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   pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Thursday, 16-May-2024 16:11:54 JST pistolero

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   @11112011 @fluffy Ha, yeah? I don't know, I never followed football, but I guess if they spent all those years pretending that Sean Penn is a credible political commentator, they have to pretend that athletes are too in order to keep up appearances.
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     blitz (11112011@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Thursday, 16-May-2024 16:11:56 JST blitz

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     @p @fluffy specialy when its a guy wit 20 years of head injuries saying it
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     blitz (11112011@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Thursday, 16-May-2024 16:11:57 JST blitz

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     @fluffy @p
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     pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Thursday, 16-May-2024 16:11:57 JST pistolero

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     @11112011 @fluffy Well, shit, it's pretty clear he's smarter than any president we've had during his tenure as the Premier of the Sovi^W^W^WPresident of the Russian Federation. I don't know why it's a headline if someone says he's smart or why the news acts like a scandal has happened if a football player says a thing or if someone points out that the president doesn't remember where he is.
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     pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Thursday, 16-May-2024 16:11:58 JST pistolero

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     @11112011 @fluffy He has a beard, blitz. Yer drunk.
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     touch fluffy tail (Heroic) :verified: (fluffy@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Thursday, 16-May-2024 16:11:58 JST touch fluffy tail (Heroic) :verified:

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     @p @11112011 the beard is fake, it's attached with double sided tape and my True Self is a giant transforming robot with four massive railguns and psionic powers. i mean uh a cute girl.
     the taped on beard keeps her (me) hidden from prying eyes
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     touch fluffy tail (Heroic) :verified: (fluffy@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Thursday, 16-May-2024 16:12:01 JST touch fluffy tail (Heroic) :verified:

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     @p @11112011 yes, i also guessed you could check in this way (see my longer reply to blitz). it seems like a very reasonable guess
     
     but if you haven't checked those figures for yourself, isn't it just a guess? how can you say with confidence that this is what happened if you haven't checked that it's true? did you maybe check it years ago but have long since forgotten the actual numbers
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     blitz (11112011@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Thursday, 16-May-2024 16:12:01 JST blitz

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     @fluffy @p ur a trannie kys
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     pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Thursday, 16-May-2024 16:12:02 JST pistolero

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     @fluffy @11112011
     
     > how do we know this is true?
     
     It's their policy. Years ago, they used to call sending in the helicopter to dump flame retardant a "CNN drop": it gave the news guys something to do, but it's not a particularly effective method. At some point around ten years back, they changed their policy, brush-clearing was almost eliminated and no more controlled burns. So brush piles up, there are more fires, the fires are worse, they start asking for more retrofitted Chinooks, budget goes up.
     
     The hills have basically always caught fire here. It's been happening for so long that there's a species of pine here that drops cones that don't even open until they're burned, so that the seeds can take root when there's less competition. It's a dry area.
     
     I'm a bit busy to dig up the specific figures and when it happened, but if I were to do this, I'd start by downloading the county budget breakdowns (they'll be somewhere; lacounty.gov will either have them or have links to where to find them) to figure out when it happened. (If the budget is a pain, helicopter ownership is public, so you could figure out which helicopters they own and when they were purchased, then check, like, FlightAware or something, see when the frequency of flights by LAFD-owned helicopters went up. They're big, two-rotor Chinooks that are retrofitted to do drops, so they are costly to maintain, meaning flight frequency impacts budget, and costly to procure, so size of the fleet is a good indicator.) The minutes from all of the county board meetings are public, obviously their press releases are public, so you could find them discussing the budget in there, I'd start around the time they got more helicopters and then work backwards through one or two wildfire breakouts (which would be the optimal time for them to ask for more money). I'm not sure where the LAFD department policies are hosted but that shouldn't be too hard to find (and might be mentioned in press releases). If you're used to navigating that kind of thing, I think it would take maybe an hour or two.
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     pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Thursday, 16-May-2024 16:12:03 JST pistolero

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     @11112011
     
     > wanna get into private fire brigades?
     
     :ancapshades: Yes.
     
     > "climate change"
     
     That is not what is causing the fires. We stopped brush clearing and controlled burns, because LAFD noticed that they get better press and larger budgets for doing the stupid helicopter drops.
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     touch fluffy tail (Heroic) :verified: (fluffy@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Thursday, 16-May-2024 16:12:03 JST touch fluffy tail (Heroic) :verified:

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     @p @11112011
     >That is not what is causing the fires. We stopped brush clearing and controlled burns, because LAFD noticed that they get better press and larger budgets for doing the stupid helicopter drops.
     
     how do we know this is true? i want to believe
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     blitz (11112011@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Thursday, 16-May-2024 16:12:05 JST blitz
     @p wanna get into private fire brigades?
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