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WAIT WAIT WAIT!! I'm a retired electronic engineer, Leon doesn't know shit about technology. He never worked as an engineer, never designed anything. He is a more toxic version of Steve Jobs. He got rich off the work of people like Steve Wozniak
Jobs at least did work with Wozniak, and knew which designs to promote and which to bin - mostly. Yes Jobs was a horrible man whose beliefs eventually led to his death, but he did make a success of Apple. Wozniak on his own would have been just another 6502 computer designer.
Trump and Musk are American cultural icons, and people adore and look up to the big American style, just like people looked up to and adored the British when they ruled the seas. Every culture has or had its iconoclasts-Italy had Leonardo da Vinci. Germany had Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. India had Buddha. France had Voltaire. We should also learn to applaud those who choose the big American style, even if we have decided not to live so large ourselves. For example, my neighbor recently purchased a brand new 2025 Cadillac Escalade gimme gimme mobile. Instead of knocking her for it, I decided to go next door and congratulate her for her smart shopping decision. She told me that Santa said that she needed to treat herself to something special this holiday season, especially after having recently divorced her husband of 8 years. However, her psychic told her to wait on the botox injections and tummy tuck. The conversation was brief, yet very enlightening. I was extremely surprised when she ended the conversation by telling me that if only more of our people bought such grand and sturdy automobiles, then, maybe we would be able to end our reliance on mid-east oil. I was very surprised because it is a rare thing to hear a fellow citizen make such an astute and accurate political observation. Anywho, I went back to my retrofitted Winnebago with solar panel and wind turbine and cranked up the old black and white Sony tv with rabbit ears to see if I could catch a rerun of "Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous". Soon after, I faded into the land of nod and had a very vivid dream where I met with our Elon in D.C. and he offered to equip my outhouse with his Tesla rockets at a 25 percent shoppers' discount and shoot me into outer space!
Elon is like jobs a visionary. Both put the pieces together, created the essence behind their products. You can hate Elon, have it blind you to his business acumen, but that’s true. Other than that, Elon is no genius, no intellectual and has no emotional IQ. Being good in one area doesn’t make you a genius in all areas
@@RichTex-e6d This has been happening since the deregulation of the state's electric grid. It has nothing to do with EVs. Because of deregulation, you have an infinite number of "electric companies," but none of these companies maintain the infrastructure. Every time the grid goes down, more than 13 states have to send in their professionals to get it back up.
So is geography beyond the mere "point to Colorado on a map" and "What's the capital of Poland?" questions. I learned what makes So. Cal. so dry in - granted an upper division level undergrad geography class. Even so, the average degreed person should know that in every topic, there's always more than meets the eye. It's one think for people without four year degrees not to notice, But otherwise? smh
Human life has become a disease. There are too many of us producing far too much waste, including excrement. Mother Nature will rectify the situation. Maybe within a few years. Who knows ?
Let's also remember the mismanagement in the 2021, when Texas failed to address their power grid issues, blamed the outages on renewable energy while nearly 300 people died, and Turd Cruz absconded to Cancun because he couldn't deal with the cold.
@@TW-SB You can prevent some forest fires. The recent CA wildfires, fueled by unprecedented windstorms were also probably preventable if policymakers took anthropogenic climate change seriously.
Or make some school for the less wealthy, or an hispital, or clean the sea, or, or.... so many things to do, but ya, doesnt make money, so who care huh, these people are soooooo hypocrite.
I was agnostic about these billionaires until they started getting obnoxious now I think we need a new tax scheme to keep them from turning into trillionaires. If you think they’re bad now just wait.
Exactly. All he does is buy the presidency for trump and is trying to buy the overthrowing of governments in other countries. He has so much money that he thinks he can do anything. Then do something charitable with it. Help people that are suffering you b*****d.
Yep. The only difference is in Texas millionaires don't have their luxury homes built in the fire hazard areas, so nobody (read "no journalist") cared.
Texas resident weighing in. A quibble. That was not a forest fire but a grassland fire in a remote rural area. Granted it did destroy a small town in the "Panhandle", but it was not forest. That still doesn't detract from your central point.
I feel exactly the same and have since Trump first emerged with his lies, selling everything under the sun, cheating people and getting away with everything without consequence. It is driving me mad
@@CuriousVelociiraptorwell I guess over the period of Earth's development climate has changed at different rates, now relatively quickly. but we are experiencing in various points in the Earth extremely rapid change, tho we can't really say that for sure without having say 10 or maybe even 100 years of data - but by then it would certainly be too late
The fact that elon thinks he can summarize "the issue with LA" in one condescending sentence, as if countless professionals haven't dedicated their lives to tackle it...the money has completely gone to his head
Elon Musk thinks Texas should have twice the wildfires of California, but he wants to put people on Mars? The guy doesn’t understand how ecosystems work. Scary.
As someone who lives in Northern California, and have dealt with all the big ones the past few years, Tubbs being the worst, I can say there is some truth with the lack of forest management. But specifically with these LA fires, no amount of forest management would have stopped them, the winds were carrying embers 1-3 miles away, fire breaks can't stop that.
Aussie here🇦🇺, we know fires of this magnitude. The firefighters are heroes, and it is impossible to predict and allow for catastrophes like this. Climate changes, whether or not one ascribes it to a greater cycle. Now is the time to learn more about appropriate revegetation and housing when LA rebuilds. There is ample information available with proven successes. Aim for the best instead of the cheapest solution. Blaming others is petty, counter-productive, anti-community, ugly, and provocatively divisive.
A rapidly changing nature is unpredictable and definitely cannot be controlled. In Germany we definitely don't have fires like this, the ones we have look like a nice BBQ fire.
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@@christinac3929 Wow, so helpful. Hey guys, this schmuck from Australia thinks it's petty to call names, that it's counterproductive... That's hilarious. The idiots in the US just voted in to power the biggest name caller and petty fuck the worlds ever seen. Thanks for the advice, now mind your own business. We have enough shit to deal with.
What facts and logic?! Elon Musk is mostly right about this!! Look at what happened there and stop being chauvinistic!! blame those failed incompetent leaders.
Fire breaks with 100 mph winds?...lmao! 8 months with no rain and the Santa Ana (Devil Winds) blowing downhill causing it to spread to into the cities was unique and as a Pasadena resident, I've never seen the wind cause this type of destruction with trees and power lines down (it originated at a main power line in the hills the wind took down). They had to shut off the power to prevent more electrical fires and chances of electrocution. Thankfully the water pumps had emergency backups generators so it kept flowing, not that it mattered with the winds. The Palisades fire was residential and had nothing to do with forests.
It's not just grass and trees that burn. Every house is a huge stockpile of flammable material. The wood, the plastic, the contents. When one goes up in flames it feeds more fuel into the fire.
For some reason the trees didn't burn next to many homes. Not the case in some areas. Water content maybe? The cypress trees were imported from Australia and are very flammable. That was a huge blunder.
No not at all Elon and Vick is just citizens with finance not elected leaders they are hiding behind trump he is the bate on a string on platform lying distraction misinformation fake news trump is getting old each day he knows nothing about nothing not even concept tariffs trying to get Elon to double his empire base and that’s not working out to well if they have to threaten buy and beg people to give up their business they have already failed they r going to fake it to they make it sounds like it
Well thats not true, but yes its one of his tenets. Isn't this also why he attempts to go to Mars. He did write that the climate change was not at fault not that it didn't exist. As I .. sane wash? His statements.
