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[ - ] CHIRO 7 points 3 monthsJan 13, 2025 09:33:35 ago (+7/-0)

I try to point this sort of thing out to people, but it's frustrating how often it feels like running into a brick wall. I'm talking about the language/concept issue. Ask people to be critical about the language they hear. This term: hotspot. Heard it before? Don't just accept new terms uncritically. What's this term capturing? What are people trying to do with it? To me, hotspot suggests an analogy to nature. Oh, ya got a hotspot, darn it. A hotspot sounds a lot different than a target.

Unfortunately, most people just want to shut off in front of a t.v. and stuff their faces.

Organized arson. "Bro, it's just a descriptive phrase." No, that's a weapon. People are shaping your beliefs about something. You should be way more critical of how that's being done. Why use this term rather than attack (that happens to involve fire)? Because they don't want to evoke that concept.

[ - ] NoRefunds 2 points 3 monthsJan 13, 2025 10:23:18 ago (+2/-0)

hotspot

wild fires

this is true. Also the news NEVER says the word arson anymore. It's not even a possibility. Not even when I think it was 95% of 'Wild Fires' turned out to be arson, and a fuckload of those arson were firemen.

[ - ] glooper 2 points 3 monthsJan 13, 2025 11:03:42 ago (+2/-0)

old fire guy here. "hot spot" is a term that is 120 years old, in fire language.


embers get picked up and thrown across the wind in front of the fireline.

Its called "spotting" Its basics wild fire mechanics, 101

[ - ] CHIRO 1 point 3 monthsJan 13, 2025 11:17:28 ago (+1/-0)

So a "hot spot" refers to an actual phenomenon where the likelihood of additional fires popping up is dramatically increased?

Do you think this concept could be used to obscure facts related to arson?

[ - ] Dindu [op] 2 points 3 monthsJan 13, 2025 12:41:51 ago (+2/-0)

You have an orderly mind

[ - ] PotatoWhisperer2 0 points 3 monthsJan 13, 2025 12:22:08 ago (+0/-0)

Ask people to be critical about the language they hear.

This requires a certain amount of intellect and/or training. The majority simply buy into any/all propaganda. It's why we need to gain control of and/or master propaganda machines/techniques.

[ - ] NoRefunds 2 points 3 monthsJan 13, 2025 10:18:10 ago (+2/-0)

Just watch how fire resistant shingles are, and realize most of those homes are made with Spanish style shingles. The houses are made from stucco. Also the commercial properties are made from brick. I don't know how the fuck these things are catching on fire miles and miles away.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAcrryB0IH4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIAPuxq3Dn0

And the ocean side properties... last time I checked the winds were blowing west to east... meaning onshore winds... how does a fire hit a beach property that way again?

[ - ] letsgetit 1 point 3 monthsJan 13, 2025 10:31:00 ago (+1/-0)

This is an excellent point. Most decent houses in LA built in the 90s and later are in this configuration. The heat of the fire would have to be extreme levels of hot and I'm not even sure if either of them actually burn, they might fall apart from the heat.

The houses are separated by sidewalks and streets, although they are packed pretty damn close together.

[ - ] NoRefunds 1 point 3 monthsJan 13, 2025 10:33:11 ago (+1/-0)

I just don't believe this shit at face value. Cars catching fire that are parked in the middle of the street with nothing around it for 30-40 feet? And the whole car catches on fire?

[ - ] Tallest_Skil 2 points 3 monthsJan 13, 2025 09:21:42 ago (+2/-0)

Fight fire with fire. Claim that no jews were murdered in the holocaust; it was just spontaneous human combustion.

[ - ] HonkyMcNiggerSpic 1 point 3 monthsJan 13, 2025 12:40:07 ago (+1/-0)

I tried yesterday and they kept running that burger king commercial with the low iq nig singing

[ - ] Dindu [op] 0 points 3 monthsJan 13, 2025 12:41:23 ago (+0/-0)

I hang out with a gambler so I catch a few minutes every Sunday. Absolutely brutal

[ - ] Sal_180 0 points 3 monthsJan 13, 2025 09:12:42 ago (+1/-1)

"I saw a retard yesterday and they were retarded"

Imagine expecting anything else?

[ - ] Dindu [op] 1 point 3 monthsJan 13, 2025 09:23:13 ago (+1/-0)

I dont think your jewish friends are being retarded. I think my white friends are.