@amethyst73 Exactly!

@cafechatnoir @jeridansky I mean plenty of people wouldn't have similar goals (especially on water, where you have the environmental/fish crowd and the irrigation crowd), but unless you go more than skin deep, good luck figuring out who would do what (and see rest of thread on that).

@Kleen Except, given our horrible open primary, I'm just voting for whichever Democrat seems to have the most support, so we wind up with at least one Democratic candidate for governor in the general election. I hate that I feel compelled to vote this way.

2nd day: Starting off fighting snow, heading north on the PCT as the trail eventually gets to a ridge line walk. We headed up, appropriately, Big Ridge for the day's destination, then returned to Paradise Lake.All the details: https://valhikes.blogspot.com/2026/04/paradise-big-ridge.html#California #SiskiyouCounty #KlamathNationalForest #MarbleMountainWilderness #PacificCrestTrail #PCT#backpacking #hiking #nature #landscape #travel #hike #outside #mountains #peakbagging #peakbagger #snow #lakes

@ProPublica What a Creepo.

@RealJournalism "Central California farmers are expected to gain up to $9 million in federal aid to help remove 420,000 clingstone peach trees"Socialism??? In the USA???In the Land Of Free Enterprise one might expect it to be their responsibility to choose a non-dodgy customer, and take the consequences if their freely exercised choice turns out to have been wrong.

@pussreboots here's a different mountain you can see from the same parking lot

@jeridansky Oh, I didn't know they had photos of poppies on the pass.Last time I had a park pass was during covid. I made a vast number of trips to San Bruno Mountain and San Pedro Valley Park, both San Mateo county parks.

@susurros Newsome trying to lock in the republican vote for his presidential primary!!!

@drahardja I mean it’s not even a primary, it’s the first round of a “jungle” election. The candidates aren’t the choice of the people in California who identify as a particular party; any hack can stick a “D” or “R” next to their name.All set up a score years ago so that “moderate” Republican Abel Maldonado could try to beat a Tea Partier… and fail.