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Maajmaaj, in California homeless' right to camp in spotlight for Supreme Court

If you aren’t going to house the unhoused, leave them the fuck alone when the unhoused figure out their own shelter wherever they can.

thedevisinthedetails, in People’s Park in Berkeley Again Under Threat

Ohh please. They’re building 1,100 units of housing for students and 125 unit for the homeless while preserving the park for community use.

These “Save XYZ” people are always the same. They want nothing to change and they consider housing to be displacement.

They’re regressivism/conservatism/urban sprawl disguised as progressive action. Nothing could be further from the truth.

Students need housing. The homeless need housing. This is land that UC owns and can use for this. It’s expensive enough to build housing as it is.

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BaldProphet, in The Six States of California
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Lol, over half of "Silicon Valley" is just the Central Coast. To those that don't know, it's mostly farmland.

ThePowerOfGeek, in The Six States of California

They keep tabling these stupid proposals, and the majority of the electorate keeps telling them to piss off. And rightly so. This would only weaken the state as a whole, which is exactly what the goal is. It’s nothing but a selfish power-grab by a small number of wealthy malcontents, with a bunch of rubes blindly following in their wake.

If people who keep promoting these nonsense proposals don’t like California the way it is they should leave the state.

Kbobabob, in The Six States of California

What’s with all the dumb sidenotes? This reads like a 14 year old that’s mad at California, lol.

metallic_substance,

I was wondering the same thing. Wtf is with the pedophile theme?

JJROKCZ, in California Is Free of Extreme Drought Conditions for the First Time in 3 Years

Just took a hurricane to fix it lol

ALilOff, in Missing California woman Lisa Hu found safe 8 years after disappearance

TLDR:

Lisa Hu was reported missing by her family in 2015. There is no foul play currently suspected. Lisa had recently contacted her mother and the both of them requested that she will be removed from the missing persons archive within Oakland.

Lisa did not share where she has been within the last 8 years.

MrZee, in Injury of robotaxi passenger prompts a pause on company expansion

Jesus Christ. These events demonstrate that the vehicles are unable to handle unique situations. Is there any other conclusion you can draw except that they are not ready for the road? One of the cars failed to yield to an emergency vehicle and ended up colliding with it and injuring the passenger. They don’t handle road work sign instructions. These aren’t even uncommon scenarios.

How are they allowed to keep these things on the road? Their response to these events is the cut the fleet in half for a while. And the article implies that the city is to allow that. WTF. Shouldn’t the response be “your software is not ready. The taxis must be manned until you show that the vehicles can handle unique situations on the road”.

Edit: I don’t live in the area and haven’t been keeping up on the development of these taxis. My reaction is just based on the article. I’d truly be interested if anyone knows more about how how we ended up here or if the article is leaving out important details.

Mojojojo1993,

Funny thing is. Humans do all those things and more. Yet we can’t stop them driving. As long as driverless cars are better than the worse human drivers we have a win.

Plus I don’t want to sit in traffic. There will be deaths. Always are but there are more deaths due to incompetent drivers at the moment. It’s a tough line as humans will rightfully criticize a human for killing their love ones. Who takes blame when driverless kills us ?

Insurance needs adjusting and systems need adjusting.

Fails safes need to be in place and we the public need to be at the top of the pecking order. Cars should never drive into us.

MrZee,

Are these driverless cars better than human drivers? Looking at the article, I see 3 incidents in one week across 300 or less cars. I don’t know what the rate is for similar incidents in human drivers but it seems like it would be quite a bit lower of a rate.

Mojojojo1993,

How many driverless cars were on the road ?.on their first day. Yeah I think 3 isn’t too bad. How many deaths were there on that day. It’s not going to be perfect on day 1. Nothing is perfect out the gate. Decades of research

MrZee,

Are we talking about the same thing? Did you read the article? This is about cars deployed by the Cruise driverless car company. Base on the article it is 300 or less cars that caused 3 incidents in the course of 1 week.

Mojojojo1993,

Of course I did read a bit of the article b just couldn’t remember. I’m talking in general though. Lots of driverless cars kicking about

MrZee,

Ah. Gotcha. My points were specific to the taxi company and the rate of incidents for their vehicles, not driverless cars in general.

Mojojojo1993,

Oh no I get that but lots of these companies existed and roll have similar issues

Ottomateeverything,

I think a lot of the problems here stem from people’s misunderstanding of the differences between these systems - mostly the people governing them.

Having ridden in all three, Tesla’s software is a fucking joke and shouldn’t be even remotely in the same field as the other two. Cruise feels borderline, but clearly they’re having severe issues. Waymo actually feels safer than most Uber drivers anyway.

You can’t just write general rules against all of these. Either you need different classes with clear distinctions, or you need standards/rules they have to pass.

But I find it extremely unlikely that our politicians can be bothered to actually learn the distinctions here.

eltimablo,

Which Tesla stack did you use? If it was the old, pre-beta one, I agree that was trash, but the FSD beta is an insane improvement.

Changetheview, in Editorial: Turn office buildings into apartments to beat housing crisis - Los Angeles Times

So many benefits from zoning changes on top of the use of the building that would just go to waste. Putting a workforce and consumer base in the heart of retail areas, decreasing traffic, increasing community responsibility, and making it easier to get and give jobs. Giving people a roof even if they’ve been priced out of traditional housing. Using valuable resources that otherwise sit dormant and bankrupt, straining lending institutions, lowering tax revenue, and resulting in unmaintained, unowned buildings. Of course there will be a need to cover conversion costs, but the benefits that can come from this, both direct and indirect, are going to be massive. I hope the program gets the support it needs to thrive.

ganksy, in ‘Many’ arrests as police descend on pro-Palestine encampment at UCSC
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Imagine the feeling of putting on soldiers armor and gathering weapons to assault “violent” protesters. Then show up to see the unarmed kids and women you were there to assault.

I couldn’t imagine living through the shame without quitting that second.

BaldProphet,
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There were multiple medical emergencies on-campus that paramedics couldn't respond to because the protesters blocked their entrance. If you were a "good cop" you'd be damn proud to get this rabble out of the street.

applepie, in ‘Many’ arrests as police descend on pro-Palestine encampment at UCSC

Well it is a private school, so genocide support is deff their MO

HootinNHollerin,

It’s a state school not a private school

applepie,

Misread for USC. You are right

apfelwoiSchoppen, in ‘Many’ arrests as police descend on pro-Palestine encampment at UCSC
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ACAB

I_Fart_Glitter, in On the Russian River, a Slow Road to Good Fire - Bay Nature

I get why people are nervous about prescribed burns, even though they are the answer. Yesterday there was a plume of smoke from a barn fire in Petaluma that was extremely visible three towns over. People were pulling over to the side of the road to get out their cars freak out and stare at it and ask each other if they knew what it was and check for Nixles and Watch Duty alerts. We’re a bit jumpy about smoke around here.

brbposting, in Amid roadkill epidemic, California builds world’s largest wildlife bridge | The construction is meant to give threatened animals a path over a 10-lane freeway instead of through it
irreticent, in California’s General Sherman, the world’s largest tree, may be at risk
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TL;DR:

“California wildfires aren’t the only thing killing the state’s majestic giant sequoia trees. So is a little-known bark beetle”

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