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Chapter 1: What happened during Mark's evacuation?
This was shared to me. This is not my history. I have no idea what the fuck this is. What is this?
Hang on, editors, you might need to... You're gonna wanna blur...
Oh, Marks Geschichte ist ein bisschen seltsam. Das ist ein cooles Spiel, Mark.
Wir werden es... Du kannst es später mit mir teilen.
Ich schwöre an Gott, das ist das, was es auch automatisch gespielt hat. Was zur Hölle? Gott, ich weiß, dass mein nächstes unmögliches Let's Play... Das No-Hands-Challenge.
Oh. Oh yeah, the wind. Anyway, yeah, there was just like ember, fire embers were just like falling from the sky in places where the fire was close. But like it wasn't like the front lines of the fire. People are just like, like there's one that was going around. There was like a McDonald's, I think, in Altadena.
The McDonald's, like an ember had landed and the sign and part of the front of McDonald's was on fire. And it was just like... Es sah so aus, als ob es ein Fake war, weil es wie ein Hurrikanwind war und der Feuer war wie, chill aus, ich bin schon auf Feuer, wie verdammt, das ist genug Wind. Und der Wind war wie, ja, wir machen das.
Die Videos von dem, das Art von Sachen ist unreal, weil das nicht so sieht, wie es normalerweise aussieht. Ich habe viele gesehen, als wir in der Bay Area lebten, Wir waren in der gelben Evakuierungszone für eine Woche. Ich habe viele Fotos von Feuerzeugen und Menschen, die gegen Wildschweine kämpfen, gesehen.
Das sah nie so aus. Nichts von dem, was wir erlebt haben, als wir da oben waren, sah so aus. Das ist das Wichtigste, was die Leute in diesem Kontext realisieren müssen. Es ist keine Überzeugung, zu sagen, dass das Hurricane-Force-Winde waren. It was as if a hurricane rolled in and instead of rain, it was fire. That's legitimately what it was.
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Chapter 2: What is the story behind the Pacific Palisades fire?
It's crazy because this truck has a 240-volt plug in the back of it. I could run my render farm off of this truck.
This truck has more power than all of my backup batteries that I put in my render farm by three times.
I want to see a Ford commercial with like a really nerdy dude driving his Ford Lightning with the render farm. He's like, Offroading in the mud through the woods while like video game let's plays or like processing in the back.
I could. That's the crazy thing. I could. And so this it's a weird segue from like climate change stuff. But it's like on the flip side of it is like the negative of clean energy stuff is that it's awesome. I've driven a regular Ford F-150 and it's a big beefy truck. And I didn't like to drive that for any other reason because it was just like it's it's not practical.
Jetzt muss ich die ganze Zeit schlafen, weil ich Läden habe, die ich stelle, und ich habe andere große Sachen. Und ich war da draußen mit meinem Chainsaw. Ich hatte Geräte, die ich bringen musste. Ich dachte mir, das macht eigentlich Sinn. Und wenn ich mich evakuiere, will ich ein großes Bett, damit ich meine Sachen nehmen kann und gehen kann. Also dachte ich mir, ich mache das. Ich habe es.
Das Ding, mein Gott, ich drücke auf die Panele drin. Sie schweigen nicht.
The Tesla sucks so bad. It's so bad. It's so bad. And I had a Model X. I didn't have like the cheap version of it.
You should have gone Cybertruck.
Yeah, that's probably your problem right there. If you had just gone to a Cybertruck, Mark, that's the ultimate Tesla experience.
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Chapter 4: What games are being discussed and why?
There's a lot of people who, if they don't get some sort of assistance and if it doesn't coalesce in a way, companies are just going to swoop in, buy their valuable property and turn it into more corporately developed garbage that is going to ruin some of these very old communities potentially.
Das ist ein sehr hoher Backburner, weil es im Grunde noch immer Feuer auf dem Boden gibt, das mehr Menschen, Unternehmen und Häuser konsumiert. Das ist ein ernsthafter Threat. Und das wäre sehr traurig in manchen dieser Orte, wo es wirklich so war, wie Familienunternehmen, lokale Dinge, Gemeinschaften, die jetzt wissen, dass hoffentlich
Well, it doesn't have to happen if people pay attention, especially to the local communities. Because cities, you know, they are in control of their zoning. And they can shoot down and all these projects would have to be submitted for approval. And if they don't get approved, they don't get built. Unless there's bribes going on. But I think with this, you know, there is a strong...
way to make sure that the people who are easily forgotten are actually taken care of but that's only by holding that thought in your mind for a very long time that that's what needs to happen and so that's that's something that i'm hopefully going to be a part of as much as i can otherwise i'll just keep my chainsaw and i'll keep hacking at trees hey you can snipe them now with your knife yeah with my knife with my
In a related horrible note, here in Cincinnati we had two feet plus of snow. What? While you guys were burning, we got dumped on with like one of the bigger snows we've had in years. Two feet? I believe it was between 20 and 26 inches.
Where we are on the way on the north, almost northwest, it was more like eight inches to a foot. Even that though, that's...
Ich kann dir nicht sagen, dass ich das letzte Mal in Cincinnati war und es so viel Schnee gab. Drei, vier Inch, klar, das ist passiert. Das war so in einem 24-Tage-Period.
Das war ein kurzer, großer Dumpf. Mit unseren kleinen Dachshundern, mit Presley und Ginger, war ich da draußen, ich glaube, sieben Mal, also sie hatten einen Ort, wo sie potten. Es ist so, wir würden schütteln und es wäre eine halbe Inch, wo ich angefangen habe, weil es so schnell runtergegangen ist. I don't know that anything major happened because of it. I was kind of like, you know, in jest.
We did get one of the bigger snows we've had in a very long time. And then four or five days later, we got like another three or four inches. So then it warmed up for a couple of days. Then it kind of like condensed. Now it's kind of like that more compact snow. I mean, at the very least, it was 18.
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