[–] [S] 1 point 5 hours ago*

Property taxes did increase quite a bit in recent years. It actually caused quite an uproar.

As for potable water, I get what you are saying there as far as public infrastructure. I believe until fairly recently having rain barrels was not permitted in Colorado. I believe they are allowed for limited use now. I don't know about the law when it comes to doing things to your own house to, say, run graywater into your garden.

I don't know if things are getting overturned, but you'd hear stories about HOAs going after homeowners for a brown lawn (apparently they don't have much to stand on in Colorado now, so if they know their rights, they'll tell the HOA where to stick it), even as there are water restrictions. And it was only recent law that forbids HOAs from preventing homeowners from using xeriscaping.

That is so wild to me, since these kinds of problems have been apparent for decades in Colorado.

I guess it's good to know that HOAs and the state can no longer actively impede people from doing the right thing - using rainbarrels and xeriscaping for instance - but it sure took a while.

Colorado does seem to be slowly waking up, thankfully, but you'll still hear really stupid conversations about it from people who think Kentucky Bluegrass in Colorado is right and natural...

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  • [–] [S] 5 points 5 hours ago

    Amen to that. This question about salad reminds me of the way that almonds in California keep getting all this weird focus. Almonds are hammered on so much that it comes up in casual conversations now.

    I've seriously had people ask me what I thought about this "problem" of water use by almonds when they actually had beef on their plate and/or in their mouths.

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  • [–] 8 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

    Carr is yet another dweeb that needs to be put on a list for immediate legal action as soon as we have any power again. That shithead is such a smug little man and conservatives will learn nothing from any of this if people like Carr are not given maximum punishments possible.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 19 hours ago (1 child)

    Maps shows the update, as a passive mechanism. It’s preserving the normal name against the USGS change that would take an active action.

    That may be true for US customers, but they must have done work to show two names for the Gulf of Mexico to people in other countries, and they plan on doing the same here.

    I'm sure the step to put in a small override to maintain the name is not much work - just override any ingest/import, and they don't even have to do the work to show two names for everyone else that is not in Canada or US.

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