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yet another Nero moment for the US. Well to do people gambling on fire containment while other rich people have their homes burned down. Some LA firefighters could make some good money from rigging this market. Probably more than their annual salary. Reminds me of those fire brigades in Rome that’d only save your house if you sold them the land at a steep markdown
Today's USA poisons/stupidify their citizenry even worse than the Romans.

From Nature:
There was so much lead in the air during the ancient Pax Romana period that it
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. The smelting of silver from the mineral galena, a widespread industry at the time of the Roman Empire, releases lead as a gas. By combining data from ice cores, which can act as records of pollution over time, with historical climate information,
researchers worked out that the amount of lead Roman people might have had in their blood in childhood, taken in from air pollution, could have caused an average drop of 2.5-3 IQ points.
Imagine this wildfire lowers the collective intelligence of LA by a few IQ points.


“My parents have been in this house for 75 years and they've had the same insurance AND THESE INSURANCE PEOPLE DECIDED TO CANCEL THEIR FIRE. We're going through this and it just happened and they don't have fire insurance!”
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Somebody find these home owners insurance companies CEOs!
 
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