California: People used to swim here!

Just what California needs in the middle of a pandemic, a distracting and chaotic recall election. I'm sure that's a smart and productive thing to be doing.

It's a waste of time. They won't have the votes. Newsom's term is up next year. If people want change, vote for it then. The whole recall process we have is really stupid. 

I mean yeah it gave us Arnold as governor. But it also gave us Arnold as governor.

Doomsday SnoBorderZero

Y’all lost a House of Representative. Texas gained two (Wyldstaar). Oregon, Montana, Colorado, North Carolina (PhantomKnight) and Florida gained one. Illinois, Michigan, Ohio, West Virginia, Pennsylvania and New York also lost one.

California's population falls in first-ever yearly decline

www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-57033417

California's population fell between 2020 and 2021 in the first yearly decline ever reported since officials began counting the figure.

On Friday the state's Finance Department said the population now stands at just below 39.5 million residents, - a drop of 182,000.

The reasons are varied but involve the pause on migration due to the pandemic, officials say.

It comes after the once-in-a-decade US census recorded slowing state growth.

Didn't one of these 'lists' also name New Jersey as the best state to live?

Newsome in some trouble with elder. Making this a real race.

Would be shocking for Cali to go red this soon after trump.

SnoBorderZero's pick Larry Elder was blown out, Newsom on until 2022 and who are we kidding, 2026.  Maybe next time, Sno.

Doomsday SnoBorderZero

I thought we solved the whole gas prices thing?

A) there are a few stations around the country tht have artificially jacked prices that always get circulated. They aren't representative of prices, and more affordable options are usually a couple blocks away.

B) the doofus righties that think that sticker is clever are morons. But so is the general voting public, and i fear that shit will work in what it's trying to convince. Anyone with basic understanding of economics knows there little to nothing a president can do to control inflation that is gripping not just our countries but others.

The fed needs to raise rates asap, but even incentive tax cuts to the supply chain aren't going to bring inflation down anytime soon. Righties will say drill, keystone, etc. We are still a net exporter of oil, and OPEC sets the price.

Jesus that sticker is fucking stupid.

It's so bad here. I already know I'm going to have to rock-paper-scissors with my friend on who's driving us to the Chinese Theatre tomorrow for Batman.

I worked for Fry's for 14 years up until 2013, started in sales and ended up managing a few stores around Southern California before I left.

Lots of good and bad memories about that place. Scanned that video and he clearly has no idea regarding the decline of Fry's. Fry's started losing $$$ around 2008 when the VP of Marketing, Omar Siddiqui, was embezzling millions of dollars to feed his online poker habit. The IRS raided the home offices in San Jose and arrested him. He became known as "Sneaky Siddiqui". Soon after, Fry's faced a class action lawsuit for unpaid overtime that went back several years. Most of the sales team were on commission only, and it wasn't uncommon to work 12 hour days in the early 2000's. This ended up being a very costly settlement. Soon after, Dave Fry, who managed the financials of the company, gave out the order to hold payments to vendors until all their product sold, sometimes not paying the vendors at all, or forcing vendors to fund promotions if they ever wanted to get paid on goods Fry's had an outstanding balance on. At first, most vendors played ball due to Fry's reach into the gaming and IT customer base, but as online competition began gaining steam around 2010, vendors considered Fry's less of an asset and eventually more of a financial burden. Fry's began to lose credit from it's vendors one by one, which eventually caused the empty shelves and its inevitable collapse. 

This is the real story of what happened to Fry's.