money and connections as said, but also idealized memories of what that place used to be. Believe it or not, once in human history, all the smartest and most creative people migrated to California, since it was seen as "the cool state for cool kids such as myself". There was already some corruption, but the scene was arguably worth it.
Despite the problems with California, like the homelessness, cost of living, and scummy entertainment practices, it's still a massive state that has a lot going on within its borders.
Florida? The dogshit state prone to flooding and hurricanes and where the governor refuses to help his own cities to play up his own political ambitions? That Florida?
Yes, easily better than weekly wildfires, homelessness, welfare, shit infrastructure, high crime, high taxes, an income tax, authoritarian government regulations, and shit schools.
Anon, Florida is literally imposing authoritarian government regulations on schools and colleges.
California has the highest number of homeless people in the US
Half of all homeless people in the US reside in California
One third of all US Welfare recipients reside in California
One fifth of Californians live below the poverty line.
California has the highest aggregated Taxes of all US states.
California has the highest property taxes
California has the highest sales tax at 10%
California has the highest income tax 13%
California has not built an aqueduct in 40 years despite multiple droughts
California's schools rank in the bottom 10% of the US
No state is worse thab California, not a single one. Even fricking Mississippi is better than California.
>California has the highest property taxes
I know you're a genuine moron that hasn't owned property in your life, but you're wrong here and I'm not even going to address the rest. Texas has a higher property tax than California and the scheme they use for taxation means you get fricked over.
>whoops we've decided to reevaluate your home at 2x value, now you owe us 3x the taxes teehee
And to think that when I was in school in the 2000's, trannies were NEVER mentioned by teachers or students. The "thing" to be was Gay. You were a gaywad homosexual queerbait queer gay homosexual, and that's just what you were no matter WHAT you did. You could've been the most popular Chad in school, the second you are caught doing something stupid or cringe, you're called gay for it; it was a rite of passage to adolescence. You didn't WANT to be a homosexual, but you were one, online & offline. Back then trannies (as least in my eyes) were just weirdos that dressed like women and had very apparent 5 o clock shadow. Nowadays they're passing federal law, wearing Class A Army uniforms, they are on MrBeast operating heavy machinery for frick's sake. The only way this shit is gonna die down is when pedophiles finally start convincing enough people that it's a preference.
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Isn't it hilarious how my post gets like 3 (You)'s in the span of 3 minutes once it's Lunch time in the Central US?
6 months ago
Anonymous
Cool story bro
Now type it again without crying this time
>Anon, Florida is literally imposing authoritarian government regulations on schools and colleges
This moronic grift again. Lemme guess you're some homosexual upset thry can't wave their dick at children anymore?
6 months ago
Anonymous
They're literally getting rid of requirements that students need to pass basic reading tests and language/arts/algebra tests you dumb homosexual. In an age where basic literacy is falling, they've decided that it's fine and good for students to not learn how to read.
6 months ago
Anonymous
>They're literally getting rid of requirements that students need to pass basic reading tests and language/arts/algebra tests you dumb homosexual.
I need to check if even Alabama is that bad, because Alabama is fricking stupid.
6 months ago
Anonymous
Current alabama resident speaking, that would totally be the kind of shit this state would pull. And before you say anything about the FRICKING IRON BOWL. dont. Frick you.
6 months ago
Anonymous
I live next door, so I'm aware of the things that go on in the state through extended family living there. >And before you say anything about the FRICKING IRON BOWL. dont. Frick you.
That bleeds over here, too. No idea why.
6 months ago
Anonymous
Why did you lie?
Not only that you lied and then described Oregib
6 months ago
Anonymous
Do you get off on making up literal bullshit?
You're a new college graduate aren't you?
There was no lie. They want to get of basic requirements like 'students should know how to read before they can pass school' because they believe it to be a burdensome regulation on schooling. Additionally, private schools do not have to adhere to this at all. This is even before we get into Florida getting rid of the FSA.
6 months ago
Anonymous
>Florida wants to abolish the requirement students should know how to READ
Is anyone surprised?
6 months ago
Anonymous
>Florida wants to abolish the requirement students should know how to READ
Is anyone surprised?
shiiiiiiiiiiieeeeet you es-specc US to read da WHITE MAYNE shit, homie? WHY PEEPO wrote dat shit, homie! I aint gon' learn howda read WHY PEEPO SHIT! Imma be frickin drivin' a BEAMER in MIAMI one day with mah CUBAN homieZ, homie! Slingin dat ROCK n' holdin' it DOWN for my HOOD homiez at the gas station pawn shop liqqa sto' FO REAL mah homie!
6 months ago
Anonymous
Well it would help if Florida tried reading books instead of banning them. "Freedom state" my butt.
6 months ago
Anonymous
>Article states senate is looking to make it so a student can only be held back in garde three once >High School is streamlining exams so only one is needed to graduate
The fricking article doesnt even claim what you say it does
6 months ago
Anonymous
Is your reading comprehension seriously that shit? Why shouldn't a student be held back and the school held accountable if they can't read? Why do you think schooling needs to be made EASIER and more lenient?
6 months ago
Anonymous
A student who can't read is less than useless in society.
6 months ago
Anonymous
Hey moron Mckenzie why should a student need to take 2 redundant tests if a singular one can address a student's math and reading capabilities? Are you fricking stupid? And why are you making a fuss about a single grade getting it's hold back years reduced? Once again you're a lying sack of fricking shit misrepresenting the information in the article.
