Notices by LostInCalifornia (lostincalifornia@spinster.xyz)

@taylan You would probably have to read several to get an impartial view.

@KeepTakingTheSoma I always wonder if there's truth that artificial hormones lower IQ. It's pretty clear wrong sex hormones induce violent behavior in some; I just wonder what other effects it has.

25 dead, 1 still missing. Almost all of the dead stayed behind to try and save their house with a garden hose, or thought the fire wasn't going to be as bad as it was.

The worst of the coming wind starts in about 4 hours, but we're supposed to get a sprinkle next week.

Unless the fires flare back up (or I feel the need to weigh invectives about conspiracy theorists, hypocrites and opportunists), this is my last update. Legit criticism will come, but it will not take the shape of any of the crap posted online.

Long before Musk started lobbing X-shaped bricks across the Atlantic, journalists and campaigners, often women on the left such as Julie Bindel, Anna Hall, Suzanne Moore and Samira Ahmed , had turned the spotlight on “grooming gangs” – better described as rape gangs and sex traffickers – and called out the failures of the authorities.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jan/12/the-right-is-trying-to-rewrite-history-with-its-toxic-rhetoric-on-britains-gangs

K. Update. I got a little safer today. The evacuation zone closer to me is no longer an evacuation zone. The winds have shifted. They're now offshore rather than desert, which is very good, and everyone in LA should be safer, at least until Tuesday.

Meanwhile, I'm mainly staying inside cuz smoke. Cabin fever is starting to creep in.

@restful @Zennagain Not the same in the slightest.

• Birth rates are replacement level. Certain industries require a low level labor force, and citizens no longer expect peasant wages.

• Pensions need funding

And the non-capitalist reason:

• Climate change is creating more refugees.

All that is on top of 3rd world citizens realizing through global communications just how badly their own governments have managed things.

Not the same. Also, migration to the US is not the same, although the EU is trying to mimic our post WWII success.

Cultures do have a hard time melding, but there are material reasons for allowing it. The only material reason for "trans" is that men think women are too uppity.

“Musk must be seen as representing the U.S. president when he bets against the leadership of key European nations, allies until now,” former member of the European Parliament and Stanford University fellow Marietje Schaake wrote in an email.

https://www.politico.eu/article/elon-musk-interference-alice-weidel-x-livestream-afd-germany-eu-digital-services-act/

@restful @Zennagain And the psychology isn't the same.

There are material and economic reasons immigration is encouraged.

And unless you think the porn industry is a valuable source of a society's goods and services, bashing women has a net negative effect on the economy.

@restful @Zennagain By climate change, I mean 30 years of drought in the Levant.

Insurance is a ponzi scheme if you're always borrowing from the funds (looking at you GOP Congress).

@restful @Zennagain And just to cut short a few of the chestnuts I've heard about Social Security, for example --

• "There is no trust fund" There are 9. It's an insurance reserve.
• "It's going broke" Congress "borrowed" from it to pay for the invasion of Irag and has never paid it back
• "Trump will fix it" Trump plans to cut funding resoources and will make it go BKK faster
• "Young people are paying for old people" Young people would be paying for even more if it didn't exist. Even if you didn't have a wife (it's always the woman) who takes in grandma to feed, clothe and care for, you pay for it in increasing health care costs as disease spreads from the increasing homeless population.

@restful @Zennagain There is no economic advantage for the average TW.

The average TW isn't posing on the cover of Vogue or running a tv show, or even competing in women's sports.

I think cutting off porn access will help more.

@restful @Zennagain True it does. A young person is paying for their own insurance, but all insurance requires other people.

And as for a wealth transfer = we currently have it set up so that a 1% can pay for a personal tax lobbyist and a congress person, and still make a profit.

Wealth is being transferred, alright, from the masses to a choice few pockets. And it's about to get worse.

@taylan It's not really "garlic breath". The smell comes from the skin if they eat enough of it. Smells basically like garbage.

Had a neightbor who was eating whole cloves because it was supposed to be good for longevity. Believe me, she stunk.

@taylan If she eating garlic?

B complex creates a weird smell -- it's good for keeping mosquitos and bitey insects at bay, but garlic is the thing that creates the strongest stench IMO.

@taylan And yet, the violent transphobic attacks we hear about are pronouns.

I guess RW men have finally figured out something radicial feminists in Britain have been saying for years, only now they're pretending radical feminists didn't say anything.

@taylan I thought his kid was nonbinary. I knew he was a True Believer.

So, it turns out he was a real estate agent, former Deloitte Touche employee, army vet and citizen.

Gambler, promiscuous and spendthrift. The most suspicious thing about him is that he was born and raised in Texas.

ISIS flag found in the truck.

https://www.nola.com/news/crime_police/bourbon-street-assailant-was-us-military-member/article_d7702342-c875-11ef-a9c2-57ca1b6b18b6.html

What the Left Refused to Understand About Women’s Sports

Female athletes said competing against trans women was an injustice.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/12/democrats-trans-rights-sports/681130/?gift=SKtFP-7gCBnFn1bNJdqPMtvHvOS2vD1tWBU7o1XeU3s

@ninafromcanadaeh @FarmKat pronouns kill tho?