That's not water temperature, is it? I am guessing it would be better for your precipitation
if it were.
The Unknown
lol I wish. But it's hot enough that the water will probably be a nice refresher, plus I've seen people surfing when it's in the 60s.
If a tree falls in the forest and nobody remembers it, who else will you have ice cream with?
California prosecutors revolt against Los Angeles DA’s social justice changes per Within weeks of taking office, Gascón instructed prosecutors to stop seeking the death penalty and trying juveniles as adults. He ordered a halt to most cash bail requests and banned prosecutors from appearing at parole hearings. Most controversially, he barred prosecutors from seeking various sentencing enhancements.
Eh, I dunno. The first part seems OK to me, the parts about enhancements and parole hearings is more questionable. The critics shouldn't say such things like “You can’t just use the law to implement your personal worldview of what society should look like,” because last I checked prosecutorial discretion is still a thing.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
Professional Writer & Amateur Scholar
Two random questions for an alternate history story.
Let's say someone living in San Francisco in the early 1900s predicts the San Francisco Earthquake.
1) How could've San Francisco in 1900 prepared for a massive earthquake (and resulting conflagration)?
2) If San Francisco managed to be prepared and reduced damage (let's say, about from 3,000 plus death and 250,000 homeless to 7,000 death and 50,000 homeless), how would that have changed California in the early 1920s? If I heard correctly, SF used to be the center of California until the earthquake utterly wrecked it and resulted in LA growing larger instead.
Edited by dRoy on Feb 9th 2021 at 5:26:39 AM
I'm a (socialist) professional writer serializing a WWII alternate history webnovel.
Don't want to leave but cannot pretend
...This might not be the right thread for that.
Trans rights are human rights. TV Tropes is not a place for bigotry, cruelty, or dickishness, no matter who or their position.
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Hey, there's a reason why the Random Question Thread in the Writer's Block have literally over two dozens links to other threads in this site, including ones in OTC. 
Edited by dRoy on Feb 9th 2021 at 5:55:38 AM
I'm a (socialist) professional writer serializing a WWII alternate history webnovel.
The problem with San Francisco is that there is no space, the city really cant get bigger than it is unless they build up. LA however had area to expand and continues to expand, enveloping other cities and such.
Professional Writer & Amateur Scholar
Oh yeah, good point. And a bad oversight on my part. XP
I'm a (socialist) professional writer serializing a WWII alternate history webnovel.
You know, how much surface does LA actually have to expand over? Lack of space has been blamed for the housing crisis but from reading articles (and Google Maps) I don't get the impression that it's the sole driving factor by a long shot.
Otherwise, following up on the prosecutors California district attorneys battle over Gascón policies and Several of D.A. George Gascón’s reforms blocked by L.A. County judge
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I'm suddenly reminded of the fact that California has THE hardest bar exam in the entire United States. ![[lol]](https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/lol2v12_4863.png "[lol]"){kind=small}
"Lillie"?
Possible terrorism?
"Lillie" looks a bit different today. I'm not sure why.
The story is also being reported on the local NBC affiliate and ABC News, for corroboration.
The driver of the vehicle is suspected to have been impaired while driving, which allegedly caused the incident, and is reported to have looked extremely distraught immediately after the crash. The area, a tunnel near San Diego City College, is known to serve as a makeshift shelter for some homeless residents, and some were near tents or belongings, although the police chief could not confirm if the victims were homeless.
So, let's hang an anchor from the sun... also my Tumblr
Sacramento Bee - California Supreme Court rules cash bail unconstitutional for defendants who can't afford it. Judges can still order a defendant detained without bail if they present "clear and convincing evidence" that the defendant is an immediate threat to public safety.
The Unknown
Newsom is facing a recall. Enough signatures have been collected.
The article mentions he might be able to hold on to his seat if we can properly transition back to normalcy before the recall goes through. (Certifying everything will take several months.) Our cases have been going down and we're targeting June 15 to open back up.
Edited by Karxrida on Apr 27th 2021 at 9:11:52 AM
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Let the political circus commence!
