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[–] [email protected] 61 points 1 month ago (1 children)

There is no elite prime plan for climate change, bitch.

[–] zarathustra0 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 month ago (2 children)

In the end, without some kind of society to support you, all you can do with your wealth is stick it up your ass.

(Like not you zarathustra0, the figurative "you".)

[–] zarathustra0 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] Snowclone 1 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

I'm pretty confused actually, how do I get the 20 rolls of quarters out of my asshole?

[–] zarathustra0 1 points 10 hours ago

You go back in time and slap yourself for thinking of doing something so stupid.

[–] Zorque 7 points 1 month ago

Don't worry, they're doing their best to replace society with LLMs.

They seem to have a pretty good stranglehold on it in the mean time, though.

[–] ThePyroPython 46 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

Fun fact: this is how fire fighters used to be.

There'd be fire markers on the outer walls to indicate which fire protection company covered that building and whichever firefighter turned up would bill that fire protection company who'd then bill the customer/customer's insurance company.

Edit: typo.

[–] alaphic 31 points 1 month ago

Fact: Yes.

Fun: Not so much.

[–] Plastic_Ramses 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

There is a scene in gangs of new york that pretty accurately shows how some fire fighters worked back then.

https://youtu.be/e6eDVsl8Kp4?si=ATVjTIr07TdMzHkc

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

City where I live burned to the ground TWO times so they finally established a fire department in the 1800s

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 month ago

Remember, according to their followers California deserves this for being heathens. Not the flood in NC though, or the hurricane in FL. Those are just flukes, but anyone in CA deserves it according to them. Even this guy.

[–] Zorque 32 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This is indistinguishable from satire for me. I honestly can't tell if it is or isn't.

[–] deacon 11 points 1 month ago

It ain't going to get any easier either.

[–] AshMan85 24 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

We should know this is the way... Mother nature is cooking them for us ffs

[–] Lemminary 6 points 1 month ago

But first, roast the rich!

[–] ChicoSuave 22 points 1 month ago (3 children)

For as much as authoritarians and the GOP voters hate California, a lot of them live there. Just another facet of their "Rules for thee" lifestyle.

[–] PP_BOY_ 15 points 1 month ago

Think of Trump, a billionaire New York real estate mogul, who's made his career off the support of people who... hate rich city-dwellimg developers.

[–] ThePowerOfGeek 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Some of them are leaving - and making a big spectacle of it and using their departure to feed into the lie that "EvErYoNe iS LeAviNg CaLiFoRniA!!1!"

But I wish more of the really obnoxious ones would leave. The reasonable Republicans/moderate conservatives? I have no problem with them staying and promoting a different perspective. That's good for the state. But the reactionary hard-core cult members can fuck right off.

[–] Lemminary 8 points 1 month ago

I have no problem with them staying and promoting a different perspective.

I wish conservatism wasn't the only different perspective being promoted. It's the gateway to all the bullshit happening everywhere.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I mean I absolutely hate and despise NY despite living there for 26 years. I finally had the opportunity to move away and did but it was a solid 8 years before I could.

I’m sure there are Californians who feel the same.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago

ironically Wasser, of course means water in German ... Wasserman will pay any amount.. for water

[–] Bieren 18 points 1 month ago

California has private firefighters. This is not a joke, they really do.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Where is capitalism when you need it?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

Delicious "where is your God now" moment.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I am not really sure capitalism is the problem, rather tech and politics. I mean, do you have any practical alternative to the oil industry and also a handful of skilled politicians that will convince most of the population to consume less than they already do for a few years while we implement this new tech?

The point isn't the economy, is those which consume it: us, we, me and you.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/no-miracles-needed/8D183E65462B8DC43397C19D7B6518E3

The solutions have been sitting there for a while. The lack of political support is almost entirely due to oil companies. It's just capitalism.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

Still, someone is paying those oil companies, and I cannot see a bigger culprit than the end consumer. I mean, we don't really have a choice in the matter since we alone have no power over it, we either accept it or, well, go dark.

[–] iAvicenna 9 points 1 month ago

"what do you mean money cant solve side effects of climate crisis"

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

Crassus: laughs maniacally

[–] ebolapie 7 points 1 month ago

Thinking big and thinking ahead are woke, I want to throw money at any problem instead.

[–] leadore 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Many news sources are reporting that it is a real tweet.

huffpo article

Apparently the tweet has been deleted. If its fake its bamboozled dozens of reputable news outlets. Looks real to me.

[–] leadore 6 points 1 month ago

I had called fake because that account doesn't even exist, but according to that article (thanks for the link), the entire account was deleted as well.

[–] mydude 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Hasn't California had super majority democratic rule for like ten years straight? Why is op complaining on Trump supporter?

[–] anthropomorphized 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Trump withholds aid from states he didn't win, or governor's he doesn't like. Regressive climate policy in general, remember when he said Cali should rake the forest. X poster wasn't satire, and vocally supports a regime that will abandon him to flames

[–] mydude -3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

https://ballotpedia.org/Party_control_of_California_state_government

Looks like they have had trifecta (3/3) and two thirds control for last 33 years... But sure 4 years of Trump did this.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

California has adopted a responsible climate agenda. Unfortunately, there's the rest of the country not doing this.

[–] mydude -1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

https://x.com/jimmy_dore/status/1877783387076956492?t=qkOSyr7obeIQLz84FtaAAA&s=19

How about disaster prevention additions? Increased budget for lafd, or has the budget been cut......

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I said California, and you are changing the scope. But yeah, that was a bad move to take money from the FD.

[–] mydude -1 points 1 month ago

Well the scope for California is the same...

https://www.newsweek.com/gavin-newsom-cut-100m-fire-prevention-budget-before-california-fires-2012980

"The 2024-25 California state budget, which Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law in June 2024, slashed funding for wildfire and forest resilience by $101 million as part of a series of cutbacks according to an analysis by the state's Legislative Analyst's Office"