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If you have a problem with “thugs looting”, this should be your priority.
From the article:
“Five times since last May, sheriff’s deputies in Kansas and California have stopped armored cars operated by Empyreal Logistics…seizing a total of $1.2 million, but did not issue any citations or file any criminal charges, which are not necessary to confiscate property through civil forfeiture. That process allows police to pad their budgets by seizing assets they allege are connected to criminal activity, even when the owner is never charged, let alone convicted.”
The police are legitimately the biggest gang in the country.
I feel like a lot of ppl think that’s hyperbole or creative language use but no, really. If you’ve ever lived in a neighborhood with gang activity, you know. The gangs themselves were easy enough for me to avoid just by minding my own goddamn business, but there was no avoiding the cops. They would walk down the street like they owned the place, hassling the kids on their way home from middle school. I only ever got a few dirty looks from gangs (altho if it had been known I was Jewish it might have gotten bad bc the biggest one in the area was highly antisemetic), but I must have gotten pulled over by cops half a dozen times, always for nothing, always for a “broken taillight” that was mysteriously working just fine by the time I drove the last block and a half to my house.
I know Republicans and Moderate Dems consider my position to be extreme but maybe, just maybe we shouldn’t be funding the people doing full-on Fast & Furious style heists on armored cars.
Just a crazy idea…
Comment: “Let’s see, have every single under-18 user act as a $25,000 ticking time-bomb that can go off at any point, or ban any user under 18 and living in california from using your service, what to choose what to choose…If they think the kids are bad now just wait until they’re booted en-mass from every online social media platform, all the more so if the platforms are smart enough to tell the kids why they’re being shown the door.”
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On Friday, the Daily Beast reported that an outspoken anti-mask politician in Sacramento County, California, was caught in the Telegram channel of members of the Proud Boys to help plan the so-called “freedom convoy” of truckers protesting anti-vaccine mandates — and now she is claiming it was an accident and she is being set up.
“Sue Frost, one of the county’s five supervisors, came under fire this week after an area Twitter-user spotted her in a series of fringe Telegram channels, including a channel run and moderated by self-described Proud Boys who had previously used Telegram to encourage the murders of Jews and ‘race war now,’” reported Kelly Weill. “Now Frost says she was unaware of the forums’ Proud Boy ties. Instead, she accuses the Twitter whistleblower of following her around and ‘dubbing’ her into pictures with Proud Boys — a claim that Twitter user firmly denies.”
“I am a Sacramento County Supervisor who is communicating with many freedom groups who want to support the convoy,” Frost wrote on the channel. “I’m a freedom fighter, Connected with parents faith community, businesses and my nonprofit is gorillalearninginstitute.org. Do you need a group to coordinate in Sacramento? Maybe I can help. I’m actually just trying to figure out how I can donate to the convoy and also how I can be in the loop.”
Frost is a vehement opponent of COVID-19 masking restrictions, and has previously spread conspiracy theories about the vaccine, calling it “experimental.” Nor is this her first encounter with the Proud Boys; according to The Sacramento Bee, she has previously attended Proud Boys-linked anti-vaccine rallies in Placer County.
The Proud Boys are a self-styled “Western Chauvinist” group with ties to white supremacists. Known for their violent street brawls with political opponents, several of their members have been charged in connection with the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
If Trudeau wasn’t kissing Biden’s ass for that sweet sweet trade money, he’d have called this a foreign invasion plot by now. This sh*t isn’t normal and I won’t let it be. @allthecanadianpolitics @politicsofcanada
“I never intended for Thirst: The Next Generation to become a daily feature, but the Western United States is turning to dust, and I’m seeing in my mind’s eye an endless wasteland studded with the sun-bleached skulls of millions of cows, and that’s just the way things are. Today’s installment involves canals in California. There is a canal that pulls water from the San Joaquin River for the purposes of irrigating a huge amount of agricultural land. And the canal is collapsing, and it looks like it will cost a mere $1 billion to fix it.“
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They're trying to get all mad now because they're "aLsO tArGeTiNg sMaLl BuSiNeSsEs" but the bougie little shops in downtown SF and Oakland are gentrifiers just as much as nordstrom
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Every time I hear about something from California it's always the worst thing I've ever heard
UC Kowloon
virgo-dicks-deactivated20241026
Hey I'm an architectural designer and I think its smarter for us to assume this is about taking away tenants rights more than it is about some wannabe architect(we shouldn't call him an amateur because if you're not licensed using the term architect is fruad) designing a tenement house.
