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Post by byjove on Jan 19, 2024 7:17:39 GMT -6
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Post by elle on Jan 19, 2024 9:05:13 GMT -6
Journalists at the LA Times are striking (just in case anyone has a subscription/reads their content).
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Post by elle on Jan 19, 2024 12:15:46 GMT -6
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Post by gymngemini on Jan 19, 2024 13:59:23 GMT -6
Journalists at the LA Times are striking (just in case anyone has a subscription/reads their content). In a similar vein, Sports Illustrated has laid off basically all of its staff and may possibly end publication. I had a subscription to them for years. I know it's kinda niche, but still sad for the overall industry.
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Post by elle on Jan 19, 2024 14:43:52 GMT -6
I'm really sad about what's happening to journalism as a whole gymngemini. With the steady rise of misinformation and "alternative facts", not to mention AI and manipulated media, I have grave concerns about where we're headed.
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Post by jaygee on Jan 19, 2024 21:44:15 GMT -6
Ok, so definitely a Cali issue but an interesting enough one to share. The state passed these very strict mandated new housing laws. Basically to make sure every area adds proportionate housing. Not that the same crowded places add more and the rich areas with huge lots don’t add none (as per the history of time). Good policy, tremendously controversial. So as one could have expected, the progressive areas put together their plans and submitted then and got working on their housing while the rich areas lawyered up and did the waltz to stall. Pulling out all the stops - protected land for an obscure animal, zoning laws, blah blah. Anything to make sure anything less than a single store home wouldn’t be built in their town. Some still haven’t submitted an accepted plan. That all leads to this…a judge telling Beverly Hills they cannot process any other building permits until they have an accepted plan. No remodels, nothing. I know it will get challenged and likely thrown out. But that judge is a boss for this move. www.sfgate.com/california-news/article/beverly-hills-building-permits-barred-housing-18617271.php
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Post by origami on Jan 20, 2024 11:54:48 GMT -6
Ok, so definitely a Cali issue but an interesting enough one to share. The state passed these very strict mandated new housing laws. Basically to make sure every area adds proportionate housing. Not that the same crowded places add more and the rich areas with huge lots don’t add none (as per the history of time). Good policy, tremendously controversial. So as one could have expected, the progressive areas put together their plans and submitted then and got working on their housing while the rich areas lawyered up and did the waltz to stall. Pulling out all the stops - protected land for an obscure animal, zoning laws, blah blah. Anything to make sure anything less than a single store home wouldn’t be built in their town. Some still haven’t submitted an accepted plan. That all leads to this…a judge telling Beverly Hills they cannot process any other building permits until they have an accepted plan. No remodels, nothing. I know it will get challenged and likely thrown out. But that judge is a boss for this move. www.sfgate.com/california-news/article/beverly-hills-building-permits-barred-housing-18617271.phpYou know what kills me about this? The people who will live in those new builds are families with children, seniors who maybe grew up there but now are struggling, people who work in the restaurants and grocery stores. And they're acting like the state will go to the tenderloin, scoop up the most drug effected or mentally struggling and just plop them in Beverly hills or atherton. And then to see that atherton only has to add 381 units! My city in WA has to add 40,000! (Not all low income just increasing housing stock which cools prices on its own)
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Post by jaygee on Jan 20, 2024 13:44:54 GMT -6
Ok, so definitely a Cali issue but an interesting enough one to share. The state passed these very strict mandated new housing laws. Basically to make sure every area adds proportionate housing. Not that the same crowded places add more and the rich areas with huge lots don’t add none (as per the history of time). Good policy, tremendously controversial. So as one could have expected, the progressive areas put together their plans and submitted then and got working on their housing while the rich areas lawyered up and did the waltz to stall. Pulling out all the stops - protected land for an obscure animal, zoning laws, blah blah. Anything to make sure anything less than a single store home wouldn’t be built in their town. Some still haven’t submitted an accepted plan. That all leads to this…a judge telling Beverly Hills they cannot process any other building permits until they have an accepted plan. No remodels, nothing. I know it will get challenged and likely thrown out. But that judge is a boss for this move. www.sfgate.com/california-news/article/beverly-hills-building-permits-barred-housing-18617271.phpYou know what kills me about this? The people who will live in those new builds are families with children, seniors who maybe grew up there but now are struggling, people who work in the restaurants and grocery stores. And they're acting like the state will go to the tenderloin, scoop up the most drug effected or mentally struggling and just plop them in Beverly hills or atherton. And then to see that atherton only has to add 381 units! My city in WA has to add 40,000! (Not all low income just increasing housing stock which cools prices on its own) If I hear: “The state wants to turn [insert moderate sized city name] into Manhattan” One more time. Like sir, SF and LA aren’t even like Manhattan.
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Post by clucky on Jan 21, 2024 10:09:29 GMT -6
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Post by sewf on Jan 21, 2024 10:54:43 GMT -6
Gross. They are already loud on a normal year. And after they die, they’re going to be just everywhere.
