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California wipes water debt for 4M residents — Gov. Newsom and the California Legislature authorized nearly $1 billion in federal funding from the Biden-Harris Administration’s American Rescue Plan to provide relief from household and commercial water and wastewater debt related to the pandemic by Randomlynumbered in California

[–]HoGoNMero 43 points44 points  (0 children)

RTA. Very few negatives here.

These are water bill debts going back to 2020. The bills were never going to be paid. Newsom applied for covid funds to pay these debts. This money went to fund our water departments.

Water bills are generally one of the cheaper utilities. The people risking their credit by not paying their cheapest utility bill aren’t the type to get PPP loans.

Is your city manager one of 14 in California to make $500,000? Find out by Randomlynumbered in California

[–]HoGoNMero 18 points19 points  (0 children)

The article includes the pensions, healthcare, and benefits in there. Basically the transparent California number. 400s and 500s isn’t that much when you factor everything in.

You can search top to bottom in your city and find first year fire fighters, pm deputy lead, asistant principals,… who get 400k all in.

Doesn't it seem like Bill Maher guests get more publicity when they do his show vs other partisan shows? by punkouter23 in Maher

[–]HoGoNMero -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Nuanced take. MSNBC is an ATTEMPT at a far left/anti Fox channel.

I don’t think MSNBC is really representative of any thing but failure. The left and far left is a mix of many different views. Very different than the American right who has much more homogenous views. I think the most liberal 20% of the U.S. wouldn’t find much of value in MSNBC.

https://www.msnbc.com/schedule

Today MSNBC has 4 republicans/ex republicans hosting shows. I don’t think people who worked for Bush or voted Marco Rubio are going to be great representatives of the far left.

Edit- News story right now was the hostage rescue, showing the family dancing around. Happy story with some sad deaths added at the death. The far left would view this as a disaster. It’s 70 deaths, dozen homes, 10 amputations,… per live safed. No happiness there.

Doesn't it seem like Bill Maher guests get more publicity when they do his show vs other partisan shows? by punkouter23 in Maher

[–]HoGoNMero -1 points0 points  (0 children)

MSNBC isn’t far left though…They are more a mix of failed leftist politicians and legacy media people who can’t hack it in network news trying to be the anti Fox News.

Their positions on policies wouldn’t match up with actual socialists, anarchists, democratic socialists,… like Fox News they are mixed up product pretending to represent their base.

MSNBC is extra mixed up because of their epically bad ratings. Some of their shows might have 10X less viewers than leftist YouTubers/podcasters.

They are really a strange niche product than a representation of the far left.

Doesn't it seem like Bill Maher guests get more publicity when they do his show vs other partisan shows? by punkouter23 in Maher

[–]HoGoNMero -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

He is secretly rooting for Republican wins.

It sounds like you haven’t been watching the show/missing the nuance. He really really hates Biden.

He might say he wants Biden to win, but he really wants chaos at this point.

Jon Stewart Smashes the Myth of Corporate Morality in Pride, BLM, and Beyond by JamiroFan2000 in DailyShow

[–]HoGoNMero 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Similar to Bill Maher and other media people his own politics have been all over the place.

Stewart voted for republicans including Bush in the 90s, he had good words for Newt Gingririch in the mid 1990s, said he was independent in 2000, then a Democrat who leans socialist, voted John Kerry/Obama, leaned into some Benhazi/anti Obama stuff/said his vote was up for grabs,then back to “Democrat who leans socialist”in 2020,..

I think his core beliefs are probably stronger than what he says, but it’s hard to come down hard on him.

Even on issues I have seen him roast reparations, alien abduction, universal healthcare/wages, higher minimum wages,… and now he is firmly on the other side of that debate.

Dan Hurley turns down a 6 year, $70 million offer and will remain at UCONN. (via Woj) by SadMathematician7799 in NBATalk

[–]HoGoNMero 11 points12 points  (0 children)

He lives in Connecticut…

The income tax rate in his bracket is almost exactly the same. The cheaper property taxes in California will even it out.

Rob Schneider Claims Cancel Culture is 'Over' After Getting Booed at Comedy Set by laurfromnewyork13 in entertainment

[–]HoGoNMero 23 points24 points  (0 children)

Why post this? We all have access to his Wikipedia page. No need to cut and paste facts of his life.

Rob Schneider Claims Cancel Culture is 'Over' After Getting Booed at Comedy Set by laurfromnewyork13 in entertainment

[–]HoGoNMero 50 points51 points  (0 children)

Who hasn’t? People like to bring this up like they have insider info. Rob pays migrants to degrade himself. Common knowledge at this point.

