Trump has blamed State governors for fires on federal land for 3 1/2 years+ but has done nothing to solve the problems on land he controls.

The failure has been in the making longer than that, try since the industrial revolution. I live in a rain forest starting it's third decade of drought. It's a major climate shift. The science is settled, not in question for decades.

No, he needs to listen to the professional forest managers already there instead of ignoring them because he knows more about everything than anyone. See his recent meeting with California's forest managers for examples of his stupidity, his plan is just like for Covid, do nothing, blame others, deny there's a problem, claim it will just go away, blame others again, pat himself on the back for a job perfectly done.

His idea, rake the forests, is just dumb and impossible. Only a complete moron believes you can rake up 33 million acres of mountainous forests, including removing all forest litter which is necessary habitat for many forest creatures and downed trees like redwoods that are useless as lumber. Only a stupid ignoramus believes that's a solution.

Let's say it costs about $1000 per acre, a vast underestimation, that's an extra $330 billion per year for raking California's forests alone. Is Trump offering to fund that, or is he cutting funding instead? (Hint, he cut funding)

Much of the mismanagement is from fighting fires. For decades the plan was don't let any fire burn, that's left forests with 2-5 times the fuel it would naturally have. The last decade that's been realised and when possible fires are allowed to burn. It's too little too late.

Trump's idea of draining the swamp has been plugging the outlets and pumping millions of gallons of sewage into it. That means removing career civil servants and selling positions to friends and contributors with no experience and massive conflicts of interests. Trump's is the most criminal administration ever, with more convictions than any other including Nixon. Politics are incredibly more swampy than before Trump, and the state of the union is crumbling and poised to dissolve into another civil war.

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I'm so confused as to why cutting down a tree is worthy of a video or my time to watch it. Am I just too Canadian? Do I find this strange because I grew up in a logging town, or because I've cut down trees like this just for firewood?

Any way you look at it, it has wasted time in my life I'll never get back.

Sure.
For newts, it's everything.
Leaf litter, twigs and branches, and downed trees are all imperative for a healthy forest....as is periodic fire in most cases. They are habitat for most forest animals.
They also moderate soil humidity, keeping it from drying out to dust, and return nutrients to the soil for plants to utilize.

Few forests could survive being raked clean, none would remain healthy.

Global warming is not man made. End of story.

Only politicians who want to TAX more believe in it. Take the $ out of it and then see how quickly this issue goes away.


And lets say you are right. From the current "facts" we are doomed. So who the F cares. Eat cows and cut down trees and get on with life.

I hope no one in Atlanta gets the bright idea, "hey lets cut down trees!"

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Its great!

For sawing down trees. For speed and actual ability to move, take a horse.

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When I was in 5th grade, I threw about 24 fluid ounces of gas on a beehive once thinking that looked about proper amount to burn something small. The flames were about 20 feet high.


No video/pictures?

This is the stupidest thing I've ever heard.
Carbon Footprint is the absofuckingly-stupidest thing that ever entered into popular culture.

It's as stupid as trying to walk outside without casting a shadow or breathing without creating CO2. It's the next evolution of stupid right after Political-correctness.
It's one more thing to keep the public at large grumbling in panic about and trying to fix something that isn't broken. It's a witch-hunt of sorts where people go looking for something that is in everything and getting mad at everyone who is doing it.

If "the powers that be" were really concerned, they would stop sucking the oil out of the ground and stop cutting down the rain forests. The two biggest impacting habits of the biggest businesses in the world. No one has any idea of the impact to the planet the actual removal of oil causes but we sure know what happens as it is used or misused. Cutting down trees in mass numbers, the things that create Oxygen, the number one thing we need to live is so beyond idiotic I can't articulate my angst.

Then they come along and say, oh, your breathing is causing CO2 - we should have a breathing tax. Your dog eats food, Oh My Good, the canine is destroying the planet.

*breaths
--ends rant... moves on...

The production budget was reportedly just US$15,000.



So I guess it's become super-cool to say your production budget was tiny now - but that number is just dumb.

You can't make this film on $15,000 actual dollars. How much time went into it? What's that time worth at even half industry rates (for things like editing, CGI, sound work)? Heck, what's it worth at minimum wage? The only way you get the number that low is you get people to delay their pay (ie. you have a percentage later), and you creatively exclude other expenses so that your budget looks smaller coming in (I already had the laptop and camera! We were going on holiday to Mexico anyways!).

I'm happy to hear a film is low budget - low budget movies that make it to me are usually pretty good (thinking of Primer here). But this ridiculous "how long can we go" contest is silly and disingenuous.

If I build a house by chewing down trees and shaping them with my teeth, I don't have a free house - literal dollars parted with aren't the only costs that exist. Similarly, these people don't have a $15,000 movie - and I suspect that they literally spent more than $15,000 as well.

and all this time i thought herrings were only good for cutting down trees

@NetRunner, @gwiz665, especially @entr0py.

Everybody knows we should be using kelvins!!! You don't even need the °!
Why would you cut down trees to make tables when you have perfectly good Ks to measure temperature with?!?

Eve is the closest thing I've ever seen to what I think a MMORPG should be.

If I'm going to play an MMORPG, I want it to be like another life in another reality. The fancy slot-machines that are WOW, LOTRO, GW, WAR, etc do not interest me. Grinding for XP doesn't interest me. Gold farming doesn't interest me. Predetermined plots don't interest me.

Give me a virtual world and let me discover it as I go.

In-game rules and laws should be enforced in-game; If I go on a killing spree, I expect in-game law enforcement (preferably made up of other players) to hunt me down, not to find my account suspended the next day.

I expect deaths to be rare but permanent.

I expect the game mechanics to be kept secret; Numbers don't float off of real people when hit.

I expect to be able to affect the environment directly: Cutting down trees; building houses, weapons, tools; damming rivers; mining raw materials.

I expect the developers to be scripting/triggering new events to make the world feel alive: Have a volcano erupt or a river flood. Start a forest fire that threatens homes. Drop off a van-load of Jehovah's Witnesses in my village.

I expect the players to be left to govern themselves in whatever way they determine is best.

I expect the players to be free from developer-imposed responsibilities. If I want to spend all my game time painting buildings pink, the game ought to let me do that (to whatever extent the other players tolerate it). I shouldn't be forced into any role by the programming.