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[Rudolf's Friend]

Here's what the fine folks on Bluesky are saying about the fire.
From saying that all of the firefighters are actually black slaves.

To blaming it on Climate Change

To claiming that the cutting of the fire department budget didn't hurt the fight against it.

To saying that firefighting is socialism now.

 

[Atatata]

I'll just say this.

I do not take pleasure in possibly a million people being displaced depending on if this actually gets deep into LA. Likewise, I do not take pleasure in an equally large number of people dying of a mixture of exposure and thirst, also all the deaths from the looting which would inevitably start. However, and I don't mean this in a ghoulish way, I do not mourn Sodom and Gomorrah.

Not even a few posts later, unbelievable.

 

[oldTireWater]

Replace them with some hardy tree

I propose Salt Cedar.

 

[Drip Torch]

Not my governor, not my boss. But this is a wild fire situation.
Funny to see the farms turn in to wildland fire & emergency management experts over a just few a days. Hope you all fair better when wild fire becomes a problem in your area, than what's happening in LA.

 

[AnOminous]

I do not take pleasure in possibly a million people being displaced depending on if this actually gets deep into LA.

I don't either but at least part of that is I don't want them displaced to places humans live.

 

[BradCarter]

She says she tried to donate $500 to a friend and the fee was $95.

Sounds like she needs to make her own donation platform and payment processor.

 

[The Punished Mitch]

Shit like this is why people can't drop gas vehicles - sometimes you need to be able to get out on a moment's notice and multihour charging times don't cut it.

You don't really appreciate the benefits of a gasoline powered vehicle until you blow a tire in subzero temperatures and easily stay toasted up with a tank that'll last you three straight days running stationary.

 

[big pauper]

I'll just say this.

I do not take pleasure in possibly a million people being displaced depending on if this actually gets deep into LA. Likewise, I do not take pleasure in an equally large number of people dying of a mixture of exposure and thirst, also all the deaths from the looting which would inevitably start. However, and I don't mean this in a ghoulish way, I do not mourn Sodom and Gomorrah.

I try and follow the golden rule, i treat people the way they treat other people. Wishing harm on people is pretty uncivilized. However, I've spent my entire life hearing californians refer to the parts of the country i live in, after natural disasters, as tornado bait that isn't worth rebuilding, culturally unsalvageable, and an embarassment to state's sovereignty. I think those things are a little bit... uncouth, to say the least, but i'm more than willing to return the favor!

 

[RodgerDodger]

Maybe we have Gavin Newsom and Karen Bass wrong.
Let's let nature decide.
If we put them in the middle of the fire and they don't burn, they are evil and must be expunged.
If we put them in the middle of the fire and they do burn, they were just doing their best and we'll give them a nice memorial service.
Sounds fair, yeah?

What if they weigh as much as a duck?

 

[Trout and Tears]

Cobra and Styx combine their energy to one shot all of Hollywood when?

If there's a God then please let this happen and we can finally wipe the slate clean

 

[AnOminous]

I really don’t understand turning down FDNY.

I understand about nothing about this absolute fucking lunacy. These people need to be against a wall.

 

[The Punished Mitch]

either the sun is really really fucked up on this camera or something else is happening here
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The sun gun or heliobeam is a theoretical orbital weapon, which makes use of a concave mirror mounted on a satellite, to concentrate sunlight onto a small area at the Earth's surface, destroying targets or killing through heat.

In 1929, the German physicist Hermann Oberth developed plans for a space station from which a 100-metre-wide concave mirror could be used to reflect sunlight onto a concentrated point on the earth.

Later during World War II, a group of German scientists at the German Army Artillery proving grounds at Hillersleben began to expand on Oberth's idea of creating a superweapon that could utilize the sun's energy. This so-called "sun gun" (Sonnengewehr) would be part of a space station 8,200 kilometres (5,100 mi) above Earth. The scientists calculated that a huge reflector, made of metallic sodium and with an area of 9 square kilometres (900 ha; 3.5 sq mi), could produce enough focused heat to make an ocean boil or burn a city. After being questioned by officers of the United States, the Germans claimed that the sun gun could be completed within 50 or 100 years.

