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clipartfan92 said:
CNN freaking out over people not swallowing the propaganda about climate change and wildfires:
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I gotta say, he’s actually pretty careful about how he words things in this report to refrain from editorializing about the data presented.

However, I hate how he says “nineteen hundred and ninety one.” He reveals himself to be a moron from that alone.
 
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Diana Moon Glampers said:
Apparently there's already a company doing it (bummer, I took the post down thinking it'd be a fun patent).

If I was a company like this, I'd be putting these systems in free at specific houses in the areas with the most extreme fire risk, then just wait for the photos after disaster strikes of whole neighborhoods leveled with the protected house still standing tall, not a singe on it.
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Saving the house is only half the battle, then you have to either ignore evacuation or race back to defend your house from niggers and spics looting.

Major said:
Americans have to go to the motor authority to get their licence renewed. Never ceases amuse me.
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No we don't. You can renew online or at an automated touchscreen kiosk inside a Kroger's. We live in the most amazing country in the world, where drunk driving is criminalized but you can renew a drivers license and purchase hard liquor in the same store, same visit.
 
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clipartfan92 said:
CNN freaking out over people not swallowing the propaganda about climate change and wildfires:
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Google trends is dogshit and totally useless, citing it as a source is a joke. But I find it interesting that shit like medicare, food stamps, and personal loans seem to have a steady increase with little boosts here and there. While BLM and Climate change have massive spikes then quick drops back down.

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Anymore details about the illegal and felon caught starting a fire and suspected in a larger one? This is the last i've heard:

Suspect arrested with ‘flamethrower’ near LA Fire is an illegal immigrant: sources​

The homeless man tackled and zip-tied by onlookers who say he was trying to start fires with a blowtorch near a Los Angeles wildfire is an illegal immigrant who will likely be protected by California’s sanctuary city status, according to sources.

The suspect is Juan Manuel Sierra-Leyva, a Mexican national who is in the United States illegally, sources told The Post.

He was chased and taken down by residents of Woodland Hills after they allegedly saw him torching old Christmas trees and debris on fire with what one resident described as a “flamethrower” soon after the massive wildfire began Thursday

The suspect is being held on a felony probation violation, the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) said, without detailing his previous conviction.

Detectives are still investigating it as possible arson, but LAPD Assistant Chief Dominic Choi said Friday that there was not immediately enough evidence for that charge.

ICE placed a detainer request on him three days ago, but the federal agency does not expect it to be honored due to California’s sanctuary state law, sources said.

“The lack of communication between local and federal law enforcement agencies in Los Angeles due to sanctuary policies put in place by LA city council and Governor [Gavin] Newsom, have resulted in many arrests that have been unreported to and followed up by ICE,” a law enforcement source told The Post.

“Many of which are criminals who have numerous encounters with local law enforcement for serious crimes,” they added.

California’s sanctuary state law, passed in 2017, ensures that no state resources are used to assist federal immigration enforcement.

The Los Angeles City Council unanimously passed an ordinance in November that prohibits the use of city resources and personnel to carry out federal immigration enforcement.

Sierra-Leyva has a lengthy rap sheet in LA County and has been convicted of multiple crimes — including assault with a deadly weapon in 2023, records show.

He has collectively spent more than two years in jail, sources told The Post.
It’s not clear where or when he crossed into the US.

Video that went viral shows neighbors cornering and then detaining Sierra-Leyva as he holds what one resident described as a “flamethrower” on the street, with one man yelling at him: “Put it down!”

Renata Grinshpun told KTLA she was in her backyard when she heard a car screech to a stop and a man yelling that someone was trying to start a fire.

“A few gentlemen surrounded him and got him on his knees. They got some zip ties, a rope and we were able to do a citizens’ arrest,” Grinshpun said.

The LAPD responded and arrested Sierra-Leyva, video from the scene shows. The major crimes squad was called in because he was “a possible arson suspect” — but no arson charges were brought against him, Choi told reporters Friday.

The Kenneth Fire burned more than 1,050 acres (1.6 square miles) over three days in Los Angeles and Ventura counties. It was completely contained by Sunday morning.
The cause of the fire remains under investigation.
 
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On the one hand, encouraging people to have equipment to protect their own homes sounds good.

On the other hand, this would result in a lot of people trying and failing to save their places.

IIRC, Australia promoted a policy for a while that allowed homeowners to try to defend their properties, but they rolled it back when the policy resulted in fat boomers trying to defend their houses with nothing more than a hose amidst walls of flame.

I really hope there weren't some chumps in Pacific Palisades who thought a hose could stop the fire, but we all know there were.

I read a really crucial article a while ago about how with a lot of these fires, they're not spreading via vegetation, they're spreading when the house next door goes up in flames and the thousand-degree temperatures blow out your windows and then you're fucked. I can't find it though.

This man saved his house in the Paradise Fire but he sounds very traumatized from the effort. (I don't know if this includes the part where he couldn't save his neighbor's dogs, but that might be worth a trigger warning.)

 
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