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They are going where it's cheap. All the other reasons are excuses why they can't afford to live there.SuperJail Warden wrote:
The New York Times literally has an article pointing out that people are increasingly moving into areas that are in the way of Hurricanes, heat waves, and tornadoes. They are leaving northern states to escape woke and immigrants. Going into disaster zones because the TV has them unhappy about where they are now.
Speaks volumes that the cheapest places to live are socio-political backwaters.
NYT is such a shit media property nowadays. Sad!
I like how selfish short-termists end up with immediate problems which they could have avoided if they'd spent five minutes thinking.
Here people are buying chinese cars in droves, they're already finding out they can't get parts - so a five year old car which needs a minor part is a write-off.
Here people are buying chinese cars in droves, they're already finding out they can't get parts - so a five year old car which needs a minor part is a write-off.
Fuck Israel
One reason I'd never buy a new car from a new brand, and one of the reasons my old boss sold her tesla.
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Florida about to get hit with a Cat 5. Amazing the fish people are convinced they are better than us in the north.
They just don't like temperatures below 70F, southerners are panzies like that.
The irony of guns, is that they can save lives.
https://www.instagram.com/stuartpalley/ … kzbkyRIvj/
nuts
this stuff always looks like some crazy scene out of a sci-fi movie
nuts
this stuff always looks like some crazy scene out of a sci-fi movie
very cinematic shot.
https://youtube.com/shorts/NAdtJcN4Zu4? … TJeXWfcM9z
https://youtube.com/shorts/NAdtJcN4Zu4? … TJeXWfcM9z
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75° and windy 3 weeks into winter
My aunt and uncles house burned in your fires.
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Sorry for your loss. Total nightmare
Humans got out, dog got out, family keepsakes got out (days ahead of time).
the USA should stop threatening their allies in canada and greenland and declare war on the true enemy: australia.
if they’re not exporting 25x the per capita average of climate-destroying coal and ores to china for a quick buck, they’re selling their pesky eucalyptus trees to california and places like greece and peru, and watching them all burn down.
if they’re not exporting 25x the per capita average of climate-destroying coal and ores to china for a quick buck, they’re selling their pesky eucalyptus trees to california and places like greece and peru, and watching them all burn down.
Its not our fault numbskulls have planted eucalypts everywhere.
Pretty well every suburb has the stupid things - here we have the wrong eucalypts for the region so they overgrow then fall over, if they haven't caught fire first.
But yeah, pure genius, plant a tree which produces an oil about as flammable as petrol right next to your house in a fire zone.
I'm guessing also Californian building standards are about as bad as Australia - matchwood and board houses with no fire protection jammed shoulder to shoulder right next to scrubland which is never cleared.
Pretty well every suburb has the stupid things - here we have the wrong eucalypts for the region so they overgrow then fall over, if they haven't caught fire first.
But yeah, pure genius, plant a tree which produces an oil about as flammable as petrol right next to your house in a fire zone.
I'm guessing also Californian building standards are about as bad as Australia - matchwood and board houses with no fire protection jammed shoulder to shoulder right next to scrubland which is never cleared.
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Fuck Israel
mike davis wrote many long diatribes about LA’s urbanisation. entire streets of houses all lined up in the liminal zones between wildfire bush, just waiting for the santa ana winds to blow.
cf. mike davis, ‘the case for letting malibu burn’.
https://longreads.com/2018/12/04/the-ca … libu-burn/
it is unfortunate that while MAGA idiots are high-fiving and sniggering over humiliating greenland and canada, that america’s second city is burning to the ground. but then again they probably don’t give a shit about california.
cf. mike davis, ‘the case for letting malibu burn’.
https://longreads.com/2018/12/04/the-ca … libu-burn/
it is unfortunate that while MAGA idiots are high-fiving and sniggering over humiliating greenland and canada, that america’s second city is burning to the ground. but then again they probably don’t give a shit about california.
canada greens made a tongue-in-cheek suggestion to annex the american west coast. tempting offer, actually.
the maga idiots high-five and snigger whenever california burns. they have nothing but contempt for the left coast, and even the red strongholds here can burn along with the rest of us for all they care.
