California Doing California Things

[Loren Pechtel]

Build smaller? There are high fixed costs from building. The reality is that in a market with a high fixed cost and lower costs for improvements the market will strongly favor the options with more improvements. I grew up in a perfectly good for it's time middle class house. Looking at the market around here there's nothing that small being built. Nobody would buy it.

Build taller? The reality is the price per square foot for a building goes up as you make it taller. The costs of going vertical exceed the space gained. (Note that single family two story dwellings do not follow this pattern as the fire codes get much more strict in multi-family buildings.)

Land is limiting in other places like NYC too but that did not prevent other excellent solutions, such as building skinny sky scraper apartments for billionaires. Ultra wealthy apartments were not for the homeless directly, but they served to increased the supply of housing for everyone. That is just one idea that you won't see from any California democrats.. Their main problem is political on a local level where existing home owners and landlords actually want high prices yet lower taxes for those people already in those homes! They refuse redevelopment of existing structures in the name of protecting historical buildings or some other environmental absurdity artificially causing scarcity. It is what they want and it causes homelessness protecting profits for the existing home owners.

Look what I said about the cost of building taller.

Look to China and other sensible housing in the world. They have proven it is possible using contemporary and advanced construction to house everyone in affordable housing but they did not do it with liberal campaigns from the democrat party protecting historical neighborhoods and prop 13 tax. If you look at Shanghai today it looks like an advanced construction. LA and San Francisco looks pretty much like they did when I grew up in the 1960's with little change except for much more preventable homelessness in both places. Chicago and Detroit are other democrat run strongholds that have run themselves into the ditch (like California is doing today) still looking like they did when they were once successful in the 1800's.

Yeah, let's look at Shanghai. I have family that own condos in Shanghai. In every case those condos cost more per square foot than our place here, for a vastly inferior place. There are cheap places to be had far from the city--but that's government folly. China was obsessed with maintaining the 7% growth rate their economy had been doing and refused to recognize that that was only possible while playing catch-up, they way over-built and now there are a bunch of places out in the sticks that sit empty. I really wouldn't want to own property out there--what's the maintenance going to be like a few years down the road?! (We've had similar but far more localized issues like this here in the US. Before the prevalence of HOAs there would be deals where the developer built out a community with a special assessment district on the community paying for the bonds that funded the roads etc. Project fails, not many houses exist, but the infrastructure does and the bonds still exist. They get spread over the few owners rather than the whole community.)

 

[Politesse]

We have a new law I find rather Californian in ethos: old farts can now permanently exempt out of jury duty if they get sick.

Newsom signs law to let these Californians get out of jury duty — for good

Californians over age 80 will be able to get a permanent exemption from jury duty under a new law Gov. Gavin Newsom signed.

calmatters.org

Should save some time and paper in the long run, without being a de facto ban on older jurors like they have in FL and TX.

 

[Loren Pechtel]

We have a new law I find rather Californian in ethos: old farts can now permanently exempt out of jury duty if they get sick.

Newsom signs law to let these Californians get out of jury duty — for good

Californians over age 80 will be able to get a permanent exemption from jury duty under a new law Gov. Gavin Newsom signed.

calmatters.org

Should save some time and paper in the long run, without being a de facto ban on older jurors like they have in FL and TX.

Around here you can opt out at 70, there's no requirement to do so.

 

[Tigers!]

We have a new law I find rather Californian in ethos: old farts can now permanently exempt out of jury duty if they get sick.

Newsom signs law to let these Californians get out of jury duty — for good

Californians over age 80 will be able to get a permanent exemption from jury duty under a new law Gov. Gavin Newsom signed.

calmatters.org

Should save some time and paper in the long run, without being a de facto ban on older jurors like they have in FL and TX.

I must have done something wrong when I was first called up for Victorian jury duty in 1990. I got an exemption because uni exams were on. I have never being called up since.
My father was called up every 4-5 years for decades. He is 90 now so they should let him be.

 

[ZiprHead]

We have a new law I find rather Californian in ethos: old farts can now permanently exempt out of jury duty if they get sick.

Newsom signs law to let these Californians get out of jury duty — for good

Californians over age 80 will be able to get a permanent exemption from jury duty under a new law Gov. Gavin Newsom signed.

calmatters.org

Should save some time and paper in the long run, without being a de facto ban on older jurors like they have in FL and TX.

