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LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Saturday, 07-Jan-2023 04:24:25 JST LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
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@gnu2 Both #California (where I live) and #NewYorkState (where I'm getting benefits from) do have a call in option. #NYState has phone people Monday through Friday, but the reporting is due Sunday and I don't want it to be delayed after 5 months without income.

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LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Monday, 02-Jan-2023 09:24:55 JST LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

The Pineapple Express "atmospheric river" is expected to send a weak storm to #California tomorrow (2023-01-02) , and a stronger one on Wednesday (2023-01-04).

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Brent Toderian (brenttoderian@mastodon.online)'s status on Thursday, 29-Dec-2022 18:11:07 JST Brent Toderian
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REMEMBER: “Elon Musk admitted to his biographer that the reason the Hyperloop was announced—even tho he had no intention of pursuing it—was to try to disrupt the California high-speed rail project to get in the way of that actually succeeding.” — @parismarx in #Gizmodo
https://gizmodo.com/silicon-valleys-transportation-failures-tesla-waymo-bir-1849382788
#Hyperloop #ElonMusk #California #Rail #cars #cities #urbanism #transit #transportation
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Steve Herman (w7voa@journa.host)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Dec-2022 22:07:13 JST Steve Herman

M6.4 northern #California #quake. https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/nc73821036/map
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Steven J Gibbons (stevenjgibbons@oslo.town)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Dec-2022 19:54:40 JST Steven J Gibbons

Magnitude 6.4 #earthquake in Northern #California about 12 minutes ago (2022-12-20Z10:34) - when I request data I only seem to be be getting the first few seconds of the signal at the moment. Trying out different stations! I guess this will be very widely felt.
https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/nc73821036/executive
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LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Friday, 16-Dec-2022 07:14:21 JST LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

https://nu.federati.net/url/288945 [lawandcrime com]

#StateFarm insurance hit with big racial discrimination lawsuit

Supposedly, the lawsuit is based on the company's own internal reporting ... if this is true, then the state attorneys general in #California and #New_York should also be suing to get vigorous restrictions placed upon State Farm and related companies.

I've said it before, but the whole country depends on those two states' attorneys to knock corporations in the head with a stick. #USDOJ is either too timid or too corrupt to intervene in most such cases, and smaller states don't have the clout even if they weren't also bought and paid for.
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  State Farm Hit With Massive Racial Discrimination Lawsuit over Automated System That Allegedly Treats Black Homeowners with Extra Suspicion
  
  from Elura Nanos
  
  A Black Illinois homeowner filed a massive lawsuit against State Farm. She claims the company discriminated against its Black policyholders and violated the FHA.
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Singing Punster Cyclist ? (mrbenji@sfba.social)'s status on Thursday, 15-Dec-2022 12:28:29 JST Singing Punster Cyclist ?

El Capitan, #Yosemite Valley, at #goldenHour on an #autumn day. This image calms me: cool shade, slow #river, #fall accents, single cloud entering a perfect blue sky, and the largest granite monolith in the world standing guard, bathed in warm sunlight.
#LandscapePhotography tip: try getting low! I sat to feature the grass, rocks, and #ElCapitan #reflection in the foreground, adding depth & scale.
Thanks for the boosts & feedback!
#Landscape #photography #NationalParks #California #AltText
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LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Dec-2022 05:58:54 JST LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

https://nu.federati.net/url/288915 [www thecentersquare com]

#California new home building undershoots need by highest number in nation, leading to increased homelessness and other societal ills.

> The housing crisis in the Golden State is not new. California lawmakers and Gov. Gavin Newsom have highlighted the state’s housing shortage and introduced legislation aiming to address it in recent years. So far, the efforts have had little effect.

> California’s housing prices have been higher than the rest of the nation for decades, but the gap started to widen between 1970 and 1980 when the prices went from 30% higher than U.S. levels to 80% higher, according to a 2015 assessment from the Legislative Analyst’s Office. In order to have kept California housing prices from growing faster than the nation between 1980 and 2010 would have required 70,000 to 110,000 additional units each year, according to the LAO.

They are trying to do some things, but not enough. Besides building more homes, how about taxing bank repos as long as they are empty? How about offering a break to apartment landlords who sell the rental property to a tenants-cooperative? How about pushing local governments to build apartments within walking distance of multi-business centers (such as office buildings and shopping malls) and public transit hubs?

I'm sure they're trying to do all of the above, but I'm not seeing any of it yet.
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  California's deficit of affordable housing units highest in the nation
  
  from Madison Hirneisen | The Center Square
  
  (The Center Square) – All 50 states in the nation have a deficit of affordable housing units, but no state has a shortage as high as California.
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Ellen Spertus (ellenspertus@mastodon.lol)'s status on Saturday, 10-Dec-2022 02:24:56 JST Ellen Spertus

We normally promote the conference Tech Intersections: Women of Color in Computing on #Twitter but won't this year for obvious reasons.
Please help us spread the word about this #bipoc conference in #Oakland #California.
We're offering 20% off with promo code MASTODON. #BlackMastodon #BlackFriday
We are giving free tickets to people who have been laid off.
https://techintersections.org
The event includes an #ally skills workshop for supporters of #woc.
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LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Friday, 09-Dec-2022 05:26:42 JST LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

After more than a month of trying to get through to #California #EDD, I got through today. They referred me to #NY #DoL, who quickly answered, processed my claim, and said I should get "next steps" paperwork and a debit card in the mail soon.

