when you pass through a town, you might see rough characters on the outskirts, but in Eureka it's all the way through town: befuddled trimmigrants with pitbulls on a rope, sad drug refugees pushing shopping carts right through traffic, drunks snoozing on the sidewalk.. it's pretty sad from one end to the other. It wasn't always like that, but it sure is now.
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 17 September 2021 19:17 (two years ago) link
Yeah, it's been like that since I first went there, often went through a few times per year for the decade or so I lived in California. Only stopped for any amount of time in Eureka twiceβ once to go to a surprisingly decent Vietnamese restaurant, and the other to go to Lost Coast Brewery to drink Fog Cutter from the tap.
I guess parts of the outskirts of Arcata are kind of dumpy, but compared to Eureka, it's a quaint Victorian village lol.
― I'm a sovereign jazz citizen (the table is the table), Friday, 17 September 2021 19:22 (two years ago) link
Eureka as seen from the road is rough, but they have a nice downtown.
― DJI, Friday, 17 September 2021 21:12 (two years ago) link
my Eureka experience was in like 1981
― sarahell, Saturday, 18 September 2021 00:52 (two years ago) link
it's probably like when I moved to Oakland in the late 90s, and my parents were ... concerned about safety, because their perception of Oakland was based on the news in the 1970s/80s of white flight, poverty, the crack epidemic, and there were regular driveby shootings even in the "nice parts" ... but my grandmother remembered Oakland as a very very nice place that she went shopping sometimes in the 1940s/50s back when those beautiful old department store buildings downtown were actually department stores where ladies bought gloves and hats.
― sarahell, Saturday, 18 September 2021 00:56 (two years ago) link
Another feel good read https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-09-18/rural-red-california-recall-election
― π ππ’π¨ (caek), Sunday, 19 September 2021 02:44 (two years ago) link
Ok
βI went to bed really wanting to put a For Sale sign in front of my house,β said Pickens, 50, as she sipped a chai tea latte outside Artisan Coffee in Janesville, population 1,400.
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Sunday, 19 September 2021 03:15 (two years ago) link
Here's a response to the la times lassen county trump diner article:
1/ Iβm normally a big fan of the LA Times rural CA dispatches but no one really paints an accurate picture of how rural California votes. βoverwhelminglyβ misses a lot, without even counting the also rural North Coast the whole regionβ¦https://t.co/xQmJm3BSaI— Travis Legault (@travisl_97) September 18, 2021
― fajita seas, Monday, 20 September 2021 00:47 (two years ago) link
hehe
Orange County results in CA Governor elections:2003: R+472006: R+442010: R+202014: R+112018: D+0.32021: D+3— Ryan Matsumoto (@ryanmatsumoto1) September 23, 2021
― π ππ’π¨ (caek), Thursday, 23 September 2021 22:40 (two years ago) link
lovely stuff
GOP in CA hurting from partyβs own conspiracy theories. Voters have bought into βmy vote doesnβt count in California, so therefore Iβm not going to vote,β said Fred Whitaker, chairman of the Orange County GOP. Via β¦@LATSeemaβ© https://t.co/oMbOeSXrOZ— Stuart Leavenworth (@sleavenworth) September 26, 2021
― π ππ’π¨ (caek), Sunday, 26 September 2021 03:32 (two years ago) link
Typically a boisterous gathering, the three-day meeting in San Diego was among the grimmest in recent memory.
― π ππ’π¨ (caek), Sunday, 26 September 2021 03:33 (two years ago) link
That was a joy to read.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 26 September 2021 14:49 (two years ago) link
another
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/09/27/california-republicans-gop-514337
For years, Republicans in California ran candidates for marquee statewide races, lost and regrouped, certain that the next time might be different. That thinking has changed following their drubbing in the recall.As the convention unfolded in half-empty meeting rooms at a waterfront hotel, there was no feting of Larry Elder, the conservative radio show host who excited the partyβs rank-and-file in the recall β and who discovered that was nowhere near enough to unseat an incumbent Democratic governor. Elder himself was on the opposite coast, tweeting that he was βrecovering from the campaign in Key West, Florida.βNor was Kevin Faulconer, once widely considered the future of the state party, on the convention program. The former San Diego mayor, who did even worse than Elder in the recall election, took private meetings on the patio of a restaurant several blocks from the convention hotel, avoiding any confrontation with party activists who disdain his moderate politics.
For years, Republicans in California ran candidates for marquee statewide races, lost and regrouped, certain that the next time might be different. That thinking has changed following their drubbing in the recall.