I hope we all know that it doesn't matter who is in the 'top job' because this is a systemic problem -- greed. We have allowed many of our economic sectors, to take advantage of the American people. It's disgusting and frightening for the future of our country. My husband and I will be retiring in the next two years in another country. We are absolutely worried that SSI will no longer be funded. we'll have to rely on his pension, a 403 (b) and a very prolific lnvestment account with Tracy Britt Cool Consulting my FA. Our national debt is bloating and expanding every month. Our government needs to get spending under control and cut the federal budget.
< I know this FA you just mentioned. Tracy Britt Cool is a portfolio manager and investment advisor. She gained recognition as an employee of Berkshire Hattaway; a renowned investor she is. Ms Tracy has demonstrated expertise in investment strategies and has been involved in managing portfolios and providing guidance to clients.
The debt issue is less a spending issue than an income issue. Just think how much the Reagan, Bush and Trump tax cuts + the SS taxes cap have shortened the US finances. This is more than the current debt. Working people did not profit from these tax loopholes, only passive income earners did.
I went from no money to lnvest with to busting my A** off on Uber eats for six months to raise about $30k to start investing with Tracy Britt Cool. I am at $128k right now and LOVING that you have to bring this up here
Please how can I liase with this FA? I am seeking for a very effective investment approach for my savings which gradually depreciates in value due to inflation
There are a handful of experts in the field. I've experimented with a few over the past years, but I've stuck with "Tracy Britt Cool Consulting" for about five years now, and her performance has been consistently impressive. She's quite known in her field, look--her up.
Texas had the biggest wild fire in its history last year. More than one million acres burned. You probably never heard about it because it's all ranch land. No one lives there. Wild fires have increased dramatically in TX due to climate change. Luckily they have not burbed aby major population center. Yet.
I remember that here in California. We sent help if I recall lots of equipment. It’s good to know that Republicans and Democrat governors will still talk to each other, but I wonder how long that will last? This country is screwed if we ever get to that point and we’re not even trying to void it it seems.
Enron Musk hasn't discovered anything. His employees have slightly optimized certain things, that's all. In just a few years, Chinese manufacturers have surpassed Tesla in every way.
@@punkagrrlzero and he knows that. tesla will turn out to be a pump and dump for his space-faring/asteroid mining plans. sponsored by the tax payer, at that.
Texas resident weighing in, and a geography geek besides. Texas forests get a lot more rainfall than California ones (its east half is average-to-quite humid, contrary to popular desert myths). Texas, unlike CA, does not have strong dry and wet seasons. The *more or less even* distribution of rainfall mitigates against fires here. Also, barring the "trans-Pecos" area, Texas does not have mountains that act to intensify and dry the winds moving downslope on the leeward side. That also prevents deprivation of air moisture, the very factors behind what makes the Santa Ana winds so hot and dry. All this means is that Texas - at least its eastern half - is a lot more like eastern forests than West Coast ones. Elon is safely ignorable in matters of substantive fact.
Not a ton of big mountain ranges in TX, I think El Paso has a few peaks, right? Fighting a fire on a mountain sucks compared to 'flat' TX land, I'd think.
I used to be in awe of Musk. Not so much now, as i think he has lost the plot. So much so that I guess i don't put too much relevance in what he has to say these days.
For his business acumen? Or his taking credit for literal thousands of people and movement that made the tech possible. I can't abide credit stealers sorry. He might have sone claim to have raised the profile for EVs, but we literally has grass roots and activists, scientists, researchers , engineers and even country's working for decades to be in the position that it was possible at all and the ideas and visions comes from them not Elon Musk. Being in the loop of alt energy tech. Working with people and reading from the vast effort to bring it forth. Makes me livid when one person STEALS, that credit, mostly because of his money. Those of us that were aware before Elon musk became known, knows how wrong that is! Elon Musks public profile and perception, buries all the other work. Who made space cool, NASA and enthusiast and other space programs, why do we have an almost monopoly that is financed via tax money's. Let's not even talk about how the inventors, visionaries and those doing the hard work oh and those that also founded and envisioned this, was not Elon Musk, those busy with thinking and innovating was pushed out by the money man.
When he did ever say anything of relevance?? He's a narcissist with a fantasy defence...his most impressive ideas for humanity never materialized whatsoever, more often they proved to be silly. He's not even as 'relevent' as jordan peterson and that is saying a heck of a lot!! :)
California is near the ocean just like the states recently hit by hurricanes. So the hurricane damage is a result of mismanagement on a state, county and city level
The federal government owns about 58% of California's forestlands The state owns about 3% of California's forestlands The remaining 40% of California's forestlands are privately owned
The leaves are meant to fall, provide mulching and fertilizer for the soil, provide a habitat for millions of little critters that pollinate plants, prevent water run-off... I am very concerned about the standard of education in the US.
Should be noted the pine cones from the trees in bc (canadas west coast) dont open up or seed until they've been exposed to extreme heat/fire. The west coast is so prone to forest fires going back far enough that the trees have evolved to this issue. Not saying climate change isn't real, just that the west coast rocky mountains can have an incredibly dry and hot enviroment
In texas in 2024 weve had thousands of wildfires that burned millions of acres. West Texas doesnt have the population density of Southern California but climate change hits us too
Someone needs to show Elon Musk a map of federal lands in both California and Texas. All those forests in Texas are either locally owned or privately owned. Meanwhile, over 1/3 of California is owned by the US government. The close proximity between homes and forests are because nearly 1/2 of the state is either mountain, farmland and desert.
Elon is not a 'real American' like other immigrants that earned it and actually care about the US and its future. Elon has FU money, and he has two other passports he can grift off of.
With Musk having roots in SA and Zambia, he should know there’s been historic drought here in Zambia, so much so that the hydropower on which Zambia relies, is operating under 10% capacity from the Kariba Dam which is virtually a dry bed because of lack of rains over the last 20 months. Maize crops are devastated. And a major city like Lusaka, 3.5 million people, has 2-3 hours of power per day to conserve electricity. This is all because of climate change. I thought Elon was a genius. An average Zambian knows more than he does about the state of the world.
Except this was actually to be blamed on Texas' gross missmanagement of having their electric gris entirely private and separate from the rest of the country.
Maybe the fact that a lot of the forest in Texas gets over 50 inches of annual rainfall, while most of the forest in California gets less than 15 inches of rainfall. 3x more rain for Texas forests does not mean 3x fewer fires. it's more like 30x fewer fires. Or 100x fewer fires. Texas forests receive enough rain to not be "dry" and therefore are very hard to set on fire. California forests do not receive enough rain and are therefore "dry" and very easy to set on fire.
I love how everyone is now an expert in climate change and California fire ecology. I work in fire mitigation as a professional arborist in the field, in California every day. I’m very in tune with the state plant communities, and while California is definitely feeling the effects of climate change and it IS increasing the severity of fires, these monster blazes are directly the result of over a century of failure in management. Our state is unique in the way that every major plant community in California is heavily influenced by the traditional FRI (Fire return interval). We have “successfully” flipped every communities FRI, so areas that would burn BIANNUALLY now burn once a decade or haven’t burned in decades, and areas that burn in the 75-150years category(like chaparral, in socal) are now burning much more frequently due to invasive grasses continuously encroaching on the chaparral. I could speak for hours and hours on this, but TLDR, climate change is exacerbating the effects of our failure to protect California’s deep connections with fire, ask the tribes of California, they’ll gladly tell you all about it.
Did not Canada have a horrendous fire not to long ago. I live near Detroit and we actually had the smoke from that fire. You could see it, smell it & taste it. Not blaming Canada.