 

[IAmNotAlpharius]

I joked earlier about the mayor accepting help from Africans, just like Trudeau refused local firefighters when Canada had a big fire and instead flew in some niggers to do the job...which they didn't do because there was a pay dispute, so they held a strike as fire grew around them.
If Mexicans show up and they don't do anything of value as well, we will have history repeating itself, and many keks to be had.

It’d be funny if they refused to go back.

 

[AnOminous]

What if they weigh as much as a duck?

That means they're made of wood.

 

[Drag-on Knight 91873]

RETVRN TO PASTORALISM. Letting a load of hogs and goats run wild and tear up the group for roots and brush would be kino.

We need Koalas because of the Eucalyptus trees.

 

[UnfinishedChapstick]

The sun gun or heliobeam is a theoretical orbital weapon, which makes use of a concave mirror mounted on a satellite, to concentrate sunlight onto a small area at the Earth's surface, destroying targets or killing through heat.

In 1929, the German physicist Hermann Oberth developed plans for a space station from which a 100-metre-wide concave mirror could be used to reflect sunlight onto a concentrated point on the earth.

Later during World War II, a group of German scientists at the German Army Artillery proving grounds at Hillersleben began to expand on Oberth's idea of creating a superweapon that could utilize the sun's energy. This so-called "sun gun" (Sonnengewehr) would be part of a space station 8,200 kilometres (5,100 mi) above Earth. The scientists calculated that a huge reflector, made of metallic sodium and with an area of 9 square kilometres (900 ha; 3.5 sq mi), could produce enough focused heat to make an ocean boil or burn a city. After being questioned by officers of the United States, the Germans claimed that the sun gun could be completed within 50 or 100 years.
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As extremely funny of the idea it would be that there's a rogue organization in the world that wanted to test their new sun beam over the course of multiple day on LA of all places, I highly doubt they would do it over an explosive epicenter.

 

[Necrosan]

Here's what the fine folks on Bluesky are saying about the fire.

It's honestly kind of fascinating. All the buzzwords are there, capitalism bad, socialism good, climate change, racism. It's like a chip on their head constantly feeds them the front page of r/politics. Pretty sure, had you scrolled down a bit further, you would've found something about gays.

 

[big pauper]

The sun gun or heliobeam is a theoretical orbital weapon, which makes use of a concave mirror mounted on a satellite, to concentrate sunlight onto a small area at the Earth's surface, destroying targets or killing through heat.

In 1929, the German physicist Hermann Oberth developed plans for a space station from which a 100-metre-wide concave mirror could be used to reflect sunlight onto a concentrated point on the earth.

Later during World War II, a group of German scientists at the German Army Artillery proving grounds at Hillersleben began to expand on Oberth's idea of creating a superweapon that could utilize the sun's energy. This so-called "sun gun" (Sonnengewehr) would be part of a space station 8,200 kilometres (5,100 mi) above Earth. The scientists calculated that a huge reflector, made of metallic sodium and with an area of 9 square kilometres (900 ha; 3.5 sq mi), could produce enough focused heat to make an ocean boil or burn a city. After being questioned by officers of the United States, the Germans claimed that the sun gun could be completed within 50 or 100 years.
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besides the fact that its like an order of magnitude larger than anything we've ever built in space the problem with this category of orbital weapon is that you're setting yourself up for a scenario where you lose minor alignment control of the satellite and it still goes Akira on your ass

 

[Drip Torch]

We need Koalas because of the Eucalyptus trees.

Then that would call for hunting regulations against hunting the Koalas. Because sure as shit, someone would try.
So do you want more regulations?

Better solution, eradicate invasive eucalyptus with herbicide and remove them from private lands and house lots.
Either lose the eucalyptus, or the house in a wild fire. That should be the choice. Remove invasive species, simple as.

 

[RodgerDodger]

Is there another invasive insect or species we could introduce to eliminate the eucalyptus and then have that backfire spectacularly too? Because if such a thing exists my bet is they'll do that. Reminds me of how Australia was cursed with those giant frogs that way. Maybe the eucalyptus was just paying the curse forward.

They could try importing some of those Australian giant acid spitting spiders. And maybe some Pacific coconut crabs.