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[-] Bieren@lemmy.world 10 points 16 hours ago

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

[-] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 47 points 23 hours ago

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

[-] zarathustra0@lemmy.world 9 points 23 hours ago
[-] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 23 points 23 hours ago

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@lemmy.world 11 points 23 hours ago

One understands.

[-] Zorque@lemmy.world 5 points 22 hours 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.

[-] Zorque@lemmy.world 24 points 22 hours ago

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

[-] deacon@lemmy.world 9 points 21 hours ago

It ain't going to get any easier either.

[-] ThePyroPython@lemmy.world 34 points 1 day ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

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@lemmy.world 24 points 23 hours ago

Fact: Yes.

Fun: Not so much.

[-] Plastic_Ramses@lemmy.world 7 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours 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

[-] troybot@midwest.social 3 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

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

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.

[-] JudahBenHur@lemm.ee 16 points 22 hours ago

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

[-] AshMan85@lemmy.world 22 points 1 day ago
[-] recreationalcatheter@lemm.ee 10 points 23 hours ago

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

[-] Lemminary@lemmy.world 5 points 22 hours ago

But first, roast the rich!

[-] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 19 points 1 day ago

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.

[-] inv3r5ion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 47 minutes 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.

[-] PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 13 points 23 hours 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@lemmy.world 10 points 23 hours ago

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@lemmy.world 7 points 22 hours 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.

[-] philluminati@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 day ago

Where is capitalism when you need it?

[-] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 10 points 23 hours ago

Delicious "where is your God now" moment.

[-] azantis@ani.social 1 points 18 hours ago

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.

[-] frezik@midwest.social 1 points 6 hours ago

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.

[-] leadore@lemmy.world 5 points 21 hours ago
[-] echolalia@lemmy.ml 7 points 19 hours ago

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@lemmy.world 3 points 16 hours 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.

[-] ebolapie@lemmy.world 7 points 23 hours ago

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

[-] Hegar@fedia.io 8 points 1 day ago

Crassus: laughs maniacally

[-] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 6 points 23 hours ago

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

[-] mydude@lemmy.world 2 points 22 hours ago

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

[-] anthropomorphized@lemmy.world 5 points 21 hours ago

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@lemmy.world 0 points 11 hours ago

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.

[-] intensely_human@lemm.ee -4 points 22 hours ago

Current mayor of LA is a Democrat. This post makes no sense

[-] azantis@ani.social 1 points 18 hours ago

Not really sure what they are getting on here.

Since when laughing at people losing their homes is a now a political thing, exactly?

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