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LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Thursday, 08-Dec-2022 00:35:49 JST LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

Back to trying to contact #California's Employment Development Department ( #EDD ) and get unemployment insurance ( UI ) benefits. Everything I saw suggested that using the website was the only way to apply, but a few days ago, I suddenly found that there is still a phone in option.

The site, besides having to give data to #id.me ( which by the way, the report about id.me was recently released, and it wasn't nice stuff ), also has some 3rd party security solution that dislikes my IP address ( either hotspotting on my phone or using a VPN ). Since they deal with people who are out of work and often on the edge of becoming homeless, they really need to relax about where people access their site from.

Anyway, calling the number puts one through a bunch of unskippable blah-blah, some "if you blah-blah-blah, press 1, if not press 2", and then usually ends with "we're receiving more calls than we can process; good bye" and hangs up. So every call is several minutes, only to find that you have to try again later.

I understand that EDD likely gave millions of dollars in unemployment and pandemic aid to people who were not eligible ( not a resident of California, not previously working in the state, prisoners, etc ) over the past few years. And I agree that they need to do a better job of ensuring that benefits go to people who are eligible as well as referring ineligible people to the proper agencies & programs. But EDD once had fully staffed offices all over the state, where actual employees saw your face and your ID, reviewed any documents you were submitting, and explained the process to you. Most of the problem with fraud is caused by their being too cheap to pay for employees.

This reminds me of a Christian denomination I once read about. They believe that salvation is only for people who are predestined, so they were attempting to disguise their churches so that people who weren't predestined would not wander in and accidentally be converted. (This was about 40 years ago, so I have no idea if the group still exists, or even what group it was.)
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  Simple, Secure Identity Verification | ID.me
  
  ID.me simplifies how individuals share and prove their identity online. ID.me's next generation platform facilitates identity proofing, authentication, and group affiliation verification for over 500 organizations.
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dan (civicdetroitdan@a2mi.social)'s status on Saturday, 26-Nov-2022 04:27:51 JST dan

“Tens of thousands of workers walked off the job last week for the nation’s largest strike of 2022, and the largest strike of academic workers in U.S. history. … Our demand here is straightforward: Pay us enough to live where we work!”
https://www.labornotes.org/2022/11/years-biggest-strike-48000-academic-workers-university-california #california #UCstrike #labor
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  This Year's Biggest Strike Is by 48,000 Academic Workers at the University of California
  
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  Across the prestigious University of California system, tens of thousands of workers walked off the job last week for the nation’s largest strike of 2022, and the largest strike of academic workers in U.S. history. The energy was palpable as nearly 5,000 academic workers gathered at UC-Berkeley’s campus November 14 to launch our strike.
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LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Nov-2022 02:33:23 JST LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
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@clacke Sweden's water sounds great.

I have worked in 15 US states and I have never found a place where tap water tastes good. I always have to buy a filter or just buy bottled water.

The worst places were in #Mississippi (Jackson, Starkville #MS), #Louisiana (Baton Rouge #LA) and #California (Irwindale #CA).

In Irwindale, the water came out looking like diluted milk ... and stayed that way several minutes later. It is an old rock quarrying town, so I suspect it was just rock debris suspended in the water.

In Mississippi, the water came out yellow for a few days before getting clear again. The same thing happened in #Baton_Rouge, but it was only one or two days and it only happened once.

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ahoy, fancy pants (squinky@teh.entar.net)'s status on Monday, 14-Nov-2022 03:28:47 JST ahoy, fancy pants

Okay, I renamed my account and neglected to write a new #introduction, so here goes.
Tech weirdo from Southern #California. I’m obsessed with learning new things but the idea of being an expert in something repels me. Most of my computer knowledge comes from shoulder surfing.
I’ve been involved with #BurningMan and related events since the 90s. Almost all of my IRL friends are burners.
I administer teh.entar.net, by default simply because I was the first of our group to install mastodon. And because I sniped the domain.
Got a late-in-life #ADHD diagnosis and the medication has changed my life. I still have a backlog of 50+ unstarted projects. I tend to switch between working on 4-5 of them every week
Coasting on “happily ever after”: married with two adult kids, three #dogs, a cat, and some chickens.
I have an alt at https://stoopid.club/users/meat and I’m still trying to decide what goes where, or if I even want two accounts
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  teh.entar.net is part of the Mastodon network, a decentralized social network with no ads, no corporate surveillance, ethical design, and Oxford commas.
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  Live from the avocado jungles of Southern #California. Generation X. Probably your dad's age. Former edgelord turned left-anarchist-adjacent. Used to be homeless. Used to like Perl. Leaders o...
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LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Nov-2022 12:17:48 JST LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
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While I am happy for whomever got the winning ticket (modulo taxes and all the real and fake relatives and acquaintances that will come crawling out of the woodwork hoping to get a slice of the pie), the odds of winning a jackpot are amazingly bad ... one in almost 300,000,000. At those odds, they're better off playing for the fun of it, or considering it a donation to whatever state agency gets the benefits (in #California, that's the schools).

