LA Fires

@TreeCo by tech I meant communication and mechanized power. If the military can mobilize and blow another country or city off the map, it can mobilize and clear brush and dump water. It just isn’t for whatever nonsense reason. If we can free up funding to fight other wars, why can we free up funding to fight a war against a fire that is killing us?

Other cities have pumps and sprinkler systems tapped into the ocean. “Too expensive”…because everything is tied up in red tape.

Totally agree on making buildings and cities suited to their environment….and maybe modify that environment a little. Fire fighting access roads and water lines.
 
davidwyby said:
@TreeCo by tech I meant communication and mechanized power. If the military can mobilize and blow another country or city off the map, it can mobilize and clear brush and dump water. It just isn’t for whatever nonsense reason. If we can free up funding to fight other wars, why can we free up funding to fight a war against a fire that is killing us?

Other cities have pumps and sprinkler systems tapped into the ocean. “Too expensive”…because everything is tied up in red tape.

Totally agree on making buildings and cities suited to their environment….and maybe modify that environment a little. Fire fighting access roads and water lines.
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No offense meant here, but people don't need to be living in the desert en masse. Some folks being in places with some water is fine, but the cities need to be in places that can reasonably sustain those populations WITHOUT significantly altering nature. I understand that every ecosystem has an ebb and flow, and that everywhere has it's good years and bad, but if on the average it can't sustain that population, then people need to go elsewhere. I know that people flock to these places for the pleasant weather, but that simply isn't a sustainable reality. Fresh water is a prerequisite for life, and the availability of it without killing some other natural system to get it should be a priority. I live where I do partly because of this logic. My homesite is on an old pre-industrial homestead site, and the city below me used to be a marsh. When the dam is eventually destroyed, it will bring back sooooo much life to this area. The Midwest may be cold as fuck, but many of you know how nice it is to have water when the snow melts, right? Fuck Pheonix.
 
Matias said:
No offense meant here, but people don't need to be living in the desert en masse. Some folks being in places with some water is fine, but the cities need to be in places that can reasonably sustain those populations WITHOUT significantly altering nature. I understand that every ecosystem has an ebb and flow, and that everywhere has it's good years and bad, but if on the average it can't sustain that population, then people need to go elsewhere. I know that people flock to these places for the pleasant weather, but that simply isn't a sustainable reality. Fresh water is a prerequisite for life, and the availability of it without killing some other natural system to get it should be a priority. I live where I do partly because of this logic. My homesite is on an old pre-industrial homestead site, and the city below me used to be a marsh. When the dam is eventually destroyed, it will bring back sooooo much life to this area. The Midwest may be cold as fuck, but many of you know how nice it is to have water when the snow melts, right? Fuck Pheonix.
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Someone’s been playing Sid Meier’s Civilization
 
I was gonna try to just rattle off the key takeaways here, but the whole thing is just so worth a listen if you are actually interested in this story. The main takeaway is that there was just no amount of preparation that was gonna prevent this, even if we had our share of the military budget entirely allocated to preventing these kinds of disasters, assuming that people would ever be willing to allocate the resources in the first place.

 
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Matias said:
I was gonna try to just rattle off the key takeaways here, but the whole thing is just so worth a listen if you are actually interested in this story. The main takeaway is that there was just no amount of preparation that was gonna prevent this, even if we had our share of the military budget entirely allocated to preventing these kinds of disasters, adsuming that people wpuld ever be willing to allocate the resources in the first place.

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Associated press
‘Musk has backed the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), an anti-immigration, anti-Islamic party labeled as right-wing-extremist by German security services, in an upcoming national election. He hosted a broadcast with the party's leader on his social media platform earlier this month.’
Same in the UK, and obviously here too….
In the same tone where have we heard this phrase?
“poisoning the blood of our country,”
 
evo said:
Associated press
‘Musk has backed the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), an anti-immigration, anti-Islamic party labeled as right-wing-extremist by German security services, in an upcoming national election. He hosted a broadcast with the party's leader on his social media platform earlier this month.’
Same in the UK, and obviously here too….
In the same tone where have we heard this phrase?
“poisoning the blood of our country,”
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newrepublic.com

Did Elon Musk Seriously Just Do a Nazi Salute at Trump’s Inauguration?

Um, why did Elon Musk repeat the same hand gesture twice?
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There's a video clip in there too, in case you might feel like they took something out of context
 
Not sure. You would have to be a psychotic to do that.

Let's stay sane, then.

You got a call out from Trump yesterday Stumpsprouts. I wondered about you when he said it.
Did you appreciate it?
 
So weird, everything today was exactly the same as it was a couple days ago. Almost as if the government doesn’t have much power over me? If you’re referring to the trans community I think the fears are overstated. I’m much more concerned about immigrants and our economy/health care in general for everyone’s sake.


treegongfu said:
Not sure. You would have to be a psychotic to do that.

Let's stay sane, then.

You got a call out from Trump yesterday Stumpsprouts. I wondered about you when he said it.
Did you appreciate it?
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