And the reason it doesn't is because (a) it lacks moutains, barring the far western part in the Big Bend area and El Paso, and (b) it doesn't have wet and dry seasons like CA does. Also, some tree species are more fire-prone than others.
Doesn't California have Eucalypt trees as well, which have volatile oils in their leaves and are known to be very prone to spontaneous combustion? We have a whole country full of gum trees in Australia which are one of the many reasons we have loads of bushfires.
I heard talk of that. It was said that there were different species of eucalyptus trees that are not native to California introduced over the last couple of decades. 🇨🇦 here so I don’t know much about eucalyptus.
Most of the fires that burned most fiercely are in canyons and surrounded by steep cliffs. These are almost impossible to clear of brush and undergrowth, or to defend from fire. The Washington Post did a full report on the reasons why California burned. Or, more to the point, why those specific areas caught fire.
@@wesleywashington1251you comment doesn't make sense to me. With 60-100 mph winds, embers can travel miles and set other areas on fire regardless if it housing or forest.
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Why? While Texas does have more forested land than California, the disparity in wildfire frequency and severity arises from several key differences in climate, vegetation, and management practices: 1. Climate and Weather Patterns • California: The state has a Mediterranean climate with hot, dry summers and periodic Santa Ana winds that rapidly spread fires. Prolonged droughts and high temperatures further exacerbate the risk of wildfires. • Texas: While Texas is prone to drought, much of its forested land is in the wetter eastern region of the state, which receives more rainfall and experiences higher humidity, reducing fire risk. Wildfire-prone areas in Texas tend to be more in the drier central and western regions, which lack the dense forest cover found in California. 2. Vegetation Types • California: Forests in California, particularly in the Sierra Nevada and coastal ranges, are dense and include many fire-prone species such as pine and chaparral, which contain oils and resins that ignite easily. • Texas: Forests in Texas, especially in the eastern Piney Woods, consist of species like loblolly pine, which are less fire-prone, and the vegetation tends to be less dense overall. Moreover, there is less accumulation of dry, combustible underbrush in some areas compared to California. 3. Topography • California: Its mountainous terrain creates wind funnels and steep slopes that accelerate fire spread. Fires can move uphill rapidly, gaining speed and intensity. • Texas: The terrain in Texas is generally flatter, particularly in the eastern forested regions, which makes fires easier to contain and less likely to spread quickly. 4. Seasonality and Human Factors • California: The state experiences longer and more intense fire seasons due to climate change. Human activity, such as power line failures, campfires, and urban-wildland interface development, further increases the likelihood of wildfires. • Texas: While Texas does experience wildfires, they tend to be smaller and less frequent in the eastern forests due to shorter dry seasons and more regular rainfall. The human population density near forested areas in Texas is generally lower than in many of California’s fire-prone regions. In summary, the combination of a wetter climate, less fire-prone vegetation, flatter terrain explains why it experiences fewer and less severe wildfires compared to California, despite having more forested land overall.
Well said Would like to say just because you are a billionaire does not make you smart. Elon musk , I have never seen someone so insecure about intelligence than Elon musk
In 2023, California reported 7,364 while Texas reported 7,102 wildfires. California’s landscape is dominated by chaparral, grasslands, and coniferous forests, which are highly flammable. Texas forests often have more fire-resistant hardwoods and pine species, which burn less readily. California’s mountainous terrain allows fires to spread rapidly uphill, driven by wind. Texas has more flatlands, which generally slow the spread of fires. Elon has money but no cents.
When I was a teenager, I would say things like that because I would read it on the internet and profess to be an expert. Many years later now, I realize just how complicated the world is and that there are many more factors involved. I outgrew it, Apartheid Clyde did not...
“Establishment Pakman” to the rescue! Take up for the stupid mistakes of the Californian mismanagement of the state with no accountability. If California subsidizes the rest of the country like u say, then why is fed govt jumping in?
It is the winds that reverse and come off the desert unlike the usual onshore winds that have humidity. these use to be fall only and over by Thanksgiving and rain came. now they are still coming in January and we have had no rain. I am old and born here my family came in the 19th century so I am well aware of how things get worse every year the last 15 or so. Before a news caster renamed them Santa Ana Winds they were called Santa winds or devil winds. no humidity and they spread the fire so fast and dry things out making fighting near imposable. It is different in Texas. and different than 20 years ago. They come later and the droughts are moor sever. wind and dry are a bad combination.
He’s not intelligent 😂 please stop giving him so much credit. He’s average at best. He hasn’t built or invented anything, he just slaps his name on things that already exist. He hasn’t become wealthy on his own, his DADDY is super wealthy 😂
The reason everything in LA is so dry is climate change. Year after year, we face record-breaking heat during the summer - this is not natural. The primary drivers are clear: internal combustion engine cars, excessive meat consumption, frequent flying, and overconsumption of unnecessary goods. Yes, mistakes were made in managing water and handling wildfires, but these aren't the root causes. You're focusing on firefighting errors instead of asking why these fires reach such catastrophic levels. That’s a harder conversation, isn’t it? It requires looking in the mirror and recognizing how personal choices contribute to the crisis. Insisting on "freedom" to drive endlessly, consume animal products, fly frequently, and overpopulate fuels the problem. It’s time to confront that hypocrisy and take responsibility by changing your actions.
LA Times reported: "... the Santa Ynez Reservoir had been closed since about February for repairs to its cover, leaving a 117-million-gallon water storage complex empty in the heart of the Palisades for nearly a year." So taking nearly a year to repair a cover and leaving the storage empty during wildfire season is not mismanagement?
AND MOST CALIF FOREST LAND IS ACTUALLY ON FEDERALLY MANAGED FOREST LANDS AS THEY'RE FEDERAL AND THE FEDS ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR IT. I don't know which of these fires fit in there nor hiw
All Musk has ever done is raise money or invest in existing companies. Yet people think he’s somehow an expert about everything when he’s actually a bit of a dolt who just lucked into things.
Weh-Weh-Weh-Well Hurricanes start as storms in West Africa! Then move over the ocean to become hurricanes. West Africa has Black people living there. Never mind that I can't explain how black skin is supposed to make the West African Disturbance Line (tech term for them) worse! They start in an area with Black people, and so the skin color *just has to* make the storms worse /s
Re:EVs---my husband worked on one of the original projects long before EVs became "a thing". The problem wasnt the automakers, legacy or not.....the problem was the government would've help address infrastructure....
At least northern Texas and probably most of it is flat. He doesn't understand the issue of the mountainous issues of pumping water to much higher elevated dry areas and high winds in southern and northern California.
Exactly. I'm in North Texas, a geography geek, and can vouch for you. IN addition to what you said, there's the climate itself. Texas does not have *strong* seasonal differences in dryness. More evenly distributed moisture throughout the year mitigates against the dryness that causes fires.
First, I'm a critical thinker and extremely progressive. David, you are the only progressive media outlet that actually says the truth about Elon Musk. Yes, Elon Musk has turned into a right wing lunatic. However, he has arguably done more than any three countries in transitioning in the world to sustainable energy, an extremely Progressive mission. Thank you for focusing on truth, rather than trying to support a particular narrative, like apparently every other Progressive media source that talks about Elon Musk.
Has he "arguably done more" than 3 countries in transitioning to sustainable energy? Of course not. How can you possibly make such a patently untrue statement? His company makes batteries and evs, nothing that other companies weren't doing lately before he came on the scene. Solar, wind and hydro, to name 3, were gaining status across the globe as major renewable sources before Tesla and Musk.
