Some Red State/Blue State Indicia

Fire is a result of too much fuel.

Without fuel there is no fire

Fire has literally been burning excess fuel off as a long as earth has been here.

If you wanna be genuine about planet temps, you’d need to be on the side of less
Concrete and less asphalt but I think that would be a seperation from postions prior to today
 
Tapate50 said:
Fire is a result of too much fuel.

Without fuel there is no fire

Fire has literally been burning excess fuel off as a long as earth has been here.

If you wanna be genuine about planet temps, you’d need to be on the side of less
Concrete and less asphalt but I think that would be a seperation from postions prior to today
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Sure, but we’ve also tracked the extent of forest fires and it’s getting worse.

Also, I don’t know how you knew my life’s mission to have as much concrete on Earth as possible, but please don’t take that dream from me.
 
mqt said:
Sure, but we’ve also tracked the extent of forest fires and it’s getting worse.

Also, I don’t know how you knew my life’s mission to have as much concrete on Earth as possible, but please don’t take that dream from me.
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How’s it getting worse?

What’s the measure ? Dollars ? Acres?

There have always been major fires.
 
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Tapate50 said:
How’s it getting worse?

What’s the measure ? Dollars ? Acres?

There have always been major fires.
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All of the above, really:

https://www.wri.org/insights/global-trends-forest-fires

Using data from researchers at the University of Maryland, recently updated to cover the years 2001 to 2023, we calculated that the area burned by forest fires increased by about 5.4% per year over that time period. Forest fires now result in nearly 6 million more hectares of tree cover loss per year than they did in 2001 — an area roughly the size of Croatia.

Fire is also making up a larger share of global tree cover loss compared to other drivers like mining and forestry. While fires only accounted for about 20% of all tree cover loss in 2001, they now account for roughly 33%.
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sturg33 said:
I'm always reminded of this whenever I see climate data

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I’m always surprised by people believing there’s more money in upholding a myth around climate change than the avalanche of cash the oil industry would throw at reputable scientists to disprove it.
 
mqt said:
I’m always surprised by people believing there’s more money in upholding a myth around climate change than the avalanche of cash the oil industry would throw at reputable scientists to disprove it.
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climate change is the perfect boogeyman because you can't see it and you can't ever actually be proven wrong... because the threat is always coming, never past us. this allows the government and marxists to use this to advance their horrific agenda
 
the reality is, the bigger the state tax revenues, the worse services will be. bc high tax revenues means there is a big government behind it. and big government makes everything worse. add to the fact that calirofnia probably has the dumbest group of government officials in the country... and it becomes a disaster

What do Californians get for their tax expenditures?

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sturg33 said:
still can't believe they put this messaging in a promo

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You have to admit that a story about a 50-year-old+ woman with a broken arm who from context was typically the person who moved him places is an objectively silly time to use that image as a meme.
 
mqt said:
You have to admit that a story about a 50-year-old+ woman with a broken arm who from context was typically the person who moved him places is an objectively silly time to use that image as a meme.
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I'm not the one who cut a promo about a person incapable of doing the job, and stating that victims are to blame should she fail.

they put that message out. and they should pay a price for it
 
sturg33 said:
I'm not the one who cut a promo about a person incapable of doing the job, and stating that victims are to blame should she fail.

they put that message out. and they should pay a price for it
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Yeah, that’s fair. But it’s also a weird time to use it because the quoted tweet it’s responding to suggests that even an aging woman would have been able to rescue her disabled adult son from a fire if her arm weren’t broken.
 
mqt said:
Yeah, that’s fair. But it’s also a weird time to use it because the quoted tweet it’s responding to suggests that even an aging woman would have been able to rescue her disabled adult son from a fire if her arm weren’t broken.
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Presumable this “aging woman” wasn’t carrying her unconscious son around on a day to day basis.
 
chop2chip said:
Presumable this “aging woman” wasn’t carrying her unconscious son around on a day to day basis.
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Presumably neither is any individual firefighter though. I happen to agree that promo was terrible and that it should not be a badge of courage to not be able to do some aspect of a job. But there’s a lot of selective ignorance at play here with the discourse around LA firefighters, beginning with the obvious point of it not ****ing mattering who is fighting these fires right now given the other circumstances.

One area I don’t see explored enough by opponents of DEI is why there’s such a push for it in certain situations. Do people think the reason so many dangerous, difficult or low-wage jobs have big public pushes for diversity is because they just want to lift people of other backgrounds up, or because recruitment is down? I think it’s always worth first asking if this is a job you yourself would want to do for the prevailing wage before asking if a DEI initiative is anything more than a way to reframe a ****ty or dangerous job as something more than that.
 
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