6 months ago
Anonymous
Here, I'll quote the relevant bits for you since you're apparently one of the Florida students that should've been held back more than once:
>Public schools could still give tests, but without those rules, they would not have to insist third graders repeat the grade or high school students lose electives to take remedial reading and math classes to help them pass the exams
6 months ago
Anonymous
>high school students lose electives to take remedial reading and math classes to help them pass the exams
So hold the phone the legislation would literally make it so that students have to take remedial classes to ensure they knew math and reading and you're complaining that the students wouldn't need to know math or reading before graduating? Because they'd lose electives...
And you're the one b***hing about people's reading comprehension? Fricking get some yourself.
6 months ago
Anonymous
Anon, the current regulation is that failing students have to take remedial classes. Florida is trying to remove those rules. The legislation is removing the requirement to take remedial classes. You need to go back to school badly.
6 months ago
Anonymous
It's reflex "anti-regulation", done on reflex without any thought put in.
Florida is going to have swarms of failures running amok. But I have no doubt half of them will end up in Florida's political bodies.
6 months ago
Anonymous
Wasn't that california?
6 months ago
Anonymous
No.
6 months ago
Anonymous
Do you get off on making up literal bullshit?
You're a new college graduate aren't you?
6 months ago
Anonymous
>fukkin lib-lab smarty paint with they book learnin' and sheeit
Being an ignorant dumbass is a bad thing not a good thing.
Ok obviously you haven’t lived in Texas. In Texas they can only increase the appraised value taxed by 10% every year and plus a homestead exemption reduces taxes by about $1000 (soon to be $2000). So even if they appraise it 2x the next year, it can only go up in appraised value by 10%. For sure property taxes here are still high, it screws over new buyers and landlords the most. Still after all that my overall state tax burden is 2% where as California my tax bracket would be 12% and my house cost 3x.
The big thing Texas hands down is worse than California is weather and not great hiking.
California has the highest number of homeless people in the US
Half of all homeless people in the US reside in California
One third of all US Welfare recipients reside in California
One fifth of Californians live below the poverty line.
California has the highest aggregated Taxes of all US states.
California has the highest property taxes
California has the highest sales tax at 10%
California has the highest income tax 13%
California has not built an aqueduct in 40 years despite multiple droughts
California's schools rank in the bottom 10% of the US
No state is worse thab California, not a single one. Even fricking Mississippi is better than California.
Wanting to live in California is stupid because it's turning into a desert.
Wanting to live in Florida is stupid because it's slowly going underwater and is a hurricane-magnet, on top of being projected to become a hotbox.
6 months ago
Anonymous
deserts are cool, underwater is not
6 months ago
Anonymous
On a more immediate note, Florida is becoming uninsurable.
Less trannies, cheaper food, better sports teams, better crime stats overall, has the best Disneyland in America. I would spend an entire month homeless and trapped in the most good for nothing North Florida shithole than spend another evening anywhere from San Diego to Santa Cruz.
based, everybody praises the pub subs online, so it’s neat to see someone bring up another thing they do well
I hate the home availability in Florida, too many people try to move here. But I love the wildlife too much to go somewhere else.
This is actually true. Most cinema industries were in Jacksonville, Florida during the 1910s/20s because how how well suited the state was. The only reason Hollywood became big is that some citizen of Jacksonville made a noise complaint so the city passsed an ordinance limiting the noise film crew could make. Some guy had a studio in Hollywood so that's where all the companies went.
>massive state that has a lot going on within its borders
yeah with things like prostitution, zoophilia, drug trafficking, child slavery, satanic orgies and bloodbaths, etc
indie comic? indie cartoons? can you list them? because without examples you can't really perform analysis of the these factors and you also need to demonstrate your premises.
I'd have guessed more Colorado and Oregon, a little more remote with mountains and forests for isolation, but still with progressive laws. California is too much of a shithole now
>where it takes place primarily in a very cleaned up, liberal utopia, bright color saturated version of certain parts of SoCal
In their defense, SoCal is this weird patchwork where those clean, gentrified areas full of trendy attractive people exist. But you can drive 5 miles in any direction and come across impoverished communities full of homelessness and crime and graffiti as well. The former is overrepresented in the same way NYC is for New York
>graffiti
How come graffiti can be seen as a sign of poverty? I've been in Zurich (one of the richest countries in the world) and the entire town were full with graffiti.
>How come graffiti can be seen as a sign of poverty?
Disorganized and ugly graffiti where some butthole wants to tag their ugly "sign" can be seen as a sign of poverty especially when it's all over the place, but when the graffiti is done in even a halfway decent and organized manner, it can add some life to a place that would look drab or rundown otherwise, my city has a mix of both.
Graffiti in its original form refers to writings and painting in public spaces without consent of government or property owners. A lot of what people term "grafitti" can actually be approved or commissioned artwork - particularly if in an otherwise well-maintained area.
It was pretty cool that Royal Crackers was set in Bakersfield.
Most shows set in California are just set in LA so it was cool to see another part of the state get represented.
>No one ever talks about Sacramento because it's so boring lol
Sacramento is a fricking shithole. I went there for a business trip one time and it was the bummiest, dirtiest, most depressing city I have ever visited and I feel shame as a Calfinrian that THAT was our State's Capitol. I went to San Franciso after our job was done to wash the taste of shit Sacramento left in my mouth.