Funny, this morning I read an article that California now has the lowest COVID-19 incidence of the USA.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
The Unknown
The article even brings that up as a potential saving grace.
Honestly, as long as a Republican doesn't take over I don't care what happens to Newsom.
If a tree falls in the forest and nobody remembers it, who else will you have ice cream with?
State of Mind
Most of the party within and outside the state have thrown their support behind him. I'm pretty sure they're discouraging any Democrat from running so as to make this a choice between Newsom or a Republican backed by anti-vaxxers.
"What a century this week has been." - Seung Min Kim
Opinion piece: California Defies Doom With No. 1 U.S. Economy:
No one anticipated the latest data readout showing the Golden State has no peers among developed economies for expanding GDP, creating jobs, raising household income, manufacturing growth, investment in innovation, producing clean energy and unprecedented wealth through its stocks and bonds. All of which underlines Governor Gavin Newsom's announcement last month of the biggest state tax rebate in American history.
WERBUNG
By adding 1.3 million people to its non-farm payrolls since April last year — equal to the entire workforce of Nevada — California easily surpassed also-rans Texas and New York. At the same time, California household income increased $164 billion, almost as much as Texas, Florida and Pennsylvania combined, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. No wonder California's operating budget surplus, fueled by its surging economy and capital gains taxes, swelled to a record $75 billion.
If anything, Covid-19 accelerated California's record productivity. Quarterly revenue per employee of the publicly-traded companies based in the state climbed to an all-time high of $1.5 million in May, 63% greater than its similar milestone a decade ago, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. The rest of the U.S. was nothing special, with productivity among those members of the Russell 3000 Index, which is made up of both large and small companies, little changed during the past 10 years.
Productivity Revenue per employee
Source: Bloomberg Note: Second quarter 2012 data not available for California. More from Biden’s Europe Trip Is an End, Not a New Beginning Morgan Stanley Marks Office Space to Market A Vaccine the World Badly Needs Looks Better Than Ever Lordstown Mess Shows Short Sellers Aren't All Bad While pundits have long insisted California policies are bad for business, reality belies them. In a sign of investor demand, the weight of California companies in the benchmark S&P 500 Index increased 3 percentage points since a year ago, the most among all states, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. Faith in California credit was similarly superlative, with the weight of corporate bonds sold by companies based in the state rising the most among all states, to 12.5 percentage points from 11.7 percentage points, according to the Bloomberg Barclays U.S. Corporate Bond Index. Translation: Investors had the greatest confidence in California companies during the pandemic.
The most trusted measure of economic strength says California is the world-beater among democracies. The state’s gross domestic product increased 21% during the past five years, dwarfing No. 2 New York (14%) and No. 3 Texas (12%), according to data compiled by Bloomberg. The gains added $530 billion to the Golden State, 30% more than the increase for New York and Texas combined and equivalent to the entire economy of Sweden. Among the five largest economies, California outperforms the U.S., Japan and Germany with a growth rate exceeded only by China.
GDP Growth Top five economies
Source: Bloomberg Enlarging its No. 1 footprint with factory jobs, California GDP from manufacturing gained 13% over the past five years to $316 billion in 2020, an increase unmatched by any of the 10 largest manufacturing states: Texas was No. 2 with 9% growth, followed by Indiana at 8%, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. For all its bluster as being “best for business,'' Texas can't match California's innovation. California prosperity is rooted in its appeal as a worldwide destination for technology and health-care development. Of the 6,924 corporate locations in the state, 18% are research and development facilities, a ratio that easily beats the U.S. overall (11%), China (15%), U.K. (14%) and Japan (10%). Only Germany, at 19%, has a higher rate, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. The percentage of Texas facilities for R&D is less than half California's at 8.2%.
Corporate California also is the undisputed leader in renewable energy, with 26 companies worth $897 billion, or 36% of the U.S. industry, having reported 10% or more of their revenues derived from clean technology. No state comes close to matching the 21% of electricity derived from solar energy. Shares of these firms appreciated 282% during the past 12 months and 1,003%, 1,140% and 9,330% over two, five and 10 years, respectively, with no comparable rivals anywhere in the world, according to Bloomberg NEF. The same companies also increased their workforce 35% since 2019, almost tripling the rate for the rest U.S. overall and four times the global rate.