the maga idiots high-five and snigger whenever california burns. they have nothing but contempt for the left coast, and even the red strongholds here can burn along with the rest of us for all they care.
i thought the PNW was the white suprematist utah though? isn’t it all logging camps, nazi compounds and heroin up there? aka MAGA utopia?
we also commonly operate little fur trading posts under the auspices of hudson's bay company. every morning at dawn, i shake dirt (and spiders) out of my boots to go chase away the mountain lions. and then the rest of the day's mostly spent digging the glacial till by hand out of my valley tuber farm in the undeveloped shadow of mount rainier. occasionally a train brings mail from civilization. it's a big event for us all.
on a serious note, the state's been blue-result since gardner and dukakis, for governor and president.
wa/or presidential results 2024:
aligning a lot with the population density-to-voting you'd expect out of the rest of the country.
crazy topo:
canada's welcome to our blue, at least. the reds can split off and make their own joint, impoverished state like they've been grumbling about wanting to do, and wallow in less civil rights by their own hand. maybe we can sneak american refugees past trump's tin curtain and into the welcoming arms of freedom.
i expect maple leaf flags along the puget sound corridor by 2026.
on a serious note, the state's been blue-result since gardner and dukakis, for governor and president.
wa/or presidential results 2024:
aligning a lot with the population density-to-voting you'd expect out of the rest of the country.
crazy topo:
canada's welcome to our blue, at least. the reds can split off and make their own joint, impoverished state like they've been grumbling about wanting to do, and wallow in less civil rights by their own hand. maybe we can sneak american refugees past trump's tin curtain and into the welcoming arms of freedom.
i expect maple leaf flags along the puget sound corridor by 2026.
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that urban/rural split does make sense, considering the drastically different industries located in both places.
His "City of Quartz" is an excellent history of the urbanization of Los Angeles. It's literally sitting on my coffee table bc I was trying to remember something a few days ago and pulled it out.uziq wrote:
mike davis wrote many long diatribes about LA’s urbanisation. entire streets of houses all lined up in the liminal zones between wildfire bush, just waiting for the santa ana winds to blow.
cf. mike davis, ‘the case for letting malibu burn’.
https://longreads.com/2018/12/04/the-ca … libu-burn/
it is unfortunate that while MAGA idiots are high-fiving and sniggering over humiliating greenland and canada, that america’s second city is burning to the ground. but then again they probably don’t give a shit about california.
i've never even been to the west coast but mike davis is pretty widely read over here by urbanists, even the peculiar english/french psychogeography types that have been in vogue in the last two decades or so (e.g. iain sinclair). mike davis and people like jane jacobs and reyner banham are pretty well known, i'd say.
recommend the latter especially if you've spent lots of time in LA. (i haven't so what do i know, though):
https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520260153/los-angeles
this mike davis seems really relevant, too:
https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc … IOECgHLhXF
recommend the latter especially if you've spent lots of time in LA. (i haven't so what do i know, though):
https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520260153/los-angeles
this mike davis seems really relevant, too:
https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc … IOECgHLhXF
Last edited by uziq (2025-01-10 09:12:03)
All his book covers look the same! I saw Ecology of Fear in the bookstore over the holidays and immediately knew it was a Mike Davis book.
That "Let Malibu Burn" article from 2018 has been making the rounds lately, for obvious reasons. It is relevant to all of socal
That "Let Malibu Burn" article from 2018 has been making the rounds lately, for obvious reasons. It is relevant to all of socal
A foot of snow last weekend. 2-6 inches expected tonight.
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A song of Fire and Ice taking place out here.
i think his publisher (verso) just reissued a bunch of them in neat new editions with a continuous design template. pretty common when an author gets a 'retrospective' workover. often features new introductions by a scholar or peer, which often times are worth the price of admission alone (these updated editions normally always go straight to paperback, rather than a re-released hardback as with first editions, so they're pretty cheap).KEN-JENNINGS wrote:
All his book covers look the same! I saw Ecology of Fear in the bookstore over the holidays and immediately knew it was a Mike Davis book.
personally i like that sort of thing. but hey, i'm a page-sniffer.