>Traffic is nightmare >Poor people everywhere >School fights over everything >School shootings >Land speculation >Mindless land development for "Muh Growth" >Hideous subdivisions everywhere >Everything wild and free razed to ground >But everything "okay" because lot of rich people walking about
"Upward pricing" is the bane of America, turning everywhere that grows into a place where only the rich can survive. Hell I'm lucky I managed to secure some actual wild plants from nature before "civilization" destroyed them.
The only people allowed to complain about Florida are people that live in Florida. Same goes for Texas.
California is fair game though since they're so insistent on trying to change the rest of the country to fit their lifestyles. California is a beautiful state if you're driving through the north or east of it, but even people who live there are completely taken advantage of by the city dwellers.
>insistent
California doesn't give a shit what other states do. In fact its power is based on not caring what others do. Businesses set certain standards by California because it's the biggest state and often devises standards that can pass the ones in other states.
>California doesn't give a shit what other states do.
That's a lie. The state literally sends funds to out of state democrat candidates to push their agenda
>California doesn't give a shit what other states do
maybe the official legislation doesn't, but California people seethe over what other states do constantly. If a different state passes some kind of law that is somewhat conservative, Californians always act like it's some kind of national tragedy
That's what makes Californians so annoying. All of my Cali friends were super involved in BLM protests and thought the repeal of Roe v Wade was this huge issue. The thing is, the black population in my home county is 2.2% of the population and abortion is still totally legal there. None of the things they wee b***hing about were even happening in their state. They have so few actual problems in their own state that they want to act like something happening 1,000 miles away has even the slightest impact on them.
I lived in California then moved to Texas 2 years ago. Best decision I ever made. In Cali I paid a grand for one room in a house (and that was know somebody price) but now I pay $500 and have my own bathroom. God bless Texas
NTA but I was, that was one of the major reasons why I left Texas. Going without power for a week because Texas can't do basic planning and weatherize their shit confirmed that I wanted to live in a state that can actually plan for adverse events.
They didn't even have any emergency vehicles on hand to clear up the roads so during the freeze you're stranded.
That's why my friend moved back to California from Texas she got a 2k power bill too
Why do people shit on Texas's one frick up with ice taking out power but just ignore that rolling blackouts are a common occurance in California? Like sure it sucks it to lose power to an unheard of ice storm but to constantly be without power because your electrical grid is so shitty is a whole other level of bullshit.
Everywhere "prosperous" in America does the same nonsense: shitty traffic jams, too expensive housing, land speculation, big corporations buying up tons of smaller business turning everything into a bland clone of everywhere else, arguments over education, hideous subdivisions, everything wild bought and razed to the ground.
Except Texas literally has rolling blackouts as a common occurrence as well. ERCOT literally advises people every summer that there will be blackouts because they can't handle the electricity load from the heat. And they're saying to be prepared for rolling blackouts this winter because they can't handle the electricity load from the cold:
So not only does Texas has similar problems to California, but they also have times where the power infrastructure completely fails. And when your power goes out for a few days at a time, that's extremely troublesome because it means all of your food in your fridge is wasted.
Rolling blackouts are bad. What happened here in Texas was worse. In its worse I think some areas went like 2 weeks without power. Around 700 people died. And all across the state people had extreme energy bills. This was way way worse than a rolling blackout.
>This was way way worse than a rolling blackout.
It was a once in a decade occurance. That's like getting butthurt about a hurrican knocking out your power for two weeks. If a state can't even supply power when things are going optimally how the frick are they gonna mannage when a similar event hits them?
6 months ago
Anonymous
Usually, 'once in a decade' occurrences are planned for in advance. Like how ERCOT was advised in 2010 to weatherize their power plants to prevent what happened a decade later from happening.
It's also why we have things like earthquake building codes.
6 months ago
Anonymous
Correct. ERCOT indeed HAD warning. They just decided to ignore it.
6 months ago
Anonymous
The problem with Texas grid is that it cannot accept power from other parts of America. It's designed specifically to prevent, you guessed it, regulation of said market.
If that grid fails, no other part of America's grid can help it.
6 months ago
Anonymous
>The problem with Texas grid is that it cannot accept power from other parts of America.
Wow, that's completely fricking moronic and short-sighted as hell.
6 months ago
Anonymous
It does have benefits under optimum conditions. Keeps prices down. The problems happen when conditions are less than optimum. High-reward but high-risk as well.
6 months ago
Anonymous
why are we gambling via public utilities?
6 months ago
Anonymous
Texas doesn't want to be regulated, even at the risk of people freezing to death.
6 months ago
Anonymous
>Wow, that's completely fricking moronic and short-sighted as hell.
American business laws in a nutshell.
6 months ago
Anonymous
And then the great part is since its so unregulated people lose power for weeks and then as it rolls back in the power producers jumped to charging power companies nine-thousand dollars per megawatt-hour. Leading to extremely high energy bills for citizens.
6 months ago
Anonymous
Having one giant connected grid isnt the automatic correct answer
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeast_blackout_of_2003
6 months ago
Anonymous
Because unlike a hurricane this was completely avoidable. Texas failed us when they chose not weatherize the power lines fully knowing that this could happen.
