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    Facebook's free food banned as Silicon Valley restaurants hit back

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    38 minutes ago, Jason said:

     

    A six-figure salary is considered 'low income' in San Francisco, and the threshold is rising

     

    San Francisco: Where a six-figure salary is 'low income'

    These lunches are aimed primarily at software engineers and similar white collar roles, who have new college graduates start over $100k/year at average companies with kids from average CS programs. Provided lunches aren't for the janitors or other blue collar types, who really do struggle in the Bay area. These people are on track to make a stupid amount of money, and can set themselves up to move across country in a similar role for at something like 80% pay for a 50% COL adjustment. I'm not going to mourn the loss of this untaxed perk for those who literally are in the best career track possible today when there are real issues with poverty and the cost of living in the Bay area.

    9th circuit court rules that Hawaii's open carry ban violates the Second Amendment

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    2 hours ago, osxmatt said:

     

    I have a friend who I’ve know for the past 10-12 years. His family moved to the mainland from Hawaii when he was in 8th grade.

     

    According to him, Hawaii isn’t even a state. It’s an illegal occupation. I’ve never dug too much, but he brings it up every chance he has.

    We did kinda overthrow the Hawaiian monarchy so white people could grow sugar. So there's that.

    Brave 2A-er stands his ground while harassing a family in parked vehicle, shoots dad, is not charged

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    23 minutes ago, SaysWho? said:

    Listening to the Sheriff talk about, "Sure, he may have been a jerk or a thorn in people's side," really rubbed me the wrong way.

     

    Like... I don't think a guy who murdered someone and threatened weeks ago to shoot another person should be talked about as possibly "a thorn in people's side."

    The thorn is a 9mm

    9th circuit court rules that Hawaii's open carry ban violates the Second Amendment

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    9 minutes ago, skillzdadirecta said:

    Yeah and Reagan and the NRA violated their second amendment "rights" and tried to take their guns away... the one time the NRA supported gun control.

     

    https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/nra-california-open-carry-ban/

     

    I do wonder why.

    Just like when they were silent a couple of years ago when philando castile was shot after he told a cop he had a firearm. Something just wasn't quite white about it

    The Arctic is on fire, and you can see it from space

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    1 hour ago, SFLUFAN said:

    At least 74 killed in wildfires in Greece.

     

    The worst wildfire to hit Greece in over a decade tore through a small resort town near Athens on Monday afternoon, killing at least 74 people, injuring almost 200 and forcing hundreds more to rush on to beaches and into the sea as the blaze devoured houses and cars.  Huge, fast-moving flames trapped families with children as they tried to flee from Mati, 18 miles (29km) east of the Greek capital. Among the dead were 26 people whose bodies were found huddled tightly together close to the beach, a Red Cross official said on Tuesday morning.

     

     

     

     

    NPR: Getting To Know The DSA

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    6 minutes ago, CitizenVectron said:

    Being afraid of the end-game of a group and allowing it to prevent you from implementing any of their goals is basically cowardice. The US needs more socialism. Does it need end-game socialism? Probably not. But it needs democratic socialism like Canada or to an even greater extend the Scandinavian countries. Those nations haven't slid into Marxism.

    Those countries haven't. What Republicans are saying (and this axiom is always true) is that under a socialist government, they will take the country to a totalitarian end game.

    Trump administration to attempt to revoke California's authority to regulate auto emissions

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    1 minute ago, Jason said:

     

    But the Clean Air Act is also super unusual in naming a specific state (California) as getting a waiver. So on the one hand that would certainly seem to strengthen the idea that he can't just take away California's waiver since it's specifically provided, but I also wonder if that has any bearing on whether that part of the CAA would hold up to a court challenge?

    Where in the act does it specifically call out California? I could see this portion of the act being thrown out because it gives California something that other states have, and that I believe is unconstitutional

    Trump administration to attempt to revoke California's authority to regulate auto emissions

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    23 minutes ago, SFLUFAN said:

    @b_m_b_m_b_m - I see!

     

    So the Administration would have to essentially get the court overturn to that portion of the Clean Air Act...or even the entire Act as a whole.

    Striking down this provision would probably take some interesting mental gymnastics, given that the court seems to be somewhat deferential to Congress if Congress passes a constitutional law. And here, Congress is fairly specific in that the administrator shall issue a waiver unless some very specific conditions are met.

     

    Striking down the whole law, though, would be less shocking. Auto manufacturers would hate it, and so would every state not named California, as auto manufacturers would default to them as standard, as having multiple skus would be cost prohibitive. Striking down the clean air act with respect to the ICC would be huge also. In that case, virtually any law passed by Congress under the guise of interstate commerce would go out the window. 

     

    Makes me think that a direct tax on given pollutants would be more constitutionally tenable, but that would require a functioning government.

    Trump administration to attempt to revoke California's authority to regulate auto emissions

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    14 minutes ago, SFLUFAN said:

    Sorry, I should've been far more specific in that I meant the California standards.

    The clean air act specifically allows state waivers to federal preemption

     

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    (a) Prohibition
    No State or any political subdivision thereof shall adopt or attempt to enforce any standard relating to the control of emissions from new motor vehicles or new motor vehicle engines subject to this part. No State shall require certification, inspection, or any other approval relating to the control of emissions from any new motor vehicle or new motor vehicle engine as condition precedent to the initial retail sale, titling (if any), or registration of such motor vehicle, motor vehicle engine, or equipment.

    (b) Waiver
    (1) The Administrator shall, after notice and opportunity for public hearing, waive application of this section to any State which has adopted standards (other than crankcase emission standards) for the control of emissions from new motor vehicles or new motor vehicle engines prior to March 30, 1966, if the State determines that the State standards will be, in the aggregate, at least as protective of public health and welfare as applicable Federal standards. No such waiver shall be granted if the Administrator finds that—
    (A) the determination of the State is arbitrary and capricious,
    (B) such State does not need such State standards to meet compelling and extraordinary conditions, or
    (C) such State standards and accompanying enforcement procedures are not consistent with section 7521(a) of this title.
    (2) If each State standard is at least as stringent as the comparable applicable Federal standard, such State standard shall be deemed to be at least as protective of health and welfare as such Federal standards for purposes of paragraph (1).
     

     

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