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@TimHauck Let me ask you a couple of questions, and TRY to think about this LOGICALLY. IF the flight attendant was racist, I assume the presumption is that she didn't want anything to do with Khabib. Do you think she's dealt with Russians or whatever ethnicity she thought he was before? Do you think it's her SOP to discriminate against people of his ethnicity? If so, how do you think she still has her job considering she must deal with people of that ethnicity regularly? Lastly, she asked him to move seats. How is that going to make her have to deal with him any less than she would have with him in an exit row? Look, the last thing I want to deal with if the plane goes down and is on fire is a person in the exit row who the crew has deemed unsuitable. Contrary to popular belief, flight attendants do a lot more than just serve coffee. They are trained to create the safest environment in the cabin in the event of an emergency. A commercial airplane cabin is the LAST place we should be worrying about being WOKE.

Don't pull a Charger!!!!!

Get rid of all the illegals in So. Cal. and the amount of rebuilding needed will decrease significantly.

Yeah, that was sick.

I've always liked him. I just recently found out about his background in KC. If I'd known sooner I might have been biased and NOT liked him.

Yeah, this is JUST like a digital water meter.

I just looked at your link. I am not convinced this is even being marketed as a replacement for traditional fire hydrants. Beyond that, I don't think it would have helped here anyways. While Pacific Palisades is a hilly, brushy area, it's still a traditional city suburb with streets and what not. The fire hydrants aren't installed on the mountains in the middle of the brush. They're installed on streets just like anywhere else in the suburbs. So not sure what distinction you're trying to make compared to the fire hydrant a block from my house. In totality, I think we disagree on how this type of system could be implement and the effectiveness of it even if it were.

I've been saying for years that if we crack down on illegal immigration, we won't need to deport 20+ millions illegals. Trump isn't even in office and he's already having an effect and some illegals are thinking about leaving on their own: https://www.denverpost.com/2025/01/12/trump-mass-deportation-colorado-immigrants-migrants/

Well, we haven't been to the playoffs since Peyton Manning retired and weren't expected to get there this year either so you SHOULD feel that way. However, I would caution you about being overconfident. In the first meeting this year we SHOULD have beaten the Chiefs. A blocked 35 yard field goal is the only thing that saved the Chiefs, WITH Mahomes, from being swept by the Broncos this year. And we won't have any pressure in that game, just like this one.

I think we already have more yards than the Chargers gained yesterday.

To the extent that this is feasible, you're going to have to go in to more detail on your "targeted nozzles" concept. Most fire hydrants have a little stub sticking out of them that the fire dept. attaches a hose to so they can direct the water on the fire. Just opening those up may release a lot of water but it will just be flowing down the street, especially in the hilly areas most of these fires are burning in. That's just gonna be a waste of water. Fire hydrants aren't every 5 feet such that you can have movable nozzles sticking out of the fire hydrant to point directly at the fire. There's a reason those hoses are 50 feet and longer. And, of course, the expense of retrofitting a city like Los Angeles would probably be in the 100's of BILLIONS. This is a city that couldn't even replace the cover on top of a reservoir within a few months and left it empty during that time. How efficiently and in what time frame would you expect them to retrofit 56 thousand fire hydrants, including adding the infrastructure to power them and make them intelligent?

Just gonna use this thread for Bass related failures so as not to clutter up the main fires thread: https://www.city-journal.org/article/la-mayor-karen-bass-budget-wildfires @The General Remember when you were defending her by saying the Police budget was increased when the fire budget was cut, and I pointed out that there were probably other departments that had cuts too so trying to tie those two together was deflection?

Pretty sure you've driven multiple people away from this board. Most people aren't so narcissistic that they feel the need to announce that they're leaving. And of course we all know that oldmaid will be back because in almost all cases people who do announce that they're leaving actually come back. maybe if you didn't do things that drove people away from the board you wouldn't be banned 10 times.

They should have hired @squistion as a consultant.

I wasn't this smart. I should have known The Chargers were gonna Charger. Hopefully the Ravens perform better.

That does it. I'm not voting for him for President in 2028!!!!

I posted a video earlier. Go do your homework and then come back. Try not to get banned again while you're doing it.

A leaked memo has come out showing that just before these fires broke out Karen Bass had told the LAFD to cut $48 million more from it's budget this year. This would have been in addition to the $17.5 million already cut and would have required closing 16 fire stations. I doubt this cut will happen now but WOW. She is a special kind of bad Mayor.

Then why did the Dixie Chicks kill him?

The following video is FOUR years old. https://x.com/JohnStossel/status/1877396163617341949?ref_src=twsrc^tfw|twcamp^tweetembed|twterm^1877396163617341949|twgr^ccf54554b5b75b6c6a2278768470412d44d140f8|twcon^s1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fredstate.com%2Fbrandon_morse%2F2025%2F01%2F10%2Fjohn-stossel-already-debunked-the-idea-that-climate-change-caused-the-california-wildfires-n2184189

So if someone wants a job and is willing to work at McDonalds for $8/hr, shouldn't they be allowed to or are you the only one who gets to violate minimum wage laws if the victim is willing to take the lower wage?

Open the floodgates and put Americans out of work.

Much like you underpaying illegals to maximize your profit, they are charging what they can to maximize profit. I'm not justifying their actions but I would never hire illegals to exploit them either.

Her parents should have listened to her.

I do when warranted. Feel free to read through my 40k posts and you'll absolutely find them. Have fun.