Rolling blackouts usually don't coincide with any other emergency so they're usually inconveniences at worst. Closest thing would be blackouts during heatwaves, but there are Flex alerts for that
The govt was warned for a decade to fix their grid after the last blackout fricked up the Dallas area and they did nothing. Rolling blackouts are still a common occurence, people here just have a learned helplessness since the government can't do anything but stick their nose in culture war issues.
As a Canadian peasant, that was a strange thing to witness. Didn't it only go to like, -5 Celsius? And everything just fell apart? Like I get the infrastructure couldn't withstand -5 but, that's not exactly cold.
it was Feb 2021, almost 3 years ago. I moved here in April of 2022. Also the place I'm living wasn't really affected. It doesn't even snow here
6 months ago
Anonymous
Oh, I'm way more used to seeing "before my time" in the context of "before I was born" and thought you were conflating that outage with some other older event. Never mind.
>the liberal Cinemaphile disneygay can’t handle everybody dunking on Wish >turns his defense to the state of California in general
I know it’s you. I don’t care how much you love Turning Red, no fan should be this annoying. Get some help. You are on a cartoon discussion board, this is fricking embarrassing.
New York, California, Texas, Florida.....it's all the same story.
>State becomes "the place to go" >Everyone rushes over >Traffic becomes nightmare >Land speculation goes through the roof >Property values skyrocket >Increasingly people get priced out >People get into fights over education >Poverty goes up as housing fails to keep up with demand >State becomes racket where rich jerks spend lots of cash and speculate on property >Traffic clogs forever >Exodus as everyone not super-rich goes to find some other "place to be" >REPEAT PATTERN >Learn nothing
Mexicans ain't so bad plus they get gatekept by not making enough money to live near whites. The ones who do are civil and conservative. The women are also attractive at times. The cartel here is restrained compared to California. I bet your state has more Black folk than mine
Mods have been allowing a lot more paper-thin political bullshit on every board lately, I've seen some completely off-topic political threads reach the bump limit several times in just the last few weeks. It almost feels like they're intentionally fostering it now.
Yes actually, part of the problem is that Hiroshimoot is barely present so a mod named Rapeape has become the de facto admin, and he wants to encourage political shitflinging. I don't remember it being so fricking blatant until the last month or so though.
That sounds like too convenient an excuse. At the same time, it would explain why posts within those threads get binned sometimes, but not the thread itself
I mean just think about how active Moot was while Hiroshimoot has literally had years without posting, I think it checks out. With the captain missing someone else will inevitably take the wheel.
This thread's just making me realize that every state has some extreme positives and some extreme negatives. I knew that Florida had some really bad political shit but I didn't know it was outright trying to waive reading requirements, that's fricked up. California and Texas I think have their issues more well-known, because of course they would, they're the first and second most-populated states in the Union. That doesn't mean they don't also have a myriad of positives, the anons in this thread totally writing those off feel insane to me. California still has an enormous high-end manufacturing industry and massive agricultural output, Texas is a hub for construction and international travel, Florida has incredible weather and is an economic gateway to the entire Caribbean, you could name a bunch of positives for any state along with any negatives. If every state was just a bunch of fricking negatives the US wouldn't be a superpower you blithering divisive morons, but that doesn't mean that those negatives should just be handwaved away either. Issues should be addressed and strengths shouldn't be ignored, otherwise you're either letting your biases get way too far to you head or are arguing in bad faith.
I'm Tennessee born and raised, before one of you homosexuals accuses me of being from one of the above-mentioned states. My own state has a frickload of problems that I'll happily admit to but also positives in spades.
Come visit Texas. The best time to visit is now since we have mild winters. Since you’re a leaf you’ll probably like Austin. If you wanna real Texas you can visit Dallas or Houston or San Antonio but you’ll need a car. San Antonio has the Alamo and the River walk which is a bit touristy. SA is got great Tex Mex (Fonda on main is great). Dallas has Meow Wolf which is cool. Dallas Fort Worth is massive though, Fort Worth is very Texan compared to most modern Texas cities.
Money and entertainment industry connections.
money and connections as said, but also idealized memories of what that place used to be. Believe it or not, once in human history, all the smartest and most creative people migrated to California, since it was seen as "the cool state for cool kids such as myself". There was already some corruption, but the scene was arguably worth it.
For all the same reasons so many other comics take place in New York, and try to make it seem like the most important place one Earth.
Despite the problems with California, like the homelessness, cost of living, and scummy entertainment practices, it's still a massive state that has a lot going on within its borders.
Florida is easily a better state overall
Florida? The dogshit state prone to flooding and hurricanes and where the governor refuses to help his own cities to play up his own political ambitions? That Florida?
Yes, easily better than weekly wildfires, homelessness, welfare, shit infrastructure, high crime, high taxes, an income tax, authoritarian government regulations, and shit schools.
Anon, Florida is literally imposing authoritarian government regulations on schools and colleges.
>California has the highest property taxes
I know you're a genuine moron that hasn't owned property in your life, but you're wrong here and I'm not even going to address the rest. Texas has a higher property tax than California and the scheme they use for taxation means you get fricked over.
>whoops we've decided to reevaluate your home at 2x value, now you owe us 3x the taxes teehee
Woke teachers should be in prison.
