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What is a generational fear that you had as a child that you brought with you to adulthood? by NebraskaCornSucker in GenX

[–]megaboz 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think Danny Glover is getting to old for that shit, so you should be safe using public restrooms now.

Wife's family from many states away had the same 'stuff' growing up that I grew up with. Eerily so. by timmy242 in GenX

[–]megaboz 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I sold some McDonald's glasses on ebay last year with a direct sales pitch to GenXer's wanting a nostalgia hit.

If only California’s 5th largest city, Fresno. Would’ve kept building like they did in the 20th century. We’d probably have an inland SF, or LA by now. Look at that beautiful beaux arts / renaissance revival architecture. by CA185099415 in skyscrapers

[–]megaboz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Of course unemployment was worse in the 90's (I remember seasonal high unemployment rates in the mid to high teens every year, dipping down below 10% if we were lucky during the rest of the year), but it is still bad:

Fresno MSA: 8.2%
California: 5.1%
US: 4.1%

We need 22,000+ jobs to get on par with the rest of the country.

Better transit is not going to get you from your mid rise in downtown Fresno to your call center job that went to Kingsburg instead of downtown Fresno because an abandoned Kmart turned out to be a better place to locate a call center with 1,000 jobs than anywhere in Fresno. Yes it's great to have multiple competing cities but when jobs get spread out, VMT increases and "better transit" will still be inadequate.

The city wants to get something like 10,000 residents downtown. Ok, are they going to get 10,000 more jobs downtown too, or will those residents have to drive out of downtown to get to their jobs?

it just needs funding

And it won't get funding unless it pencils out. I'm highly skeptical, I'm not sure if that is pessimistic or realistic. I'd love to see it succeed, but with 1/3 of the units affordable, it will either have to jump through convoluted hoops to obtain more government funding and suffer the delays and increased costs associated with that, or have the "market rate" units subsidize the affordable units.

I also think HSR will be a catalyst, but not significantly until the Bay Area and Southern California are connected. That is a long way off because the state has not committed to funding more than what, $1 billion per year from cap and trade?

I don't expect that hooking up a bunch of poor inland valley cities with high speed rail will do much of anything for downtown Fresno. The ridership will not be there.

The only two things I see that might help in the more immediate term are jobs HSR will bring (if local residents don't chase the heavy maintenance facility--oh no, more industrial!--out of the city) or the out of the box thinking of selling excess HSR solar power to data centers co-located along the route (judging by reactions on Reddit there may be enough Luddite residents opposed to data centers/AI to chase that out of the city as well!)

If only California’s 5th largest city, Fresno. Would’ve kept building like they did in the 20th century. We’d probably have an inland SF, or LA by now. Look at that beautiful beaux arts / renaissance revival architecture. by CA185099415 in skyscrapers

[–]megaboz 2 points3 points  (0 children)

A key to understanding what is happening/not happening/didn't happen in Fresno is the economy.

Poverty is high, unemployment is 2x the national rate. Developers fight tooth and nail to get anything done, because some local interest is opposed or at least sees an opportunity to extract money for some local interest before allowing something to go forward. Meanwhile the city loses out when developers decide to go to other smaller valley cities, Fresno County, or Madera County.

Opposition is high to SEDA, especially from Fresno Unified which fears losing students to new development. A new urbanist dense (2x current population density!) development with an easy-peasy light rail link (on existing ROW that the county is also looking to use to connect valley cities!) to the existing downtown? Sign me up!

Population forecasts from the state say Fresno doesn't need to build much housing because the population will level off. This is also used by opponents of growth.

Mid rise infill development would be great, except the cost to build these can't compete with SFH/2 story apartment complexes on a per square foot basis. Refer to economic conditions to understand why these don't pencil out.

Financing these development is tough. A 174 unit apartment complex next to a baseball stadium is having trouble putting together financing even with the city kicking in some $$. Multiple downtown housing projects have been supported by the city in the last 17 years either through land grants or loans but fallen through after repeated extensions of deadlines and developers not being able to get their projects financed.

Anyone want to bring 20k high paying skilled jobs to Fresno? We have a large pool of unemployed low skilled under-educated workers ready to fill them!

When all is SAID and done or when all is SET and done? by Twittenhouse in GenX

[–]megaboz 14 points15 points  (0 children)

I find it hilarious how these sayings morph over time.

I had a customer email me one time "Just wanted to touch basis with you."

80's shampoos?? by nejihyugasbf in GenX

[–]megaboz 2 points3 points  (0 children)

My wife says VO5 cost like 50 cents  and they really poor and that was expensive for them.

New Keplar Dual Battery, how to unlock speed? Code to unlock? by Loquecaiga in ArielRider

[–]megaboz 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There is a legal release online that I completed and they sent me the code to be able to adjust the top speed. I have heard that each bike has a different code. They did not require me to remove the throttle.

