Mother Nature vs. Human Ingenuity.
Today is the first day of autumn, here in Southern California and a glorious fall light is greeting those who have woken on the earlier side to face the change of seasons. Autumn, here, is usually highly anticipated by surfers. The ocean waters are still warm and storm-born waves begin to smooch the shore.
Summer ended, of course, with a series of south swells that provided much joy, to the aforementioned surfers, but also much consternation to those who built homes on the sandy land. Laguna Beach got licked real good but not as good as Capistrano Beach where multiple homes became red-tagged, or deemed unsafe to enter, with many more yellow-tagged, or on the verge of being deemed unsafe to enter.
With another swell on the way, construction crews are busy at work doing whatever they can in attempt to outwit Mother Nature.
I once owned a small home in Los Angeles and would do much of the work myself though I had no training and limited intelligence. Thus, I would jury-rig basically everything. No job too big or small to try and fiddle an imaginative, incorrect, solution.
Watching the above clip, thus, brought back happy memories of attempting unvetted methods in order to stave off disaster. I assume you, reader, have more skill than I. Do you think the above remedies, such as making a plywood wall or utilizing fluorescent orange barriers, will win the day or do you think the homes will continue to crumble?
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How the fuck am i supposed to create a new login for wpdiscuz? This new system blows.
If I could I’d load aa self made video of the Lagunita private homes that are $30 million vs those overpriced shantytowns in capo. Notoriously over priced pieces of shit. They were there, soon they will be gone. The huge mansions up the road are really about to go in. Hard. Meanwhile they are demolishing 100% of Dana harbor to build newer “better” shit shops. From san Clemente to balboa is a total gross display of wealth and solid traffic. Stopped in both directions. Anybody ever go inside the gates at emerald bay ? Mind blowing is an understatement……
Fuck up cunt xx
So sorry to be a dum cunt but has this change thing happened yet. All still looks the same but don’t really know what I’m looking for
Mine looks the same too, so IDK.
better idk than idf…
Yes!
Way less cunty
Yeah, me too!
Is this modern day living on the edge?
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Transitioning takes time…
You know what you are looking for
Ask Sasha
I propose for every deleted comment that one must post another photo of their beautiful rig.
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Nice vang
She a peach!
https://uploads.disquscdn.c… Here’s my rig.
yeah, it’s finished and working.
Its all part of the wild west advanced advancement. The worlds greatest ever, elite consumer society consuming the planet.
https://youtu.be/Trx2eEjoa1w
‘oooouuu kares!!! Stoopid, yousless farkin savviguz!!! It’z cooormpleks fyscal shite… n stuff… wot are farkin’ addvancying farkin’… vere’s are quid inert!!! Paaawlleeen urn dunny wull fixe ert!!! Weals r ternin… vem uvver dum, useless karnts cooodunt eevin innfvent va farkin’…’
Anyway, Australian First Nations Peoples understood and understand the whole show better than anyone. Even sorry paaawllleeenne and co. Even the sorry swillnut dream team.
‘Peer reviewed geological and atmospheric evidence indicates Indigenous cultural burning practices actively prevented the catastrophic, high-intensity wildfires that severely degrade modern air quality.While localized smoke is an inevitable short-term byproduct of any fire, paleoclimate data and modern ecological studies show that Aboriginal fire management provides net benefits to both regional air quality and the global atmosphere.
To understand why traditional burning did not degrade long-term air quality, it is helpful to look at the mechanics of the practice and its long-term impacts:
1. Low-Intensity “Cool Burns” vs. Catastrophic Wildfires
Traditional fire management involves setting frequent, small, and low-intensity fires (often called “cool burns”) early in the dry season. These fires burn slowly along the ground, clearing away dead grass and shrub layers.
The Atmosphere Impact: Because these fires burn at lower temperatures and target limited areas, they consume significantly less biomass overall. A 2023 study published in Science analyzing ancient mud and pollen records over 130,000 years proved that Aboriginal land management kept “ladder fuels” (shrubs) low, which effectively suppressed massive, high-intensity fires for millennia.
2. Reduction of Greenhouse Gas Emissions
When European colonization largely disrupted Indigenous fire regimes, fuel loads accumulated unchecked. This led to an increase in massive late-dry-season megafires.Data from modern initiatives like the West Arnhem Land Fire Abatement project demonstrate that re-introducing traditional early-season burning actually reduces methane and nitrous oxide emissions by over a million tonnes annually. It prevents the massive, smoke-heavy canopy blazes that choke modern Australian cities with hazardous PM2.5 particles.
3. Climate vs. Human Impact
Some older theories hypothesized that early human landscape burning may have triggered the failure of the Australian monsoon or caused massive soil erosion. However, modern charcoal and sediment analysis across an 18,000-year history confirms that while climate has always been the primary driver of fire activity, fire severity remained significantly lower when humans were actively managing the land compared to human-free periods.’
The wild west, advanced solution, after they failed to wipe Australian First Nations Peoples, (who had revered and nurtured ‘Mother Earth to everyone’s benefit, for an unprecedented 60,000 years), off the map? Gag them. Take away their voice.
‘Fake news! Ban the cunts… blow ’em off the map!’ Like donny dun!!!’
It’s not only old sailors jury-rigging their boats, or beachfront homeowners fixing their jerry-built abodes.
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Nature does it too…
Good old Bruce.
Don’t hate the messenger.
