but I think that covid has made it more possible to have state-run services in that they have had to develop infrastructure that previously they didn't have, and that was used as a reason for not having state run services.
― sarahell, Thursday, 6 January 2022 20:16 (two years ago) link
hopefully that's true!
― ๐ ๐๐ข๐จ (caek), Thursday, 6 January 2022 20:19 (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.โ DJI, Wednesday, December 15, 2021 1:53 PM (one month ago) bookmarkflaglink
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.
โ DJI, Wednesday, December 15, 2021 1:53 PM (one month ago) bookmarkflaglink
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/17/opinion/schwarzenegger-solar-power-california.html
― ๐ ๐๐ข๐จ (caek), Monday, 17 January 2022 17:55 (two years ago) link
community theater groups overreacting to AB5 i see
Suspicious fire scorches home of Lorena Gonzalez, who just stepped down as a State Assemblywoman to become president of the California Federation of Labor https://t.co/w95HvRZtqN— Steven Greenhouse (@greenhousenyt) January 15, 2022
― ๐ ๐๐ข๐จ (caek), Monday, 17 January 2022 17:57 (two years ago) link
lol ... guessing it's more likely some anti-vaxxer right wingnuts
― sarahell, Monday, 17 January 2022 19:42 (two years ago) link
Yah, Fletcher switched parties from Republican to Democrat mid-way through his campaign in the 2013 San Diego mayor's election and the fascists down there haven't let him forget it.
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 18 January 2022 01:36 (two years ago) link
Boo: https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-01-31/single-payer-healthcare-proposal-fizzles-in-california-assembly
― DJI, Tuesday, 1 February 2022 18:51 (two years ago) link
Lmao
Wealthy Silicon Valley suburb Woodside โย median household income $250k โย declares the entire town "mountain lion habitat" in an attempt to sidestep a new state law allowing duplexes on single-family home lots https://t.co/IFR74HdWyM— Liam Dillon (@dillonliam) February 2, 2022
― ๐ ๐๐ข๐จ (caek), Thursday, 3 February 2022 00:37 (two years ago) link
I saw that today.. however, mountain lions have been visiting some pretty densely populated neighborhoods lately, I don't think they're at all put off by duplexes
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 3 February 2022 00:50 (two years ago) link
mountain lions have been visiting some pretty densely populated neighborhoods lately,
for sure! ... and not to be a total dick, but to be somewhat dickish ... anyone in Woodside who then has a mountain lion attack / kill / eat their beloved pet and complains about it ... I feel like we all should suggest they move to a more densely populated area.
― sarahell, Thursday, 3 February 2022 17:29 (two years ago) link
A โlicense to burn.โThatโs what environmental justice advocates are calling the safety certificate Gov. Gavin Newsomโs administration issued to PG&E late Monday, allowing the utility to โrecover catastrophic wildfire costs from its ratepayersโ or from a $21 billion state insurance fund partly funded by surcharges on customersโ power bills for the next 20 years.
Thatโs what environmental justice advocates are calling the safety certificate Gov. Gavin Newsomโs administration issued to PG&E late Monday, allowing the utility to โrecover catastrophic wildfire costs from its ratepayersโ or from a $21 billion state insurance fund partly funded by surcharges on customersโ power bills for the next 20 years.
https://www.sanjoseinside.com/news/california-gives-pge-approval-to-bill-customers-for-wildfire-costs/
― DJI, Thursday, 3 February 2022 17:29 (two years ago) link
i still am a strong supporter of building thousands of luxury condos near Orinda BART
― sarahell, Thursday, 3 February 2022 17:30 (two years ago) link
Woodside has a major freeway running through it IIUC. Feel like if the mountain lions are ok with that theyโre going to be ok with duplexes.
― ๐ ๐๐ข๐จ (caek), Thursday, 3 February 2022 17:35 (two years ago) link
280 runs somewhat near Woodside, but the 'downtown' part is pretty rural, if by rural you mean upscale groceries and localvore dining spots
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 3 February 2022 17:53 (two years ago) link
Mountain lions: the original locavores.