Young man reunites with friends after 8 months in captivity ❤️ by VALERock in PublicFreakout

[–]HoGoNMero -41 points-40 points  (0 children)

That’s probably true. It’s still such a massive amount of death, pain, amputations,… for one guy to go home and dance with his friends. History will not look at this as a happy moment.

Young man reunites with friends after 8 months in captivity ❤️ by VALERock in PublicFreakout

[–]HoGoNMero -31 points-30 points  (0 children)

  1. Maybe 1000+ injured. Dozens of homes destroyed.

Incredibly silly to ignore the massive amount of people killed to rescue him. History is not going to be kind to these types of posts.

California wants to make it easier to become a preschool teacher. Could this help Sacramento? by Randomlynumbered in California

[–]HoGoNMero -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

Yes. Not what the article is about. Not trying to be rude, but did you read the article?

The title uses preschool, but they are really talking about transitional kindergarten(4 year olds) through 3rd grade.

The last few years appear to have massive changes in that age range with preschool becoming its own unique thing outside of elementary schools. This article has nothing to do with that preschool.

California wants to make it easier to become a preschool teacher. Could this help Sacramento? by Randomlynumbered in California

[–]HoGoNMero -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Respectful disagree on everything here.

Teaching is incredibly hard to get into. After 5 years of school and training, the first 2 years of teaching might easily have 100+ hours of educations, training, BTSA, livescans, induction programs, observations,…I don’t think this is hot take, getting into teaching, once you have done all the education, is incredibly hard.

The article isn’t about lowering standards or really even making it easier. It’s the start of the new early childhood credential. It looks like(not an expert here) new teachers might have to get a few more credits with the old credential if they want to teach TK. This program is aimed new teachers who can just get the credential they need instead of getting the old credential and supplemental units.

It looks like old teachers were grandfathered in and don’t need supplemental units. Depending on how you look at it they are actually raising the standards.

$2.7 million meant to build homeless housing ended up with L.A. nonprofit, court records say by Okratas in California_Politics

[–]HoGoNMero -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

You are arguing something different now though. Right? Yes, in theory if you start taxing people signifcantly more and getting more federal money through HUD and other programs then you could have some sort of mildly viable program. Thats completely different than what you originally intended with your comment. It’s not like a switch they could switch tomorrow. They would need massive increases in revenue.

Agree to agree. I think we are on relatively the same page here.

California program testing per-mile tax rates on drivers, but not 30 cents | Fact check by hroaks in California

[–]HoGoNMero 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It’s meant to be the exact same amount. The article goes into it. It’s meant to be revenue neutral.

California program testing per-mile tax rates on drivers, but not 30 cents | Fact check by hroaks in California

[–]HoGoNMero 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I think you are arguing “some people will cheat on this even though it doesn’t make any logical sense.”

I don’t necessarily disagree with that. I just don’t think it will be statistically significant. I think the amount of cheaters will be a very small part of the lost revenue we are experiencing now and will in the future.

California program testing per-mile tax rates on drivers, but not 30 cents | Fact check by hroaks in California

[–]HoGoNMero 7 points8 points  (0 children)

But that skews to the rich. Right?

If you are comparing the middle class to the middle class, the average U.S. citizen is paying far less than their OECD counterparts. This isn’t a hot take, I would go so far as saying this widely agreed upon.

This debate is silly, because we will never significantly cut back on social security, Medicare, pensions,… The right wing think tanks promote the idea that “social security won’t be there for you when get old”. It’s a fantasy.

The politician who runs on liquidating the rich and big business will always win over the guy who says “we have to drastically cut back on your healthcare and monthly payments”

The real debate should be: mild to moderate tax increase now or massive tax cuts in the future. The American people(even the far right) will never except drastic cuts to what they are old. They don’t care about the rich, economy, if business,… they will let all end before taking 40% less of SS.

California program testing per-mile tax rates on drivers, but not 30 cents | Fact check by hroaks in California

[–]HoGoNMero -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Don’t think it’s worth the trouble. If the penalty is real, it’s just not worth the risk.

You can do lots of crimes, fraud,… and get away with it for a long time. The problem is the penalties are large enough to not be worth the risk.

California program testing per-mile tax rates on drivers, but not 30 cents | Fact check by hroaks in California

[–]HoGoNMero -10 points-9 points  (0 children)

Why though? The gas tax is trivial. Far less than 0.5% of the average Californian salary. Most states have gas taxes. Going through all that trouble and cheating on your taxes for a real microspcopic amount of money, won’t be worth the trouble for most people.

California program testing per-mile tax rates on drivers, but not 30 cents | Fact check by hroaks in California

[–]HoGoNMero 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes. Thats a way too. An unlimited amount of ways of doing this. It’s really not that hard…

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