I encourage anyone who won money betting on the Ross not being freed yesterday tragedy donate the sats to a good cause. @OpenSats #freeross #grownostr

This is true on so many levels. View quoted note →

Containment levels on wildland fires are a shitcoins. They’re arbitrarily set by the Team managing the incident and are more political than anything else. #fire #grownostr

A great write up by @Sooly⚡️سولي 🇱🇧🇧🇪🇦🇪🇦🇴 , pay particular attention to the parts about fire insurance. The FAIR plan is a Socialized Fire insurance program (Obama care for Fire insurance) by the state of California. The cost of insurance is going to ballon from already nose bleed levels. The lack of a free market in the insurance industry has made local, targeted fire insurance solutions impossible so everyone is stuck with subpar generalized policies. (everyone has the same shitty coverage mostly regardless of risk) We’re left with a handful of large companies that are in bed with the State. A true fascist cartel. View quoted note →

The people on the ground know what needs to be done and how to get it done. We need local solutions and decisions on environmental issues. Not Blanket decisions pushed by national governments and international NGO’s. If extremist environmentalists want their voices to be heard on an issue they need to present superior arguments at the local level. Not just getting national level policies forced on everyone. View quoted note →

Hearing from a number of people who have similar anecdotes to my trending note. We have allowed environmental extremists to dictate our environmental policies with zero basis in reality. View quoted note →

This seems appropriate for the current situation. View quoted note →

I’ve been a professional firefighter in California for 20 years. Currently I oversee a vegetation management program to reduce fire risk to communities. We have money, resources and are ready to work. The Environmental regulations however take years to navigate and comply with and consume a large portion of the funds available for this work. California’s entire fire problem is a direct result of foolish policies. It goes back to the USFS suppressing naturally occurring fire for over100 years resulting in excessive fuels in our wild lands. Now the State of California is tying the hands of local communities in repairing the damage through nonsensical environmental regulations that prioritize red legged frogs or “spotted owl habitat” that hasn’t seen a spotted owl since the 80’s over human lives and property. The government will blame everything and everyone except their own policies which are the real culprit. The incentives are so screwed up that no one is really interested in actually fixing the issue because everyone is grifting off the system. Fires are big money for both Private contractors and government employees as is environmental compliance consulting. There, I feel better now. Had to get that out. #fire #grownostr