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Yeah, you get some silly answers from a small percent of the population, like this one:

Seven percent of all American adults believe that chocolate milk comes from brown cows, according to a nationally representative online survey commissioned by the Innovation Center of U.S. Dairy.

That's the version which was published about 30min before the version I posted. I suspect you're getting served an old version from a cache somewhere.

Here's coverage in the New York Times so you can see what is going on

Unless it's changed since I posted, the first sentence is:

A federal judge on Tuesday temporarily blocked a push from President Donald Trump to pause federal funding while his administration conducts an across-the-board ideological review to uproot progressive initiatives.

Chaparral and grasslands (what that area has) regrow pretty quickly. This isn't problem of fuel accumulating over decades as has happened in the Sierras. You'd need to be removing vegetation every year, which would also kill off the native plants.

Yes, there's a history of lower-intensity fire, of the sort which doesn't threaten structures at scale.

Yes, if you turn on Javascript you get the whole thing.

These are places that took relatively minor damage from lower-intensity fires in past years. A lot of places that burned are well into town.

There is some amount of moving people out of the wildland-urban interface that makes sense, but we also need to act by:

• Going ahead with building codes which make buildings more resistant to wind-blown embers from fires which might be a mile or more away
• Ending the use of fossil fuels, so we don't make the situation worse
• Actively managing vegetation to prevent fuel accumulation where this makes sense.

Top-level post is a gift link to a news article

Federal taxes are paid by individuals and corporations, not the states, so it would be on individuals and companies to halt payment.

Yeah, that kind of thing is why unionization needs to happen firm-wide and not just in part of it.

That's the thing — it costs the power company less to deploy them than to run their existing system. Even if they feel like charging you more, and have convinced regulators to let them do so.

The bulk of them do not, so no. You did see some of that in the last few years because the Democrats never had anything more than a very narrow majority in the Senate, so one or two being bought off could prevent a budget from passing.