I have only read one "rich dads" book, but I imagine that the author would say that rich dads don't play the lottery (and probably don't gamble at all unless they feel they have an inside track on winning). The odds of winning big are abysmal, and the odds of winning at all are probably about even--and that includes winning a free ticket or winning back your purchase price.

Don't jump all over me for this. I'm not saying don't play the lottery. I'm saying don't play the lottery thinking you're going to win money. Play it for fun, or to support the schools. If you happen to win, that's a bonus.

(As a plus, this will prevent you from spending the rent money on lottery tickets. You think I'm joking, but when California's state lottery first started, I saw an elderly man from down the street spend his entire Social Security check on scratch-off tickets. When he couldn't pay his rent, one of his neighbors took him in for a month, while he looked for a new place to stay.)

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LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Nov-2022 12:05:02 JST LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/powerball-winner-record-19-billion-jackpot-announced-rcna56140 [www nbcnews com]

single #Powerball winning ticket sold in #California | #CA. $2,000,000,000+
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  Single California ticket wins record $2.04 billion Powerball jackpot
  
  from NBCNews
  
  The winner hasn't been identified. The owner of the gas station and convenience store where the ticket was sold was presented Tuesday with a $1 million check.
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George Kelly (he/him) (allaboutgeorge@social.lol)'s status on Friday, 04-Nov-2022 19:22:40 JST George Kelly (he/him)

Hi, I'm George. I started over at mastodon dot social, but now I'm here. Oh, look: a now page! https://www.allaboutgeorge.com/what-im-doing-now/
#introduction #introductions
#black #American #AfricanAmerican #journalist #reporter #BreakingNews #UnionMember #newspapers #BayArea #SFBayArea #EastBay #Oakland #SanPablo #California #GenX #fiftysomething #nearsighted #musician #singer #songwriter #guitar #piano #CatToy #HeHimHis #cisgender #husband #uncle #firstborn #brother #blogger #languages #karaoke
#TooManyHashtags
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LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Friday, 09-Sep-2022 12:43:57 JST LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

#California's DoJ is investigating the #San_Bernardino County Sheriff's Department's "CleanSweep" program, in which school district employees issue real citations--tickets--to students.

Seeing that schools' jobs is to work on behalf of students and for their benefit, I think this is a built in conflict of interest. It also encourages using "the stick" against difficult students rather than "the carrot".

https://wp.sbcounty.gov/sheriff/programs/cleansweep/
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LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Thursday, 01-Sep-2022 08:40:48 JST LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

https://nu.federati.net/url/287658 [kion546 com] #California Governor Gavin Newsom declares state of emergency as heat wave increases power use.
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  Gov. Newsom declares State of Emergency to increase energy production, reduce grid strain – KION546
  
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  SACRAMENTO, Calif. (KION-TV)- California Gov. Gavin Newsom has proclaimed a State of Emergency to temporarily increase energy production and reduce demand as California will experience extreme heat over the coming days. Read more: California ISO issues Flex Alert This will temporarily allow power plants to generate more electricity, allows the use of backup generators to
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LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Tuesday, 30-Aug-2022 15:46:46 JST LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
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> The people moving from California are looking for lower taxes

https://libranet.de/display/0b6b25a8-6463-0ce9-9044-5af574010665

Maybe some of them are. I'd guess most of them are primarily looking for lower real estate prices and shorter commutes.

I know that I'm looking for:
1. More frequent face-to-face with grandkids.
2. Ability to work and live in the same area. Shorter commutes are better commutes.
3. Lower real estate prices.

Tax rates are not even on my radar, as everything you get from state and local government will have to be paid for somehow. In some states, it is income tax, in others, it is property tax. Still others have a flourishing industry that can be taxed instead of burdening the citizenry.

As for term limits, I cannot speak to #Michigan's limits, as I don't live there; but #California's limits are beneficial. After a few terms in Sacramento, #pollies become evilized and accustomed to that power and lifestyle. At that point, they stop representing the needs of their constituents and serve only their party and the lobbyists. (In California, they are "legislative advocates", as the state constitution forbids lobbyists.)

I understand that @ahuka believes that people get better at being legislators after a few years on the job. That is likely true. But a few more years and they don't improve. They may know the system better, but they don't use that knowledge to make the state better serve its people, and that is why term limits exist.

@fu
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