Mel Gibson's $ 14.5 Million Home has been destroyed by mindless
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Wu Ming — 1 year ago(January 14, 2025 02:08 AM)
ToastedCheese January 14, 2025 10:51 AM
Member since December 21, 2017
Was it Trump’s fault or Newsom?
Neither nor.
Nobody can really prepare for such
blasts
.
Yah, the hydrant system needs an upgrade (who pays?).
And some other mistakes need to be discussed.
But that's out of the box:
"After it we're always more intelligent."
(if we survived)
Btw. the evacuation measures were very good and effective.
With around 130,000 refugees and the extent of these terrible fires, the death rate (currently 24) is relatively low.
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Wu Ming — 1 year ago(January 15, 2025 01:11 AM)
ToastedCheese January 15, 2025 05:30 AM
Member since December 21, 2017
The government pays. That is a major part of their role infrastructure, but it’s too concerned with money laundering offshore.
Of course
"the government"
pays, means, the community of taxpayers.
But who exactly?
The city of Los Angeles because it's their fire hydrants?
Or the state of California because it's also about forest and coastal protection?
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Wu Ming — 1 year ago(January 21, 2025 10:02 PM)
ToastedCheese January 22, 2025 06:08 AM
Member since December 21, 2017
Those elitist corporations that exploit the area and its people.
Hi Toasty!
….Welcome back!
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ToastedCheese — 1 year ago(January 24, 2025 05:29 PM)
Mother Nature can’t be contained at times, yet the established system is a sham and it’s designed that way to keep the status quo intact, casualties are expendable. That’s how mendacious it is.
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Wu Ming — 1 year ago(January 24, 2025 08:27 PM)
ToastedCheese January 25, 2025 02:29 AM
Member since December 21, 2017
Mother Nature can’t be contained at times, yet the established system is a sham and it’s designed that way to keep the status quo intact, casualties are expendable. That’s how mendacious it is.
There's no
"Mother Nature"
.
Nature doesn't care about us humans and never did.
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ToastedCheese — 1 year ago(January 26, 2025 06:45 AM)
Wu Ming said...
ToastedCheese January 25, 2025 02:29 AM
Member since December 21, 2017
Mother Nature can’t be contained at times, yet the established system is a sham and it’s designed that way to keep the status quo intact, casualties are expendable. That’s how mendacious it is.
There's no
"Mother Nature"
.
Nature doesn't care about us humans and never did.
The rest is just your opinion which I don't share.
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I never said nature cares about us, anymore than the elitist system, the point still stands: they can pay for it.
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ZolotoyRetriever — 1 year ago(January 10, 2025 11:57 PM)
If you're wealthy enough to have one of those homes in the nice areas of Southern California, hopefully you also have the good sense to have it insured to the max. Only problem is, previous wildfires in California (and resulting claims) have caused several insurers to leave the state - and no doubt more to come after these recent L.A. fires. I understand the ones who remain charge pretty high premiums.
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DrakeStraw — 1 year ago(January 12, 2025 04:50 AM)
Rebuilding will be a challenge. So much so that I expect it won't be attempted in those areas for a long time due to insurance, permitting, environmental impact etc. Those people will more likely just buy an existing home if they can afford it or move out of state. I'm a California ex-pat myself having left in 2006. None of my family closer than one first cousin is still there! All those left of my immediate family are spread out in Arizona now.
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Wu Ming — 1 year ago(January 12, 2025 05:08 AM)
DrakeStraw January 12, 2025 01:50 PM
Member since March 30, 2017
Rebuilding will be a challenge. So much so that I expect it won't be attempted in those areas for a long time due to insurance, permitting, environmental impact etc. Those people will more likely just buy an existing home if they can afford it or move out of state. I'm a California ex-pat myself having left in 2006. None of my family closer than one first cousin is still there! All those left of my immediate family are spread out in Arizona now.
Fleeing the flood and vulcanos.
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ZolotoyRetriever — 1 year ago(January 12, 2025 05:15 AM)
Rebuilding any disaster-hit neighborhood anywhere would be difficult, but you're right about the insurance, permitting, environmental impact issues etc. making it difficult, and probably more so than in other states. Not to mention there will be lawsuits filed against city government for failing to provide adequate firefighting services, etc. For example, why was the 117-million gallon Pacific Palisades reservoir empty and offline months before the fires?
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ir001 — 1 year ago(January 15, 2025 01:22 AM)
It surprises me that these abodes have no fire resistancy built into them. Anything made of metal would burn out but it would not burn down.
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Wu Ming — 1 year ago(January 10, 2025 10:42 PM)
Steve Lake January 11, 2025 06:50 AM
Member since February 19, 2018
Homeless 🧟
️ 🧟
️ who set the fires in California.
It's just terrible. So sad
It was also big in the news here.
Braveheart
's house!
What a pity about the really beautiful house.
What a pity about the many beautiful houses!
So much destroyed, so many deaths (people, flora and fauna).
Mel Gibson: Los Angeles fires
"devastating, it’s emotional"
Mel Gibson's Malibu Estate
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soapbox original gangster — 1 year ago(January 10, 2025 10:51 PM)
in lethal weapon 2, Mel's character single-handedly, with his Ford pick-up truck, pulls down the (evil,murderous) South African consulate general's house; and now 30 odd years on, his house in the same area as the fictional one, destroyed.