Wildfires

[zsn]

would you keep going to a restaurant that always served shitty food? (or if it was always a dice roll if it would be shitty?)

H. L. Mencken says hello. You just described Olive Garden The Cheesecake Factory and the entire fast food industry!

I'm sure you won't mind that I fixed your post, seeing as how Darden, parent of OG, is my 2nd largest holding. mkay?

tia

Can’t argue with that!

It is true then that no one went broke underestimating the taste (literally) or intelligence of the American public!

[Overlander]

Is there a legitimate way to argue away free breadsticks?

Yeah, I thought not.

[RainbowsandUnicorns]

I'd miss you, Gutter.

I'd send you post cards.

Many (most?) people feel this is "staged". Yes? No?

[Overlander]

Seems pretty legit

[KUTradition]

i mean, it IS L.A…some might consider the reaction on par

[jfish26]

God damn it, these cretins are too dumb to even laugh at.

[JKLivin]

God damn it, these cretins are too dumb to even laugh at.

I may be showing my cretin-ness here, but aren’t the reservoirs in L.A. filled with water that is piped down from the North of the state, where they have had record snowfall/rains/flooding?

Somebody somewhere said “No, thanks. We don’t need any.”

[pdub]

would you keep going to a restaurant that always served shitty food? (or if it was always a dice roll if it would be shitty?)

H. L. Mencken says hello. You just described Olive Garden and the entire fast food industry!

Ban

[japhy]

The price of gasoline is $12.00/gal. Everything rises in cost accordingly. This goes on for 24 months, people living paycheck to paycheck. Running up credit card debt.

The price of gasoline goes down to $0.10/gal for one month. Then back up to $12.00/gal.

People are complaining.

But why, they should all be multimillionaires by now.

[japhy]

God damn it, these cretins are too dumb to even laugh at.

It would be dumb if the grifters weren't making so much money off the "patriots".

[KUTradition]

God damn it, these cretins are too dumb to even laugh at.

I may be showing my cretin-ness here, but aren’t the reservoirs in L.A. filled with water that is piped down from the North of the state, where they have had record snowfall/rains/flooding?

Somebody somewhere said “No, thanks. We don’t need any.”

do you ever think?

i know you’re prone to knee-jerk, emotional and political response, but if you’d stop to think and then follow up that thought with curiosity-driven investigation, you might not say such stupid fucking shit

[Overlander]

God damn it, these cretins are too dumb to even laugh at.

Somebody somewhere said “No, thanks. We don’t need any.”

Yeah, that is EXACTLY what they said.

Great job!

[JKLivin]

God damn it, these cretins are too dumb to even laugh at.

Somebody somewhere said “No, thanks. We don’t need any.”

Yeah, that is EXACTLY what they said.

Great job!

I know, right. Silly me. I should just ask the supremely competent L.A. Mayor, Karen Bass, who recently announced that we can find all the information we need "at URL." Brilliant.

[Overlander]

Somebody somewhere said “No, thanks. We don’t need any.”

Yeah, that is EXACTLY what they said.

Great job!

I know, right. Silly me. I should just ask the supremely competent L.A. Mayor, Karen Bass, who recently announced that we can find all the information we need "at URL." Brilliant.

Another woman of power is on your nerves?

[MICHHAWK]

throw a big pump in the pacific. can't drink it. but i bet it puts out fires. water problem solved.

[zsn]

throw a big pump in the pacific. can't drink it. but i bet it puts out fires. water problem solved.

Then nothing grows there for a hundred years! Good idea.

[zsn]

God damn it, these cretins are too dumb to even laugh at.

I may be showing my cretin-ness here, but aren’t the reservoirs in L.A. filled with water that is piped down from the North of the state, where they have had record snowfall/rains/flooding?

Somebody somewhere said “No, thanks. We don’t need any.”

I don’t think cretin-ness is the word you’re looking for.

Once and for all: there’s no water shortage, no matter what ignoranuses (someone who is not just ignorant but also an asshole - eg. Trump, Musk) say. It’s a last-mile problem. The infrastructure was not designed to handle the need for water on this scale. It’s akin you having thousands of dollars in your bank account but you’re short of cash because no bank is open and the ATMs are inoperable.

[KUTradition]

so on point

[KUTradition]

Yeah, that is EXACTLY what they said.

Great job!

I know, right. Silly me. I should just ask the supremely competent L.A. Mayor, Karen Bass, who recently announced that we can find all the information we need "at URL." Brilliant.

Another woman of power is on your nerves?

he just can’t help himself

definitely not a misogynist though…definitely not

[jfish26]

God damn it, these cretins are too dumb to even laugh at.

I may be showing my cretin-ness here, but aren’t the reservoirs in L.A. filled with water that is piped down from the North of the state, where they have had record snowfall/rains/flooding?

Somebody somewhere said “No, thanks. We don’t need any.”

I don’t think cretin-ness is the word you’re looking for.

Once and for all: there’s no water shortage, no matter what ignoranuses (someone who is not just ignorant but also an asshole - eg. Trump, Musk) say. It’s a last-mile problem. The infrastructure was not designed to handle the need for water on this scale. It’s akin you having thousands of dollars in your bank account but you’re short of cash because no bank is open and the ATMs are inoperable.

It's substantially the same issue as brownouts or breached levees.

Our infrastructure was designed - as makes perfect sense - to be able to routinely (and without thought, effort, pain, or even really noticing) handle problems in the middle of the bell curve.

And, with increasing thought, effort and pain, to handle problems along the narrower ends of the curve.

But we humans have shifted the curve profoundly; we now routinely see "once-in-a-century" climatological events. And for political reasons, there has never been a will to spend prudently on preemptive measures; instead, we spend MUCH more expensively and unproductively on emergency measures.

And of course: you know who very much does believe in human-caused climate change? Those notoriously liberal, woke, progressive insurance companies.