California Wildfires - Huh. Apparently there is at least one useful Canadian.

Of course Rick sides with the looters. They're just living by his philosophy. What's yours is mine if I think I need it more.

Free cancer for everyone in L.A.!

UA: That's not free! It's paid for with money stolen from the people! This is why taxes are evil!

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/10/fleeing-california-wildfires-los-angeles

No, we just don't side with your masturbatory murder fantasies.
Looters should be stopped, but you care less about that than the idea of getting to kill someone and get away with it.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/fa...les-fire-survivors-feel-forgotten-2025-01-10/

https://people.com/father-missing-a...evacuate-la-fires-in-time-family-says-8772466

Nope. I just hate shitbag coward thieves, violating peoples' homes when they are undefended.

Do I really need to remind you about your literal masturbating emoji response to the conceit of helping build a fleet of ED-209's?
We know what your goal is.

In that context, the goal is badass robots lumbering around to alleviate my boredom.

Point of order: Idolizing the ED-209 as "badass" is a concerning sign.

I prefer cyborgs that can handle stairs.

If I'm going to criticise people in this scenario, top of the list are oil companies and insurance companies. Not fucking looters. Because I'm not a bootlicker.

https://www.parks.ca.gov/NewsRelease/1347

Im pretty sure you have the ability to criticize looters too. They’re also shit.

https://apnews.com/article/james-wo...use-survived-cd1f4f655fe2d2c7bca2e9693ee0780d

So far. Survived the wildfires so far...

I prefer cyborgs that can toast my bread

Well shit
https://slippedisc.com/2025/01/disaster-arnold-schoenberg-archive-is-destroyed-in-la-fires/

Apparently the Getty complex has made it through so far thanks to state of the art preparations and, of course, some luck.

Something like 10+ years ago, one of the big record labels caught a lot of flack because they stored the master recordings of folks like Frank Sinatra and others in a warehouse that didn't have a sprinkler system. The place caught fire and burned to the fucking ground, wiping out something like 70 years worth of tapes done by some of the biggest artists ever. One hopes that no matter what, folks have learned something from that, and at least had a sprinkler system installed, even if they didn't take every mitigation step possible.

That would have been the 2008 Universal Music Group fire. The loss of historic master recordings from some of the all-time great musical artists is mind blowing. We can certainly hope that better precautions are in place.

Aww, look! Puerto Rico made statehood

https://www.npr.org/2025/01/12/g-s1...fornia-wildfires-palisades-eaton-firefighters

https://x.com/zelenskyyua/status/1878536232663187774?s=46&t=iYW3foyqIA6Tn8VWwn3nwQ

Noble and heroic.

But not likely to curry favour with the Americans about to be in power, who would gladly watch California burn.

Oooh, that really sucks.