And to think that when I was in school in the 2000's, trannies were NEVER mentioned by teachers or students. The "thing" to be was Gay. You were a gaywad homosexual queerbait queer gay homosexual, and that's just what you were no matter WHAT you did. You could've been the most popular Chad in school, the second you are caught doing something stupid or cringe, you're called gay for it; it was a rite of passage to adolescence. You didn't WANT to be a homosexual, but you were one, online & offline. Back then trannies (as least in my eyes) were just weirdos that dressed like women and had very apparent 5 o clock shadow. Nowadays they're passing federal law, wearing Class A Army uniforms, they are on MrBeast operating heavy machinery for frick's sake. The only way this shit is gonna die down is when pedophiles finally start convincing enough people that it's a preference.
Isn't it hilarious how my post gets like 3 (You)'s in the span of 3 minutes once it's Lunch time in the Central US?
Cool story bro
Now type it again without crying this time
>trolling in a troll thread
>Anon, Florida is literally imposing authoritarian government regulations on schools and colleges
This moronic grift again. Lemme guess you're some homosexual upset thry can't wave their dick at children anymore?
They're literally getting rid of requirements that students need to pass basic reading tests and language/arts/algebra tests you dumb homosexual. In an age where basic literacy is falling, they've decided that it's fine and good for students to not learn how to read.
>They're literally getting rid of requirements that students need to pass basic reading tests and language/arts/algebra tests you dumb homosexual.
I need to check if even Alabama is that bad, because Alabama is fricking stupid.
Current alabama resident speaking, that would totally be the kind of shit this state would pull. And before you say anything about the FRICKING IRON BOWL. dont. Frick you.
I live next door, so I'm aware of the things that go on in the state through extended family living there.
>And before you say anything about the FRICKING IRON BOWL. dont. Frick you.
That bleeds over here, too. No idea why.
Why did you lie?
Not only that you lied and then described Oregib
https://www.orlandosentinel.com/2023/11/09/florida-senate-takes-aim-at-3rd-grade-retention-high-school-graduation-tests/
There was no lie. They want to get of basic requirements like 'students should know how to read before they can pass school' because they believe it to be a burdensome regulation on schooling. Additionally, private schools do not have to adhere to this at all. This is even before we get into Florida getting rid of the FSA.
>Florida wants to abolish the requirement students should know how to READ
Is anyone surprised?
shiiiiiiiiiiieeeeet you es-specc US to read da WHITE MAYNE shit, homie? WHY PEEPO wrote dat shit, homie! I aint gon' learn howda read WHY PEEPO SHIT! Imma be frickin drivin' a BEAMER in MIAMI one day with mah CUBAN homieZ, homie! Slingin dat ROCK n' holdin' it DOWN for my HOOD homiez at the gas station pawn shop liqqa sto' FO REAL mah homie!
Well it would help if Florida tried reading books instead of banning them. "Freedom state" my butt.
>Article states senate is looking to make it so a student can only be held back in garde three once
>High School is streamlining exams so only one is needed to graduate
The fricking article doesnt even claim what you say it does
Is your reading comprehension seriously that shit? Why shouldn't a student be held back and the school held accountable if they can't read? Why do you think schooling needs to be made EASIER and more lenient?
A student who can't read is less than useless in society.
Hey moron Mckenzie why should a student need to take 2 redundant tests if a singular one can address a student's math and reading capabilities? Are you fricking stupid? And why are you making a fuss about a single grade getting it's hold back years reduced? Once again you're a lying sack of fricking shit misrepresenting the information in the article.
Here, I'll quote the relevant bits for you since you're apparently one of the Florida students that should've been held back more than once:
>Public schools could still give tests, but without those rules, they would not have to insist third graders repeat the grade or high school students lose electives to take remedial reading and math classes to help them pass the exams
>high school students lose electives to take remedial reading and math classes to help them pass the exams
So hold the phone the legislation would literally make it so that students have to take remedial classes to ensure they knew math and reading and you're complaining that the students wouldn't need to know math or reading before graduating? Because they'd lose electives...
And you're the one b***hing about people's reading comprehension? Fricking get some yourself.
Anon, the current regulation is that failing students have to take remedial classes. Florida is trying to remove those rules. The legislation is removing the requirement to take remedial classes. You need to go back to school badly.
It's reflex "anti-regulation", done on reflex without any thought put in.
Florida is going to have swarms of failures running amok. But I have no doubt half of them will end up in Florida's political bodies.
Wasn't that california?
No.
Do you get off on making up literal bullshit?
You're a new college graduate aren't you?
>fukkin lib-lab smarty paint with they book learnin' and sheeit
Being an ignorant dumbass is a bad thing not a good thing.
The label "authoritarian" seems to be a bit extreme, but they are trying to enforce some opinionated rules down there
Ok obviously you haven’t lived in Texas. In Texas they can only increase the appraised value taxed by 10% every year and plus a homestead exemption reduces taxes by about $1000 (soon to be $2000). So even if they appraise it 2x the next year, it can only go up in appraised value by 10%. For sure property taxes here are still high, it screws over new buyers and landlords the most. Still after all that my overall state tax burden is 2% where as California my tax bracket would be 12% and my house cost 3x.
The big thing Texas hands down is worse than California is weather and not great hiking.
I can smell the bimbo pills on you
Florida is arguably the only state in the US worse than California, you couldn't have possibly picked a worse state.
California has the highest number of homeless people in the US
Half of all homeless people in the US reside in California
One third of all US Welfare recipients reside in California
One fifth of Californians live below the poverty line.
California has the highest aggregated Taxes of all US states.