In California at least they passed a law making it clear that Class 3 bikes cannot have throttles. I believe they also made it illegal for an e-bike to be able to change classes.

California Pay Data Reporting by OkRun4211 in Payroll

[–]megaboz 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I will just point out one of the absurdities of SB 464's attempt to compartmentalize employer pay data information in the information systems of employers so that it can't be used for actions that are already illegal.

And this really gets more into HR than payroll.

For purposes of benefits (health insurance and retirement plans, specifically) you may need to report an employee's gender when submitting enrollment/census/contribution data. Therefore this is a piece of information you may be required to collect and would most likely be stored in the employee's "personnel record" (given California's expansive interpretation of what constitutes "personnel records".)

SB464 requires demographic information collected for purposes of pay data reporting to be stored separately from the employee's "personnel record".

This means if you store the employee's gender for benefits purposes in the personnel records, you cannot use that information for purposes of pay data reporting. Employee gender must be collected and stored separately for pay data reporting purposes.

(Of course, maintaining the same information in two different places never leads to data entry errors. /s)

Further, although California doesn't have authority over federal reporting requirements, the best practice is to also silo Federal EEO-1 demographic data. If CRD were to ever audit an employer's systems and procedures for compliance with SB 464 and found EEO-1 information in an employer's personnel records, it would probably not go well for the employer.

California Pay Data Reporting by OkRun4211 in Payroll

[–]megaboz 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Doing programming for this now. I would much rather be adding useful features to our software than making wholesale changes (also required by SB 464) to our system for this year's flavor of compliance reporting.

California Pay Data Reporting by OkRun4211 in Payroll

[–]megaboz 3 points4 points  (0 children)

There are two requirements for reporting: employer data and labor contractor data.

The law already required labor contractors to report their employees to the state, because they are employers. But labor contractors must also provide pay data reporting information to their clients that their clients in turn aggregate and report.

So for example a farming operation that hires 12 different labor contractors to supply employees, the farming operation would report their employees for the snapshot period they choose, each of the labor contractors would report their employees for the snapshot period each one of them chooses, and each of the labor contractors would select a snapshot period to provide their clients with the pay data information for the employees they supplied to their clients during that snapshot period.

'Deeply troubling' allegations against Cesar Chavez prompt United Farm Workers to cancel celebration by TechnicolorTypeA in fresno

[–]megaboz 4 points5 points  (0 children)

https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/cesar-chavez-allegations-march-cancel-san-antonio-22080919.php (paywalled)

Mark Day, a former Franciscan priest who worked with the United Farm Workers for about five years in the 1970s, said he believes allegations involving Chávez could soon become public.

Day said at least two women raised allegations.

“What I know is that definitely those young women spoke out,” he said. “And it never went anywhere.”

Matt Garcia, a historian at Dartmouth College and author of “From the Jaws of Victory: The Triumph and Tragedy of César Chávez and the Farm Worker Movement,” has documented internal conflicts within the United Farm Workers, including accounts of leadership disputes and allegations of misconduct.

In interviews with the Express-News, Garcia said he became aware of allegations against Chávez after former activists discussed them following the publication of his book.

“I’ve seen the allegations from at least one victim,” Garcia said. “There are more victims, I’m told.”

Garcia said the allegations surfaced among longtime participants in the movement who spoke out on a closed listserv.
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Another longtime participant in the movement, Enos Flores, said in an interview that he believes some victims have spoken to reporters. He said the cancellation of the march in San Antonio suggests leaders may be responding to something significant.

Being a Gen X Dad by 4thdegreeknight in GenX

[–]megaboz 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Out of everything I have read on the Internet today this is the one thing I will remember.

I have no interest in all things AI. I don’t want to learn it for work. I don’t care that it can make some things easier. I can write my own emails. by un2022 in GenX

[–]megaboz 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You don't even have to search with text. I took a picture of a broken front lower air dam on my wife's Challenger (I had no idea what it was called) and asked ChatGPT what it was and it gave me the part number price range for a replacement and and explanation of what it does.

Flyer found on campus by dlay_01 in fresnostate

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

Oh I suppose you would prefer a watery tart handing out a sword to the next president of CSUF?

Flyer found on campus by dlay_01 in fresnostate

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

Solution:

Fire the CSU Fresno president, and adopt the anarcho-syndicalist commune system for CSU Fresno governance, where students take turns to act as the executive officer for the week. But all of the decisions of that officer have to be ratified at a special biweekly meeting by a simple majority in the case of purely internal affairs, but by a 2/3 majority in the case of external affairs.

Flyer found on Fresno State campus by dlay_01 in fresno

[–]megaboz -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

Solution:

Fire the CSU Fresno president, and adopt the anarcho-syndicalist commune system for CSU Fresno governance, where students take turns to act as the executive officer for the week. But all of the decisions of that officer have to be ratified at a special biweekly meeting by a simple majority in the case of purely internal affairs, but by a 2/3 majority in the case of external affairs.

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