I'm compelled to point out that a giga-billionaire would be not a trillionaire, nor a quadrillionaire, but a quintillionaire. Let's please keep that from actually happening.
I live in a flame zone near a National Park outside Sydney, Australia. When the fires are on the ground, they're fairly easy to stop with back burning on the bush floor. But once they're up in the treetops with the winds .... It's horrifying! One village near me lost 200 houses in 2013 because one front rushed through the tree tops with a heavy wind. I'm hoping for rain in LA, but there's nothing on the forecasts :-(
I live in CO and most of our fires are from people being irresponsible with fire. In my hometown, we had a devastating wildfire a few years back because an asshole gun owner. He was at a shooting range using illegal ammo that exploded when it hit its target. The target ignited and we lost hundreds of acres, millions of dollars in structures, and how many animals lost their homes and were killed. They were only fined a few thousand dollars in court. In this case, we can blame a gun owner. I wonder how the Republicans would twist the blame in that scenario.
Raking forests would lead to a loss of ground moisture, resulting in trees and bushes dying more quickly during drought, resulting in more fuel to burn and erosion of top soil
*So far death toII 33. Negligence and mismanagement was NOT discard in VIC. Australia but every wrong WOKE (green) policy was discharge and replace with the "old" common sense policies.*
People who know nothing about what they are talking about should stop. The fires and how to put them out is more important right now. The 'know it alls' should wait until after the fires are out and the experts have had a chance to investigate the reasons for this catastrophe even happened! Right now, these overly rich persons should put money into the pot to help the problem, instead of looking like idiots.
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WAIT WAIT WAIT!! I'm a retired electronic engineer, Leon doesn't know shit about technology. He never worked as an engineer, never designed anything. He is a more toxic version of Steve Jobs. He got rich off the work of people like Steve Wozniak
Jobs at least did work with Wozniak, and knew which designs to promote and which to bin - mostly.
Yes Jobs was a horrible man whose beliefs eventually led to his death, but he did make a success of Apple. Wozniak on his own would have been just another 6502 computer designer.
Trump and Musk are American cultural icons, and people adore and look up to the big American style, just like people looked up to and adored the British when they ruled the seas. Every culture has or had its iconoclasts-Italy had Leonardo da Vinci. Germany had Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. India had Buddha. France had Voltaire.
We should also learn to applaud those who choose the big American style, even if we have decided not to live so large ourselves. For example, my neighbor recently purchased a brand new 2025 Cadillac Escalade gimme gimme mobile. Instead of knocking her for it, I decided to go next door and congratulate her for her smart shopping decision. She told me that Santa said that she needed to treat herself to something special this holiday season, especially after having recently divorced her husband of 8 years. However, her psychic told her to wait on the botox injections and tummy tuck. The conversation was brief, yet very enlightening. I was extremely surprised when she ended the conversation by telling me that if only more of our people bought such grand and sturdy automobiles, then, maybe we would be able to end our reliance on mid-east oil. I was very surprised because it is a rare thing to hear a fellow citizen make such an astute and accurate political observation.
Anywho, I went back to my retrofitted Winnebago with solar panel and wind turbine and cranked up the old black and white Sony tv with rabbit ears to see if I could catch a rerun of "Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous". Soon after, I faded into the land of nod and had a very vivid dream where I met with our Elon in D.C. and he offered to equip my outhouse with his Tesla rockets at a 25 percent shoppers' discount and shoot me into outer space!
Elon's degree is in economics. Elon is a good con artist salesman and not a scientist.
@@JamesLee-yw8hk Did Mushy even finish college?
Elon is like jobs a visionary. Both put the pieces together, created the essence behind their products. You can hate Elon, have it blind you to his business acumen, but that’s true. Other than that, Elon is no genius, no intellectual and has no emotional IQ. Being good in one area doesn’t make you a genius in all areas
Elon Musk should explain why Texas has the only electricity grid in the US that never works during snowstorms.
He’s a billionaire and you’re not for a reason. 🧠
@@teeminator30 Correct. We can't all inherit wealth and connections.
@@teeminator30 LOL definitely not his brains
@Nina_Fio When 1 million Chinese built Tesla EVs, plug in to recharge, you get electricity supply problems.
@@RichTex-e6d This has been happening since the deregulation of the state's electric grid. It has nothing to do with EVs. Because of deregulation, you have an infinite number of "electric companies," but none of these companies maintain the infrastructure. Every time the grid goes down, more than 13 states have to send in their professionals to get it back up.
Science is a tough one for most Republicans.
So is geography beyond the mere "point to Colorado on a map" and "What's the capital of Poland?" questions.
I learned what makes So. Cal. so dry in - granted an upper division level undergrad geography class.
Even so, the average degreed person should know that in every topic, there's always more than meets the eye.
It's one think for people without four year degrees not to notice, But otherwise? smh
My Dad, with a HS ed, never read Socrates, but always said "to know that you don't know, is the first step toward knowledge."
Religion taught them to ignore it.
Also for "progressives", both cults are retarded
That's why they want it banned in schools
Elon is the definition of "Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt"
He was in a position where everyone used to think he was smart, then he got Twitter...
When he was silent everybody thought he was a genius. Not any more.
@@thebananamonkisn't Twitter the #1 app to download?
Yeah you're clearly much smarter than him@@petergibson2318
"Better to remain silent and be thought a genius, than to speak and shatter the myth"
Mainly Musk farts, smells it, then tries to blame it on someone else. This is how we govern now.
is that why his lip never moves? 😂
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God bless America 🇺🇸 ❤
Trump. Musk. Two people named after stinkers.
underrated comment
@burchifiedHis lips never moves because he talks with his a$$hole.
The world is going to die with these people in charge.
That is trump’s plan!
Yes its the end of the West for sure.
@woodliceworm4565 global warming. I'm prepared but I need a larger population to nourish knowledge for myself and family. This is unnecessary and bad.
Human life has become a disease. There are too many of us producing far too much waste, including excrement.
Mother Nature will rectify the situation. Maybe within a few years. Who knows ?
It is dying under Biden this is still under Biden so
Let’s remember the mismanagement when Florida gets hit with hurricanes and floods.
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First of all, why are they all living so close to the water? 🤷🏻♂️🤣🫰🏼
@@nelsonmira4884 that is dumb. You cannot prevent a hurricane, but you can prevent forest fires.
Let's also remember the mismanagement in the 2021, when Texas failed to address their power grid issues, blamed the outages on renewable energy while nearly 300 people died, and Turd Cruz absconded to Cancun because he couldn't deal with the cold.
@@TW-SB You can prevent some forest fires. The recent CA wildfires, fueled by unprecedented windstorms were also probably preventable if policymakers took anthropogenic climate change seriously.
If Ego Musk wanted to really help, he could donate some of his money instead of just shooting off his mouth.
YES INDEED 👍
Or make some school for the less wealthy, or an hispital, or clean the sea, or, or.... so many things to do, but ya, doesnt make money, so who care huh, these people are soooooo hypocrite.
I was agnostic about these billionaires until they started getting obnoxious now I think we need a new tax scheme to keep them from turning into trillionaires. If you think they’re bad now just wait.
Exactly. All he does is buy the presidency for trump and is trying to buy the overthrowing of governments in other countries. He has so much money that he thinks he can do anything. Then do something charitable with it. Help people that are suffering you b*****d.
Really depends on who he is trying to help.
Elon is also forgetting that Texas had the biggest wild fires in modern history in February 2024 that burnt over a million acres
Yep. The only difference is in Texas millionaires don't have their luxury homes built in the fire hazard areas, so nobody (read "no journalist") cared.