California has the highest property taxes
California has the highest sales tax at 10%
California has the highest income tax 13%
California has not built an aqueduct in 40 years despite multiple droughts
California's schools rank in the bottom 10% of the US
No state is worse thab California, not a single one. Even fricking Mississippi is better than California.
No that's Florida, a literal hellhole swamp full of old people
Wanting to live in California is stupid because it's turning into a desert.
Wanting to live in Florida is stupid because it's slowly going underwater and is a hurricane-magnet, on top of being projected to become a hotbox.
deserts are cool, underwater is not
On a more immediate note, Florida is becoming uninsurable.
https://www.newsweek.com/florida-residents-insurance-nightmare-flee-state-1846652
>Wanting to live in California is stupid because it's turning into a desert.
SoCal is a desert. The water just gets funneled from the North.
California sucks in many regards but I would be remiss not to point out that other states have been caught exporting their homeless people to CA
>Even fricking Mississippi is better than California
You know how I know you're a Trumptard?
Less trannies, cheaper food, better sports teams, better crime stats overall, has the best Disneyland in America. I would spend an entire month homeless and trapped in the most good for nothing North Florida shithole than spend another evening anywhere from San Diego to Santa Cruz.
Notice how you had to say "north Florida"
Florida is great though. Publix sushi is astonishingly good for its price.
based, everybody praises the pub subs online, so it’s neat to see someone bring up another thing they do well
I hate the home availability in Florida, too many people try to move here. But I love the wildlife too much to go somewhere else.
>Californians believe this
Stay in Texas then butthole
Hey man, we're trying to get them outta here! At least tell them to go to Wyoming instead.
California Derangement Syndrome
see
lmao no one likes Florida except for old people waiting to die
Broward and Palm Beach is not the entirety of Florida
No.
This is actually true. Most cinema industries were in Jacksonville, Florida during the 1910s/20s because how how well suited the state was. The only reason Hollywood became big is that some citizen of Jacksonville made a noise complaint so the city passsed an ordinance limiting the noise film crew could make. Some guy had a studio in Hollywood so that's where all the companies went.
What borders?
>massive state that has a lot going on within its borders
yeah with things like prostitution, zoophilia, drug trafficking, child slavery, satanic orgies and bloodbaths, etc
they just care about LA
the rest of California is very different
indie comic? indie cartoons? can you list them? because without examples you can't really perform analysis of the these factors and you also need to demonstrate your premises.
I'd have guessed more Colorado and Oregon, a little more remote with mountains and forests for isolation, but still with progressive laws. California is too much of a shithole now
Colorado and Oregon are only relevant when they someone wants to take an "inspiration". Most of them are still Californian at heart.
Good morning my homie, may LA, SF and SJ, and Sac Town get nuked
It's where most of the child trafficking scene happens in the US. Democrats make sure that to be the case.
Where do you think the indie makers are from?
They don't care about the art and the country, they care about career and status.
>where it takes place primarily in a very cleaned up, liberal utopia, bright color saturated version of certain parts of SoCal
In their defense, SoCal is this weird patchwork where those clean, gentrified areas full of trendy attractive people exist. But you can drive 5 miles in any direction and come across impoverished communities full of homelessness and crime and graffiti as well. The former is overrepresented in the same way NYC is for New York
>graffiti
How come graffiti can be seen as a sign of poverty? I've been in Zurich (one of the richest countries in the world) and the entire town were full with graffiti.
>countries
meant city, fix'd.
>How come graffiti can be seen as a sign of poverty?
Disorganized and ugly graffiti where some butthole wants to tag their ugly "sign" can be seen as a sign of poverty especially when it's all over the place, but when the graffiti is done in even a halfway decent and organized manner, it can add some life to a place that would look drab or rundown otherwise, my city has a mix of both.
Graffiti in its original form refers to writings and painting in public spaces without consent of government or property owners. A lot of what people term "grafitti" can actually be approved or commissioned artwork - particularly if in an otherwise well-maintained area.
Bojack Horseman is about how shit LA can be to the unprepared
It was pretty cool that Royal Crackers was set in Bakersfield.
Most shows set in California are just set in LA so it was cool to see another part of the state get represented.
Word salad
California is one of the largest economies in the world.
Only because rich people live there, it isn't because they produce anything.
homie what? Califirnia produces 3/4 of the country's fruits.
>homie what? Califirnia produces 3/4 of the country's fruits.
I believe it
Because every indie creator wants to be a Hollywood creator and get paid.
No one ever talks about Sacramento because it's so boring lol
Also Monterey Bay is comfy
Monterey is good, but Lost coast is better
My favorite Incubus album
>Also Monterey Bay is comfy
Lived in monterey for a year. All the streets are one way streets and it sucks!
>No one ever talks about Sacramento because it's so boring lol
Sacramento is a fricking shithole. I went there for a business trip one time and it was the bummiest, dirtiest, most depressing city I have ever visited and I feel shame as a Calfinrian that THAT was our State's Capitol. I went to San Franciso after our job was done to wash the taste of shit Sacramento left in my mouth.
It's one of only two places that matter in this country
Florida, Texas, California.....all the big popular states are mistakes, lol.
Texas and Florida aren't popular don't kid yourself
Texas is hella popular. What are you talking about?
Oh yes "Popular". I know what that means.