As the convention unfolded in half-empty meeting rooms at a waterfront hotel, there was no feting of Larry Elder, the conservative radio show host who excited the partyβs rank-and-file in the recall β and who discovered that was nowhere near enough to unseat an incumbent Democratic governor. Elder himself was on the opposite coast, tweeting that he was βrecovering from the campaign in Key West, Florida.β
Nor was Kevin Faulconer, once widely considered the future of the state party, on the convention program. The former San Diego mayor, who did even worse than Elder in the recall election, took private meetings on the patio of a restaurant several blocks from the convention hotel, avoiding any confrontation with party activists who disdain his moderate politics.
― π ππ’π¨ (caek), Tuesday, 28 September 2021 06:02 (two years ago) link
apparently he's a democrat?
Newsom signs AB 43 - greater flexibility on setting speed limits - and AB 917 - allowing camera enforcement of bus lanes/stops. Vetos legislation on "safe stopping" for bicyclists and banning enforcement of "jaywalking."https://t.co/QYJg2GSfe8— Streetsblog CA (@StreetsblogCal) October 9, 2021
― π ππ’π¨ (caek), Saturday, 9 October 2021 04:22 (two years ago) link
big Friday night!
BREAKING: @GavinNewsom vetoed #AB1456, arguably the most significant expansion of state financial aid in a generation and one that would have made about 150,000 more students, including 110,000 at community colleges, eligible for the Cal Grant. Context: https://t.co/bfxqjwIUKI— Mikhail Zinshteyn (@mzinshteyn) October 9, 2021
― π ππ’π¨ (caek), Saturday, 9 October 2021 05:18 (two years ago) link
Where would we ever get the money for that?
Seriously though, the surplus is needed so bad. We are looking at huge school budget cuts here in SF. Hopefully this will help.
― DJI, Thursday, 18 November 2021 17:53 (two years ago) link
Yeah SFUSD this year for us is looking great because the reality of the enrollment drop hasn't kicked in. Still, we've lost some great support staff at the nearby elementary school. Here's hoping this surplus + new board members (in my view) can keep it ok.
But as we like to point out in this thread, the coffers are filled overwhelmingly from the tech industry, and some day that might come back to haunt us again if we dont diversify...
Love it that even The Economist is shitting on SF these days. Hey assholes, I remember when Capp St was a red light district and people regularly got shot in the Mission. Fuck this right wing propoganda.
― fajita seas, Friday, 19 November 2021 03:59 (two years ago) link
I remember when Capp St was a red light district and people regularly got shot in the Mission.
ah sigh, the good old days ...
― sarahell, Friday, 19 November 2021 20:40 (two years ago) link
I remember when I could walk down 16th street and buy a 16oz beer for $1, table-score leftover burrito at Pancho Villa, emerge to find a guy with his eyeball hanging out of its socket and blood everywhere in the Mexican bar next to Pancho Villa, then get propositioned by a guy outside the same bar. and that was just the block between Mission and Valencia! lol
― I'm a sovereign jizz citizen (the table is the table), Friday, 19 November 2021 22:35 (two years ago) link
Hey man I did all that in the Mission earlier this morning. By all that meaning I went to a bank, got some cash and went home.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 19 November 2021 23:03 (two years ago) link
I remember doing a performance art piece at the L@b that involved cleaning a toilet I got from the San Pablo Flea Market (R.I.P. demolished for condos I think) and then left it around the corner of 16th and Capp, and it apparently got used fairly extensively before it got hauled away by the City as trash
― sarahell, Saturday, 20 November 2021 04:31 (two years ago) link
!
― π ππ’π¨ (caek), Saturday, 20 November 2021 05:05 (two years ago) link
lmao but also D:
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 20 November 2021 05:31 (two years ago) link
this was 2000 and there was regularly deposits of human excrement on the sidewalk in that spot, so I knew that people did have a tendency to "go there"
― sarahell, Sunday, 21 November 2021 19:44 (two years ago) link
it was not a case of "if you build it they will come"
more like "if you build it they will shit"
― I'm a sovereign jizz citizen (the table is the table), Tuesday, 23 November 2021 22:33 (two years ago) link
welp
BREAKING: The mayor of Oroville, CA declared the city a "Constitutional Republic" in an effort to get around vaxx and mask laws.THIS YEAR Oroville used federal funds to fight fires AND rebuild their damn. If they were independent, they would be both on fire and underwater.— Steve Hofstetter (@SteveHofstetter) November 26, 2021
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 27 November 2021 03:02 (two years ago) link
The most ridiculous part is the idea they'd be able to be independent from Butte County. The county is the largest employer in the city. Over 15% of the entire population works for Butte. Though the 2nd largest employer is the hospital - which will probably need more staff.— Steve Hofstetter (@SteveHofstetter) November 26, 2021
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 27 November 2021 03:04 (two years ago) link
Clarification - the vice mayor requested it and the city council voted for it. Well, good luck on your independence, Oroville. I'm sure you will be sending back all the federal and state money shortly.— Steve Hofstetter (@SteveHofstetter) November 26, 2021
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 27 November 2021 03:05 (two years ago) link
Oroville always been the shittiest of the towns and small cities in that area.
