First trip my wife and I ever went on back in 2004 was to Maui. We stayed north of Lahaina but spent some time there. Pretty horrific stuff.
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Its bad for Vegas, that place has a REALLY hard time handling that amount of rain in 24 hours. We are gonna see a ton of “Holy shit look at all the water on the Strip” videos online early next week.
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Tony, Toni, Tone, sung it never rains in Southern California, among others,
Yeah, pouring concrete or tarmac over every possible porus surface isn’t the best when it storms.
Yeah I am not excited about 2 to 3 inches of rain in Las Vegas. I guess I will be happy I have decent clearance to drive through some water without fucking my engine.
It’s been a decade-long battle that began when former President Rafael Correa boldly proposed that the international community give Ecuador $3.6 billion to leave Yasuní undisturbed. But the world wasn’t as generous as Correa expected.
That was one of my biggest hopes to keep those countries out of the Amazon but if we cant even come up with 3.6 billion than we dont need to discuss with Brazil how stop deforesting for economic gain.
Paying developing countries to avoid extracting fossil fuels should be a mainstream policy proposal. The only way to fight climate change in the long run is to avoid extraction.
The sticking points should be over the amount, mechanism for protecting the fuels from extraction, mechanism for making sure the money isn’t squandered, etc.
$3.6 billion is a goddamn joke though. My god. 3% of Ecuador’s GDP just GTFO.
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I know most of us know most of this but its still a hillariously depressing video.
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California: No plastic straws! Paper straws only! (which I support)
Also California: All iced coffee drinks must be served with a plastic lid, even if the customer asks for the drink without the lid.
Ridiculous. I wonder if it’s some law designed for hot coffee that iced coffee got sucked in on.
Yeah no straw ftw. I only get a straw if it’s to go and I’m walking with it.
Paper straws suck, but metal straws suck even more
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Massive respect to any server in California who just brings you a drink without a straw if you don’t ask like you’re suppose to. I’m like damn I forgot to ask, alright, just gonna drink without it so I don’t look like an asshole.
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Florida had really good paper straws when I was there. They didn’t break down like the other ones.