>Traffic is nightmare
>Poor people everywhere
>School fights over everything
>School shootings
>Land speculation
>Mindless land development for "Muh Growth"
>Hideous subdivisions everywhere
>Everything wild and free razed to ground
>But everything "okay" because lot of rich people walking about
(Seriously, I've seen the horrors of "progress" first-hand over decades of unchecked mindless growth-for-its-own-sake)
These minus the 2nd to last point apply to the rest of the country.
"Upward pricing" is the bane of America, turning everywhere that grows into a place where only the rich can survive. Hell I'm lucky I managed to secure some actual wild plants from nature before "civilization" destroyed them.
Georgism will save us.
They're all from here this is where they come to do art
The only people allowed to complain about Florida are people that live in Florida. Same goes for Texas.
California is fair game though since they're so insistent on trying to change the rest of the country to fit their lifestyles. California is a beautiful state if you're driving through the north or east of it, but even people who live there are completely taken advantage of by the city dwellers.
>insistent
California doesn't give a shit what other states do. In fact its power is based on not caring what others do. Businesses set certain standards by California because it's the biggest state and often devises standards that can pass the ones in other states.
>California doesn't give a shit what other states do.
That's a lie. The state literally sends funds to out of state democrat candidates to push their agenda
>California doesn't give a shit what other states do
maybe the official legislation doesn't, but California people seethe over what other states do constantly. If a different state passes some kind of law that is somewhat conservative, Californians always act like it's some kind of national tragedy
Where though? I don't think about any other states except the ones my family lives in and I've never met another person that gave a frick either
That's what makes Californians so annoying. All of my Cali friends were super involved in BLM protests and thought the repeal of Roe v Wade was this huge issue. The thing is, the black population in my home county is 2.2% of the population and abortion is still totally legal there. None of the things they wee b***hing about were even happening in their state. They have so few actual problems in their own state that they want to act like something happening 1,000 miles away has even the slightest impact on them.
I lived in California then moved to Texas 2 years ago. Best decision I ever made. In Cali I paid a grand for one room in a house (and that was know somebody price) but now I pay $500 and have my own bathroom. God bless Texas
Were you there when the power grid failed and everyone froze?
NTA but I was, that was one of the major reasons why I left Texas. Going without power for a week because Texas can't do basic planning and weatherize their shit confirmed that I wanted to live in a state that can actually plan for adverse events.
They didn't even have any emergency vehicles on hand to clear up the roads so during the freeze you're stranded.
That's why my friend moved back to California from Texas she got a 2k power bill too
Why do people shit on Texas's one frick up with ice taking out power but just ignore that rolling blackouts are a common occurance in California? Like sure it sucks it to lose power to an unheard of ice storm but to constantly be without power because your electrical grid is so shitty is a whole other level of bullshit.
>b-b-b-but w-wha-
Shut the frick up. Every state is getting shat on in this thread.
Everywhere "prosperous" in America does the same nonsense: shitty traffic jams, too expensive housing, land speculation, big corporations buying up tons of smaller business turning everything into a bland clone of everywhere else, arguments over education, hideous subdivisions, everything wild bought and razed to the ground.
Except Texas literally has rolling blackouts as a common occurrence as well. ERCOT literally advises people every summer that there will be blackouts because they can't handle the electricity load from the heat. And they're saying to be prepared for rolling blackouts this winter because they can't handle the electricity load from the cold:
https://www.newsweek.com/texas-power-outages-extreme-weather-winter-1846777
So not only does Texas has similar problems to California, but they also have times where the power infrastructure completely fails. And when your power goes out for a few days at a time, that's extremely troublesome because it means all of your food in your fridge is wasted.
Rolling blackouts are bad. What happened here in Texas was worse. In its worse I think some areas went like 2 weeks without power. Around 700 people died. And all across the state people had extreme energy bills. This was way way worse than a rolling blackout.
>This was way way worse than a rolling blackout.
It was a once in a decade occurance. That's like getting butthurt about a hurrican knocking out your power for two weeks. If a state can't even supply power when things are going optimally how the frick are they gonna mannage when a similar event hits them?
Usually, 'once in a decade' occurrences are planned for in advance. Like how ERCOT was advised in 2010 to weatherize their power plants to prevent what happened a decade later from happening.
It's also why we have things like earthquake building codes.
Correct. ERCOT indeed HAD warning. They just decided to ignore it.
The problem with Texas grid is that it cannot accept power from other parts of America. It's designed specifically to prevent, you guessed it, regulation of said market.
If that grid fails, no other part of America's grid can help it.
>The problem with Texas grid is that it cannot accept power from other parts of America.
Wow, that's completely fricking moronic and short-sighted as hell.
It does have benefits under optimum conditions. Keeps prices down. The problems happen when conditions are less than optimum. High-reward but high-risk as well.
why are we gambling via public utilities?
Texas doesn't want to be regulated, even at the risk of people freezing to death.
>Wow, that's completely fricking moronic and short-sighted as hell.
American business laws in a nutshell.
And then the great part is since its so unregulated people lose power for weeks and then as it rolls back in the power producers jumped to charging power companies nine-thousand dollars per megawatt-hour. Leading to extremely high energy bills for citizens.
Having one giant connected grid isnt the automatic correct answer
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeast_blackout_of_2003
Because unlike a hurricane this was completely avoidable. Texas failed us when they chose not weatherize the power lines fully knowing that this could happen.
What happened in Texas is basically just a symptom of a larger problem in America: unchecked lunatic growth at any cost.
We build shit BEFORE we have the traffic infrastructure in place.
