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[-] ThePyroPython@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Fun fact: this is how fire fighters used to be.

There'd be fire markers on the outer walls to indicate which fire protection company covered that building and whichever firefighter turned up would bill that fire protection company who'd then bill the customer/customer's insurance company.

Edit: typo.

[-] troybot@midwest.social 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

City where I live burned to the ground TWO times so they finally established a fire department in the 1800s

[-] Plastic_Ramses@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

There is a scene in gangs of new york that pretty accurately shows how some fire fighters worked back then.

https://youtu.be/e6eDVsl8Kp4?si=ATVjTIr07TdMzHkc

[-] alaphic@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Fact: Yes.

Fun: Not so much.

[-] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 months ago

There is no elite prime plan for climate change, bitch.

[-] zarathustra0@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago
[-] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 months ago

In the end, without some kind of society to support you, all you can do with your wealth is stick it up your ass.

(Like not you zarathustra0, the figurative "you".)

[-] zarathustra0@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago
[-] Snowclone@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

I'm pretty confused actually, how do I get the 20 rolls of quarters out of my asshole?

[-] zarathustra0@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

You go back in time and slap yourself for thinking of doing something so stupid.

[-] Zorque@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

This is indistinguishable from satire for me. I honestly can't tell if it is or isn't.

[-] Bieren@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

California has private firefighters. This is not a joke, they really do.

[-] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 1 points 2 months ago

Remember, according to their followers California deserves this for being heathens. Not the flood in NC though, or the hurricane in FL. Those are just flukes, but anyone in CA deserves it according to them. Even this guy.

[-] philluminati@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago

Where is capitalism when you need it?

[-] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 months ago

Delicious "where is your God now" moment.

[-] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

For as much as authoritarians and the GOP voters hate California, a lot of them live there. Just another facet of their "Rules for thee" lifestyle.

[-] PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Think of Trump, a billionaire New York real estate mogul, who's made his career off the support of people who... hate rich city-dwellimg developers.

[-] ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Some of them are leaving - and making a big spectacle of it and using their departure to feed into the lie that "EvErYoNe iS LeAviNg CaLiFoRniA!!1!"

But I wish more of the really obnoxious ones would leave. The reasonable Republicans/moderate conservatives? I have no problem with them staying and promoting a different perspective. That's good for the state. But the reactionary hard-core cult members can fuck right off.

[-] Lemminary@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

I have no problem with them staying and promoting a different perspective.

I wish conservatism wasn't the only different perspective being promoted. It's the gateway to all the bullshit happening everywhere.

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