Our flaming hellstate (we love it folks) is not coping well with the seventeen or so overlapping disasters going on right now. Apparently we're now operating on auxiliary power too, because it turns out privatizing your electricity grid and just trusting them.to spend the money on maintenance is a fuckheaded idea. Anyway, the plague is resurging and now I have a letter from the power company telling me to expect intermittent blackouts during the heatwave, but also they're gonna start charging me more.
Can't wait for the collapse tbh
And pass laws to prevent them from joining fire departments after release.
My town nearly got burned down by the Thomas Fire in 2017. Something like a year later I went to an arthouse type place for a screening of a documentary about the fire. I was blown away that they did not once mention inmate fire crews.
If anyone is interested in learning about those prisoners, there's two really good episodes of Season of the Bitch (30 & 31) where they talk to someone who was either one of these firefighters or knew people who were, I forget.
I've been able to smell California burning every year for the last three.
I live in Washington.
I remember wondering, a decade ago, if the UN's prediction that climate change would light the usa on fire would be a good thing.
'Surely this is a lucky break; surely literally the most extreme/impressive/shock and awe outcome of climate change possible is hitting just the right place to wake up the people in the heart of empire'
:this-is-fine:
Yeah, but to be fair the Amazon is only on fire because of our insatiable love of cheap, shitty, hamburgers, rather than our insatiable love of cheap, shitty energy.
California on fire and two tropical storms about to smash the South? Just another summer in climate change is a myth paradise
These people literally think that the world is like Command and Conquer/Call of Duty.
If you haven't heard of Bill Cooper and how all this weird conspiracy shit began in the US there's a really really great Behind the Bastards two parter on him.
https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-behind-the-bastards-29236323/episode/part-one-bill-cooper-the-man-68407468/
https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-behind-the-bastards-29236323/episode/part-two-bill-cooper-the-man-68561955/
Had our first burning leaves falling this morning. I figured I was safe in the downtown area but that might change. Still 0% containment and firefighters are "on the defensive".
Thanks, yeah if anything I think I'd end up camping out by the beach somewhere.
And there goes the Dems voting for a pro-fracking piece of shit and a fucking pig -- a COP.
And the libs arguing why a Communist should vote for Biden cuz ORANGE MAN BAD
The Bay Area is due for another dry lightning storm tomorrow, so this will only get worse over the next week.
I’m under 30, but I’ve lived in Cali my whole life and never remember this happening before.
