I’m not sure about that particular statistic (half of the total number of fires, regardless of size? Half of acres burned?), but utility lines definitely cause a lot of fires. This can be mitigated by burying lines, which IIRC is what San Diego does, but it’s expensive so companies don’t want to do it unless their arms are twisted.

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Looks like a tiled counter to me. In southern California (and I’m sure other places but that’s where I first encountered it) in the 60s and 70s a lot of kitchens started being made with tiled counters. Think small bathroom wall tiles put on the counter surface rather than floor tiles. I don’t know why it caught on, because they’re uneven and impossible to keep clean. But a lot of old rentals/homes still have them if they haven’t remodeled since then.

No rice, no beans, beef with red sauce. wtf why isn’t my burrito with one ingredient huge??

I tip because I’ve been reliant on tips before, and I know that expecting someone who is working for tips to single-handedly solve tipping culture is unreasonable. I don’t believe in solutions that punish the poorest person in the equation, especially for a luxury like dining out.

You can already eat at places that pay a real wage to servers if you don’t want to tip.

I always just do 10% (easy because you move the decimal one place) and then either double that or add half of it to itself for a 15-20% tip.

I’m helping them evolve!

Aquarium rant: if you have a home aquarium slightly smaller in size than the reflecting pool’s 6.8 million gallons, plecos are a terrible choice for algae control. They get way too big and introduce way too much ammonia. Snails and neocardinia shrimp are a much better choice and can actually live off algae and crud on the bottom to a large extent.

Give him a perm did he looks exactly the way my friend’s mom looked in the 90s 😭 And she did give us alcohol under 21, lmao. It worked because she gave us the nastiest, cheapest premixed mudslide possible and it repelled us from alcohol for a few more years.

Incredible, someone managed to create an image I wish was AI generated

Depends on the con, but the ones I’ve been to have all been fine, except in the headless lounges that are specifically set up to let sweaty people take their suits off and cool down. And that just smells like gym. They sell all kinds of scented sanitizing sprays for fursuits, nobody wants to be stuck in a smelly suit.

Possibly? I thought I had only talked about it with my husband, but maybe not

A while back I saw a local post about a guy with donkeys walking through town. There’s picture and a URL on the packs of one of his donkeys, I look it up, and he apparently just walks from southern to central California and back each year with his donkeys every spring and fall, and has been doing it for over a decade. He sleeps outside and eats mostly lentils and rice. It takes all sorts. Honestly, living under a bridge or outside with donkeys sounds preferable to the pictures posted by OP.

Normal is what you’re used to.

Listen, there may be a drug at the gas station called spice, but do NOT smoke it!

My husband and I had a cat for nearly a decade and she never so much as looked at the TP roll. Our current gremlin has sprinted at top speed into the bathroom because he heard me open the cabinet where we started hiding the TP when he wouldn’t leave it alone. He actually tried to grab it out of my hands, and I had to play tug of war with him! I’ve never encountered any other cat as hellbent on destroying TP, but he lives for it. Shreds it like he’s plucking a bird.

Why waste all that room in your freezer when you can just dehydrate it instead?

Physics

Truly what children don’t experience enough of: blame!

(I get the divorce one is fake, the rest are presumably real)

Homophobia and transphobia are much more western values rooted in Christian tradition, lol. They were imposed on hundreds of cultures (often through the imperialist legal system) that previously tolerated gender and sexual diversity prior to European colonization. If you want to learn more, The Gender Binary is a Big Lie by Lee Wind is an accessible introduction to the breadth of cultural understandings of gender and sexuality.