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This sucks. This channel is pretty good. This guy performed on a lot of classic albums, including Thriller, and does some great videos on Synthesizers. Makes me wonder how much historical shit is wrecked by these fires.
Given what we’ve seen so far there’s going to be a lot of music and film artifacts that either went up in flames or are ruined by smoke/water damage. After the 2008 Universal Studio Fires you’d hope people would start spreading these irreplaceable historical pieces across the country given how much was lost there but here we are. We lost a ton of masters during Hurricane Sandy as well, not as much as in the Universal fire but the majority of labels based in NYC (Matador, for example) lost almost all of their masters. Any vinyl repressings from Univeral Music Grouo post 2008, regardless of what the hype sticker or listing claims, is from digital backup sources.
 
Kyle Hanson of Bitwit (a very popular Techtuber who previously dealt with a divorce of a cheating wife) lost his entire house in the fire. He made a vlog going through his neighborhood and exploring the remains of his house.
Damn he was a decent tech channel, his reaction to the verge's awful pc build is a certified classic. From what I know his only real drama was marrying a whore that he promptly dumped and collabing with those cows at LTT. He at least has an office where he kept his horde of pc parts so hopefully he can bounce back but his views have been kinda stagnant.
 
Newsom's been suddenly shitting up X with denials.

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Anybody mentioned Newsom's shiny 9.1 million dollar mansion (that he paid 600k over asking price for)? (A)
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It's at 224 Woodland Rd, Kentfield CA 94904. Still a Zillow up for it, even. Just thought I should put that out there if nobody here has yet.
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Of course, it's just north of San Francisco, so he's pretty insulated from actually having real concern over the LA fires.

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This sucks. This channel is pretty good. This guy performed on a lot of classic albums, including Thriller, and does some great videos on Synthesizers. Makes me wonder how much historical shit is wrecked by these fires.

I left a snarky comment earlier in this thread but it dawned on me not long after it's not just rich celebrity homes, it's all the rare one of a kind shit that rich cocksuckers own that has been lost also. Who knows how many priceless manuscripts, books, masterpieces of art and so on that has been burned. Not to mention how many people's pets, wildlife, exotic pets, sanctuaries etc that has been fucking died a horrific death outside of the normal people there just trying to survive. As much as I hate california I do not take any joy in what has happened.
 
Anybody mentioned Newsom's shiny 9.1 million dollar mansion (that he paid 600k over asking price for)? (A)
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It's at 224 Woodland Rd, Kentfield CA 94904. Still a Zillow up for it, even. Just thought I should put that out there if nobody here has yet.
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Of course, it's just north of San Francisco, so he's pretty insulated from actually having real concern over the LA fires.
Did he have to pay that because he was being outbid or because he just had the money to do it and just wanted to secure the shithole?
 
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Some pretty unfortunate news related to the California Wildfires currently...
Crossposting this from the Western Animation thread since a bunch of people in the industry have lost their homes in the fire.

 
They still haven't tied newscum to a stake and feed him and his rotten soul to the flamesn
He was almost recalled. He would have been if there was any actual competition. The closest we got was Larry Elder who him hawed around about whether or not he actually wanted the job. If there was another Arnold type he would have been gone.
 
Cities didn't used to be built like that. Post-war suburbs had much larger lots until recently when mass immigration increased demand so much that builders switched to focusing on quantity instead of quality. In cities with large amounts of recent immigration like Dallas and Houston, you can tell the age of a neighborhood from the sky by looking at the density of houses; the newer they are, the more dense they are.
Yeah the plots used to bigger cause people had more choice and money and houses built better cause everything was made in america, by americans. But they were still built by big development companies who got that land for pennies on the dollar, and then divided it all up a thousand different ways and erected very famously mass produced houses. All that's really changed is the system has gotten alot more corrupt, demand higher and the dollar worth less.
The West Coast has always been worse when it comes to packing people in than the East Coast and Midwest though. Atlanta is the polar opposite of LA: miles and miles of large houses on large lots.
Yeah i know, i almost threw up the first time i ever saw LA from google maps. I am a eastern european country boy thats used to having a 15 acre backyard and tons of freedom and privacy and small, homely villages and towns, and just seeing such a massive concrete jungle, thats like quarter the size of my entire country just a gave me this feeling of weird primordial kind of disgust thats hard to describe. But yeah, main difference is East coast was settled centuries earlier and the all the main cities were established in the 16, 17 hundreds and alot of the properties were measured out and built by settlers who wanted a nice place to live, not to make maximum profit on a certain area. And when the 20th century came around and all these big devolpment companies started to appear, all they got to do were small expansions to already existing organically grown cities. But The West coast and Midwest cities were basically built entirely from the ground up by These Development companies with profit in mind. And Midwest is just a huge area with very little people, so naturally prices are lower and properties much much larger.
 
