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[Kaveman]

Dont shoot the messenger.

Gimmie a synopsis boss, I can't stand Tucker Carlson for two minutes, let alone two hours. It's never an interview, it's fellatio.

As to the article @BlackSmith posted, that all jives with what I've seen and heard throughout my adventures in the People's Soviet Republik of Komifornia. It makes me long for the state of Jefferson, or whatever they want to call it this week, and glad that I will reside in a separatist region.

LA burning, along with Sacramento and San Francisco, are California's only hope. Population density is so lopsided that those three areas dictate the state. If they all have to flee for points east, the real Californians may be able to recover part of what's been lost.

 

[treesmith]

No one else wants the fleeing rabble! 🤣

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Gimmie a synopsis boss, I can't stand Tucker Carlson for two minutes, let alone two hours. It's never an interview, it's fellatio.

As to the article @BlackSmith posted, that all jives with what I've seen and heard throughout my adventures in the People's Soviet Republik of Komifornia. It makes me long for the state of Jefferson, or whatever they want to call it this week, and glad that I will reside in a separatist region.

LA burning, along with Sacramento and San Francisco, are California's only hope. Population density is so lopsided that those three areas dictate the state. If they all have to flee for points east, the real Californians may be able to recover part of what's been lost.

I'll give you one when you get back. I'm done writing books repetatively in chapters since 2008 here

 

[Nutball]

Gimmie a synopsis boss, I can't stand Tucker Carlson for two minutes, let alone two hours. It's never an interview, it's fellatio.

As to the article @BlackSmith posted, that all jives with what I've seen and heard throughout my adventures in the People's Soviet Republik of Komifornia. It makes me long for the state of Jefferson, or whatever they want to call it this week, and glad that I will reside in a separatist region.

LA burning, along with Sacramento and San Francisco, are California's only hope. Population density is so lopsided that those three areas dictate the state. If they all have to flee for points east, the real Californians may be able to recover part of what's been lost.

Tucker barely talks, Just watch the first 15min, even at 2x speed.

 

[Kaveman]

Fine, train fare I guess.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

See my notes on CA high speed rail and overlay them on most our Fire or infrastructure policies and goings on. Then add environmentaists, EPA and studies required.

 

[Kaveman]

I haven't dug into the high-speed rail thing yet, because I don't understand how to read blood pressure, but I do know mine will be astronomical. Everything I've heard about that project chaps my ass. That's saying something about a guy with the train tisim...

 

[CurSedVoyce]

So here, working on that property in Bootjack you helped on.
PG&E is supposed to keep the ROW clear of brush and trees.
What they do. Lop and scatter into the brush and brush piles in the brush right below power lines and old delapedated peckered poles. The you have a wind event or pole failure. You now have a fire.
PG&E, if it's out of site, it's out of mind. Lot easier to keep ROW clear if the brush does not grow bigger or brush from trimming is hauled out.
PG&E donates and lobbies a shat ton of $ into ourr State politicians and Gov.
So, fire liability has a cap they can be sued for. And they get away with failing infrastructure while charging some of the highest electrical rates in the country. Same goes for So Cal Edison

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Add arson, accidental man made starts, illegal fireworks, lost control burning. Lightening fires. Lightening used to be our number one cause of fire. Man surpassed that.

 

[lxskllr]

Those are some gnarly poles. I don't think I've ever seen active poles in that condition.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Poles like these all over the state. Rural anyway.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Then the other good stuff. We have not built any new reservoirs since '79 I believe. We voted in a 2.7 Billion dollar bond in 2014 to build more. One has been slated to build for almost 40 years? 4.4 Billion. Nada. Nothing.

This reservoir on the Sacramento River has been planned for decades. What’s taking so long?

The Sites Reservoir — a $4.4 billion system to add dams and store more water to be sent south — is still years away from completion.

calmatters.org

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Meanwhile, CA spends billions of dollars on our homeless situation. Cant account for 24 Billion of it.
Homeless population keeps rising.
Guess that did not fix it.

Redirect Notice

So we just keep borrowing money, paying more and higher taxes for????

 

[Cobleskill]

Some kind of woodpecker packs nuts in the poles? You would think the power co. would have one of those drum brush grinders they would go along and grind that stuff up.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Yes. Peckers. Saving acorns for later.
No matter the equipment they have, unless they can spray and sterilize the ground, out of sight is out of mind.
The crews tow a chipper along for the most part. Well fug dragging it out to a chipper, just pile it in the brush, under the lines, can't see it from corporate.

 

[Mick!]

Re. The brush stacked/left

Same happens here ‘clearance not appearance’ or ‘centimeters pas sentiments’ as the French firms say, quality gets forgotten to try and fulfill contracts on time and in budget.

Obviously there isn’t the same fire risk, but it does cause some complaints.

The answer of course is cost, it takes a huge effort to either get a chipper to the brush or get the brush out.

If they forced the companies to process the brash, the contractors would have to raise prices to cover the extra time needed to clear a span.

Electricity prices would rise.

I’m only echoing what Cursedvoyce says of course, just approaching it from another angle.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

More better.....

 

[Kaveman]

Looks great boss! That was such a Charlie Foxtrot, poison oak and sourberry, and that gawdawful buckbrush...

That property alone made me hate PG&E, and it's by no means alone.

 

[Mick!]

Chekhov like my post about the Gorn episode of Star Trek OS!

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Well, it seemed green at the time....

Evacuation orders issued for Moss Landing Battery Plant fire; residents asked to close all entry points

A fire has been confirmed at the Vistra Power Plant in Moss Landing on Thursday which is forcing evacuations and closing roads in the area.

www.ksbw.com

Moss Landing: World’s biggest battery storage project is now 3GWh capacity

Owner Vistra Energy has announced the completion of work to expand its Moss Landing Energy Storage Facility in California.

www.energy-storage.news

 

[BlackSmith]

Everything they touch.

Looks like a lot of tax payer funded subsidies in all that smoke.

 

[treesmith]

Since we’re in the habit or pardoning those who don’t need it…anyone surprised by this garbage?

https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/20/politics/joe-biden-preemptive-pardons/index.html

 

[BlackSmith]

Why would you need a pardon if you’re not guilty of a crime?

 

[flushcut]

He guilty. That’s why.

 

[treebilly]

Does the president have the power to pre-pardon or is this a new precedent? Wouldn’t this be considered immunity? Which is ironically something Dr. Fauci doesn’t believe in.