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Post by enchanted on Jan 21, 2024 14:08:39 GMT -6
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Post by cnf on Jan 21, 2024 14:23:39 GMT -6
So it's legitimately only between TFG and Haley? JFC what disgusting options.
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Post by elle on Jan 21, 2024 15:14:21 GMT -6
So it's legitimately only between TFG and Haley? JFC what disgusting options. I will fucking scream if Nikki Haley ends up being our first woman president.
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Post by jaygee on Jan 21, 2024 15:47:00 GMT -6
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Post by dc2london on Jan 21, 2024 19:02:00 GMT -6
NGL, I am so relieved my area isn't on this map. The 2020 cicadas were positively insane.
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Post by athn64 on Jan 21, 2024 19:17:40 GMT -6
NGL, I am so relieved my area isn't on this map. The 2020 cicadas were positively insane. I'm one of the lucky ones that live in the area where the two broods meet.
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Post by dc2london on Jan 21, 2024 19:42:58 GMT -6
NGL, I am so relieved my area isn't on this map. The 2020 cicadas were positively insane. I'm one of the lucky ones that live in the area where the two broods meet. You have absolutely every inch of my sympathies. If I had a guest room, I would offer it to you!
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Post by byjove on Jan 21, 2024 20:29:21 GMT -6
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Post by clucky on Jan 22, 2024 8:21:02 GMT -6
NGL, I am so relieved my area isn't on this map. The 2020 cicadas were positively insane. I lived through a meeting of the 17 & 13 year broods in 1998. Apparently I have friends that still are traumatized. I’m trying to decide if heading home for a week this summer is a good or bad idea. It was SOOOOO many cicadas that anymore I think my perception of how many is typical/normal is skewed.
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Post by dc2london on Jan 22, 2024 10:26:53 GMT -6
So it's legitimately only between TFG and Haley? JFC what disgusting options. I will fucking scream if Nikki Haley ends up being our first woman president. Apparently she plans to raise the retirement age to 70 and GTFOH with that nonsense
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Post by cnf on Jan 22, 2024 10:53:39 GMT -6
I will fucking scream if Nikki Haley ends up being our first woman president. Apparently she plans to raise the retirement age to 70 and GTFOH with that nonsense Just because MOC are willing to keel over in their offices doesn't mean the rest of us are. What an ass.
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Post by downwarddog on Jan 22, 2024 11:30:59 GMT -6
I've kind of accepted that I am probably going to work until I die. With the way things are going, and with social security and etc etc.... I'm just bracing for it. I know that's a shitty attitude.
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Post by willow on Jan 22, 2024 11:35:09 GMT -6
I will fucking scream if Nikki Haley ends up being our first woman president. Apparently she plans to raise the retirement age to 70 and GTFOH with that nonsense looooool fuck right off. I recognize my privilege here but I'm taking my government pension and retiring at 62 if I can help it. I will refuse to go beyond 66 though. I have a coworker that is 74 and keeps saying she's going to retire but never does (I know enough to know she has plenty of $$$ so it isn't because of that) and I simply do not understand that personality type.
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Post by athn64 on Jan 22, 2024 12:41:37 GMT -6
Apparently she plans to raise the retirement age to 70 and GTFOH with that nonsense looooool fuck right off. I recognize my privilege here but I'm taking my government pension and retiring at 62 if I can help it. I will refuse to go beyond 66 though. I have a coworker that is 74 and keeps saying she's going to retire but never does (I know enough to know she has plenty of $$$ so it isn't because of that) and I simply do not understand that personality type. Yeah, H only has to work for 30 years at his current position to be fully vested in his pension. He's hoping to retire after that.
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Post by goldenbird on Jan 22, 2024 15:45:55 GMT -6
NGL, I am so relieved my area isn't on this map. The 2020 cicadas were positively insane. I can't really see Texas on that map so I hope that means they won't be there 🤞
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Post by cnf on Jan 22, 2024 16:23:57 GMT -6
Apparently she plans to raise the retirement age to 70 and GTFOH with that nonsense looooool fuck right off. I recognize my privilege here but I'm taking my government pension and retiring at 62 if I can help it. I will refuse to go beyond 66 though. I have a coworker that is 74 and keeps saying she's going to retire but never does (I know enough to know she has plenty of $$$ so it isn't because of that) and I simply do not understand that personality type. My FIL turned 76 this past December and still works. They have more than enough money, he could retire, but he just keeps on working. He's been at GE for like 55 years or something absolutely ridiculous now. As for me, I will take my pension and peace the fuck out when I'm eligible. Hard pass at working beyond my requirements. Especially with a pension and healthy 403B. Sorrynotsorry. By the time I'm 62 I'll retire with 69% of my final average salary. That along with my 403B and H's 401K? Bye work.
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