During the Palisades Fire in January 2025, firefighters experienced significant water pressure problems and some hydrants ran dry, hampering firefighting efforts in higher elevation areas. This was due to unprecedented demand overwhelming the local water system, which is designed for typical urban structure fires, not large-scale wildfires.

Key Details on the Water Issues

System Overload: The demand for water to fight the fire was four times the normal use for 15 straight hours, which lowered the water pressure. The local system, designed for individual house fires, could not handle a firestorm affecting multiple neighborhoods simultaneously.

Dry Tanks: The three water storage tanks that supply the Palisades area from higher elevations were depleted and could not be refilled fast enough due to the high consumption rate at lower elevations.

Empty Reservoir: The nearby 117-million-gallon Santa Ynez Reservoir, a potential lifeline, was empty at the time for a necessary repair of a tear in its protective cover, as required by public health regulations.

Are you sure it had little to do with the water?

Like the California Palisades fire not having water?

https://x.com/jackunheard/status/1986208195283443818

Lol, he’s already asking for donations again in his latest ad. Give him more of your money to defeat capitalism!

I say we make it a general rule, antifa also has to de-mask and both sides get identified.

Fair point… it’s a very conservative floor number though lol. Doing some heavy lifting on the wording.

I figured the % would be significantly higher, like 40% at this rate.

Removing books about sucking cum out of anuses from public schools isn’t really “burning books.” You can still buy them whenever you want, just not putting them in taxpayer funded schools with children.

EDIT: Had to add some details of the “books being burned [but really just removed from public school]”:

During public comment, one woman read a passage from “Yolo” by Lauren Miracle which is found in Freedom High School.

“I climbed onto of him and started kissing him in a way that said very clearly here I am, I’m ready to have sex,” the speaker read.

Another title, “Anatomy of a Single Girl” by Daria Snadowsky, was also read by a speaker.

“Guy tries rubbing my clitoris with his fingers, he wiggles his pelvis back and forth,” another woman read from the book.

“This is ridiculous that this school – any school – has this book,” the woman said to the board.

Julie Gebhards, the woman seen in the first video of our story, is a Hillsborough County mom of six children.

Gebhards read an excerpt from the book “Invisible Monsters Remix” by Chuck Palahniuk. According to the district’s online book library, the title is found in Steinbrenner High School.

“He shoots his load, and then plants his mouth on your anus and sucks out his own warm sperm, plus whatever lubricant and feces are present. That’s felching. It may or may not, I add, include kissing you to pass the sperm and fecal matter into your mouth,” Gebhards said.

I would say it’s more like 1000 times more energy. Trillions of matrix math computations for a handful of tokens at max speed and CPU/GPU usage, compared to a 10 millisecond database query (or in wiki’s case, probably mostly just easy direct edge node cache with no processing involved.)

This is the issue I’ve seen everywhere. Military grade TDS. Even if you want to chat about your love for onions in an onion-based community, someone will probably talk about how orange man destroyed onion farmland and is a fascist. I don’t think there’s a way to avoid the constant repetitive rage seeping into everything.

Yes. I’ve also noticed if you say something mods don’t like they will remove your comments. This place is more of the same with censorship… in terms of removing opposing ideas.

I really wonder if leftists really are this brainwashed to parrot such an obviously incorrect narrative. The answer is “yes, they are this brainwashed.”

The problem with that is that it’s so locked down now you need an account of X age with Y karma, so the majority of the site isn’t something you can participate in. And I get it, lots of spam accounts and whatnot, but still shitty that they’re a hair trigger away from destroying years worth of built up karma over nothing.

I only got a warning, they said if I did it again I could face a site-wide ban though. Pretty disturbing that they’re tracking upvotes to a post… they said I also upvoted a Luigi comment… but in both cases, they wouldn’t tell me specifically which post or comment triggered it.

It’s interesting that tens of millions of people know the truth of him being a radical far-left homicidal maniac, but the few thousand people here continue to circlejerk over lies. I really expected better from lemmy. Oh well, it is what it is.

I love how the obviously false narrative will continue to live on in left-wing echo chambers while the rest of the world and the courthouse and lawyers will all know the actual truth.

I think words are less damaging than bullets shot into someone’s body. If you are so fragile that words hurt you to the point of becoming a homicidal maniac, you should probably be checked into a behavioral health facility ASAP.

I don’t use facebook or social media (instagram, tiktok, shitter, whatever else.) The internet is a cesspool. I thought maybe I could find something reasonable here but it’s unhinged misinformation spammed everywhere as usual. I expected better from decentralization, so I’ll just have to start my own lemmy instance and invite more moderate less-extreme people in.

We’re not a democracy, we’re a republic.

https://www.axios.com/2025/09/15/groyper-charlie-kirk-nick-fuentes-tyler-robinson

Soon after Charlie Kirk’s assassination, some on the political left quickly spread a baseless theory that the conservative podcaster was killed by a follower of the ultra-right-wing group called Groypers.

Authorities told Axios they believe Robinson’s romantic relationship with his transgender roommate could be key to determining a motive for Kirk’s killing, and that Robinson believed that the conservative was spreading transphobic hate.

Robinson “wasn’t too fond of Trump or Charlie [Kirk],” a former coworker of his told CNN.

Reality check: As noted by Time Magazine, those who have covered Fuentes downplayed connections between Robinson and the movement.

I don’t think reality is welcome on Lemmy at this point.

It sure does seem that way. They think they have carte blanche to murder or commit violence towards anybody they want, but they’ve awakened a quiet giant. This is not going to turn out how they want no matter how much misinformation and circlejerking they spread around here.