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That's pretty alarming when a major insurance company is out of cash...

Insurance distorts housing markets, allows builders to take unreasonable risks, etc.

Don't buy into the MAGAt narrative that women are "abuse animals"

/s

Easier for you to just say where not to fuck.

Separately from the housing construction exemptions:

The new (changes to CEQA) exempts nine types of projects from environmental reviews: child care centers, health clinics, food banks, farmworker housing, broadband, wildfire prevention, water infrastructure, public parks or trails and, notably, advanced manufacturing.

An oddly specific list, that...

Particularly, the definition of "advanced manufacturing" seems to be exploitable.

According to the new law's definition of "advanced manufacturing" https://law.justia.com/codes/california/code-prc/division-16/chapter-1/article-1/section-26003/

Taking the inclusion of "additive manufacturing" for example... Asbestos is arguably an additive, so are BPAs, and so forth...

"Additive manufacturing," according to a quick Google, actually means 3D printing, but the letter of the law...

There's some crazy statistics behind the passage of these "anti drink spiking" measures.

According to: https://calmatters.org/politics/2024/07/california-drink-spikinglaw-bars/

A survey published in 2016 in the American Psychological Association’s journal “Psychology of Violence” found that 8% of 6,064 students surveyed at three universities believed they’d been slipped drugs. Eighteen percent of more than 45,000 respondents in a 2022 global survey from a London-based research firm reported that they had been drugged. The same survey noted that 92% of the victims didn’t report their suspicions to police.

They've never been seen together in the same place!

It's what Republicans want: Repress those uppity females who tend to vote against our policies.

Historic, because Berkeley started the whole single family zoning thing in 1916 https://www.berkeleyside.org/2021/02/17/berkeley-may-get-rid-of-single-family-zoning-as-a-way-to-correct-the-arc-of-its-ugly-housing-history

That's raw!

I was reading some article that stated the effectiveness of Ukrainian anti-drone defenses had decreased because Russian drones, most notably their Shahed variants, are flying at higher altitudes.

The machine-gun type defenses don't have the altitude range to hit higher flying drones, so the interception rate went down to 80%.

A quick google returned this article from today: https://euromaidanpress.com/2025/06/29/why-cant-ukraine-stop-russias-shahed-drones-anymore/

On the plus side, the collectors value of the remaining Shylkas went up.

They should be shipped to PSA for grading.

Superhero movie fatigue is real, and Sony's mediocre Spiderman villain spinoffs didn't help.