Perennial water shortages and devastating fires drive the perception of dystopia. But California reigns supreme with the GDP-equivalent of $40.2 billion derived from agriculture, forest and hunting in 2020. That's greater than the output from the next five largest states — Iowa, Washington, Illinois, Texas and Nebraska — combined, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
Even with the economic disruptions caused by the pandemic, California cemented its position as the No. 1 state for global trade, with its Los Angeles and Long Beach ports seeing growth that led all U.S. rivals for the first time in nine years in 2020. Much has been made of the state reporting its first yearly loss in population, or 182,000 last year. Had it not been for the Trump administration preventing new visas, depriving as many as 150,000 people from moving to California from other countries annually, the 2020 outcome would have been more favorable.
Even so, Republicans, opposed to Newsom's policies favoring immigration, criminal justice reform and greater benefits for housing, health and child care, want voters to decide whether he should be replaced in a potential recall election later this year. Former San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer, a Republican who is among those running to succeed him, said Newsom, a Democrat, hurt the state's small businesses.
That's not what the data shows. The 373 California-based companies in the Russell 2000 Index, which includes small-cap companies across the U.S., appreciated 39% the past two years and 85% since 2016, beating the benchmark's 34% and 67%, respectively. The same California companies reported revenue growth of 56% the past five years, dwarfing the benchmark's 34%, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. More important, California companies invested 16% of their revenues in R&D, or their future, when the rest of the U.S. put aside just 1%.
Investing in the future is California's way, the opposite of doom.
It really does seem like everyone takes every chance they can get to predict California's inevitable demise. They've been saying California's doomed for, what, over a decade now?
Though I do think we can do better than Newsom. Get some other Democrat in there.
The They who said it
It's such a perpetual drumbeat for the about fourteen years I've been politically aware about "this is going to be the thing that destroys California forever and makes Texas (or whichever state is being idolized that week) the new better California" at this point that I joke the other states are jealous.
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I assume that the constant mantra that "this is the time California is destroyed" has been going on ever since Governor Wilson angered enough people to make the CA-GOP virtually irrelevant as a statewide power back in the 90s, because it's mostly Republicans saying that.
Industrious Incisors
Woah, how bad do you have to be to kill the whole party in a state? These days, I can't imagine anything would reduce GOP enthusiasm, nor are there really more democrats thar haven't already been rallied against them.
The They who said it
Well, he backed Prop 187, which was one of those bills that targets undocumented immigrants which was in practice a way to be racist in a socially acceptable manner, and he instituted the three-strikes law, which disproportionally hits minority groups. (And also a bunch of other things, like defunding bilingual and ESL programs in schools) So he did less to anger republicans enough to desert him and much more to energize and anger minority communities, which were always a major part of California, making them extremely reliable voters out here where previously they hadn't been.
He also deregulated the energy companies, leading to the energy crisis that got Davis recalled (and was not until during Schwarzenegger's term pointed out to be much more Wilson's fault that it happened in the first place, and that Davis had actually handled the crisis correctly.)
So while he was popular in his time, the actions he took weakened the CA-GOP over the next few years, and rendered them pretty much irrelevant by 2010. He still shows up in Pro-Recall ads and things though, because the CA-GOP still likes him for some reason. (probably the quiet racism.)
Yeah, Republicans keep on saying California's doomed, California's doomed, they cannot fathom a state that doesn't run itself on the principles of Whites America First.
And it is just as alien to the Republicans that we keep on rejecting their ugly, bigoted message time and again.
Edited by NickTheSwing on Jun 14th 2021 at 7:12:31 AM
Sign on for this After The End Fantasy RP.
California’s COVID-19 vaccinations rise as U.S. struggles. Does the lottery deserve credit?
In less serious news, today is a good beach day for SoCal residents. The high for the coast is up to 84 depending on your location.
If a tree falls in the forest and nobody remembers it, who else will you have ice cream with?