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dboreham on Aug 17, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: People are starting a lot of fires in the Pacific ...

They are, but once in a while one gets out of control and burns people's stuff.

kibwen on Aug 17, 2023 [–]

Indeed, and state governments are possibly more averse to controlled burns precisely because they're more worried about the political repurcussions in the event that one gets out of control.

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