Re: OT: Typical Globlist

On Mon, 20 Jan 2025 23:52:08 -0500, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:

On 1/20/2025 11:08 AM, Bill Sloman wrote:

On 21/01/2025 2:47 am, john larkin wrote:

On Mon, 20 Jan 2025 10:52:18 +0000, Cursitor Doom <cd@notformail.com>
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On Sun, 19 Jan 2025 16:45:34 -0800, john larkin <JL@gct.com> wrote:
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On Sun, 19 Jan 2025 22:18:15 +0000, Cursitor Doom <cd@notformail.com>
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On Sun, 19 Jan 2025 16:36:08 -0500, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:
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On 1/19/2025 4:49 AM, Liz Tuddenham wrote:

Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> wrote:

 
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No puzzle: dry wind and lots of fuel.

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In that picture you posted, there were substantial patches of unharmed
vegetation right among the ashes of countless buildings. It doesn't
make sense.

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It's simple. The most flammible, and the hottest burning, and the
closest things, were other houses.

 
It's probably not quite that simple. The fires started on a very windy
day, and got big, which generated even more air circulation. There are
eddies - vortices - in that circulation, and you do get tongues of flame
that can burn something down-wind while skipping an adjacent area
 

I wonder if they will rebuild the same way.

 
They will want their houses to look much the same as they used to, which
does constrain the architects, and have the same impressive views.
 
People with enough money to build that sort of house aren't good at
taking inconvenient advice, any more than Trump was about taking advice
on how to avoid getting Covid-19.
 

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Maybe not, the US has a lot of "trickle down" housing, development in
much of Altadena had been banned for decades due to the threat of fire.
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A lot of homes there were 50-100 years old and while worth millions on
paper due to scarcity and gentrification pumping up the values I'm sure
a lot were stll laughably outdated by even modern US building codes much
less European codes. Those were cheap houses for working-class people at
one time!
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Not everyone in that area is Hollywood-rich even today there are
families who're only "home rich" in that their home (which may have been
passed down three generations) was worth a lot on paper but there's
nowhere cheaper to buy nearby anyway so it's a highly illiquid asset.
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Long story short a lot of the less well-to-do residents will likely have
to leave and the vulture capitalists (including it seem Trump himself)
are already circling, they'll build much more expensive properties if
they can, which will likely at least be fully up to modern code

I guess your definition of "vulture capitalist" is someone who did
something that worked.

Better managed societies don't allow that sort of greed and
exploitation of the working classes. China and Cuba and North Korea,
for example.