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Had to take a quiz today to help decide whether #CA will pay for retraining. I should also contact #NY about it, as I suspect #California will push the responsibility onto #New_York.
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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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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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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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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 stateโs housing shortage and introduced legislation aiming to address it in recent years. So far, the efforts have had little effect.
> Californiaโs 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 Analystโs 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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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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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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@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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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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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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The city of Stockton in Central #California, population 300K,appears to have a serial killer at work. https://nu.federati.net/url/288005 [ktla com] #crime
It used to be that this stuff only happened in or near large cities ๐. Now, cow ๐ towns like Stockton have this also.
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#California changes its jaywalking law to decriminalize safe crossings outside crosswalks. https://mstdn.io/@codewiz/109095836220404059
https://ktla.com/news/new-law-allows-californians-to-legally-jaywalk/ [ktla com]
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#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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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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> 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.
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Nearly 1/3 of applicants to #California's #COVID-19 rental assistance program were denied; 82% of appeals were denied again. https://nationalequityatlas.org/CARentalAssistance [nationalequityatlas org]
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Flash flood warnings issued for parts of #San_Bernardino and #Riverside Counties. #NOAA / #NWS advises to stay off the roads unless evacuating, as many roads could have dips with life threatening waterflows. Heavy rain occurring in spots.
!SoCal #California
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California's Governor Newsom makes cautious step toward meeting the state's water needs. https://nu.federati.net/url/287349 [www latimes com]
It is a tiny step, but #California is never going to catch up with its demand with these baby steps. There needs to be a massive statewide effort to meet 100% of projected water requirements for the next fifty years via #desalination. That includes residential, agricultural, industrial, plus supplementing natural rainfall to preserve forests and replenish ground water, and some extra water which can be made available for neighboring states' needs.
I feel like these #pollies are so busy trying not to displease entrenched interests that they are missing a historic opportunity to lead the way in responding to a 22 year drought that currently affects a giant chunk of the US from California to Kansas, Nebraska, Texas, and beyond. See https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/ and https://www.drought.gov/
#CA !SoCal #water_policy #drought
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#Ohio takes lead plaintiff spot in class-action lawsuit against #Facebook. https://nu.federati.net/url/287248 [www thecentersquare com]
#California is also part of this lawsuit.
#CA #OH #lawsuit
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#NOAA / #NWS alerting about severe #t-storms, heavy rain, flash flooding in #San_Bernardino County and #Inyo County in #California, #Clark County and #Nye County in #Nevada, and #Mohave County in #Arizona
Examples of areas affected include Barstow, Baker, Needles, Fort Irwin, Daggett, Lynwood, Kelso, Mitchell Caverns, Ludlow, Amboy, Newberry Springs, Lake Havasu City, Mohave Valley, Bullhead City, Laughlin, Cima, Mountain Pass, Death Valley National Monument, Mojave National Preserve, Lone Pine. Highways: #I-15, #I-40, Highway 95, SR-127, Highway 190.
!SoCal
I don't see #Riverside County on the list, but looking at the map, it looks like Blythe is on the edge of the rainfall zone.
If you are travelling across the Mojave Desert in any of these three states, be alert to flooding.