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I've been saving up a giant salty rope of a spergefest and I am about to coom all over your virginal white wives.
First of all, like I have been saying, there are jurisdictional issues. The feds manage the vegetation on and respond to fires on the Angeles National Forest. The State of California (AKA Gavin) doesn't manage hardly any land but the state does respond to wildland fires that are outside of the control of other agencies, so they kind of fill a hole between federal and municipal. LA County does manage a pretty good amount of county land and they also respond to both wildland and urban fires. The LA City fire department obviously responds to shit within the boundaries of the City of LA but the City of LA manages very little of what could be called "wildland" and the City can suggest but not mandate what people plant in their yards. If I want to grow 500 eucalyptus, that's cool; if I want to grow 7 weed plants, they're going to kick my door in.
This is important because if the feds mismanage federal land, then they are the people who put that shit out. The City of LA, on the other hand, provides fire service inside the City while being semi-incapable of telling citizens to clean their shit up. So if some asshole thinks pukalyptus looks good, the city can't say no.
Based dyke lady was spitting real talk.
Second of all, we need to have a serious talk about infrastructure and permitting.
I think we should be so lucky as to have a deep state, in that I think we have the worst of both worlds as far as institutions go. The duality, of course, being the value of institutional knowledge versus the necessary freshets of new thought.
What we have, in my opinion, is a game of Telephone, or, for the folks across the Pond, Chinese Whispers.
To wit, I might posit that there were a slew of engineering reports followed by a summary that was shoved into a white paper that found its way into a geology tech report that found its way into an environmental report that concluded that this whole operation posed some risk to a frog and some judge decided to review this and then there's an article in the LA Times that concludes that the whole project is a total disaster. Or, conversely, the whole project is great and it's being held up by MAGA chuds for their lord god Pepe.
To bring this down to earth a bit and to shine light on the complexity of institutional knowledge, I would wager that most of the people up and down the chain on all of this had been on the job for about five years, quoting documents they never read from people who retired before they left grade school.
First of all, like I have been saying, there are jurisdictional issues. The feds manage the vegetation on and respond to fires on the Angeles National Forest. The State of California (AKA Gavin) doesn't manage hardly any land but the state does respond to wildland fires that are outside of the control of other agencies, so they kind of fill a hole between federal and municipal. LA County does manage a pretty good amount of county land and they also respond to both wildland and urban fires. The LA City fire department obviously responds to shit within the boundaries of the City of LA but the City of LA manages very little of what could be called "wildland" and the City can suggest but not mandate what people plant in their yards. If I want to grow 500 eucalyptus, that's cool; if I want to grow 7 weed plants, they're going to kick my door in.
This is important because if the feds mismanage federal land, then they are the people who put that shit out. The City of LA, on the other hand, provides fire service inside the City while being semi-incapable of telling citizens to clean their shit up. So if some asshole thinks pukalyptus looks good, the city can't say no.
Based dyke lady was spitting real talk.
Second of all, we need to have a serious talk about infrastructure and permitting.
I think we should be so lucky as to have a deep state, in that I think we have the worst of both worlds as far as institutions go. The duality, of course, being the value of institutional knowledge versus the necessary freshets of new thought.
What we have, in my opinion, is a game of Telephone, or, for the folks across the Pond, Chinese Whispers.
To wit, I might posit that there were a slew of engineering reports followed by a summary that was shoved into a white paper that found its way into a geology tech report that found its way into an environmental report that concluded that this whole operation posed some risk to a frog and some judge decided to review this and then there's an article in the LA Times that concludes that the whole project is a total disaster. Or, conversely, the whole project is great and it's being held up by MAGA chuds for their lord god Pepe.
To bring this down to earth a bit and to shine light on the complexity of institutional knowledge, I would wager that most of the people up and down the chain on all of this had been on the job for about five years, quoting documents they never read from people who retired before they left grade school.
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