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Rug puller. He got his, now anyone else can fuck off.

Simple as

SLAM

People need to stop glorifying those who ignore evacuation orders and get lucky. For all those you hear about getting lucky there's a bunch that cause issues, get in the way, and take resources away from fighting the fires.

I don't want to share the great lakes with USA. Let's compromise and take the rust belt. There won't be enough of them to cause too much issues. Plus then we can get Chicago and Philly too.

*except not if it's more like a house and if the landlord is renting only a small number of properties (don't remember exact wording)

Oh, honey, oh no

All of the fires are :(

While the palisades fire is showing a lot of very rich folks that their money doesn't make them immune to fire, there are a lot of relatively regular people who were barely hanging on to their homes in a very expensive area who lost everything and could be financially ruined forever.

Don't get me wrong, vanishinlgy few of those in the palisades were poor before the fire. But a lot could be now if they were uninsured or if their insurance fucks them over.

There's a bunch of apartment buildings in the area that burned down too. Families who were protected by rent control lost their apartment and now where do they go?

Sure, but we aren't quite at Cuban missile crisis levels of heat either.

I'm soooo sorry I didn't specify that it would need to be invoked against a significant nation-state and that a concept like terrorism doesn't count. I understand that could be very confusing otherwise.

It's just the second cold war. You'll know WW3 started when NATO invokes Article 5. Until then, it's all just proxies.

In the first cold war there were proxy wars in Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan, etc. Now it's Ukraine and Israel/Syria/Lebanon.

I've ridden Amtrak but I've also seen videos about how Via Rail is basically unusable. Amtrak has improved significantly in the past decade as well, while Via seemingly regressed (again, Via info is based on other people's experiences, not mine).