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TBH who enters their events manually? Most important events (flights, meetings, …) get on my calendar via invite (or ics download for eg flight) and have all pertinent timezone info set correctly

Totally, he has to claim to congress those things are true. Claims are … not his weak point.

Drives for/from Digital Cinema Packages?

The government isn’t banning TikTok, the law only requires a change in ownership. The current owners are choosing to performatively shut down in an attempt to bully their way through that requirement

Look I don’t want to carry any water for him whatsoever, but I think it’s going to be essential to couch criticism in the rule-of-law setting we think should prevail. To that end, the text of the rele…

The law gives him some power to grant a 90-day reprieve, iff he makes some 'certifications' to congress w.r.t. progress toward compliance.

Standalone vote in the house was pretty supportive and bipartisan too https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/202486 .…

There was no legal requirement they block service at all, only that other companies stop doing business with them (i.e. App Stores stop distributing, etc.)

He has to kinda gesture towards in-progress plans to comply with the law to grant that exception, but that's not a huge hurdle.

True, but that's a low hurdle for the new guy. More generally, its worth pointing out that the law as passed explicitly names TikTok/ByteDance, but locates a lot of authority with the presi…

The law gives the President unambiguous authority to grant an extension to the timeline.

There was a goatherd (that had to evacuate) working in the hills toward the east side of the Palisades fire!

> the mall >> If you have the people, and the apparatus to dedicate to wholly one structure, you probably can save it. The actual firefighters were simultaneously fighting hundreds of house f…

And this is exactly what the new agreement b/w the insurance commissioner and providers does. Which went into effect ... Jan 1, unfortunately.

CEQA & NEPA resistance to prescribed burns deserve all the criticism heaped upon them and more. Though tt's a little unimaginative to locate the ultimate responsibility with "handful of…

It's a bit older, but see also [1] for a great survey of research on the topic. [1]: https://www.amazon.com/Before-Wilderness-Environmental-Calif... …

> [1] Look, it's known that reservoir was empty, but it's a covered reservoir. You're looking at the the _cover_. That image tells you nothing about the state of the reservoir at th…

> mayor I don't care about Bass. She has no role to play in an emergency besides telling the LAFD chief 'go fight the fire with all available resources' LAFD wasn't even the la…

Exactly, and management of chaparral is even less straightforward forward forest.

1. Santa Ynez may have helped, however (a) you're still limited by the flow rate of the main to withdraw from the reservoir, but more critically (b) the situation was already well out of hand bef…

> East coast native Indians This is false. Fire was unambiguously part of the practice of native Californians. > opportunists What is this slander.

> moral hazard Even SBF wouldn’t take that risk. Billions of dollars of personal liability against … the coastal commission lets you build 110% of the house you already had? Gotta do it a few times…

> I'm just so sick and tired of ignorant people pretending that elevation, grade, or seismic matter at all If they don't matter at all, there's tons of steep lots you can buy in the …

The point was that the headline numbers don't really represent the amount of existing development that was destroyed. There's been lots of comparisons of the area to e.g. Manhattan which I …

> upzone other areas instead Yes. This is what we're already doing around the transit we already have. I hope the camaraderie and community drives us to build more, faster. > upzone Altade…

I was going to include a bit about that, but my comment was already kinda long. All the other reasons besides, the events of the last week should be an indication to the would-be urban planners that …

They're not reserved for the wealthy, they're desirable. Self-driving and associated parking minimum reductions doesn't materially change those economics. If you had permission to build…

I suspect you're right, I was pointing out the current limits. But so what if they do have full coverage in 10 years? We can build apartments with no/fewer parking spaces, and therefore som…

Density is an imperative for Los Angeles, and big sprawl-y cities generally. And we're building density! DTLA is getting more residential, train stops are getting surrounded by everything from …

In a service area that _very_ purposefully stops before the sort of narrow, hilly streets that covered most of the evacuation zones.