We have a similar law here in Michigan. I think the age is actually lower than California's.

 

[Politesse]

Seems likely enough. I imagine the state was balancing some conflicting senses of the rights and responsibilities of the aged.

 

[southernhybrid]

We have a new law I find rather Californian in ethos: old farts can now permanently exempt out of jury duty if they get sick.

Newsom signs law to let these Californians get out of jury duty — for good

Californians over age 80 will be able to get a permanent exemption from jury duty under a new law Gov. Gavin Newsom signed.

calmatters.org

Should save some time and paper in the long run, without being a de facto ban on older jurors like they have in FL and TX.

In Georgia, we can opt out at age 70 if we want and we don't have to be sick, but I resent you calling us old farts. We are older adults, so all you middle aged farts can go fuck yourselves. Oh wait a minute. That would be hard to do.

I had enough jury duty when I was younger, although luckily I never got put on a jury. I almost got put on one where two young men were given 20 and 30 year sentences for having a small amount of cocaine on them. One was charged with dealing and the other was charged as an accomplice. A person who was on the jury wife told me that her husband couldn't sleep for weeks after than sentence as he felt so guilty. Sadly, one never knows what the sentence will be when on a jury. Since I think recreational drugs should be decriminalized, it would have been a moral dilemma to have found those two guys guilty. I was the only one who raised her hand when asked if anyone thought recreational drugs should be legal.

 

[TSwizzle]

The fraud in California is epic.

Federal law enforcement officers have arrested two employees of California-based homelessness non-profits on corruption charges, alleging that they misappropriated millions in taxpayer dollars. The US justice department has arrested Michael Young, a founder of the Culver City-based non-profit Home at Last, and Lakiya Malone, an employee of the Los Angeles-based Special Service for Groups. Young is charged with wire fraud in a scheme to embezzle more than $7.5m from contracts with Los Angeles county and other publicly funded agencies, which he used to open a high-end restaurant, nightclub and bingo hall. Malone is charged with taking more than $180,000 in bribes and kickbacks from the director of another homelessness non-profit, Alexander Soofer, who has agreed to plead guilty in a separate case.The Los Angeles mayor, Karen Bass, said in a Wednesday statement: “My administration has zero tolerance for fraud – period.

Teh Grauniad

Attorney General Todd Blanche highlighted a coordinated federal takedown Tuesday as the Justice Department charged 12 individuals with siphoning more than $10 million from programs meant to help low-income families pay for childcare. The defendants, naturalized U.S. citizens and lawful permanent residents originally from Syria, Somalia, Sudan, Afghanistan, and Iraq, allegedly ran licensed home daycares that existed largely on paper.

California Globe

 

[Politesse]

We have a new law I find rather Californian in ethos: old farts can now permanently exempt out of jury duty if they get sick.

Newsom signs law to let these Californians get out of jury duty — for good

Californians over age 80 will be able to get a permanent exemption from jury duty under a new law Gov. Gavin Newsom signed.

calmatters.org

Should save some time and paper in the long run, without being a de facto ban on older jurors like they have in FL and TX.

In Georgia, we can opt out at age 70 if we want and we don't have to be sick, but I resent you calling us old farts. We are older adults, so all you middle aged farts can go fuck yourselves. Oh wait a minute. That would be hard to do.

I had enough jury duty when I was younger, although luckily I never got put on a jury. I almost got put on one where two young men were given 20 and 30 year sentences for having a small amount of cocaine on them. One was charged with dealing and the other was charged as an accomplice. A person who was on the jury wife told me that her husband couldn't sleep for weeks after than sentence as he felt so guilty. Sadly, one never knows what the sentence will be when on a jury. Since I think recreational drugs should be decriminalized, it would have been a moral dilemma to have found those two guys guilty. I was the only one who raised her hand when asked if anyone thought recreational drugs should be legal.

Eh, everybody farts.

 

[ZiprHead]

Eh, everybody farts.

When I fart dust comes out.

 

[southernhybrid]

Yes, everybody farts, but that does not make us farts, ourselves. Get it?

 

[robnisch]

The whole El Nino, Kelvin wave, beach erosion thing in Californicate is because of a hundred years of poor planning and greed.
I will not shed one tear for the fools that built their home in vulnerable areas.

 

[TV and credit cards]

Eh, everybody farts.

When I fart dust comes out.

I should be so lucky.