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The region experienced high winds seasonally prior to climate change. Look at a topographical map of the southern California region - the deserts get hot and the high pressure pushes through the mountains (the San Gabriel range is one of the only east-west mountain ranges in the world), passing through the wide open savannah of the southern coast. The current wind conditions are a normal part of the winter cycle in SoCal.

Focusing on the conditions doesn’t put energy and resources isn’t a good use. It really is a matter of finding what caused it and stopping that. There are no fire spreading birds out in CA (or this would be a known and common source of the annual fires). Each time the fires are burning, they are because of something a human did, like driving with metal scraping the road and creating sparks. Or power lines that hang over mountains getting knocked down by the predictable winds. Or gender reveal parties and other idiots who spread fire to celebrate. Or casually flicking a cigarette out of a car window. It’s always people.

That could be why Musk moved Tesla HQ to the home of “Stand your ground” laws. Pre-emptive mass murder is a form of riot prevention!

Jesus

Zuck fully expects to take advantage of the H1B push President Musk is advocating for.

For as much as authoritarians and the GOP voters hate California, a lot of them live there. Just another facet of their “Rules for thee” lifestyle.

Fucking farmer propaganda. The Newsom isn’t responsible for this bun fuckery. That’s entirely the talking point of the giant corporate farms paying for ads to sway the idiots. The reality is that farms pay pennies for multiple Olympic sized pools worth of water. A home in the state that doesn’t dump water all over dirt and do nothing for months has to pay a hundred, at least, each month. Farms need to pay their fair share.

Consequences make them afraid. And shame works on them too, but only if it is from their kind.

That’s the worst thing to learn. The call from a stranger who sounds sad, that heavy “I’m sorry.” No one deserves to think that they weren’t enough to stop their loved one from killing themselves but it will live in her head for a while. Suicide hurts everyone for years except for the victim.

Starship Troopers exists so any video game movie adaptation will be compared to it. Unless Paul Verhoven is directing, it is a big uphill battle to win any comparisons.

And it’s Sony, so, good luck? They can’t seem to understand what makes a movie interesting to want to watch. They can’t cut a good trailer but their actual ability to produce and execute movie production is just bad. They can’t make a comic book movie that isn’t produced by others.

Democracy dies in darkness

Yeah, but his way to relax and get away from stress was to code. Organizing game jams is a whole other world of stress. The different level of stress is like that Mitchell Hedburg joke, “You’re a great chef! Can you farm?”

Conservatives have the same understanding of real world mechanics as a child.

The R next to a politician’s name means (Review Needed)

This has been their schtick since Game and Watch.

Puerto Rico has been a key location for companies that want to build in the US but pay like it’s Mexico. The EPA doesn’t exercise the same oversight in territories like it does in states so the people and land are taken advantage of whenever it’s cheap. Here’s a fun short film from MST3k and it isn’t the only one. Puerto Rico has been abused by moneyed interests for a while now.

This is what happens when a single issue voting bloc looks up from their issue and realized they listened to a lie because they heard what they wanted. Single issue voters are a plague to democracy because they aren’t smart enough to think about more than one thing.

Sony didn’t release the Xperia VI in the US this year. It’s one less phone that supports an audio jack.

The merger isn’t supposed to help consumers. It’s to help businesses that are incapable of keeping up and need support. The Japanese government has a history of merging companies together to ensure that they stay competitive. MITI did it in the 70s to Japanese technology companies like Sony, Sharp, Panasonic, etc. most of those are still around today and even leading the industry.

Again, this isn’t to help any consumers.

He shouldn’t have eaten that sushi.