mike carey

Welcome to the forum Alex, I hope you find more productive uses for it than refuting criticisms or commenting on other negative posts. Most members here will appreciate it when you put your side of the story, and even more if you engage with positive commenters. You may even find other things here to be interesting. Good luck!

An interesting article to read (or listen to) from the Atlantic on the risk of mud and debris flows in the event of a rain event in steeper burned areas. L.A. Isn’t Ready for What’s Next - The Atlantic WWW.THEATLANTIC.COM Sooner or later, a winter storm will hit, and deadly mudslides and debris flows that will likely follow.

First, an issue of terminology. We tend to use block and ignore interchangeably here. Technically we have an Ignore function but there is no capacity to block other members. As a user here, you do not have the capability to block other people from reading your posts, ignoring is a one-way process. @viewing ownly, as @BuffaloKyle said, if someone has you on ignore, they can't see anything that you post directly but they will see anything you have posted if someone else quotes you. You shouldn't be able to see if someone else is ignoring you, but if you become aware that they are, I wouldn't be too concerned that they hadn't seen your advice. Remember that while you may think of what you say as personal advice to them, it's not just that, you are contributing to a wider conversation and may end up being useful to someone else, few issues are unique to the person who raises them in a thread, and if you have raised an idea that someone else sees merit in, it will be taken up by other posters.

History rhymes!

Gold!

We've merged your new thread with an existing thread on the same provider.

Fortunately, the paper picked up the spelling in the posted article, if not in this. @australia.theguardian.com on Bluesky BSKY.APP Stationary shopping may be the finest form of procrastination – but who can resist the joy of a perfect...

I've merged two threads on this provider, and hidden recent comments posted in both.

Yes, -6!

Room booked! INN Thursday, out Tuesday. Now to find the right flights.

Agree, this thread is about the wonder, amazement, or perhaps disappointments of meeting someone after some years. It's not, and wasn't intended as a list of men who can relight a flame that had faded (or with whom you can). It's a flight of fancy, not a how to (or who to) guide.

Indeed, but not everyone appears to have a conscience. Profiteering in the face of tragedy flies in the face of the social contract that helps bind society together. That social contract is evident in the volunteers who have come out to assist the displaced, from individuals to community organisations and NGOs, and most people want governments to play a part in providing assistance. There will always be disagreements about the extent that the social contract should be enforced by law, but prohibiting the unconscionable is one area where there might be some consensus.

Interesting that the Guardian should choose to illustrate the story with a photo of a miniature English box.

If you go to the bottom of any page and click on Theme, this will appear, and you can select the Legacy Theme. Yes, it took me a moment to find it even though I had known about it before, so don't feel bad about it!!

Yes, it is. As you would expect he's featured heavily in Australian TV coverage, and not just on 10.

Yup.

Gentlemen, we've had an occasional mayonnaise sub-theme here since last June. People have been Duking it out about whether Hellmann's or some other is top shelf and what would make it so. It has juiced things up a bit adding some actual acid to the conversation rather than the sometimes tart commentary about the gentleman we're here to discuss. Alas, it's time to move on, so back to Gold, and away from sandwich spreads, with or without lime.

Even in Google, if you capitalise Turkey you get the correct answer, or at least a better one. I won't check what Google does if you try it with Türkiye.

I see what you did there.

I won't add a moderator's note here, just a post to note that we could pontificate for ever about the long term causes of increased fires in and out of the usual season, and long term state-wide management of water supplies, but the here and now is that there is disaster unfolding in LA, and that, and the recovery from it should be our focus for now.

If I'm not mistaken, a provider selects 'Available in the next n hours' (where n is a number from 1 to 6) and RM attaches a label 'Available Now' that is on their ad for that period. As to what a provider means by 'available' it's as well to remember Humpty Dumpty's explanation of what words mean. So it means what the provider wants it to mean, and the nuances of what can be expected have already been discussed in this thread. You'll make heaps of friends in life if you insist that what they say means what you want it to mean, rather than what they know they meant. If the two meanings are polar opposites, you'd have a point, but if the two are in the same postcode but not the same street or house you'd do better to clarify rather than insist (or to write a letter to the Times to explain why you are right and they are wrong). By all means come here and vent about why you dislike 'Available Now' but then build a bridge.

I like the French word, entartement!

It's not at all clear that lack of water availability was the main factor in the destruction. Those fires in that wind were probably unstoppable. In addition to water, you need firefighting personnel and equipment, and the scale of the fires was such that no feasible amount of either was ever going to be available. Sea water can be used by fire fighting aircraft, but there's no way that anyone would have built reservoirs to fill with sea water just in case it was needed on the ground, and aircraft were not being used due to the winds on at least one day, and those winds (or at least the sea-state they created) would have prevented fixed wing (and probably rotary wing) firefighting aircraft from taking on water from the sea anyway,

Yes, it is about him. If you click on the arrow at the right of the reference line, it takes you to the post that was referenced so you can see the context.

I remember in Black Summer, Canberra had worse air quality than any city in the world. It was extremely uncomfortable, and as we learnt, was deadly. This morning I heard on the radio news that today LA had the worst air quality in the Western Hemisphere.