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No shifting the goal posts Kenny. Where in that picture is a forest where a fire can start and send embers into the neighborhood?

Lol.

What woods? Where was there a forest near the area where the Palisades fire started?

What kindling would there be in a suburban tract?

Is he? I saw him in LA every day of the fire.

We’re talking climate change. You said it had no bearing on wind direction.

Why would Gavin Newsome be on the AC Boardwalk?

I beg to disagree. Would the fire have spread if they were coming off the ocean?

You came! Tell us more about where Santa Ana winds come from. Aren’t they usually out of the east, southeast?

I made a thread he can cum in and bogart.

I guess there isn’t much to burn in Mays Landing, except for the trash that gets dropped there.

Where you at @smiradenius? Nothing to say now?

You nearly won the competition with that.

That is a very good app.

Alright @smiradenius - let's discuss all the reasons you have no idea what you're talking about. The winds that generated and propelled this fire are the result of shifting global weather patterns. When the atmosphere heats up, so do the oceans. When the oceans heat up, they impact how and where energy in atmosphere distributes. The fires in LA did not happen in an area with there was brush, they happened in suburban tracts. This is a result of extreme winds, irrespective of the source. Water infrastructure is one of the first things impacted by a wildfire. It doesn't matter how much water is stored in reserve. When a wild fire is spread rapidly, no water system ever conceived could provide enough water fast enough to properly address a raging fire on multiple fronts. This is why water and repellant drops by aircraft are usually the first and best means of stopping a wild fire spread.

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There's nothing to really wipe out as far as the sentence - he didn't get a fine, he didn't get jail time, he didn't even get probation. He can't be resentenced to anything less. As far as the conviction, he's been appealing that for months now and he hasn't had a whole lot of success. He's not likely to get any headway on his conviction being overturned for presidential immunity because there is no way he can say it was done either while in office or as part of his duties as president. Now that the trial is complete and verdict reached, they can't appeal for malicious prosecution. He's going to have to appeal it based on other judicial irregularities, and such an appeal isn't likely to make it out of the state's appellate courts given the high profile nature of the trial. Do try to keep up, dear.

Exactly. I think most people associate high winds with local weather systems where there is also high humidity, like tornadoes / thunderstorms and hurricanes, but winds are also frequently the result of larger low pressure systems passing by heat domes where the humidity is low. Hurricane force winds in sub 20% humidity will almost guarantee that there will be a firestorm. At those speeds, the ignition doesn't have to be arson or a downed power line; it could be just about anything that's dislodged by the winds creating a spark in dry brush. The Palisade fire isn't far from another of my usual haunts, Santa Monica. The area that caught fire is against coastal hills at the foot of the Santa Monica mountain range, but it's a densely populated area. The idea that a wildfire is a product of something that only happens along the border of an undeveloped area is absolutely false. It can and will appear in suburban sprawl, and the challenges of it occurring in an urban setting can lead to even more catastrophic results. Fortunately, the death toll for this event is less than 20 at this point, even though over 7,000 structures have been lost.

I tend to agree. I think that $26.90 is probably the legally established scale for prison jobs.

Here’s an unpopular opinion: apparently, people would rather believe absurdly stupid shit like this than acknowledge that climate change means we have to change how we live.

I see the usual tools were going to grant it. ACB and Roberts are smart enough to know how to not break things unnecessarily, and Marchant probably had an inkling they would reject the petition if there was not real cost for doing so. Trump has to know that he doesn't have the mandate he had the first time around, even if he says otherwise. Rejecting the petition is as clear a reminder as any that this is the case without necessarily restricting him.

You know what? Maybe California, Oregon and Washington should join Canada.

We can have fun in whatever new thread he will inevitably start.

You could restrict his access to just that club. You know we'll all come to poke at him with sticks and maybe throw rocks through the bars.

All the snow means more water... that they can sell to us with a steep tariff. Should put like a giant wall in each of the great lakes so they can keep it all to themselves.