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Man, I love our dystopian timeline.

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[–] CloutAtlas@hexbear.net 32 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Mentally preparing for the inevitable news story of some dipshit getting 3rd degree burns trying to rescue an American flag or something and getting praised by donkey brained Amerikkkans in the comment sections as if it were an uplifting story about national unity or some inane bullshit.

[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 10 points 1 day ago

I can imagine on on scene reporter interviewing somebody.

"We are so glad we made it out. Our family is safe. It was so close. The flames were right there. My neighbor, Mike, drove away with his family. And less than a minute later we drove away too. A couple miles away I saw he had turned around. He was driving back to his house. I said to my wife 'Why is he driving back?' And she said 'Because of the flag.' He always flies a big American flag every day. Nobody wants to see the American flag burning. How's Mike and his family? Are they okay? I hope they are okay."

"I don't know. But your neighborhood was... I don't know how to put this... burned to the ground."

"I hope they are okay. They have to be okay. They tired to save the flag..."

[–] glimmer_twin@hexbear.net 40 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Bro isn’t in the middle of winter in the yankee hemisphere?? We’re the ones who’re meant to be on fire rn

[–] starkillerfish@hexbear.net 32 points 1 day ago (1 children)

LA is in the subtropics latitude, which means that the 4 seasons don't exist. Instead there is the wet season (spring, summer) and the dry season (autumn, winter). So because we are coming to the mid-ending of the dry season, that's when most of the wildfires hit, as the soil is at its driest.

[–] trabpukcip@hexbear.net 23 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Instead there is the wet season (spring, summer)

Having spent 30 years in socal, uh, not quite.

December-March are by far the rainiest months in LA. Of the ~14" of rain LA gets a year, it gets ~12" of that rain in the winter months

Edit: source

[–] starkillerfish@hexbear.net 10 points 1 day ago

yeah i guess because its subtropic its kind of shifted, tho in a weirder way than i thought. thank you for the on the ground account

[–] glimmer_twin@hexbear.net 5 points 1 day ago

Ya wiki says similar

[–] TankieTanuki@hexbear.net 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

California famously doesn't have weather. Fires don't count.

[–] Llituro@hexbear.net 45 points 1 day ago (2 children)

The car's on fire and there's no driver at the wheel

And the sewers are all muddied with a thousand lonely suicides

And a dark wind blows

The government is corrupt

And we're on so many drugs

With the radio on and the curtains drawn

We're trapped in the belly of this horrible machine

And the machine is bleeding to death

The sun has fallen down

And the billboards are all leering

And the flags are all dead at the top of their poles

It went like this:

The buildings toppled in on themselves

Mothers clutching babies

Picked through the rubble

And pulled out their hair

The skyline was beautiful on fire

All twisted metal stretching upwards

Everything washed in a thin orange haze

I said, "Kiss me, you're beautiful

These are truly the last days"

You grabbed my hand

And we fell into it

Like a daydream

Or a fever

We woke up one morning and fell a little further down

For sure as the valley of death

I open up my wallet

And it's full of blood

-- "The Dead Flag Blues" - Godspeed You! Black Emperor

[–] a_party_german@hexbear.net 22 points 1 day ago (2 children)

-- "The Dead Flag Blues" - Godspeed You! Black Emperor

Song length: 16:27 min

well that sure is some Post-Rock

[–] stink@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 13 hours ago

Listen to "Sleep" by them, one of my favorite songs

[–] stigsbandit34z@hexbear.net 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

If a song isn’t longer than 10 minutes, I don’t wanna hear it 😤

[–] AutoVomBizMarkee@hexbear.net 22 points 1 day ago

Lots of people are saying this folks.

[–] TC_209@hexbear.net 16 points 1 day ago

Early in the 21st Century, THE TYRELL CORPORATION advanced Robot evolution into the NEXUS phase — a being virtually identical to a human — known as a Replicant.

The NEXUS 6 Replicants were superior in strength and agility, and at least equal in intelligence, to the genetic engineers who created them.

Replicants were used off-world as slave labor, in the hazardous exploration and colonization of other planets.

After a bloody mutiny by a NEXUS 6 combat team in an off-world colony, replicants were declared illegal on earth — under penalty of death.

Special police squads — BLADE RUNNER UNITS — had orders to shoot to kill, upon detection, any trespassing Replicant.

This was not called execution.

It was called retirement.