I had forgotten that.
the population density is much lower as well.
Texas resident weighing in. A quibble. That was not a forest fire but a grassland fire in a remote rural area. Granted it did destroy a small town in the "Panhandle", but it was not forest. That still doesn't detract from your central point.
@@filrabat1965 Well why didn't someone mow that 1,000,000 acres then??
No firebreak can stop embers being blown around with cyclonic winds
And how would they put fire break in the backyard
Especially when the embers are as big as a human head and are flying up and down the hills at 70-to 100 mph.....get real and stop the blame game
This is a dystopian nightmare
4yrs
Will be cruel and inhumane
If things go to their plan, it won't just be 4 years (and no, I'm not talking about another 4 years of a Trump presidency)
I feel exactly the same and have since Trump first emerged with his lies, selling everything under the sun, cheating people and getting away with everything without consequence. It is driving me mad
It won’t go their way
We are ending their dystopian nightmare that is the Biden administration.
and likely fatal to the long term viability of this country's constitutional republic.
If climate change is unreal, why buy a Tesla LOL
Great point 😂
Logic is not a thing in MAGA world.
Musk didn't say climate change is unreal. He literally said in the tweet: "Climate change is happening, but slowly."
@@CuriousVelociiraptorwell I guess over the period of Earth's development climate has changed at different rates, now relatively quickly. but we are experiencing in various points in the Earth extremely rapid change, tho we can't really say that for sure without having say 10 or maybe even 100 years of data - but by then it would certainly be too late
Super great statement
Elon Musk is so dense light bends around him.
OH MY GOODNESS THAT IS RICH!!!!!🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂
😂😂😂
🤣😂😆😅 what an idiot with an incredibly inflated sense of self importance. 🤡
Elon is like a child with a good imagination. That's why instead of considering the human condition, he plays with rockets.
😂😂😂
The fact that elon thinks he can summarize "the issue with LA" in one condescending sentence, as if countless professionals haven't dedicated their lives to tackle it...the money has completely gone to his head
@@kuruptzZz but dont forget who is listening to this guy, people that take easy answer, coz its hard for them to think more deeply.
It's mostly ego and ketamine at this point.
Imo Elon is the living example of “born on third thinks he hit a triple”. Now he thinks he invented baseball 🙃
Is that why he refuses to donate a single penny to help our state? Because politics? God, he's a wet turd.
Because he's scared of the Trans.
He's worse, he is that thing when turd is vomited up.
it's the ketamine
Prob a few others too
Exactly!
😆
@@lizsinger6865 It's the tiny, smooth brain of his.
skuM has long been disconnected from reality. He is not intelligent nor does he have any emotional or social intelligence.
Elon Musk thinks Texas should have twice the wildfires of California, but he wants to put people on Mars? The guy doesn’t understand how ecosystems work.
Scary.
As someone who lives in Northern California, and have dealt with all the big ones the past few years, Tubbs being the worst, I can say there is some truth with the lack of forest management. But specifically with these LA fires, no amount of forest management would have stopped them, the winds were carrying embers 1-3 miles away, fire breaks can't stop that.
The city doesn’t have forests they’ve cut them down. Musk and chump are morons
Aussie here🇦🇺, we know fires of this magnitude. The firefighters are heroes, and it is impossible to predict and allow for catastrophes like this. Climate changes, whether or not one ascribes it to a greater cycle. Now is the time to learn more about appropriate revegetation and housing when LA rebuilds. There is ample information available with proven successes. Aim for the best instead of the cheapest solution. Blaming others is petty, counter-productive, anti-community, ugly, and provocatively divisive.
...and the fires were/are in residential areas NOT in a 'forest'.
A rapidly changing nature is unpredictable and definitely cannot be controlled. In Germany we definitely don't have fires like this, the ones we have look like a nice BBQ fire.
@@christinac3929 Wow, so helpful. Hey guys, this schmuck from Australia thinks it's petty to call names, that it's counterproductive... That's hilarious. The idiots in the US just voted in to power the biggest name caller and petty fuck the worlds ever seen. Thanks for the advice, now mind your own business. We have enough shit to deal with.
How dare he say that. Pure evil.
Now David, you are using facts and logic, that’s not going to persuade President Elon or First Lady Donald.
😂
What facts and logic?!
Elon Musk is mostly right about this!! Look at what happened there and stop being chauvinistic!! blame those failed incompetent leaders.
Hey, at least MAGA is finally woke enough to have two daddies.
If Kamala won it would been President Cuban. Democrats had no issues with Mark Cuban.
@@desdenova1Daddy and mommy.😂😂😂
Fire breaks with 100 mph winds?...lmao! 8 months with no rain and the Santa Ana (Devil Winds) blowing downhill causing it to spread to into the cities was unique and as a Pasadena resident, I've never seen the wind cause this type of destruction with trees and power lines down (it originated at a main power line in the hills the wind took down). They had to shut off the power to prevent more electrical fires and chances of electrocution. Thankfully the water pumps had emergency backups generators so it kept flowing, not that it mattered with the winds. The Palisades fire was residential and had nothing to do with forests.
When did Musk ever let sense get in his way?
It's not just grass and trees that burn. Every house is a huge stockpile of flammable material. The wood, the plastic, the contents. When one goes up in flames it feeds more fuel into the fire.
Same with cars across car-heavy LA. They’re like mini bombs.
And most Californian homes are built with light weight materials due to earthquake risk. Most of these lightweight materials are flammable.
For some reason the trees didn't burn next to many homes. Not the case in some areas. Water content maybe? The cypress trees were imported from Australia and are very flammable. That was a huge blunder.
Well send our Canadian lumber to help rebuild. Oh wait? Conold says America doesn't need our goods?
@@4-Methylaminor3xFDJT
The need for electric vehicles becomes zero if climate change isn’t real. Has Elon even stopped to think for a moment?
No not at all Elon and Vick is just citizens with finance not elected leaders they are hiding behind trump he is the bate on a string on platform lying distraction misinformation fake news trump is getting old each day he knows nothing about nothing not even concept tariffs trying to get Elon to double his empire base and that’s not working out to well if they have to threaten buy and beg people to give up their business they have already failed they r going to fake it to they make it sounds like it
He's the dumbest genius I've ever heard of.
Respect was high for him when he first came out. Quickly dropped year by year.
Well thats not true, but yes its one of his tenets.
Isn't this also why he attempts to go to Mars.
He did write that the climate change was not at fault not that it didn't exist.
As I .. sane wash?
His statements.
I think he's drunk on power and is losing self-control daily.
I hope we all know that it doesn't matter who is in the 'top job' because this is a systemic problem -- greed. We have allowed many of our economic sectors, to take advantage of the American people. It's disgusting and frightening for the future of our country. My husband and I will be retiring in the next two years in another country. We are absolutely worried that SSI will no longer be funded. we'll have to rely on his pension, a 403 (b) and a very prolific lnvestment account with Tracy Britt Cool Consulting my FA. Our national debt is bloating and expanding every month. Our government needs to get spending under control and cut the federal budget.
< I know this FA you just mentioned. Tracy Britt Cool is a portfolio manager and investment advisor. She gained recognition as an employee of Berkshire Hattaway; a renowned investor she is. Ms Tracy has demonstrated expertise in investment strategies and has been involved in managing portfolios and providing guidance to clients.
The debt issue is less a spending issue than an income issue. Just think how much the Reagan, Bush and Trump tax cuts + the SS taxes cap have shortened the US finances. This is more than the current debt. Working people did not profit from these tax loopholes, only passive income earners did.
