You’re right - a red flag warning (which does cover almost the entire county) is not an evacuation warning. Red flag warnings in this context indicate that conditions in the area are favorable for fires. Evacuation warnings mean be ready to evacuate at any time, and if you have mobility issues and/or animals, start evacuating now.
Source: CERT training and 8 years in the health, safety, and emergency management field. Plus fire.ca.gov
DMT, psilocybin, and LSD?
I know of a hospital where the local university sends tracers with F-18 for PET scans in much the same way. Half-life of 110 minutes.
100% spot on, sadly. The level of misogyny and other types of bigotry was the most surprising, when taken relative to the university environment in general.
American Giant. Expensive, but they have a great warranty and the craftsmanship is top notch.
Rod Farva level of stupid.
Good. If the regents and their lackeys had their way, everyone at the UC would be working for the military industrial complex and the executive leadership would keep raking in their bloated, obscene salaries.
The faculty and students make the university, and without them it’s just another grift. I don’t know if this charge will have an effect, but it must be tried.
Hell yeah! Love the energy, love the break beats, need more of both in this world.
Women are not really relevant to what the actives are trying to do so they are obviously not bringing them up at convention or not this video helped me understand why an elementary schooler might actual know what we find a new leak in our ceiling and we also need to secure a cat sitter to the firehose of content that a massive social media platform brings.
Requires an acid catalyst for the reaction to actually proceed, but yeah, could definitely ruin your day - although a lungful of chlorine gas is nothing to sneeze at either.
Same for my two cats, they are on non-chicken diets (rabbit-based and I think duck-based) and their vomiting, diarrhea, and itchiness have all been greatly reduced or outright eliminated.
My partner (a practicing small animal veterinarian) sorted them out a few years ago, and also confirms that chicken allergies are super common. They were fine for 5 or 6 years of their lives, then they just were unable to handle the chicken. Figuring out which of the alternatives they liked enough to consistently eat was the toughest part, lol, they’re super picky.
According to the story I heard as to the origin of the “no liquids over X amount” rule, years ago there was a terrorist that tried to smuggle hydrogen peroxide and acetone - which can be used to rather easily synthesize triacetone triperoxide (TATP, a highly sensitive explosive) - onto a plane in plastic toiletry bottles. They got caught and foiled somehow, and then the TSA started restricting liquids on planes. This was in the immediate aftermath of 9/11, if I recall correctly.
And I happen to know, from a reliable source, of someone who accidentally made TATP in a rotary evaporator in an academic lab. So it seems plausible.
Not that the rule is actually effective prevention against similar attacks, nor that the TSA even knows what the reason is behind what they do at this point, haha. I just thought it was an interesting story.
No postage needed in California, nor Massachusetts if I recall correctly. Does your state really make you find a stamp to vote in 2024? That sucks, sorry to hear that.
Dumb. Acting like the good cop to Trump’s bad cop routine is turning tons of people off. “You’d better cooperate with me now or I’ll have to bring my associate in here, and he won’t be so nice!”
Supposedly Harris told a representative of the uncommitted voting bloc from the Dem primaries that she was down to meet to discuss an arms embargo on Israel, but I wouldn’t hold my breath. She needs to be more forthright about her stance, because the subtextual indications of being flexible on this and her hypothetical empathy for Palestinians I keep hearing about (but not really seeing in any meaningful way) are not cutting it anymore.
I would also like to see a similar graph for mid-term elections. Do the winners even get 10% of the eligible votes?
Worse object permanence ability than my dumbass cats. Or maybe just liars, also like (but worse than) my cats.
Let’s go! When the workers can’t even afford an apartment, much less a day at Disneyland for them and their families, you know they’re in a bad spot. I hope they do strike and hold Disney accountable for this ridiculous exploitation.
(Slight) hyperbole aside, it seems like a week doesn’t go by without reading about another brown child or teenager being aged up when the capitalist owned media wants to run cover for wanton government violence against them. This is from the same rotten root that leads to black, indigenous, and immigrant children in the US getting long prison sentences (and in the past, executed) after being tried as adults for crimes that, if they were white, would much more likely see them tried in juvenile court.
Sorry for veering off topic, I happened to recently read a paper on disparities in the US judicial process by race for juvenile defendants, and needed to vent.
Happy to help! And sure, if you can call this an insight I’ll share it.
My biggest takeaway from this incident, so far, has been that since southern California is hotter, drier, and windier than any time in living memory - undeniably because of human-made climate change - this was inevitable. And once this round is over, it will happen again, and probably soon.
Local authorities need to have the guts to attack this problem head on before then. Climate change is here to stay, so while global efforts to mitigate the effects must switch into high gear yesterday, locally they need to start planning now for at least a 3-tiered approach to the problem.
First, engineer away as much of the risk as possible. This means burying every power line they can. Those that must remain above ground should be under constant upkeep to prevent spark-producing events and the forest from growing close to the lines themselves. Sure campfires and other individual actions (like setting off fireworks) can also cause fires, but the state already pushes hard to keep those under control and can easily ramp up educational campaigns and enforcement.
Second, more practices that effectively reduce the abundance of tinder-like fuel sources (in this case, dry brush) need to be implemented. Indigenous people from the region (Chumash and Tong-va tribes, for instance) have a long history of successful forest management and those practices should be studied and used to enhance what is currently being done (the indigenous tribes should be given a leadership role in this, if they want it, IMO).
Finally, it’s not that easy (as far as I know) to make sure buildings and infrastructure are both fire- and earthquake-resistant in the region. And even if it is straightforward, it’s not practical to retrofit every structure for fire on the scale needed, much like retrofitting for earthquakes has been a thing for 50 years and is still not complete. So what is to be done in the near term? Things like having industrial scale, automated fire suppression systems installed to douse homes and other infrastructure on the edge of communities near fire-prone areas could buy valuable time for firefighters and residents. Creating a low-fuel buffer zone along those edges and controlling land use in it could be a valuable addition to that approach.
But yeah, I am pessimistic that any large-scale, coordinated project like I just described would ever make it through our dysfunctional government processes intact. The track record is abysmal (see high speed rail and the unhoused crisis, for example). It’ll probably end up being a patchwork of half- and quarter-measures implemented here and there, with poorer communities getting no preventative support whatsoever. I’d love to be proven wrong.