This meme coin business Trump did is not good behavior...
...taking advantage for personal gains.....and is this the example America is going to put forth now?
January 15: Rubio established three tests for every State Department policy: "Does it make America safer? Does it make America stronger? Does it make America more prosperous?"
2027-28 the world will be a different place with a lot of new challenges.
@MizuNoYoNiNaru
If you buy anything and don't understand what you're buying, that's your own fault. 99.7% of crypto is garbage. If you ask people that bought coins (outside of BTC, ETH) or any other coin what kind of utilization it has, most people have no clue.
What's worse? Trump creating a crypto coin, or FTX siphoning customers deposits and giving millions to democrats?
Did posting a Trump executive order drive you so crazy it forced you to post?
When did I use the word "winning"?
I have medicad/medicare and sorry, the sky isn't falling.
California voters passed a prop in 2014 to spend billions ($7.5 bil) on water projects. NOT ONE has even started construction nine years later. There's no excuse for that. Storing water is the key yet they have done nothing. The last year and a half California had ample rainfall that could have filled new reservoirs had they been built.
Just like Joe and his billions on EV charging stations throughout the country. 
Even a 5th grader would recognize idiots tripping over their own bloated regulations time and time again and getting nothing done.
I don't think you realize how many reservoirs there are in California, and what building a new one involves. And wbile California has received rain in the last year, the last two actually, it has been in the form of a few mega storms, and not sustained rain as needed. And when it has rained, southern California has mostly missed out.
Trust me, California has tons of reservoirs. The number of reservoirs is not the problem.
I didn't say more reservoirs are not needed per se. I said they're are tons of reservoirs in the state already, that up until the last couple years, filling the reservoirs that exist has been a problem. That even in years when the state gets rain, not every region, not every watershed gets rain,.no not every reservoirs fills. That when the Oroville dam failed, it costs a billion dollar just to fix it. People think three, or four, or seven billion equates to building a ton of reservoirs. It doesn't. I also believe people think reservoirs are just big buildings to store water. Overgrown swimming pools. Build them anywhere. They aren't.
Infrastructure improvements may be needed but water storage capacity is not the problem.
You posted a flow chart for the Sacramento River. Do you realize the amount of Sacramento River water that is stored? Some of our major dams are impoundments of the Sacramento River or it's tributaries. Where do you think another dam is gonna go?
This is what I mean by people who don't understand the oroblem. You're my bro. I appreciate you. I respect you. You're one of a handful here I consider an actual friend but you just don't understand, with all due respect.
The problem isn't storage capacity. It's usage. Too much of the water is used to grow almonds for China, grain for Saudis, and too much is bottled by water conglomerates like Nestlé. This is all fact. Also fact is that all the water in the world wasn't preventing those fires. Most of SoCal is what we'd call a semi-arid chaparral environment. It's boderline desert. And then you have the Inland Empire (Palm Springs, for example) which is actual desert. So you have desert to the east of the mountains, and semi-arid desert adjacent to the west. With that chaparral environment comes drought resistant shrubby/bushy plants, and weedy grasses. The type of plant that thrives in such an environment. You pull it, hack it down, it grows right back. They don't need much water and when the rare rain storm comes, the shit explodes. Mitigating some of this stuff is next to impossible. You here people talk about controlled burns. You don't typically see controlled burns that close to densely populated neighborhoods in an area known for dry conditions, both dry vegetation and and warm dry winds. I guess you could hack everything down and concrete over but then you lose canopy, oxygenation, etc. And overall esthetic. People choose to live in such places for a reason.
There's so much misinformation out there, and our president isn't helping. I appreciate our president because he's willibg to ask why? He's not an expert on things but he'll ask, "Why can't we do this? Why don't we try that?" Sometimes the reason is simply bureaucracy and that's what needs to change but other times, it's simply that things are physically impossible. Or that he doesn't quite understand the issue. He'll talk about water being wasted by flowing into Pacific as if he doesn't understand how river systems work. Regardless of how many times to dam a creek or river, countless times all over California, water ultimately makes it's way to the ocean. He talks as if California diverts the water to the ocean, like just flushing it away. He talks about diverting the Columbia... First of all, the Columbia exists in Canada, Washington, and Oregon. Aside from California having no water rights to the Columbia, I don't know what engineering marvel could be conceived to move that water 1000 miles to LA. It would cost hundreds of billions, possibly a trillion dollars to construct such an aqueduct, if even at all possible.