I have finally read every page of this thread and thoroughly enjoyed every single minute of it. I am happy to have shared this wonderful experience with you all.

In honor of the seven other people who also posted Los Angeles Is Burning,


This city's sleeping like a soldier trapped inside of an iron lung
Machines can keep you breathing
But what happens when you find a new war's begun?
Flip a switch and turn it off; you won't be able to breathe
So either way you're a casualty

I've got this burning like my veins are filled with nothing but gasoline
And with a spark it's gonna be the biggest fire they've ever seen
Cut me down or let me run– either way it's all gonna burn
The only way that they'll ever learn
We've got to turn it off
Flip a switch

Light up the night!
There is a city that this darkness can't hide
There are the embers of a fire that's gone out
But I can still feel the heat on my skin
And this mess we're in, well you and I
Maybe you and I
We can still make it right
Maybe we can bring back the light

At the heart of the city there is a building that looks down over all there is
And the man in the tower controls it all without raising a single fist
It's like they gathered up the city, they sold it to the devil, and now
It's gone to hell and they wonder how

Well, a friend once told me men, they would follow any man who would turn the wheels
Now the wheels are spinning out of control
What would they do if we held them still?
If you destroy the working parts, what you'll get is a broken machine
A beacon of light from a burning screen
Light it up

Light up the night!
There is a city that this darkness can't hide
There are the embers of a fire that's gone out
But I can still feel the heat on my skin
And this mess we're in, well you and I
Maybe you and I

We can light up the night

We can light up the night
There is a city that this darkness can't hide
There are the embers of a fire that's gone out
But I can still feel the heat on my skin
And this mess we're in, well you and I
Maybe you and I

We can light up the night
There is a city that this darkness can't hide
There is a fire that will burn through the streets of the city
And we will stand in the light, we will stand in the light
You and I
Maybe you and I

Can bring back the light!
There is a city that this darkness can't hide
There is a fire that will burn through the streets of the city
And we will stand in the light, we will stand in the light
You and I
You and I
We'll bring back the light
 
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he just had the money to do it and just wanted to secure the shithole?
I can't see anything showing he needed to do it, in fact the home had dropped 3 million in value since the year prior. Bizarre, out of touch rich guy move. Relevant text of the article is pretty short.
Around three-and-a-half years after he sold his Marin County home in a lucrative off-market deal for nearly $6 million and relocated to Sacramento, California Gov. Gavin Newsom has decided to make a return to the Bay Area. The San Francisco native plans to split his time between Sacramento and Marin County, where his four children are reportedly already enrolled in school.

Records show Newsom, whose gubernatorial term ends in 2027, and his documentary filmmaker wife Jennifer Siebel Newsom have paid billionaire Hyatt Hotels heir Daniel Pritzker $9.1 million—about $600,000 over asking—through a private LLC for a midcentury modern abode in the affluent unincorporated community of Kentfield, about 20 miles north of San Francisco. First listed in summer 2023 for just under $11.5 million, the place underwent several price chops before landing at its final ask of $8.5 million.
To add, he's got another property in Sacramento at 3.7 mil. No photos in the article and haven't checked elsewhere, so by the details it's within Fair oaks, so somewhere within here.
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Over 10 million just in homes alone.

Edit: Extra deetz on his current main home, aka the 9.1 mil. Since I can't get the Zillow to actually archive.
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Only photo available there, I'd imagine anything more comprehensive was wiped or was never available outside of a luxury home seller's page.
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6 beds, 6 baths, 5609 square feet. Sold for 10 mil in 2022, and when housing prices flew up it was on sale again, initially valued at 12 million, article's claim it was first resold at 11.5, relisted for 9.5 as it's value fell, and then for some reason was bought by Newsom for 9.1 when it'd already dipped 600k below that value.
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Zillow lists it in the last image as still being valued what it was bought for, but again that's not exactly accurate, just estimates. Articles stated it was worth 8.5 by then, and clearly not a ton of people were interested in it if it's value was falling by millions.
 
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I left a snarky comment earlier in this thread but it dawned on me not long after it's not just rich celebrity homes, it's all the rare one of a kind shit that rich cocksuckers own that has been lost also. Who knows how many priceless manuscripts, books, masterpieces of art and so on that has been burned. Not to mention how many people's pets, wildlife, exotic pets, sanctuaries etc that has been fucking died a horrific death outside of the normal people there just trying to survive. As much as I hate california I do not take any joy in what has happened.
I'd like to think the malevolent being behind this tried to keep the animal casualties to a minimum. Seems like only 11 people dead so far too. Just homes and materialistic shit. Lost your wine cellar with 2000 dollars fuck you. Lost that sweet 10,000 dolla glass staircase you got built with LEDs fuck you. Lost that ability to raise your McClaren from your underground garage to street level don't care. And they shouldn't have either.
 
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