I went from no money to lnvest with to busting my A** off on Uber eats for six months to raise about $30k to start investing with Tracy Britt Cool. I am at $128k right now and LOVING that you have to bring this up here
Please how can I liase with this FA? I am seeking for a very effective investment approach for my savings which gradually depreciates in value due to inflation
There are a handful of experts in the field. I've experimented with a few over the past years, but I've stuck with "Tracy Britt Cool Consulting" for about five years now, and her performance has been consistently impressive. She's quite known in her field, look--her up.
This is beyond disgraceful by Elon
Texas had the biggest wild fire in its history last year. More than one million acres burned. You probably never heard about it because it's all ranch land. No one lives there.
Wild fires have increased dramatically in TX due to climate change. Luckily they have not burbed aby major population center. Yet.
Remember the 2011 fires in Texas - a big forest fire east of Austin and several west and central Texas grassland fires?
Blue states should refuse to help any red state when a disaster happens.
Who was to blame during the Texas power failures that killed 47 people. The one were Ted Cruz fled to Mexico
I remember that here in California. We sent help if I recall lots of equipment. It’s good to know that Republicans and Democrat governors will still talk to each other, but I wonder how long that will last? This country is screwed if we ever get to that point and we’re not even trying to void it it seems.
In 1938 38 million acres burned across the US
It seems that Elon knows just about as much about wildfires as he knows about constructing an EV truck.
The muskrats still think he is smart,
Enron Musk hasn't discovered anything. His employees have slightly optimized certain things, that's all. In just a few years, Chinese manufacturers have surpassed Tesla in every way.
Like waaaaaaay surpassed.
@@punkagrrlzero and he knows that. tesla will turn out to be a pump and dump for his space-faring/asteroid mining plans. sponsored by the tax payer, at that.
@@punkagrrlzeroI watched a video on Chinese EV’s & other new developments & was impressed.
they will probably catch up to spacex as well.
@@ThatOpalGuy How do you know they haven't?
OMG, David. When you told me what Elon said about TX, I spit out my coffee!
When LA has blizzards I'll care what Elon thinks
He will blame Dems!
Musk does not think, He has no science knowledge.
Elon should pay people to think for him like he pays people to boost his videogame characters.
Texas resident weighing in, and a geography geek besides. Texas forests get a lot more rainfall than California ones (its east half is average-to-quite humid, contrary to popular desert myths). Texas, unlike CA, does not have strong dry and wet seasons. The *more or less even* distribution of rainfall mitigates against fires here. Also, barring the "trans-Pecos" area, Texas does not have mountains that act to intensify and dry the winds moving downslope on the leeward side. That also prevents deprivation of air moisture, the very factors behind what makes the Santa Ana winds so hot and dry. All this means is that Texas - at least its eastern half - is a lot more like eastern forests than West Coast ones. Elon is safely ignorable in matters of substantive fact.
The terrain is also easier for firefighters to move around and reach the fires. So it's easier for them to fight the fires.
Not a ton of big mountain ranges in TX, I think El Paso has a few peaks, right? Fighting a fire on a mountain sucks compared to 'flat' TX land, I'd think.
How many 100 mph winds does Texas have?
It does have them, but they're usually accompanied by torrential rains.
@@ericlipps9459 or tornados
When Abbott, Musk, and Cruz stand shoulder to shoulder in a row?
Tornado season
Depends if the orange felon has been eating beans, He is called "trump" after all! 🌬
errr ... Texas has about a billion times more tornadoes than California ... and no one is talking about that!
Outrageous. Why don't they invest in wind-management?
Must be the Dems causing those too. Republicans are so stupid
@@TheMAmeph😂😂 good one
I used to be in awe of Musk. Not so much now, as i think he has lost the plot. So much so that I guess i don't put too much relevance in what he has to say these days.
..and you leave that Phenomenon for this drivel?
For his business acumen?
Or his taking credit for literal thousands of people and movement that made the tech possible.
I can't abide credit stealers sorry.
He might have sone claim to have raised the profile for EVs, but we literally has grass roots and activists, scientists, researchers , engineers and even country's working for decades to be in the position that it was possible at all and the ideas and visions comes from them not Elon Musk.
Being in the loop of alt energy tech.
Working with people and reading from the vast effort to bring it forth. Makes me livid when one person STEALS, that credit, mostly because of his money.
Those of us that were aware before Elon musk became known, knows how wrong that is!
Elon Musks public profile and perception, buries all the other work.
Who made space cool, NASA and enthusiast and other space programs, why do we have an almost monopoly that is financed via tax money's.
Let's not even talk about how the inventors, visionaries and those doing the hard work oh and those that also founded and envisioned this, was not Elon Musk, those busy with thinking and innovating was pushed out by the money man.
When he did ever say anything of relevance?? He's a narcissist with a fantasy defence...his most impressive ideas for humanity never materialized whatsoever, more often they proved to be silly. He's not even as 'relevent' as jordan peterson and that is saying a heck of a lot!! :)
I used to kinda like him before his TDS (Trump Devotion Syndrome) kicked in.
They will NOT have to worry about wild Fires on Mars..
fires on mars seem to completely under control.....
Yes, please go elon and take bozo with you!
So they should go there NOW
Is it time for we the people to encourage their departure?
@@MrNice-gw5dt due to almost zero oxygen, Elon's a genius, LOL.
California is near the ocean just like the states recently hit by hurricanes. So the hurricane damage is a result of mismanagement on a state, county and city level
cultspeak
The federal government owns about 58% of California's forestlands
The state owns about 3% of California's forestlands
The remaining 40% of California's forestlands are privately owned
I wonder where we're going to find thousands of people to rake our forests for next to nothing. Hmmm.
would could increase immigration south of the border to help mitigate this issue, LOL. Just spitballing.
The leaves are meant to fall, provide mulching and fertilizer for the soil, provide a habitat for millions of little critters that pollinate plants, prevent water run-off...
I am very concerned about the standard of education in the US.
Elon should now give his insight into why Texas seems to be the only power grid in America that can never stay on during a snowstorm…
Yessss, THIS!!!!
As someone who lives in Minnesota, hell yeah!
Lesbian electrons.
@@Yeoldelole yah and not much better out here in Colorado winter is a bitch
@@Sharp931You KNOW that’s the name of someone’s next punk band. 😂 Lesbian Electrons. That’s so awesome.
Should be noted the pine cones from the trees in bc (canadas west coast) dont open up or seed until they've been exposed to extreme heat/fire. The west coast is so prone to forest fires going back far enough that the trees have evolved to this issue. Not saying climate change isn't real, just that the west coast rocky mountains can have an incredibly dry and hot enviroment
In texas in 2024 weve had thousands of wildfires that burned millions of acres. West Texas doesnt have the population density of Southern California but climate change hits us too
Someone needs to show Elon Musk a map of federal lands in both California and Texas. All those forests in Texas are either locally owned or privately owned. Meanwhile, over 1/3 of California is owned by the US government. The close proximity between homes and forests are because nearly 1/2 of the state is either mountain, farmland and desert.
Elon is not a 'real American' like other immigrants that earned it and actually care about the US and its future. Elon has FU money, and he has two other passports he can grift off of.
Elon is a "Bad Hombre" in trump's words.
