SanDiegoCJ
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Yup. I doubt it'll pass, but that's not the point. The point is that a member of government actually thought it was a good idea."Cradle to grave..."
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More stupidity from California (San Francisco)
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arse_sidewards
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The dumb as shit coming out of people's mouths in this thread is pretty fucking impressive. Right up there with all the "the only good investments are gold bars, land and guns" shit some of you spew.
Any road map dataset worth a shit has speed limits. You just need to know where you are. No active tracking required. Heck, GPS units had that data in them in the early 2010s and they didn't track shit. Many high end modern cars have the cameras and software to read speed limit signs if equipped with the right "not quite self driving cruise control" package.
The people saying that this isn't doable with modern tech or requires active tracking are ignorant. That said, any modern car already tracks you pretty damn well though probably not in high enough resolution for speed enforcement.
Any road map dataset worth a shit has speed limits. You just need to know where you are. No active tracking required. Heck, GPS units had that data in them in the early 2010s and they didn't track shit. Many high end modern cars have the cameras and software to read speed limit signs if equipped with the right "not quite self driving cruise control" package.
The people saying that this isn't doable with modern tech or requires active tracking are ignorant. That said, any modern car already tracks you pretty damn well though probably not in high enough resolution for speed enforcement.
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SanDiegoCJ
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I wasn't posting about smog checks if that's what you're referring to. This whole thread is about equipment required on a vehicle for it to be sold in a state. Those 17 states basically adopted California's laws as to what smog equipment is required and the stricter emissions limits than the federal requirements. Whether that state checks or not is a different subject. My post was only about what was required for a vehicle to be sold there.
bigun
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Gavin Newsom Asked the Internet to Submit Designs for a New Coin Honoring CA's Innovations, and Hoo Boy..
By Jennifer Van Laar | 12:45 AM on April 28, 2024When he's not making ignorantly silly commercials about access to abortion in Alabama, California Gov. Gavin Newsom's favorite hobby is getting ratioed online. Seriously, I'm not sure there's anyone less self-aware than Newsom, or anyone who's more of a glutton for punishment.
So on Thursday Newsom was again roasted online when he announced that California is getting its own $1 coin to honor innovation in the state and asked the internet for submissions. He was already going to invite some choice responses from that simple invitation, then he made it worse by beginning his tweet with, "Calling all members of the Tortured Coin Designers Department," a reference to Taylor Swift's new album, "The Tortured Poets Department."
Apparently, Newsom (or the intern who wrote the tweet) didn't understand that the title is surmised to be a slam at Swift's ex-boyfriend, British actor Joe Alwyn. Vogue reports that Alwyn "once stated in an interview that he had a texting group chat with fellow actors Paul Mescal and Andrew Scott called the 'Tortured Man Club,' which many fans instantly drew parallels to with Swift’s album name."
The Golden State has a long history of positive innovation, but the only thing it's innovating during Newsom's tenure is new ways to waste every natural gift God can bestow upon a land and leave its citizens in poverty. Oh, and new methods by which the government can repress the civil rights of people.
And so many submissions centered on themes of homeless encampments, dumpster fires, and endless COVID masking rules.
Dr. Houman Hemmati invoked the $73 billion budget shortfall Newsom managed to create just a few years after a record surplus.
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A few submissions were throwbacks, like this reminder of street artist Sabo's depiction of Newsom as "Lizard King."
Is posing like royalty an innovation?
A poo map for the streets of San Francisco is definitely a California innovation.
Assembly Republicans Press Secretary Jim Stanley formally submitted his ideas to Newsom, along with a letter that was published by our friends at the California Globe and which we've reprinted below.
Dear Gov. Newsom,
I would like to humbly submit the entries below for the California Innovation Coin Contest.
Under your bold leadership, California has developed a truly unrivaled method of incinerating money. While most people would think it impossible to spend $24 billion on homelessness only to see the problem grow rapidly, you have proved the naysayers wrong. Like a perpetual motion machine operating in reverse, you have seemingly broken the laws of physics to pour an unlimited amount of energy and resources into homelessness programs while producing no results.