― nickn, Thursday, 3 February 2022 18:05 (two years ago) link
pomeranian pozole
― sarahell, Thursday, 3 February 2022 18:27 (two years ago) link
free range maltipoo
― sarahell, Thursday, 3 February 2022 18:30 (two years ago) link
see also: Outside Cats thread
― sarahell, Thursday, 3 February 2022 18:31 (two years ago) link
bodied
While Woodside abuts and contains mountain lion habitat, a blanket prohibition against adding an additional unit on an already developed parcel anywhere in the town is neither required by the California Endangered Species Act, nor contributing to the protection of mountain lions. https://t.co/NCGOub6PEK— Mountain Lion Fdn (@MtnLionFdn) February 3, 2022
― ๐ ๐๐ข๐จ (caek), Thursday, 3 February 2022 23:27 (two years ago) link
Yeah, they're grasping at straws and 'habitat protection' is probably all the NIMBY juice they can muster
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 3 February 2022 23:38 (two years ago) link
this is suicide
BREAKING: UC Berkeley must slash admissions by thousands after state Supreme Court sides with neighbors who sued. https://t.co/yB6gLmYwi5— Sara Libby (@SaraLibby) March 3, 2022
― ๐ ๐๐ข๐จ (caek), Thursday, 3 March 2022 22:43 (two years ago) link
Hey, the state school I went to was taken over by Mitch Daniels. That certainly is worse!
― fajita seas, Friday, 4 March 2022 04:05 (two years ago) link
whoa damn! Seriously though, UC Berkeley bullies the town of Berkeley in classic "corporate company town" style especially in terms of real estate development. I'm kinda cheering for this like when the city of Richmond passed a special tax on Chevron.
― sarahell, Friday, 4 March 2022 15:39 (two years ago) link
Let them go to UC Merced!
― nickn, Friday, 4 March 2022 22:44 (two years ago) link
build housing at the Richmond Field Station where they've been moving a lot of campus operations so they can sell off buildings they own in Berkeley
― sarahell, Friday, 4 March 2022 22:53 (two years ago) link
and while they're at it, improve public transit access to that facility ...
too bad for the kids with offers from uc merced!
― ๐ ๐๐ข๐จ (caek), Saturday, 5 March 2022 00:10 (two years ago) link
I thought that was the one UC that can take more students than are accepted.
― nickn, Saturday, 5 March 2022 01:23 (two years ago) link
I donโt think they can take 5000 extra students this august.
― ๐ ๐๐ข๐จ (caek), Saturday, 5 March 2022 15:54 (two years ago) link
Application rates are way up at all the UCs and most of the Cal States. I think UC Merced and UC Riverside are maxed for this year too.https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-02-24/uc-breaks-fall-2022-college-admission-application-recordshttps://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-12-15/too-many-qualified-students-are-shut-out-of-uc-csu-a-new-study-suggests-how-to-help
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 5 March 2022 22:34 (two years ago) link
This article breaks down the origins of CEQA. California progressivism in the 60s and 70s was pastoralist and Malthusian: the population must be limited & everyone should live on a farm. It was discredited and died away but many remnants are still herehttps://t.co/Rci5ejWs3W— Darrell Owens (@IDoTheThinking) March 5, 2022
― ๐ ๐๐ข๐จ (caek), Saturday, 5 March 2022 23:57 (two years ago) link
They sued Berkeley over CEQA? Whoa! I was kinda cheering the result because of the fact that UC Berkeley is responsible for a lot of gentrification of Berkeley and Oakland, and that is something I think they should be checked on tbh. Though the whole thing isn't just UC Berkeley's fault; it's a result of the student loan bubble that makes it such that students can "afford" to pay rents higher than long-term regional residents, and students are appealing tenants to landlords because they will move out sooner and rents can get raised to market rate more easily.
In the area near-ish campus, there isn't too much that isn't dense multi-story buildings outside of privately owned single family homes, and commercial buildings. There are a few blocks of commercial structures that appear in the process of being torn down for housing of some sort. But, are they gonna eminent domain people's houses to tear down and build dorms? ... They are trying to build dense housing on the site of People's Park, which is just tone-deaf in terms of the gentrifying role the University has played in the past 20 or so years.
Seriously, they should build housing near the Richmond Field Station, where they own property, are expanding operations, and there is way more underutilized land than in the City of Berkeley.
― sarahell, Sunday, 6 March 2022 06:04 (two years ago) link
Anyway
BREAKING: @GavinNewsom signs bill to help UC Berkeley avoid a cap on its in-person fall enrollment, and block student enrollment from being considered as a separate project under CEQA.— Emily Hoeven (@emily_hoeven) March 15, 2022
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 15 March 2022 02:38 (two years ago) link
no surprise there!