Very well put, David. Everything you said, 100% agree. From 🇨🇦 🍁 🇨🇦 now dealing with convicted Orange-Man Trump 2.0😢
With Musk having roots in SA and Zambia, he should know there’s been historic drought here in Zambia, so much so that the hydropower on which Zambia relies, is operating under 10% capacity from the Kariba Dam which is virtually a dry bed because of lack of rains over the last 20 months. Maize crops are devastated. And a major city like Lusaka, 3.5 million people, has 2-3 hours of power per day to conserve electricity. This is all because of climate change. I thought Elon was a genius. An average Zambian knows more than he does about the state of the world.
He speaks to us from his Bully pulpit of Billions. Who is he but nothing without his money?
He is showing you!
Texas just had a nice snow storm and had power problems. Each to their own dilemma !
Except this was actually to be blamed on Texas' gross missmanagement of having their electric gris entirely private and separate from the rest of the country.
Maybe the fact that a lot of the forest in Texas gets over 50 inches of annual rainfall, while most of the forest in California gets less than 15 inches of rainfall.
3x more rain for Texas forests does not mean 3x fewer fires.
it's more like 30x fewer fires. Or 100x fewer fires.
Texas forests receive enough rain to not be "dry" and therefore are very hard to set on fire.
California forests do not receive enough rain and are therefore "dry" and very easy to set on fire.
XCRETIAN.. LOVE IT DAVID !!
I love how everyone is now an expert in climate change and California fire ecology. I work in fire mitigation as a professional arborist in the field, in California every day. I’m very in tune with the state plant communities, and while California is definitely feeling the effects of climate change and it IS increasing the severity of fires, these monster blazes are directly the result of over a century of failure in management. Our state is unique in the way that every major plant community in California is heavily influenced by the traditional FRI (Fire return interval). We have “successfully” flipped every communities FRI, so areas that would burn BIANNUALLY now burn once a decade or haven’t burned in decades, and areas that burn in the 75-150years category(like chaparral, in socal) are now burning much more frequently due to invasive grasses continuously encroaching on the chaparral. I could speak for hours and hours on this, but TLDR, climate change is exacerbating the effects of our failure to protect California’s deep connections with fire, ask the tribes of California, they’ll gladly tell you all about it.
You just don’t understand this Stable Genius.
Did not Canada have a horrendous fire not to long ago. I live near Detroit and we actually had the smoke from that fire. You could see it, smell it & taste it. Not blaming Canada.
Texas doesn't have the Santa Ana winds. 🙄
And the reason it doesn't is because (a) it lacks moutains, barring the far western part in the Big Bend area and El Paso, and (b) it doesn't have wet and dry seasons like CA does. Also, some tree species are more fire-prone than others.
although Tejas does have a bunch of blowhards in office. kpax, abbott, cruz. 😷
I've been through Texas and it's f-ing big but the forests aren't as dense as they are in California.
Doesn't California have Eucalypt trees as well, which have volatile oils in their leaves and are known to be very prone to spontaneous combustion? We have a whole country full of gum trees in Australia which are one of the many reasons we have loads of bushfires.
I heard talk of that. It was said that there were different species of eucalyptus trees that are not native to California introduced over the last couple of decades. 🇨🇦 here so I don’t know much about eucalyptus.
A lot of eucalyptus trees have been planted here in Portugal, where major wildfires have occurred in recent years.
Most of the fires that burned most fiercely are in canyons and surrounded by steep cliffs. These are almost impossible to clear of brush and undergrowth, or to defend from fire. The Washington Post did a full report on the reasons why California burned. Or, more to the point, why those specific areas caught fire.
If that was true the fires wouldn't have spread so easily.
@@wesleywashington1251 The annual Santa Ana winds make spreading a fire super easy. You are as misinformed as Leon.
@@wesleywashington1251you comment doesn't make sense to me. With 60-100 mph winds, embers can travel miles and set other areas on fire regardless if it housing or forest.
@@wesleywashington1251 You clearly know nothing about the physics of fire.
TEXAS is super humid. CALIFORNIA is super dry. Any idiot knows this.
ahhh no wondr texans are always in a mad mood and psychopathic with rage..humidity does that to me too.
My lesbian friend and ex employee is one of the hardest workers I know . She did a hoarder house clean up that others ran away from, seven roll offs of trash from one house. I don't even consider her a woman he is a man !
Why? While Texas does have more forested land than California, the disparity in wildfire frequency and severity arises from several key differences in climate, vegetation, and management practices:
1. Climate and Weather Patterns
• California: The state has a Mediterranean climate with hot, dry summers and periodic Santa Ana winds that rapidly spread fires. Prolonged droughts and high temperatures further exacerbate the risk of wildfires.
• Texas: While Texas is prone to drought, much of its forested land is in the wetter eastern region of the state, which receives more rainfall and experiences higher humidity, reducing fire risk. Wildfire-prone areas in Texas tend to be more in the drier central and western regions, which lack the dense forest cover found in California.
2. Vegetation Types
• California: Forests in California, particularly in the Sierra Nevada and coastal ranges, are dense and include many fire-prone species such as pine and chaparral, which contain oils and resins that ignite easily.
• Texas: Forests in Texas, especially in the eastern Piney Woods, consist of species like loblolly pine, which are less fire-prone, and the vegetation tends to be less dense overall. Moreover, there is less accumulation of dry, combustible underbrush in some areas compared to California.
3. Topography
• California: Its mountainous terrain creates wind funnels and steep slopes that accelerate fire spread. Fires can move uphill rapidly, gaining speed and intensity.
• Texas: The terrain in Texas is generally flatter, particularly in the eastern forested regions, which makes fires easier to contain and less likely to spread quickly.
4. Seasonality and Human Factors
• California: The state experiences longer and more intense fire seasons due to climate change. Human activity, such as power line failures, campfires, and urban-wildland interface development, further increases the likelihood of wildfires.
• Texas: While Texas does experience wildfires, they tend to be smaller and less frequent in the eastern forests due to shorter dry seasons and more regular rainfall. The human population density near forested areas in Texas is generally lower than in many of California’s fire-prone regions.
In summary, the combination of a wetter climate, less fire-prone vegetation, flatter terrain explains why it experiences fewer and less severe wildfires compared to California, despite having more forested land overall.
Thanks for the explanation 👍
Well said
Would like to say just because you are a billionaire does not make you smart.
Elon musk , I have never seen someone so insecure about intelligence than Elon musk
Please forward this to Elon and trump. Maybe they can understand a more elementary explanation 🤔
In 2023, California reported 7,364 while Texas reported 7,102 wildfires. California’s landscape is dominated by chaparral, grasslands, and coniferous forests, which are highly flammable. Texas forests often have more fire-resistant hardwoods and pine species, which burn less readily. California’s mountainous terrain allows fires to spread rapidly uphill, driven by wind. Texas has more flatlands, which generally slow the spread of fires. Elon has money but no cents.
Smokey the Bear 🐻 once said
"Only YOU can stop lesbians who start forest fires" 🤣🤣
He also said don't inhale...
stupid rweet
Broooooo... 😅
DEI
Didn't Earn It
Get help
When I was a teenager, I would say things like that because I would read it on the internet and profess to be an expert. Many years later now, I realize just how complicated the world is and that there are many more factors involved. I outgrew it, Apartheid Clyde did not...
Wait until Elon hears about the space lasers.
“Establishment Pakman” to the rescue! Take up for the stupid mistakes of the Californian mismanagement of the state with no accountability. If California subsidizes the rest of the country like u say, then why is fed govt jumping in?