Rolling blackouts usually don't coincide with any other emergency so they're usually inconveniences at worst. Closest thing would be blackouts during heatwaves, but there are Flex alerts for that
The govt was warned for a decade to fix their grid after the last blackout fricked up the Dallas area and they did nothing. Rolling blackouts are still a common occurence, people here just have a learned helplessness since the government can't do anything but stick their nose in culture war issues.
As a Canadian peasant, that was a strange thing to witness. Didn't it only go to like, -5 Celsius? And everything just fell apart? Like I get the infrastructure couldn't withstand -5 but, that's not exactly cold.
I don't think the power grid in Texas was designed to withstand that level of cold.
It shouldn't snow in Texas. That was the problem.
Nah that was before my time. People act like every cold front is gonna be the next Snowmageddon though
homie that was 2 years ago, are you 1?
it was Feb 2021, almost 3 years ago. I moved here in April of 2022. Also the place I'm living wasn't really affected. It doesn't even snow here
Oh, I'm way more used to seeing "before my time" in the context of "before I was born" and thought you were conflating that outage with some other older event. Never mind.
Most people live there.
>the liberal Cinemaphile disneygay can’t handle everybody dunking on Wish
>turns his defense to the state of California in general
I know it’s you. I don’t care how much you love Turning Red, no fan should be this annoying. Get some help. You are on a cartoon discussion board, this is fricking embarrassing.
Because most of the writers are from here
New York, California, Texas, Florida.....it's all the same story.
>State becomes "the place to go"
>Everyone rushes over
>Traffic becomes nightmare
>Land speculation goes through the roof
>Property values skyrocket
>Increasingly people get priced out
>People get into fights over education
>Poverty goes up as housing fails to keep up with demand
>State becomes racket where rich jerks spend lots of cash and speculate on property
>Traffic clogs forever
>Exodus as everyone not super-rich goes to find some other "place to be"
>REPEAT PATTERN
>Learn nothing
But I'll sum it up.
>"Progress is pointless if you can't afford it. And you will ruin a good thing through excess."
Hollywood practically influenced the world and has an effect upon the U.S economy. Let's not even bring the /misc/ theories into this lol.
>tfw not much goes on where I live and it is peaceful.
Ahhh... Tucson.... Home...
You're getting invaded by Mexicans and your illegitimate Governor literally doesn't even go into work.
Mexicans ain't so bad plus they get gatekept by not making enough money to live near whites. The ones who do are civil and conservative. The women are also attractive at times. The cartel here is restrained compared to California. I bet your state has more Black folk than mine
>The cartel here is restrained compared to California.
Wow, such a high bar to cross.
I like Ohoenix. Can't speak for the rest of the state.
VGH
Because that's where they are.
>Indie
you know why
Nice cartoon thread
Mods have been allowing a lot more paper-thin political bullshit on every board lately, I've seen some completely off-topic political threads reach the bump limit several times in just the last few weeks. It almost feels like they're intentionally fostering it now.
Wasn't there an article from Vice or something that all but confirmed mods allow /misc/ threads to fester on purpose.
Yes actually, part of the problem is that Hiroshimoot is barely present so a mod named Rapeape has become the de facto admin, and he wants to encourage political shitflinging. I don't remember it being so fricking blatant until the last month or so though.
That sounds like too convenient an excuse. At the same time, it would explain why posts within those threads get binned sometimes, but not the thread itself
I mean just think about how active Moot was while Hiroshimoot has literally had years without posting, I think it checks out. With the captain missing someone else will inevitably take the wheel.
I will take this theory, and put it in my pocket. Just in case it's true.
This thread's just making me realize that every state has some extreme positives and some extreme negatives. I knew that Florida had some really bad political shit but I didn't know it was outright trying to waive reading requirements, that's fricked up. California and Texas I think have their issues more well-known, because of course they would, they're the first and second most-populated states in the Union. That doesn't mean they don't also have a myriad of positives, the anons in this thread totally writing those off feel insane to me. California still has an enormous high-end manufacturing industry and massive agricultural output, Texas is a hub for construction and international travel, Florida has incredible weather and is an economic gateway to the entire Caribbean, you could name a bunch of positives for any state along with any negatives. If every state was just a bunch of fricking negatives the US wouldn't be a superpower you blithering divisive morons, but that doesn't mean that those negatives should just be handwaved away either. Issues should be addressed and strengths shouldn't be ignored, otherwise you're either letting your biases get way too far to you head or are arguing in bad faith.
I'm Tennessee born and raised, before one of you homosexuals accuses me of being from one of the above-mentioned states. My own state has a frickload of problems that I'll happily admit to but also positives in spades.
Trying to get close to chud nation Japan as much as possible.
What are some food comics that take place in commiefornia?
*Good.
Martin County is the only good place to live in Florida tbh
One day civilization will raze all the wilds down, and we will never remember such things existed.
What would be the best state for a leaf to visit that isn't a tourist trap?
Come visit Texas. The best time to visit is now since we have mild winters. Since you’re a leaf you’ll probably like Austin. If you wanna real Texas you can visit Dallas or Houston or San Antonio but you’ll need a car. San Antonio has the Alamo and the River walk which is a bit touristy. SA is got great Tex Mex (Fonda on main is great). Dallas has Meow Wolf which is cool. Dallas Fort Worth is massive though, Fort Worth is very Texan compared to most modern Texas cities.