― sarahell, Tuesday, 15 March 2022 02:40 (two years ago) link
There's apparently a separate amendment on the bill that makes me king. So, to begin with hey wait everyone get back here
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 15 March 2022 02:42 (two years ago) link
if i were morbzian i would start calling him Joe Biden Jr
― sarahell, Tuesday, 15 March 2022 04:18 (two years ago) link
Our elderly president is already Joe Biden Jr for what it's worth hehe
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Tuesday, 15 March 2022 22:21 (two years ago) link
Joe Biden Jr Jr then
― sarahell, Tuesday, 15 March 2022 22:28 (two years ago) link
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2022-03-14/editorial-racist-california-article-34-public-affordable-housingJesus how did I not know about this
― brisk money (lukas), Tuesday, 15 March 2022 22:49 (two years ago) link
i didn't know about it either! i know that we (Oakland) recently approved a ballot measure that was for affordable housing, but I thought it involved bond funds, which seem to require a ballot measure? I think some of the ignorance is due to the sad fact that in order to build affordable housing, cities in California end up having to issue muni bonds or raise property taxes.
― sarahell, Tuesday, 15 March 2022 22:52 (two years ago) link
Article 34 comes up a lot in the history of Chavez Ravine and its theft for Dodger Stadium. IIRC at least one OC city incorporated as a way to gerrymander voting against public housing.
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 16 March 2022 03:03 (two years ago) link
oooh ... actually that's a historical thing that I've been meaning to read more about because I first learned about it from a James Ellroy novel (lol)
― sarahell, Wednesday, 16 March 2022 03:35 (two years ago) link
Seriously though, UC Berkeley bullies the town of Berkeley in classic "corporate company town" style especially in terms of real estate development.
tell me more about this! i don't live in berkeley or even california and i've read only a little about the current issue, but UC berkeley strikes me as fundamentally different from say, yale buying up half of new haven or similar private universities that encroach on the surrounding neighborhoods in that it is a *public* institution? maybe that is super naive bc power is power i guess --just bc it is the state doesn't mean it is for the public of course -- but i do wonder if it is really in the public interest -- apart from the locals in berkeley who don't want high rises -- for one of the best public research universities in the state (country, too) to slash enrollment by thousands? again i'm an outsider and you know WAY more about this than me, but is the claim i've heard that this is mostly berkeley NIMBYists incorrect?
― marcos, Wednesday, 16 March 2022 14:34 (two years ago) link
no slashing the enrollment by thousands was not in the public interest.
berkeley is not a large city by landmass and it has always been hard to find housing here. I started UC Berkeley in 1990 and even then they did not offer enough campus housing for more than a sliver of the students. They have been slowly improving on this over the past 30 years but not nearly enough. There is a huge fight in berkeley between pro-development, pro-housing people (which is frankly the majority) and some very vocal anti development people, some of whom have some legitimate complaints (it is true that dense housing in areas with poor roads leading out of the neighborhoods is unsafe, I think) and a lot of whom are just angry about getting rid of single family housing zoning.
― akm, Wednesday, 16 March 2022 14:50 (two years ago) link
Dense housing with no roads would be better.
― ๐ ๐๐ข๐จ (caek), Wednesday, 16 March 2022 14:51 (two years ago) link
I'm talking about areas near and in the hills that are a fire danger.
― akm, Wednesday, 16 March 2022 14:55 (two years ago) link
If a neighborhoodโs density is restricted by its need to evacuate in a fire then the neighborhood should not exist. Let Malibu burn.
― ๐ ๐๐ข๐จ (caek), Wednesday, 16 March 2022 14:58 (two years ago) link
xp akm - there are also people who are pro-housing but have concerns about gentrification and then there's the People's Park issue ...
― sarahell, Wednesday, 16 March 2022 16:54 (two years ago) link
I'm pro housing on people's park. PP's historic nature is duly noted but it's a very unsafe place at the moment. there are homeless encampments in town that self-govern but PP is a free for all and dangerous shit keeps happening.
people who gripe about gentrification annoy me for the most part.
― akm, Wednesday, 16 March 2022 17:24 (two years ago) link
Stealing Home is a good one to check out.https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2020-03-31/dodgers-stealing-home-eric-nusbaum
https://d1ldy8a769gy68.cloudfront.net/300/978/154/174/221/5/9781541742215.jpg
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 16 March 2022 18:44 (two years ago) link