[–] stigsbandit34z@hexbear.net 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Woohoo! MORE AI MORE WATER GUZZLING TREAT PRINTERS!!!!!!!!

elmofire

Obligatory death to this fucking hellhole

[–] TankieTanuki@hexbear.net 16 points 1 day ago (2 children)

How did you get two fires at once?

[–] Yuritopiaposadism@hexbear.net 29 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] TankieTanuki@hexbear.net 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

How does it spread to the other side of the city without catching any of the city on fire?

Also, are you going to share with the rest of the class?

[–] Aradina@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They dont really spread, the conditions that lead to big fires are just spread over the area.

Plus firebugs potentially lighting fires. Happens during Australian bushfires a lot.

[–] TankieTanuki@hexbear.net 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

Okay, gotcha.

firebugs

These start fires?

[–] DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 21 hours ago

Usually it's just some dickhead tossing a lit cigarette out their car window onto dry grass, but those little guys could be up to something, who knows...

[–] BountifulEggnog@hexbear.net 6 points 23 hours ago

Something that cute could never

[–] Aradina@lemmy.ml 15 points 1 day ago

Firebugs being slang for arsonists

[–] sentient@hexbear.net 11 points 1 day ago

winds in socal have had gusts up to 50+mph over the last few days and there has been almost no rain all winter

[–] Infamousblt@hexbear.net 25 points 1 day ago (4 children)

I will say, Chicago burning down all those years ago was overall a really healthy thing for the long term modernization/planning of the city. LA could probably use the opportunity to try again too so silver lining and all that.

[–] Bobson_Dugnutt@hexbear.net 40 points 1 day ago (2 children)

They'd build it back exactly the same, with all the stupid single-family homes and car-centered infrastructure.

[–] DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 21 hours ago

It'd be similar, but they'd try to design it to be as hostile to the homeless as possible.

[–] Infamousblt@hexbear.net 25 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I'd love to think they'd do it better but you're right, they'd probably do it the same or even worse. They'd more likely make LA the first place in the country where all the roads are private toll roads that require subscriptions to a multitude of services to use

[–] Bobson_Dugnutt@hexbear.net 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)

soypoint-1 "We're going to disrupt traffic!"

Six months later, the toll company goes bust, their servers shut down, and the whole city is gridlocked

[–] Wertheimer@hexbear.net 16 points 1 day ago

The fire in Altadena is where this used to be:

The railway, originally incorporated by Thaddeus S. C. Lowe as the Pasadena and Mt. Wilson Railroad Co.,[1] existed from 1893 until its official abandonment in 1938, and was the only scenic mountain, electric traction (overhead electric trolley) railroad ever built in the United States.

[–] Robert_Kennedy_Jr@hexbear.net 33 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I suppose these are areas where everyone has home owners insurance. I'm remembering the Paradise fire and how a lot of people just became homeless and then the Chico police came and beat the shit out of them, because their tent city on the outskirts of town was affecting property values for the city council members who owned real estate in the area.

[–] Infamousblt@hexbear.net 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Maybe insurance will start pulling out of Cali due to fires like it is in Florida due to hurricanes

[–] Robert_Kennedy_Jr@hexbear.net 23 points 1 day ago

They're already doing that. State Farm apparently canceled hundreds of policies in the area burning to the ground right now a few months ago.

https://www.newsweek.com/california-insurer-canceled-policies-months-before-los-angeles-wildfires-2011521

[–] graymess@hexbear.net 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The parts of LA that burn down every year are typically wealthy suburbs. They'll never urbanize those neighborhoods. This current wave of fires is hitting a little further in than usual, though not enough to reboot the city meaningfully.

[–] Omegamint@hexbear.net 14 points 1 day ago

Altadena and the Palisades are not the areas that need to be redesigned

[–] take_five_seconds@hexbear.net 16 points 1 day ago

a significant portion of altadena has burnt down

fucking crazy

https://ktla.com/on-air/live-streaming/

[–] MF_COOM@hexbear.net 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What am I looking at here?

[–] Wakmrow@hexbear.net 35 points 1 day ago

Los Angeles is on fire with max wind gust at 100 mph.

[–] PKMKII@hexbear.net 21 points 1 day ago
[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Damn, how could Jewish space lasers do this???

[–] pankuleczkapl@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 15 hours ago

More like: damn how could Hamas do this???

[–] MidnightPocket@hexbear.net 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)
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