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To commemorate your momentous innovation, it would only be appropriate to select one of the designs below that recognize the condition of California’s streets, parks and sidewalks that have resulted from your leadership:
I look forward to seeing one of these designs in production.
Best regards,
Jim Stanley
Press Secretary
Assembly Republicans
P.S. I don’t think minting a bunch of $1 coins will put much of a dent in the $73 billion deficit you’ve presided over, but you certainly get points for creativity.
You know, on second thought, Newsom's reference to Taylor Swift's "The Tortured Poets Department" album is perfectly on-brand.
SanDiegoCJ
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Gavin Newsom Asked the Internet to Submit Designs for a New Coin Honoring CA's Innovations, and Hoo Boy..
By Jennifer Van Laar | 12:45 AM on April 28, 2024
When he's not making ignorantly silly commercials about access to abortion in Alabama, California Gov. Gavin Newsom's favorite hobby is getting ratioed online. Seriously, I'm not sure there's anyone less self-aware than Newsom, or anyone who's more of a glutton for punishment.
So on Thursday Newsom was again roasted online when he announced that California is getting its own $1 coin to honor innovation in the state and asked the internet for submissions. He was already going to invite some choice responses from that simple invitation, then he made it worse by beginning his tweet with, "Calling all members of the Tortured Coin Designers Department," a reference to Taylor Swift's new album, "The Tortured Poets Department."
Apparently, Newsom (or the intern who wrote the tweet) didn't understand that the title is surmised to be a slam at Swift's ex-boyfriend, British actor Joe Alwyn. Vogue reports that Alwyn "once stated in an interview that he had a texting group chat with fellow actors Paul Mescal and Andrew Scott called the 'Tortured Man Club,' which many fans instantly drew parallels to with Swift’s album name."
The Golden State has a long history of positive innovation, but the only thing it's innovating during Newsom's tenure is new ways to waste every natural gift God can bestow upon a land and leave its citizens in poverty. Oh, and new methods by which the government can repress the civil rights of people.
And so many submissions centered on themes of homeless encampments, dumpster fires, and endless COVID masking rules.
Dr. Houman Hemmati invoked the $73 billion budget shortfall Newsom managed to create just a few years after a record surplus.
Advertisement
A few submissions were throwbacks, like this reminder of street artist Sabo's depiction of Newsom as "Lizard King."
Is posing like royalty an innovation?
A poo map for the streets of San Francisco is definitely a California innovation.
Assembly Republicans Press Secretary Jim Stanley formally submitted his ideas to Newsom, along with a letter that was published by our friends at the California Globe and which we've reprinted below.
Dear Gov. Newsom,
I would like to humbly submit the entries below for the California Innovation Coin Contest.
Under your bold leadership, California has developed a truly unrivaled method of incinerating money. While most people would think it impossible to spend $24 billion on homelessness only to see the problem grow rapidly, you have proved the naysayers wrong. Like a perpetual motion machine operating in reverse, you have seemingly broken the laws of physics to pour an unlimited amount of energy and resources into homelessness programs while producing no results.
Advertisement
To commemorate your momentous innovation, it would only be appropriate to select one of the designs below that recognize the condition of California’s streets, parks and sidewalks that have resulted from your leadership:
I look forward to seeing one of these designs in production.
Best regards,
Jim Stanley
Press Secretary
Assembly Republicans
P.S. I don’t think minting a bunch of $1 coins will put much of a dent in the $73 billion deficit you’ve presided over, but you certainly get points for creativity.
You know, on second thought, Newsom's reference to Taylor Swift's "The Tortured Poets Department" album is perfectly on-brand.
Wow.
XtremeJ
Wanker
more? continued? constant? insanity from CA
this time from the surf part,
competition must allow transwomen to compete in longboard competition because of state anti-discrimination laws
no point asking, what about the actual women being discriminated against?