It is the winds that reverse and come off the desert unlike the usual onshore winds that have humidity. these use to be fall only and over by Thanksgiving and rain came. now they are still coming in January and we have had no rain. I am old and born here my family came in the 19th century so I am well aware of how things get worse every year the last 15 or so. Before a news caster renamed them Santa Ana Winds they were called Santa winds or devil winds. no humidity and they spread the fire so fast and dry things out making fighting near imposable. It is different in Texas. and different than 20 years ago. They come later and the droughts are moor sever. wind and dry are a bad combination.
Remember when Elon Musk believed in climate change? Pepperidge farm remembers.
Stupidity and Intelligence often goes hand in hand. Elon is the very proof to that 😢
You are an imbecile.
Intelligence? I thought it was that he was born into money, so he's able to pay the actual intelligent people to work for him.
The slave labor immigrants who come in on a tech visa @@Poemi10304
@ he is a self-made man. Don’t fool yourself.
He’s not intelligent 😂 please stop giving him so much credit. He’s average at best. He hasn’t built or invented anything, he just slaps his name on things that already exist. He hasn’t become wealthy on his own, his DADDY is super wealthy 😂
The reason everything in LA is so dry is climate change. Year after year, we face record-breaking heat during the summer - this is not natural. The primary drivers are clear: internal combustion engine cars, excessive meat consumption, frequent flying, and overconsumption of unnecessary goods. Yes, mistakes were made in managing water and handling wildfires, but these aren't the root causes. You're focusing on firefighting errors instead of asking why these fires reach such catastrophic levels. That’s a harder conversation, isn’t it? It requires looking in the mirror and recognizing how personal choices contribute to the crisis. Insisting on "freedom" to drive endlessly, consume animal products, fly frequently, and overpopulate fuels the problem. It’s time to confront that hypocrisy and take responsibility by changing your actions.
Elonia hires smart people, that doesnt mean he’s smart
Yes, all this forest talk is almost irrelevant to this discussion. These fires started in urban areas, fueled by the winds.
He's not an idiot. He's intentionally creating political chaos.
He actually is stupid. My ex worded at Space X. I heard lots of stories.
So what's the play, and who really is the mark?
He did it before he became a MAGA supporter . He just thinks that he knows everything
divide and conquer
@@MonroeGrimesthe play is that he takes money from the elderly and disabled and gives it to himself. We non-rich people are the marks.
LA Times reported: "... the Santa Ynez Reservoir had been closed since about February for repairs to its cover, leaving a 117-million-gallon water storage complex empty in the heart of the Palisades for nearly a year."
So taking nearly a year to repair a cover and leaving the storage empty during wildfire season is not mismanagement?
Not every fire starts at the forest floor, especially in high winds!
Musk sees "unprecedented windstorms in CA due to climate change" and goes "WhAT aBoUT tEXaS!?!?!?!?"
Can't spell eLon without an L.
AND MOST CALIF FOREST LAND IS ACTUALLY ON FEDERALLY MANAGED FOREST LANDS AS THEY'RE FEDERAL AND THE FEDS ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR IT. I don't know which of these fires fit in there nor hiw
All Musk has ever done is raise money or invest in existing companies. Yet people think he’s somehow an expert about everything when he’s actually a bit of a dolt who just lucked into things.
He's so rich, he buys people to do his bodily functions for him.
Elon paid someone to level up a character in path of exiles 2 for him so he could pretend to be the best player, its hilarious
As well as a different rain pattern. Genius? Oh, little elon!
I wonder what his explanation for the excessive, stronger storms on the east coast is? DEI created hurricanes? Weather guns?
Weh-Weh-Weh-Well Hurricanes start as storms in West Africa! Then move over the ocean to become hurricanes. West Africa has Black people living there. Never mind that I can't explain how black skin is supposed to make the West African Disturbance Line (tech term for them) worse! They start in an area with Black people, and so the skin color *just has to* make the storms worse /s
Re:EVs---my husband worked on one of the original projects long before EVs became "a thing". The problem wasnt the automakers, legacy or not.....the problem was the government would've help address infrastructure....
At least northern Texas and probably most of it is flat. He doesn't understand the issue of the mountainous issues of pumping water to much higher elevated dry areas and high winds in southern and northern California.
Exactly. I'm in North Texas, a geography geek, and can vouch for you. IN addition to what you said, there's the climate itself. Texas does not have *strong* seasonal differences in dryness. More evenly distributed moisture throughout the year mitigates against the dryness that causes fires.
First, I'm a critical thinker and extremely progressive.
David, you are the only progressive media outlet that actually says the truth about Elon Musk.
Yes, Elon Musk has turned into a right wing lunatic.
However, he has arguably done more than any three countries in transitioning in the world to sustainable energy, an extremely Progressive mission.
Thank you for focusing on truth, rather than trying to support a particular narrative, like apparently every other Progressive media source that talks about Elon Musk.
Has he "arguably done more" than 3 countries in transitioning to sustainable energy?
Of course not.
How can you possibly make such a patently untrue statement? His company makes batteries and evs, nothing that other companies weren't doing lately before he came on the scene. Solar, wind and hydro, to name 3, were gaining status across the globe as major renewable sources before Tesla and Musk.
f-elon is now the fire management guy along with anything else he can think of......not interested stick your tesla's in outer space
I'm compelled to point out that a giga-billionaire would be not a trillionaire, nor a quadrillionaire, but a quintillionaire. Let's please keep that from actually happening.
That's right! After trying to support private schools with the public's money, Gregory's second priority is raking the forests.
I know as a Texas resident I regularly go to rake the forest.
I live in a flame zone near a National Park outside Sydney, Australia. When the fires are on the ground, they're fairly easy to stop with back burning on the bush floor. But once they're up in the treetops with the winds .... It's horrifying! One village near me lost 200 houses in 2013 because one front rushed through the tree tops with a heavy wind.
I'm hoping for rain in LA, but there's nothing on the forecasts :-(
Imo Elonia and Ftumps had something major nefarious to do with this.
I live in CO and most of our fires are from people being irresponsible with fire. In my hometown, we had a devastating wildfire a few years back because an asshole gun owner. He was at a shooting range using illegal ammo that exploded when it hit its target. The target ignited and we lost hundreds of acres, millions of dollars in structures, and how many animals lost their homes and were killed. They were only fined a few thousand dollars in court. In this case, we can blame a gun owner. I wonder how the Republicans would twist the blame in that scenario.
Raking forests would lead to a loss of ground moisture, resulting in trees and bushes dying more quickly during drought, resulting in more fuel to burn and erosion of top soil
If he went to Australia a couple of years ago and made similar comments.... he would dead.
*So far death toII 33. Negligence and mismanagement was NOT discard in VIC. Australia but every wrong WOKE (green) policy was discharge and replace with the "old" common sense policies.*
or in California too. Our country is just as big as yours, and CA gets tons of wildfires. No one decent likes Elon, this isn't saying much.
@@VeronicaMoreno-qd8yh the fuck is this bot drivel.
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Not to mention that 50% of the land in California is federally owned. The fires don't see this distinction.
I misheard and thought you said Musk's "smarmument" which seems about right.
Does Musk even leave twitter to read wikipedia?
It goes to show that rich doesn't mean smart. 🇦🇺😀
spot on, david
In July 2018 during Trump administration a fire burned Madocino for 161 days
He pays someone to tell him to breathe
Trump just tweaks his ears and tells him to breath through his nose.
People who know nothing about what they are talking about should stop. The fires and how to put them out is more important right now. The 'know it alls' should wait until after the fires are out and the experts have had a chance to investigate the reasons for this catastrophe even happened! Right now, these overly rich persons should put money into the pot to help the problem, instead of looking like idiots.