“In this image, one can see the core of the Milky Way galaxy, zodiacal light (sunlight diffused by interplanetary dust), streaks of SpaceX Starlink satellites, individual stars, an edge-on view of the atmosphere that appears in burnt umber due to hydroxide emissions, a near-sunrise just over the horizon, and nighttime cities appearing as streaks.”

… you deserve a deep scratch and a HISS!

I think it’s more about “these rich people will finally get some little taste of how hard it is to live without a home.”

Except some of them won’t. Those who are truly wealthy will already have other houses, or be able to buy or rent a temporary home while waiting to rebuild. If they already had empathy they’ll realize how comparably " inconvenient" rather than"desperate" their situation is. The others will whine, and use it as a reason to be even shittier to the homeless.

There’s a lot of people also who aren’t wealthy, they have just owned a house in the Palisades from way back when it wasn’t so expensive, or lived in the trailer park. They too already have attitudes re homeless people, which may or may not evolve.

I think anyone who’s unhoused, it’s the result of a disaster, whether a public or private one.

CA Friends Unite!

Those of us who are glad we’re gonna have homes left to go home to are so grateful for every scoop!

Except the first night the winds in the Palisades were too strong and erratically gusty to fly anything, especially the kind of daredevil flying necessary to drop water into a fiery maelstrom, in the thick smoke and rugged terrain. So they were limited to a ground attack, which is why so many homes and acres burned. The fact so few people died is a testament to much of the work they did accomplish, saving lives rather than property.

She looks like she’s been through the run of the mill

I was referring to the rat’s nest of pubes on his head

Insurance CEOs are immoral.

Billionaires are garbage.

“Pædo” under Kavanaugh

Donald’s a dickhead, complete with pubes.

Meta’s a bog, and Zuck is its boggart.

Free enough?

(Too bad I don’t have an account to test it out.)

IMHO it’s being in the carrier, since they start complaining before they’re even in the car. As a young college idiot I drove 3 days with a cat and a friend, and we didn’t have a carrier. The cat found herself a "safe spot under a seat, and since it wasn’t the driver’s seat we let her stay there. She was quiet, seemed pretty calm, even slept. If I knew my cat would stay in a safe spot like that, and would get back in the carrier to go into the vet’s office, I might let her out for the drive. But that’s not gonna happen.

There are private firefighting companies, and in this fire any efforts they could add would have been welcomed, since the strong winds prevented nighttime air assault. But unless they had water-tank vehicles they would have been subject to the same problem of hydrants running dry from insufficient supply. Their best bet would be to pump from swimming pools. The multiple real Fire Departments would have been fine with being able to send their personnel elsewhere. I say “would have” because I just don’t know if any were working there. I wouldn’t be surprised if they were, though.

I think you meant fire maRkers

So, you had to wait until it impacted you to realize how unfair it was?

Just giving you shit, but as a schoolmarm I can confirm that adults are much shittier than kids

Hey, WE didn’t vote for him!

We’re just lucky these fires happened while Biden is still President or we wouldn’t have gotten a penny.

Gulf Of Eggs

Oh I agree. It really requires -supported affordable housing. Although the best results come from integrating low-income units into mid-price housing so people can be near jobs and have decent groceries etc. Also mixing mid-price housing into high-end neighborhoods so the people who provide services can also live near where they work.

The real problem is landlords who’d rather sit on empty homes than lower the rent. And collude to keep rents inflated.

I’m pretty sure this is what you were listening to, and yeah it’s a pretty bleak situation:

2024 saw one of the slowest housing markets in 30 years. What will 2025 bring? https://www.npr.org/2024/12/29/nx-s1-5240991/2024-saw-one-of-the-slowest-housing-markets-in-30-years-what-will-2025-bring

The only glimmer of hope seems to be in cities that have put effort into building more homes. Capitalism isn’t going to solve this, because it only gets “luxury” housing built for the Haves.

One thing that is helping in California is the Builder’s Remedy Law projects, where, in cities that haven’t come up with a legit plan to create more affordable housing by the deadline, (usually because they don’t want Poors living there) developers can create huge new projects that don’t have to conform with the existing (overly restrictive and often based on redlining) zoning laws as long as they include 10% low-income units.

I’m all for the fucking enormous backlog of rape kits being processed with due speed. But I would prefer the processing be done by scientifically competent forensic professionals, not police officers, especially this crew.

The door looks high enough to come over the drinks, but I do have bad depth perception. If not, I think there’s room to squeeze a person out the side of the door and get the delivery, but you wouldn’t want to fling the door open.

They didn’t realize Bezos thinks “Democracy Dies In Darkness” is a GOAL.

For me, a brisk walk is 5.2 km/h (at 8% grade, 135 strides/minute, and I’m totally sweaty after 30 minutes, it would take me about 45 to go 2 miles) because I’m short and 65. With my husband, we would take over an hour because he can only drive his wheelchair so fast before the vibrations make him lose control of his lip-joystick. Add in crappy curbcuts for another 10 minutes. I (or we) would take the bus because I’m not a privileged idiot like him, (and the subway is still not wheelchair accessible) but you should also be aware of your own privilege of youth, stride length, and health.