jwbee.bsky.social
Notorious GIS reply guy
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I will come to your hearing, Berkeley politician
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Simply make your building 45% stairs.
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PARC and DEC WRL were both in Palo Alto, HP was founded in Palo Alto (as was Google) ... I think it is firmly in.
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Sounds about right to me. The exact centroid of SV is the Sunnyvale landfill.
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I mailed a Form 13909 referral to the IRS referencing this. BNC says they spent the equivalent of their entire annual budget on this event, and spent 2 hrs telling people how to lobby city council, what petitions to sign, etc. Clearly lobbying, probably over the 20% threshold for a 501(c)(3).
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This superfund site has pollutants that Silicon Valley can only dream of.
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The dissonance of this panel consisted of the conflicting claims that middle housing produces only a few hundred units over a decade, but at the same time middle housing will eradicate Black Berkeley and destroy the ecosphere.
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Most of the people who spoke at this thing are either election losers like Moore and Harrison or ex-commissioners who lost their commission when their patrons lost elections. But they didn't get the message, apparently.
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Narrator: Berkeley rejected this individual less than a year ago.
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The only YouTube channel I actually subscribe to :-(
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Why/how would there be children at the invitation-only libertarian exclave? Will they grow them in vats?
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Yup. That's the place! The basic one was so good.
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So we actually won't know.
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The one that really hit me in the feels was "no taxation without representation" 😂
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Be on the lookout for a 2A nut in a baseball cap.
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Oh uh those racks are still there in my imagination of the concourse, but since you put it that way I am now plunged into doubt.
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Yes, the BikeLink area is 24x7. The valet is closed Saturday.
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The Dallas police? A person in Dallas can definitely carry all these weapons on their person in public, unless they are a convicted felon or other special cases.
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From the bottom up we have cable, telco, fiber, telegraph(?), low voltage, high voltage. The 16 crossing telegraph wires are the ones I was referring to. Superficially, they have no purpose. They aren't tapped anywhere. Your point is exactly what I meant: I bet nobody knows who holds this easement.
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I'm going with "or". Can't think of any reason for cops in shiestys.
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Yeah now I am starting to wonder if we all live on the same block 😂
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Yikes. Maybe the state should reform adverse possession laws such that if you improve a PG&E facility, it becomes yours.
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We undergrounded utilities in my old neighborhood in Oakland. I think it was $45k per door.
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I'm imagining they are owned by the heirs of the Manifest Destiny Electric Tele-Graph Company, the last surviving shareholder of which can be found in an iron lung in Erie County, and there is some special federal law controlling their removal.
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No idea but the tax exemption expires on Jan 1, 2027 so if they don't finish it by then they'll be bankrupt, right?
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The quality is terrible. I think it's easier to identify definite positives than to try to mass-produce a list. For example the Toyota dealer in Berkeley is a definite, out-loud Trumper and that can be easily documented from FEC database.
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All the people who grinded through decades-long permit ordeals in the near past must be pissed.
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I mentioned it in one of these skeets but it's further from my house than I care to walk!
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No, but our amazing municipal code requires historical evaluation for any demolition of a commercial structure more than 40 years old. So any Reagan-era 7-11 store triggers the additional cost and complexity of a professional evaluation.
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I feel like the later verses of the Battle Hymn of the Republic are underappreciated. It keeps getting more metal.
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Yeah the aesthetic here is mixed between this one building, that looks awesome, and a bunch of old junk that we should definitely bulldoze.
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It is without any doubts the very best building on this block. Unquestionably for the occupants, debatably for the passersby, but the passersby have little stake in the issue.
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This looks like an S-tier gulag to me.
Perhaps you meant "Soviet breeding cages" or one of the other more colorful epithets?
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True enough. The building was just one of those mail-order corporate gas station buildings.
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UC also disappeared this parking garage in the space of one week. They're building a 600-space parking garage which will be ready for the future because only 95% of the spaces will lack an EV charger.
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The condos are vacant. The schools are bursting. Everyone is just writing it off in both directions.
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Dry cleaner has been vacant since what, 2018?