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    Another two weeks predicted before total containment. The fires are almost spreading faster than right-wing lies on Twitter.


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    Quote Originally Posted by mrgoodkat:
    It's kind of a useless resource though.
    It is very powerful when it leads to action. For example those donating food, water and clothes or housing the homeless.

    Globally sympathy helps feed and care for millions.

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    Quote Originally Posted by MABinPengChau:
    Their employer, Hollywood, is there. Seriously. Mostly of these people work there- not just actors, there is a lot of supporting industry arround movie-making.

    And it's the LA suburbs, basically. So any other job in LA, makes sense, particularly because LA schools are abysmal so they seek out other school districts, like Malibu, for example. And it's quite beautiful, I have driven alone the Pacific Coast Highway and seen the sights on the way to the LA airport after bringing my brother back after brain surgery in 2023.

    Not my cup of tea, I personally hate all that dry, arid climate but it's sunny and decent every day and attracts a lot of people.
    I liked Malibu, when you mentioned the Pacific coast Highway, I just realised that one of my fave places to visit while in SoCal, has been reduced to ashes, Moon Shadows restaurant. My wife and I loved going there and SFC it's such a shame what has happened.

    SoCal is going to look quite different the next time we visit.
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    most of the houses are timber, meanwhile in Japan:

    https://x.com/i/status/1878505401504632927


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    Quote Originally Posted by Skyhook:
    I liked Malibu, when you mentioned the Pacific coast Highway, I just realised that one of my fave places to visit while in SoCal, has been reduced to ashes, Moon Shadows restaurant. My wife and I loved going there and SFC it's such a shame what has happened.

    SoCal is going to look quite different the next time we visit.
    It was spectacular in early 2023 due to having had rain and everything green (as I mentioned, detest brown desert stuff). And, sadly, this is what is burning now. But I moved my brother to the East Coast last summer, got him a small condo in the same development our mother lives in that has a meal every day and lots of other services because he cannot really live without substantial support these days, brain never back to 100% after removal or nuking of 2 giant, two large meningioma tumors. However, his daughter still in Camarillo which had dangerous wildfires in December that I was watching as he is probably too clueless to follow the news. I am glad he is gone from there, our other brother cleaning out his apartment was hard enough, evacuation in a wildfire...total nightmare (yes, for anyone, I get it, but he is not firing on all cylinders these days and might even be hard to convince him to leave if he has no clue).
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    Quote Originally Posted by hullexile:
    It is very powerful when it leads to action. For example those donating food, water and clothes or housing the homeless.

    Globally sympathy helps feed and care for millions.
    If sympathy is driven by what's in the mainstream news then the poor people in wealthy countries will do well, but the poor people in poor countries will not.

    LA fires is a box office disaster.

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    Quote Originally Posted by paddylast:
    If sympathy is driven by what's in the mainstream news then the poor people in wealthy countries will do well, but the poor people in poor countries will not.

    LA fires is a box office disaster.
    Always the case but it is also the case that the charity work you see in the mainstream media ignores everything other than these big stories. Disasters here every week and masses of help driven by sympathy to go with it. I am sure the same happens everywhere. Never makes the international news.
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    Poor bastard - lost his medals in the fire; 5 gold.

    He said he fled taking only his dog, the insulin he uses to treat his diabetes, a painting of his grandfather, and a religious artifact.


    https://www.bbc.com/sport/articles/c...linked_in_page

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    Lots of looting happening. You'd expect that with the hundreds of thousands of homeless in the great state of California.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Elefant&Castle:
    Poor bastard - lost his medals in the fire; 5 gold.





    https://www.bbc.com/sport/articles/c...linked_in_page
    You missed the title and the first sentence of the story.

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