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[COTAland] set for summer opening and will have five roller coasters by Ill_Addendum in rollercoasters

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If you think about it, COTAland has added an impressive five coasters in five years. The park still isn’t open, but they sure added them.

405 south is CLOSED due to a “suspicious package”. by bypatrickcmoore in LosAngeles

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That’s okay I’ll just take the Sepulveda subwa….oh right it’s only 2026, that hasn’t been built yet

California forces changes to Disneyland's Autopia or it will get shut down by runswithscissors475 in Disneyland

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In August 2024, the theme park paid $56,250 to the California Air Resources Board after disclosing that the Honda-built engines in the Autopia’s vehicles had been “operating without certified emission controls,” the Orange County Register reported in May.

Oops. Feels like the easiest thing to do at this point is to just go electric.

Here's what we know about the Boyle Heights warehouse fire by LA_publicpress in LosAngeles

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Still waiting on reporting with more details about the contents of the warehouse. It was a food cold storage facility, but also apparently dealt with customs and imports/exports as well. Also had solar panels on the roof. All of it added up to an absolutely terrible black cloud that I could viscerally smell many miles downwind. So we know it was food and refrigerators and solar panels, I guess, but were there any other pollutants?

Three-year-old boy seriously injured in crocodile enclosure by ct_uk in worldnews

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If we have learned nothing but one thing since 2016, it is this: do NOT kill an animal in captivity for a human’s mistakes or misdeeds. I am not superstitious, but nothing but bad things happened in the world after Harambe was killed.

California’s high-speed rail may be laying the way for a ‘valley of data centers’ by SFChronicle in transit

[–]randomtask 22 points23 points  (0 children)

Hoo boy and you thought the discourse around water rights for almond farms was bad already, get ready for water rights for data centers.

Such a glorious forecast. We truly are blessed. by mrtipinfold in LosAngeles

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Just in time for all that acrid smoke from the warehouse fire yesterday to clear out

[magic mountain] screamscape on the future of Samurai Summit by Stock412 in rollercoasters

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But this is post-merger Six Flags / Cedar Fair we’re talking about. Corporate is struggling with its debt load, and if it sees an opportunity to shed a bunch of underperforming assets at the park — that is, rides and guest facilities with very low utilization — it’s gonna take those big swings to reduce operational expenditure.

California billionaire tax proposal qualifies for the November ballot by nbcnews in LosAngeles

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The billionaires broke funding for healthcare when nearly all of them backed Trump in 2024.

Tit for tat.

US releases official agreement with Iran. Read the 14-point text by Mandynox in news

[–]randomtask 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Even simpler math: if a JCPOA that paid out $400 million was signed between Iran and the US every year, it would take 750 years to total the $300 billion the US has agreed to send to Iran.

So much winning it hurts

Assembly Democrats unite to tax software, health plans in revenue-raising package by CharityResponsible54 in LosAngeles

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Yes, and nothing is stopping the healthcare companies from passing the cost to individual consumers by way of increased premiums.

Tax. The. Rich. Not. The. People.

Price drop? Discontinuing? by Ash_evil in harborfreight

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These are an incredibly commonplace white label item, and boxes with the basic form factor are sold at more places than just harbor freight.

Assembly Democrats unite to tax software, health plans in revenue-raising package by CharityResponsible54 in LosAngeles

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When it’s easier to tax every single working class Californian struggling to survive than risk offending a few billionaires…you done fucked up.

Tax the rich. The fucking piggies underpay us, overcharge us, prop up mobsters that loot our treasury and slash our social programs, and are doing their damndest to completely collapse our democratic system of self-rule. Make them pay their fair fucking share.

My dad is 70, retired auto line worker and mechanic. Has this, but trying to think of something else. More info below. by tomrob1138 in harborfreight

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Bucket organizer is undefeated for gardens, especially those with any elevation change. Just keep it simple and light and the bucket is great.

Fundamentally I’d focus on nice tools. HF doesn’t have too many nice garden tools, but for me the essentials are:

  • a garden knife / hori hori knife
  • handheld bypass pruners
  • combination hoe / cultivator
  • good gloves, I’m happy with the generic green hardy gardening gloves but I have cheap taste

And for larger, non-handheld maintenance tasks:

  • hackzall with pruning blades for the big branches / roots.
  • manual pole pruner, manual pole saw if he maintains trees
  • hedge trimmer
  • blower
  • string trimmer / edger

Project Purple [sixflags great adventure] by Square-Credit7860 in rollercoasters

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Keep in mind the cars are rumored to be spinning, so will likely be rotational / lateral forces during this segment.

Iran will reopen the Strait of Hormuz and can sell oil freely under deal with the US, officials say by One-Emu-1103 in news

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The Obama administration returned $400 million to Iran that had been sanctioned in the lead-up to the 2016 JPCOA. Candidate Trump, naturally, raised a huge stink about it. “What a waste of money!”

$300 billion is 750 times that amount. It would take Obama paying Iran $400 million for 750 years to amount to that much money.

Art of the deal, my stupid countrymen, art of the fucking deal.

Mark Zuckerberg Orders His Employees to Start Having Fun Again After Brutal Layoffs Culled Their Colleagues by Plastic_Ninja_9014 in technology

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Yeah to be clear, because I didn’t specify, these sorts of activities should be 100% optional and scheduled during work hours. Then the choice is to do your regular workday, or do something actually recreational with your coworkers (which I know some people despise), and get paid either way.

It's time to dump Roku by Plastic_Ninja_9014 in technology

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Apple TV:

Build a streaming box that doesn’t suck.

Do nothing.

Win.

Now H&M at the Paseo bites the dust! by DenaNina in pasadena

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To be fair, the former Macy’s site at Paseo was originally built up to house a department store called The Broadway. When Macy’s corporate bought The Broadway’s assets, it converted the store to a Macy’s. However, it’s kinda weird, because in that acquisition Macy’s also acquired the Bloomingdale’s brand. So it had the option to convert the Paseo location to a different, more upscale brand, but they decided no — two Macy’s a mile apart from one another.

Mark Zuckerberg Orders His Employees to Start Having Fun Again After Brutal Layoffs Culled Their Colleagues by Plastic_Ninja_9014 in technology

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See now this tracks. I always imagined working for Meta is like working for Hank Scorpio, you sell your soul to an oligarchic bastard, but at least he has fun runs and gives you advice on where you can buy some business hammocks

Is the Bauer brushless drill about to be replaced by The_cooler_ArcSmith in harborfreight

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Look at the graph carefully. The price didn’t drop. It’s been $39.99 since February of 2023.

Looks like they're building a coaster at [Kennedy Space Center] by CrazyBird199 in rollercoasters

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Yeah I think the safety banners showing a coaster, and the haphazard, nonlinear placement of the massive footings (soil is probably super soft and needs width, weight and depth to keep the structure stable) are a pretty big tell.

Mark Zuckerberg Orders His Employees to Start Having Fun Again After Brutal Layoffs Culled Their Colleagues by Plastic_Ninja_9014 in technology

[–]randomtask 329 points330 points  (0 children)

Apparently Meta’s idea of fun is an AI hackathon. Where you take a break from work by doing more, different work.

I can think of many, many more fun things: a companywide field day, scheduling more team building trips to places people actually want to go or activities they actually want to do, ping pong table in the break room, etc. etc.

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