― I'm a sovereign jizz citizen (the table is the table), Saturday, 27 November 2021 17:33 (two years ago) link
Christ
Looking like the local control over housing ballot initiative is getting to the point where they'll have enough money to qualify for next year's ballot https://t.co/H0qPgS6Kbj— Liam Dillon (@dillonliam) November 28, 2021
― π ππ’π¨ (caek), Sunday, 28 November 2021 20:54 (two years ago) link
Alameda is a weird place.
― sarahell, Tuesday, 7 December 2021 13:23 (two years ago) link
Any thoughts on the proposed PUC rules to stop allowing net usage metering for solar and charge solar customers for the PRIVILEGE of having installed solar panels? As someone who just installed solar, plus a battery, it smacks of utility rent-seeking. Plus, they are doing this pathetic woke-washing where they claim if they don't get this money, it will hurt minority communities, since they won't be able to use all that money to build desert solar installations.
― DJI, Wednesday, 15 December 2021 18:53 (two years ago) link
nothing to add beyond OTM
― poster of sparks (rogermexico.), Wednesday, 15 December 2021 23:26 (two years ago) link
That sounds like immense bullshit
― we need outrage! we need dicks!! (the table is the table), Friday, 17 December 2021 00:28 (two years ago) link
disincentivizing installing solar *should* be a non-starter
― lukas, Friday, 17 December 2021 00:42 (two years ago) link
as opposed to the massive tax credits the Federal Government gives for installing solar?
― sarahell, Friday, 17 December 2021 08:17 (two years ago) link
It all smacks of entitlement and regulatory capture. The utilities would like to just keep getting the same amount of money from every Californian forever, and that's probably how they've done all their budgeting. And I guess the PUC thinks this is a convincing argument to charge people for using their solar panels.
― DJI, Friday, 17 December 2021 16:04 (two years ago) link
tbf this has a similar tone to Republican home owners and landlords complaining about paying extra property taxes for services that don't benefit them personally
― sarahell, Friday, 17 December 2021 16:24 (two years ago) link
otoh, at least one client of the org I work for had the city want to charge them affordable housing impact fees for legalizing units that are currently affordable housing in order to preserve affordable housing ...
― sarahell, Friday, 17 December 2021 16:26 (two years ago) link
xp otm
― π ππ’π¨ (caek), Friday, 17 December 2021 17:01 (two years ago) link
"woke-washing" seems like a tell tbh
tbf this has a similar tone to Republican home owners and landlords complaining about paying extra property taxes for services that don't benefit them personallyIf utilities aren't getting enough in usage fees, I'm fine with paying, say, taxes, or a fixed fee, to fund power, a centralized service that we all need. Charging people to use solar, though, is stupid.
― lukas, Friday, 17 December 2021 17:11 (two years ago) link
home solar is not the future. i don't think it makes sense to charge people to do it, and the more people that do it the better, but i'd rather spend the money we currently spend subsidizing it on mass solar.
― π ππ’π¨ (caek), Friday, 17 December 2021 17:43 (two years ago) link
xp
Exactly! Take over the utility and collect higher taxes to rich people fund solar projects.
And call it what you want (sorry I used "woke" in a negative way), but PG&E crying about the poor people who won't be able to afford solar is pretty rich. Solar is finally becoming affordable, and now they want to snatch away the incentives and add a monthly charge.
I don't know if I agree, caek. A decentralized power grid would be great! Why keep funneling money into monopolies who don't give a shit how fast we transition to solar?
― DJI, Friday, 17 December 2021 17:46 (two years ago) link
nationalize the monopolies too obviously
― π ππ’π¨ (caek), Friday, 17 December 2021 17:50 (two years ago) link