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[MarvinTheParanoidAndroid]

Did NAMBLA HQ burn down yet?

 

[Super-Chevy454]

Did NAMBLA HQ burn down yet?

Good question, I presume these SOB probably moved their HQ before the SHTF.

 

[Astro Galactic Megalul]

Their idea of environmentalism is something they hide behind while they fuck you. Regulate everything here so you can’t do anything, yet China and miscellaneously brown countries like India can do whatever they want as these people fuck around and fly in private jets. When the consequences of their malicious policies rear their ugly heads, it’s all “take a minute and relax while your house burns down. Remember, if you weren’t driving around spewing those dang dirty carbons, climate change wouldn’t have set the trees alight! You got yourself in a bad situation…”

It really was never about the environment, it’s about harming the average person as much as possible.

The thing with using environment as a smoke screen, you can't possibly measure the effect these policies (don't) have on it. We must do it because there's supposedly no other choice, we must believe science and hope it's not too late to prevent the supposed inevitable climate apocalypse (which is always only 10-20 years away). If nothing changes for the better, you're just not doing enough. If things get worse? It's your fault for not doing more, now give us your money.

I'm all for protecting environment from pollution and excessive exploitation btw, but that's in an entirely different realm from all this fucking climate change grift. It shouldn't stand in the way of common sense.

 

[clipartfan92]

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[Max Caulfield]

David Lynch was murdered.

 

[Quijibo69]

David Lynch was murdered.

This video makes me wonder if he was or not:

 

[1Tonka_Truck]

A key ‘weakness’ in L.A.'s wildfire strategy went unaddressed for years, Post probe shows

LAFD has a tractor company that includes a fucking D8R, but it's solitary hand crew is a group of volunteer high school kids? Sounds about right.

 

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LAFD has a tractor company that includes a fucking D8R, but it's solitary hand crew is a group of volunteer high school kids? Sounds about right.

Why would they need hand crews? Apparently their plan has been to just ask other counties to do that work instead.

 

[Cybork]

Well, I have an answer to the question I asked earlier in the thread

Besides slimey government being a slimey government, I wonder how many people are going to stay.

Turns out, these spoiled folk are fleeing faster a jogger from a crime scene.

> I'm negotiating almost a dozen deals right now on land in thr Palisades, much faster than I ever thought I would be doing. People are already trying to sell their dirt knowing that they're not going to go back there, to home builders that will then build their house and either keep it or sell it.

> 65-75% of people who live in the Palisades won't go back there.

> ... In my 20 year career, the phone has not stopped ringing... we have over 1500 new renters just locally, I'm about 10 minutes from the Palisades... there is an entire off market business that's being done right now.

> [Rambling on 2000+ price gougers which is supposed to be illegal in LA]

> We signed $250 million dollars worth of listings in the past week, we usually do that in a month and a half.

> Think about the Palisades, this was that all American neighborhood.

> The calls I got are, "I'm 70 years old, I just evacuated for the last time, I'm out."

So there's a significant amount of people who are leaving just because they are sick of evacuating. Not even because they lost their homes.

Lmfao, at the delusional people who said that the Palisades is the people, not the houses. That as long as the people stay, then the Palisades will be back. Rich people don't have a community, they got rich by destroying yours. These fucks aren't in love with their land and neighbors enough to suffer through years of construction. I hope it's all turned into low income housing. It would be so symbolic for America in so many ways.

Edit: Everytime I try to edit my post to correct the greentext, it bugs out and deletes all formatting. I gib up. I'm not reformatting the entire post.

 

[FatalTater]

Whenever TPTB start talking about reducing carbon, I remember that humans are made of carbon.
I do not sleep well most nights.

 

[a hapless toad]

Why would they need hand crews? Apparently their plan has been to just ask other counties to do that work instead.

To be fair, hotshot crews deploy from all over the state.* During fire season around here you'll see tons of trucks from the opposite end of California.

But LA needs its own crew, not a bunch of kid volunteers, and despite having the funding and approval for it, the civil service process did its bureaucracy thing. What could have been done years ago instead sat on multiple desks for months at a time waiting for each bureaucrat's signature. For fuck's sake. This could have and should have been expedited to speed it through the approval process but that would have required someone to care.

* https://calmatters.org/environment/wildfires/2024/08/park-fire-california-wildfires-staffing/

 

[Super-Chevy454]

The guys of China Uncensored added their pinch of salt about China gloating over LA fires.

Yeah, we could imagine president Xi the pooh rubbing his hands the way of the Happy Merchant about that.

 

[a hapless toad]

China gloating over LA fires

2020 China floods - 219 dead/missing - $32 billion
2021 China floods - 449 dead/missing - $25 billion
2022 China floods - 52 dead/missing - $19 billion
2023 China floods - 81 dead/missing - $13 billion
2024 China floods - 836 dead/missing - $30 billion

But go on, Xi.

 

[Rome's rightful successor]

South California resident and youtuber Drew Durnil weighs in on the fires.

 

[Quence]

IT snot majority hispanic. the state is no longer majority white.

 

[555777555]

2020 China floods - 219 dead/missing - $32 billion
2021 China floods - 449 dead/missing - $25 billion
2022 China floods - 52 dead/missing - $19 billion
2023 China floods - 81 dead/missing - $13 billion
2024 China floods - 836 dead/missing - $30 billion

But go on, Xi.

Don't forget the 2008 Sichuan earthquake which killed 87,000 people. Poor construction was responsible for many of the deaths.

 

[Anonitolia]

Only 2 fires remain (in Los Angeles)...




I still haven't got a clue as to why they aren't updating acreage. It's especially strange with Eaton, given that it's supposedly been moving West into unburned territory.

I'm also a little curious as to why there haven't been any new fires cropping up. Have all of them just been killed in the crib since the LAFD got more hands on the job? Are the winds too slow to help spread the embers that start them now?

 

[Rome's rightful successor]

Only 2 fires remain (in Los Angeles)...

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I still haven't got a clue as to why they aren't updating acreage. It's especially strange with Eaton, given that it's supposedly been moving West into unburned territory.

I'm also a little curious as to why there haven't been any new fires cropping up. Have all of them just been killed in the crib since the LAFD got more hands on the job? Are the winds too slow to help spread the embers that start them now?

What are the odds they are still not contained by the time Trump is President again?

 

[StudMccool]

I had a buddy who when I was talking about the lack of updates and visuals on the fire making it hard to know its true extent

He said this

"Seems like they are just suppressing how bad it is until trump gets in power so he can be responsible for the true extent of the destruction"

 

[Archeops]

Time for another afternoon LA fire containment update.

• Eaton Fire: 73% contained
• Palisades Fire: 43% contained

I'm seeing more and more evacuation orders being downgraded to warnings and evacuation warnings being lifted around the Palisades Fire and Eaton Fires. The most recent lifts for the Palisades Fire include areas near the 405 freeway while the Eaton Fire has only four areas under an evacuation warning. As far as Evacuation orders are concerned the Eaton Fire has areas north of Normandie Heights under 'em while the Palisades Fire still has areas between Malibu and Santa Monica under them.