I’m not a mod or anything but I think it’s fine. At least it’s not some of the political or doomer stuff that you see here sometimes

Sir this is Casual Conversation.

Proverbs 20:23

“Diverse weights are an abomination before the Lord: a deceitful balance is not good.”

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It already has, hurricane helene caused a ton of damage from sudden flooding. In several cases entire riverside towns disappeared.

The LA fires are tragic no question. But when a large portion the victims have the means and influence to reasonably recover (they sill have the rest of the city right there) it hits different compared to rural areas of people who are mostly forgotten in the first place.

Sir this is Casual Conversation

Santa Ana winds are a well known phenomenon out there but I imagine that strong is fairly rare and notable. Large fires will suck in tremendous amounts of air as the hot air rises up. Those fires are burning a massive area

The fire bombings of cities in WW2 created similar firestorms. I remember a history book describing the winds being strong enough to send bodies tumbling through the streets like leaves.

It’s cool being there on nature’s time. It seems like it’s so slow moment by moment but like 5 minutes later the lighting is so different

Took a flight with a stop in the arctic circle. It was winter so it was in 24 hours of darkness. Made it to the states and landed for customs in the early morning. When we took off we broke through the cloud cover just in time to see my first sunrise in 36 hours

Large corporations like google have grown and thrived in Silicon Valley, supported by the politicians of California. So by extension they are partially responsible for enabling these companies to be the giants they are.

According to this article Google has funded 40 elected officials and spent $10.7 million in lobbying California’s legislature and Governor this year alone.

If a president (even a shitty one) was considering putting a damper on companies like google, I would not be against that. We’ll see if anything actually happens.

I’m not ditching Proton over one fucking tweet

It generally means I’m more in the middle of the road.

I like that marijuana is becoming legalized. I also want more responsible gun ownership. I want people to enjoy gay rights and freedom of religion as they see fit. I want a smaller less bureaucratic federal govt while also keeping a capable military. I want a good economy and action to mitigate climate change. I want very poor and homeless people to be cared for without ecouraging them to do nothing about it.

Basically I have something to piss everyone off

Constructive and condecending are two different things. Some people simply love to flaunt their pros and trash our cons.

I am more centrist with mildly right leaning views, but I play dnd with people that are quite left leaning. We respect each other’s perspectives and differences but otherwise get along just fine. There are divides, mainly boiling down to city vs rural but reality often isn’t as polarized as the news and comments will have you believe.

I’m willing to answer any questions you might have here or in DMs

Can you BELIEVE rage bait gets likes?

Teen death, perfect casual conversation material

For us we had a big trade school you could go to for rhe last two years of high school. Normal school academic classes for one half of the day, the program of your choice for the other.

They had IT stuff, welding, auto repair, culinary etc. I went for EMS/Fire.

I still went to college. It’s a cool social experience but holy fuck it’s a bad financial move for most people

I think buried power lines would work better. Now would be the time to make that happen

Honestly yeah. There is plenty of money and influence in the area that burned. Now you have a bunch of people with the lawyers, money and social following to be a real pain in the ass if they want to. And they got one hell of a reality check.

Now the real question is what will they call for? Better buildings? Limited building in fire prone areas? Firefighter funding/manning? I fear it will be a general #omgclimatechange and nothing actionable

It would potentially fall under “fruit of the poisonous tree doctrine” that would make it inadmissable for actual court cases but otherwise there’s nothing to stop people from gathering information that is available to the public