Dude now legal to compete against actual women
this time from the surf part,
competition must allow transwomen to compete in longboard competition because of state anti-discrimination laws
no point asking, what about the actual women being discriminated against?
Dude now legal to compete against actual women
Roc Doc
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Sandy Johnson
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The mountain bike race I recently did here got around it by just having a "nonbinary catagory". So there was men's downhill, women's downhill, and nonbinary downhill.
I can't wait to show this one to my wife. She's still on the touchy-feely train of letting people declare whatever gender they want, but she's also very serious about sports competition, AND she was a pro women's surfer for Roxy back when she was younger. It'll be interesting to see her head explode on this one.
edit: I'd also like to note, that the "The California Coastal Commission" listed in the article is the same one that's trying to shut down the Oceano Dunes SVRA(Basically a designated OHV spot in california), and are getting the pants sued off of them for some of the BS they've pulled.
If two categories (based on biologically hard-coded identifiers) aren't enough
, then, fuck it, have three:- XX, XY, (WTF-ever, Other, None of the Above)
- Stock Innie, Stock Outie, (Modified / Unlimited)
- Chicks, Dudes, (Other / Non-binary / Cheaters)
- "trigger warning": 99+% of results will be binary 
Provience
Kill!
anybody who would complain in this thread is simply jealous they don't live in California.
Sandy Johnson
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California's full. I tell anyone who asks that Idaho and Texas are nice places to live.
shortbus4x4
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Idaho used to be but there are too many Californians here now for it to be nice.
Sandy Johnson
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They don't know that and I don't tell themIdaho used to be but there are too many Californians here now for it to be nice.
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“b) Gun violence also contributes to significant racial and socioeconomic inequality in safety. The most recent available data from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) indicates that in 2021, nationwide, the parents of a Black son 13 to 19 years of age were more likely to lose their child to gun homicide than every other cause of death combined.”Fucking Hell.
By that measure black gun owners should be the ones paying this tax
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smurfblue40
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If this happened last night, we heard NOTHING about it on the news, and we are just outside of Sacramento.
I grew up in the Bay Area. It’s sad what it has turned into.
ev13wt
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We use APIs directly from vehicles to build actual tracking software, so... yes.
Sandy Johnson
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From the vehicles themselves or from their connected services provider? (ie OnStar or SYNC)
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We bought my wide a new Rav4 a couple years ago. I noticed it has a little icon that shows the posted speed limit. I told my wife that if it can do that, then its just a matter of time before that technology is used to control the limit of speed you can travel.
Sandy Johnson
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I think that would open whatever mfg up to lawsuit central the first time someone has a medical emergency, their driver is forced to drive 55 down a highway to the hospital and someone dies or has other issues as a result.
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But if it saves just one life.....
arse_sidewards
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The manufacturer will be forced to do it by the .gov and the .gov will claim immunity.
Sandy Johnson
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But if it saves just one life.....
Drove my kid to our local bike track for a birthday party this weekend. We took my wife's fancy new expedition. Turns out my 4 year old left his helmet in our garage, so as soon as I dropped everyone off, I had to turn around and do the 30 minute drive back to our house, get his helmet and drive back out again. First time I got to drive the wife's new ride without the family in it and an excuse to go fast. I REALLY hope big brother recorded that run somewhere because I made the round trip(plus running in to the garage to grab the helmet) in 45 minutes and boy oh boy that new car can boogie when it wants to.
Welcome to the age of 1mph over the limit speeding tickets.....
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I think you meant to say "when and where you can travel."
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Quit calling her "the wide" and you might live longer. 😆But if it saves just one life.....
bigun
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SanDiegoCJ
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Google is leaving San Francisco.
Google built a HUGE facility in Midlothian, TX and has been planning on bailing out of CA for a while. I was on that jobsite when they first broke ground 3 or 4 years ago and then again a few months ago for the final phase that included a 50' wall built around the entire property for security purposes. It's pretty wild to see in person...