The Sad But True Pictures Thread

[HoughMade]

So let's build the second largest city in the country in a desert....

Good plan.

 

[Spear Dane]

Not quite accurate. Actually not even mostly accurate.

https://www.weeklystandard.com/holm...rnia-to-shower-and-do-laundry-on-the-same-day

 

[Spear Dane]

So let's build the second largest city in the country in a desert....

Good plan.

Ummm. LA is older than the USA is. Just FYI.

 

[HoughMade]

Ummm. LA is older than the USA is. Just FYI.

...and that changes its location and climate how?

 

[JettaKnight]

Not quite accurate. Actually not even mostly accurate.

https://www.weeklystandard.com/holm...rnia-to-shower-and-do-laundry-on-the-same-day

Good grief. Doesn't anyone bother with a modicum of fact checking before echoing this crap?

 

[JettaKnight]

...and that changes its location and climate how?

Forget it Jake. It's Chinatown.

 

[Kutnupe14]

Good grief. Doesn't anyone bother with a modicum of fact checking before echoing this crap?

I do!

 

[actaeon277]

Not socialism. As mentioned, living in a place with very little water.

 

[Jerchap2]

The ultimate goal some years down the road is limiting each household to 55 and then 50 gals/day. Fines of up to $1,000 for an infraction are also in the plan. The meme does make it sound like it is here now. But the result will be the same, eventually. Socialism? Not really. But government control.

 

[BugI02]

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[Spear Dane]

...and that changes its location and climate how?

It doesn't. You made it seem like it was a conscious decision to build the second largest city in the country at the edge of the desert when it wasn't.

 

[JettaKnight]

The ultimate goal some years down the road is limiting each household to 55 and then 50 gals/day. Fines of up to $1,000 for an infraction are also in the plan. The meme does make it sound like it is here now. But the result will be the same, eventually. Socialism? Not really. But government control.

Do you have some evidence to back this up?

The meme doesn't "make it sound like", it unequivocally states that users will be fined; which is incorrect.

And it's not really a meme, it's just some lady ranting with incorrect statements and incorrect conclusions; if it was CNN, we'd be all over them for "fake news".

 

[jamil]

The ultimate goal some years down the road is limiting each household to 55 and then 50 gals/day. Fines of up to $1,000 for an infraction are also in the plan. The meme does make it sound like it is here now. But the result will be the same, eventually. Socialism? Not really. But government control.

Because they live in a ****ing semi-arid to arid climate, and there's nowhere near enough fresh water to supply the dense population there, I can see where it would be a government concern to regulate consumption at least a little, so that a few don't use a disproportionate amount of a shared resource.

But, I kinda think to some extent it's sort of a political issue too, in keeping with California's tendency to be over-ecologically aware. You know. Because humans are evil and should become extinct.

Maybe they should invest more of the money that they don't have into desalination technology. D'oh! No. Can't do that. To much energy consumed for that. Nuclear power plants being used for desalination is kind of a thing too, but no. Might endanger some snail darters.

 

[HoughMade]

It doesn't. You made it seem like it was a conscious decision to build the second largest city in the country at the edge of the desert when it wasn't.

....and when it was founded, it wasn't a big city at all. The decisions to expand and annex, etc. were tens of thousands of conscious decisions made over decades when the climate, location, water availability and future water needs were all known. There are ways of curbing growth that outstrips the available resources. Cities take those kinds of decision every day. Los Angeles "planners" consciously decided to push expansion with little to no thoughts of future needs. One reason being- more tax-payers now, worry about the consequences later. Those who decided to not regulate growth get to throw their hands up and say "what am I supposed to do, make it rain"? when they knew or should have known that there were plenty of things that could have been done.

One for instance- the ugly, awful "L.A. River"- essentially a drainage ditch. Rather than find ways to use the rain that fell (as little at that can be), when that was built, goal #1 was get the water (fresh water, I might add) into the ocean as soon as possible. Brilliant! Now, they are spending billions to try to find some way to reclaim the water that is shunted off to drainage from all those acres upon acres of paved surfaces. Short term thinking- that is L.A.

 

[2A_Tom]

[video=youtube;IM1-DQ2Wo_w]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IM1-DQ2Wo_w[/video]

 

[actaeon277]

....and when it was founded, it wasn't a big city at all. The decisions to expand and annex, etc. were tens of thousands of conscious decisions made over decades when the climate, location, water availability and future water needs were all known. There are ways of curbing growth that outstrips the available resources. Cities take those kinds of decision every day. Los Angeles "planners" consciously decided to push expansion with little to no thoughts of future needs. One reason being- more tax-payers now, worry about the consequences later. Those who decided to not regulate growth get to throw their hands up and say "what am I supposed to do, make it rain"? when they knew or should have known that there were plenty of things that could have been done.

One for instance- the ugly, awful "L.A. River"- essentially a drainage ditch. Rather than find ways to use the rain that fell (as little at that can be), when that was built, goal #1 was get the water (fresh water, I might add) into the ocean as soon as possible. Brilliant! Now, they are spending billions to try to find some way to reclaim the water that is shunted off to drainage from all those acres upon acres of paved surfaces. Short term thinking- that is L.A.

Gibraltar shunts rain water into cisterns.

 

[patience0830]

[video=youtube;IM1-DQ2Wo_w]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IM1-DQ2Wo_w[/video]

George Carlin once said something along the lines that when the earth is done with us it will shake us off like fleas.

 

[2A_Tom]

The earth, like guns has no moral impetus. Anthropomorphisms aside there will be a falling away, soon in my opinion.

 

[spencer rifle]

George Carlin once said something along the lines that when the earth is done with us it will shake us off like fleas.

Did you ever try to shake off fleas? Those things are very clingy.

 

[HoughMade]

To be clear, I was referring to planning for the future so we humans can live well into the future without having to resort to:

[video=youtube;-9egNUVybxA]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9egNUVybxA[/video]