We had a number of orange days last year, 300 miles north of SF.

Those were weird days. AQI north of 600 in SF.

Nah, it's sad. Like watching someone with a compass pointing at the sun.

"I SWEAR!!! THAT way is North!"

Yep. I live in Humboldt. Moved up here from the bay area, a completely different culture. They are also totally different from Southern California, which itself is a completely different animal from Central Valley California. There was a time when splitting the state into two, north and south, was considered, but no one wanted the bay area in their half, and Sacramento didn't belong in either half either. If we split, it should be into at least 4 distinct states, north, central, south, and Bay area California, and even then there would be many communities in the wrong states.

If this was originally posted on Twitter, he could have gotten potentially nothing. The Twitter TOS grants free, unlicensed use of any words, videos or images posted on their site. You basically sign away all First North American Serial Rights when you tweet something (AFAIK / IANAL).

From Twitter's TOS:

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So far, so good, buuuuut ...

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7.8 billion USD to make charging stations easily accessible across North America and allow Tesla to not only gain first mover on advantage on a charging network but also larger potential market for EV sales, and yet Elon Musk wasted 1.5 billion USD on Bitcoin.

The guy is an idiot.

The fire started in South Ashland and burned through Talent and Phoenix and was stopped before reaching Medford. This is a link for another fire just north but you can still see the area burnt from the Almeda fire: https://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/article/7185/56085/

Impossible, unless there is some weird science way for water to become hard for some reason. But how likely is that to happen in a country as far north as Finland?

Cultural homogeneity. It's sort of amazing. BTW, one thought for people to contemplate--not meant good or bad, just a perspective ---South Koreans think of themselves more as being more like North Koreans than anyone else. And when North Korea finally falls...South Korea will suddenly be Korea---and it will be a nuclear power.

Early in development, Diablo was turn-based, like many RPGs and Rogue-likes before it. Then Blizzard South (the Warcraft team) pushed hard on Dave and the Blizzard North team to try out real-time combat instead of turn-based.

Dave didn't want to, but his team took a vote and Dave lost handily. He was surprised when it only took a weekend to rough out real-time combat and stunned when he realized how fun it was. A new genre was born.

Here is a really cool website that tracks airplanes in real time. I've been watching tankers and helicopters fighting multiple fires today in my area. As of right now they are fighting the CZU fire with multiple helicopters just west of Boulder Creek https://www.flightradar24.com/37.09,-122.08/12 . Also fighting the SCU fire with multiple large Air-tankers including the 747 global supertanker, currently dropping around Henry Coe state parkhttps://www.flightradar24.com/37.39,-121.51/11. Also a couple copters fighting that fire just south of Livermore.

(edit) I see North of San Francisco there are quite a few helicopters and small planes fighting the fire in the Point Reyes area. https://www.flightradar24.com/37.99,-122.85/11

So many fires right now

how is it possible that a nation has such a good collective sense of humor? Seriously, even big companies can do it... in north america the same kinds of companies make ads that come across as contrived, dishonest, pandering and forced more often than not.

I love that stretch of coast.
As a teen I used to party at hidden beach a few miles North. The only access was a sketchy 6" wide path on the cliffside, so we knew cops wouldn't bother us there.
Should've taken 84 home, less time driving in the stink and you could've gotten great BBQ in La Honda. ;-)

The North Korean way.

foot·ball
/ˈfo͝otˌbôl/
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noun
noun: football; plural noun: footballs

1.
a form of team game played in North America with an oval ball on a field marked out as a gridiron.
British term for soccer.
play in a game of football, especially when stylish and entertaining.
"his team played some impressive football"
2.
a ball used in football, either oval (as in American football) or round (as in soccer), typically made of leather or plastic and filled with compressed air.

I don't know if you were being a smartass or just didn't know, either way, football means both american football and soccer.