I want to discuss building code: the bane of Landlords and developers alike and essentially our only protection against tenements being recreated. The reason this is called a huge experiment is more than likely that the billionaire is trying to come up with a case to remove the natural light and ventilation requirements for California and probably the International Building Code as well.
If you didn't know all apartments are required to have a certain amount of natural daylighting and ventaliation, here is a snip of California's code regarding that:
Daylight is also another important factor and that's calculated by room usually, if it's designated a living space you have to provide windows.
Per example have you seen the tik tok of the insane apartment in New York city? Its so crazy because in new york bedrooms and living rooms require a certain amount of light to be legally sold. If you lack these chances are you're in an illegal unit. So they angled the walls to capture windows within minimum space requirements.
So back to the windowless dorms. (And yes dorms are different than residential housing but nation wide the rules are still apply to these occupancies). If you're rich enough you can basically sue for a variance to get around code. Usually this allows you to get away with designing more on a site but judging by the fact that he's also a Developer who has done this before in michigan: an area with weaker city inspectors/reviewers and donates to schools for the sole purpose of creating his downright evil psychological experiments...odds are pointing to the fact that he wants to "prove" legally that you can torcher people and still charge exuberant fees on space you couldn't sell before.
This all rightfully received outrage, please feel free to email the school, the zoning department, the mayor, the municipality, as well as the office of any future architects who are willing to create this and let them know this is not ethical.
I read the article and Munger (who is Warren Buffets business partner btw) claims the tiny windowless rooms are to encourage students to use the common space more which is the dumbest excuse I’ve ever heard. Like looking at the rooms it’s clearly attempt to prove that you can stuff a small university into a windowless dorm building with tiny ass bedrooms and only two exits in the whole building. Like it’s such an obvious attempt to recreate tenement housing. UC Santa Barbara students need to organize against this fast because they want to have people living there in the next few years and possibly build more as Munger is EXTREMELY confident this venture will be successful. Student organizers can be powerful, don’t let yourself be placed in this building if it is built, make sure it’s an abject failure and a stain on the campus so nobody ever tries it again. Here’s a quote from the original architect who quit because the design was unethical (Munger has since hired some fancy design firm to do it all for him):
McFadden wrote in the letter that the population density of Munger Hall would be slightly lower than a portion of Dhaka, Bangladesh, one of the most densely populated cities in the world. There are only two points of entry and exit.
"The project is essentially the student life portion of a mid-sized university campus in a box," McFadden wrote. "Munger Hall is an experiment in size and density with no precedent in student housing at that scale."
They plan on having over 500 students per floor? Beyond his attempts to use this in a potential future challenge to building codes it’s also just insanely unethical for the school to agree to this. I feel like UCs will basically just agree to any terms they’re dictated these days as long as they get a few hundred million out of it. This is the UCI School of Alternative Medicine fiasco except 100 times worse
virgo-dicks-deactivated20241026
As a side note, of the UC schools, UCSB is notorious for having THE absolute WORST housing.
You know why you need windows in CA?
BECAUSE OUR STATE IS ON FIRE OR FALLING DOWN AT LEAST ONCE A YEAR!
If you do not wish to die when your ass can’t get to a window the fire department can pluck you out of, oppose this piece of shit building.
no that is NOT why. these building codes pre-date the seasonal extreme wildfires CA is now subject to because of climate change. fire escapes are important for in case the BUILDING catches on fire, less so for your surrounding landscape. the CA building codes are the result of decades of dedicated work by unions and organizations like the ICC this isn't a paradise wildfire situation waiting to happen, this is a Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire waiting to happen. it's the Ghost Ship fire waiting. it's one small electrical fire away from killing thousands in a single night. because if they're willing to fuck around and skimp on those regulations, you bet your ass they're going to fuck around with the wiring and insulation and other safety measures. combined with things like COVID where *ventilation is fucking important*, that building is a deathtrap
infectedwithnyanites
Extremely dubious anyone will be able to prevent him from making this abomination in light of how corrupt both the school and the courts are even if he's faced with student opposition so my recommendation is someone just assassinate the guy go storm his house with a mob and hang him next to his dead security staff right now before its too late and there's a thousand dead giving you a real reason to do that militant resistance is the solitary phenomenon our plutocratic rulers are actually concerned about anything else can be repressed domesticated or ignored.
Tags courtesy of @boomstab-papa: #and the magazine Architectural Record is fucking defending him #what a JOKE