@StumpTownStu
Appreciate your insight. And yes, I not familiar with California's water systems but I am very familar with water systems in general and understand their designs and uses.
What I was alluding to is the amount of excess flows from the Sacramento being captured. Upon further study the Freeport gauge is best to use for discharge to the delta. Understanding a minimum flow rate is necessary to avoid saltwater infiltration in the delta. That flow rate appears to be about 10,500 cuft/ sec. Flows well above 10,500 cuft/sec are available for capture.
I uderstand no amount of water was going to stop a fire in 80+mph winds. And I fully understand the desert-like environment. Do disagree nothing preventitive could be done short of paving the area.
And during times of heavy dry brush along with 80+ mph winds the fire danger had to be at it's highest point. IMO, those fires should have been caught early on. The fires should have been expected!
@UNIMAN
In those conditions, fire spreads incredibly fast. The high winds prevented the use of helicopters early on, which would've made a huge difference. The majority ofnthe state, save for the Sacramento/San Joaquin valley, is hilly ot mountainous. Terrain poses issues. High winds posed issues. And an overloaded utility system exacerbated everything.
So of course somethings could've been done differently, and some mistakes were probably made, but not to the level that is being made out in the media.
Imagine 
on an online forum because military and servicemen are getting back pay because they didn't want to be forced into taking an experimental vax that never lived up to the hype that Mr Science claimed it would. Just salty because you believed and bought the big lie huh?
In fact, so far, the lies /corruption from the new "reich" is what we were expecting.
....and it's continuing again today.............. of course.......
INCOMPETENCE;
* The POS OMB puts out 2 page memo freezing all grants
* Chaos, panic ensues
* OMB puts out 1.5 page Q&A trying to clarify.
* More confusion
* WH blames media for confusion
* OMB puts out one line memo rescinding freeze. Press secretary says the EO doing the freezing isnt rescinded; just the OMB memo.
She's just regurgitating the bullshit fed to her.
WHICH ONE IS IT?: On the campaign trail with the POS', Secretary of Commerce nominee, Howard Lutnik bitched about American factories & jobs moving to Mexico. However at the same time, he runs a commercial real estate firm that advocates the virtues of Mexico's manufacturing & workforce.
So which is it Howie??
These fuckers will say anything & believe in nothing but the almighty dollar. But since Hesketh was confirmed by these morally deficient members of Congress, they will approve almost everyone.
SO WHAT DID IT COST YOU BESIDES YOUR SOUL MAYOR?:
Senior Justice Department officials under THE POS have held discussions with federal prosecutors in Manhattan about the possibility of dropping their corruption case against Mayor Eric Adams of New York.
Sounds like the Mayor's trip to Mar A Lago last week may become very beneficial.
scooby...how do feel about this possibility in your hometown?
INTERESTING TIDBIT ABOUT THE NEWS PRESS SECRETARY:
She announced her engagement to a guy 32 years older than her on Christmas Day in 2023. In July of 24, she gave birth to their son. So with her wonderful Christian values, she got knocked up out of wedlock. So when the kid turns 20, his old man will be 79.
Oh yea, she went to college on a softball scholarship.
Crazy watching liberals get all judgemental. Her marriage, and her faith, in her business. It's 2025. People get have sex before marriage. At least the baby wasn't born out of wedlock. I'm sure she's not getting excommunicated for getting pregnant before marriage and questioning someone's faith based on such a thing, a person who grew up in the church and went to Catholic school, is borderline blasphemy. Only God can judge. Not internet haters.
ICE warns that illegal immigrants may have to be released if detention capacity is insufficient. Courts have ruled that immigrants cannot be held indefinitely under the law. Since congress usually limit funding, releasing immigrants is normal.
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