Donny puts to bed any worries world leaders have about AI by somehow with a straight face telling them not to sweat cuz he has now changed the name to SI hahahahahaha The worlds biggest superpower is being run by a fucking moron
They coulda had Kamala the idiots!!
Like deciding whether to get kicked in the shins or booted in the balls ay
She was the first person to decipher that AI stood for Artificial Intelligence , so, thats impressive.
And all the trannies loved her
I think th PC term is ladyboyz
So are his hair and nipples
Hahahahaha fuck I would’ve loved to have seen ya having a crack at that. She loses massive hot points for saying her husbands a pro surfer though. Who gives a fuck love
Chaz : Listening to your podcast now.
The surfing stuff is meh but yourself and Mr Scales ( Leigh Scales?) were good during the ed Sheeran stuff. You both managed to get around both sides of the issue. It’s a shame that you both sidestepped the larger, institutionalised background of zionist-driven censorship underpinning a culture-wide scope of impact on Western society. But kudos for the discussion regardless. It was erudite and well expressed.
BTW….I’ve been reading your writing for years, mate. Zero chance you’re a sub 90 IQ.
Fun fact : Did you know that the official parameters of IQ definition we’re recalibrated after it was discovered that the existing qualification of mental retardation was ….uhmm “ discriminatory “ towards a certain “minority “.
It turns out that half a certain population were diagnosed clinically retarded and so they just moved the goalposts.
They redefined the IQ settings defining retarded to be politically correct. Cultural Marxism 101 = Don’t let reality get in the way of a good story.
Lolol
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You’ve lost all credibility with that ass kissing drivel. Chas maxes out around 85.
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Queensland I Q results https://uploads.disquscdn.c…
smart enough to live in Gods country
With all those Victorians ?! Fuck that !
we just ignore them
Why do Queenslanders drink XXXX?
Because they can’t spell beer.
Boom tish.
I’m actually at Burleigh Heads right now- car at the mechanic working in the Bowls Club.
It’s pretty grand up here- great life.
few Little Rock runners- no one out. Crystal clear water, iconic view of Surfers Paradise high rise on the horizon. Babes everywhere.
didn’t bring a board up with me, wish I did.
Sounds nice
If you look closely you’ll notice the plant is smart enough to wait for the Northerly before it uproots and relocates.
Straight to NSW.
What’s your IQ, Barreled?
He’d be up there with Strayan I reckon in the genius range.
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show me those udders Jesse!
Shhhhhhhh Longy, I’m a man of the people and like to keep me gift on the downlow mate
I would have no idea and just ribbing you. Seriousness isn’t the game.
I don’t kiss arse. I tell it like I see it.
Does it feel to you that I’m here to accumulate Likes with arse kissing?
Not at all. Feels like your a skitz cunt when you need to be and a good one when you don’t .
Ass kissing is hawwwt
Xox
Ha! Thanks for that, Blowin. Have you taken the IQ test?
Got invited to attend a school for talented and gifted students based on the results plus academic results and teacher assessment back in early primary school.
BTW Agree with the auto spell hatred. I type as fast as my typing finger will permit but the autocorrect fucks me over. Not till I reread later that I realise the extent.
There was some other good convos on your poddy. Think I’ll listen to more episodes
Cunts never invited me or maybe me invite got lost in the post. Sounds fucked anyway so they can all go suck off a horse
Intelligence is all just varying degrees of pattern recognition. Your vocabulary alone puts you well above average. Ability to craft narrative with verve and skill adds more weight.
I read your books and I liked them.
And I read some Dostoyevsky! Not all….
Would you please be kind enough to tell me what it is about Dostoyevsky that you find so uniquely appealing?
Oh man… Notes from Underground had me from the first lines. Dostoyevsky understands and then is able to put into writing the essence of human experience.
I have never understood this jack off and his highschool chick pop. Then to see him covered in ink is just puzzling. Ed literally sucks on 100% of anything music related.
Is the term your looking for in that headline jerry rigging?
Or more like this…
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…a bit of a combo.
He gave me one final laugh when he said, at the end, that he reckons his stock is on the rise because he’s being invited onto podcasts. A great sense of humour.
@ Chas “Chas” Smith
The future of pro surfing, or old and played out already ?
First aboriginal junior world champ?? https://uploads.disquscdn.c… thatll do me
Straight off the streets of Port headland….
meanwhile some real aboriginal kid ….
She needs more sunscreen
Fitzroy Crossing represent!
yep….and not just beautiful, but a genuinely nice person.
I would love to see Chas working away on his joint wearing some kind of pastel coloured nail bag
Its called a european carry all you neanderthal.
Bond have you looked up the meanings of bush doof and rave cave yet mate?
Aaagh the bush doof…1st 2 days bliss… the next 2 like I imagine guantanamo to be
I have not mate. Been too busy rolling up all my spare change to take to the bank so I can pay for frumpies overpriced gas and grocery prices. Please enlighten us.
I looked them up.
The internet doesn’t fully agree on what classifies as a bush doof, but the jist is counterculture, multi-day, drug-fueled, electronic music festivals held outside of cities in the bush or forest with some emphasis on communing with nature.
There are various definitions of a rave cave, and it seems to have evolved over time, but they are generally described as shorter events held indoors in places like warehouses. Still drug-fueled but grittier dance vibes.
Is that close SC?
Yeh that’s reasonably close mate, all the good ones round here are held in the hinterland behind Byron. Best one I ever went to was held close to a waterfall and its like the whole thing was powered solely by an industrial strength batch of Molly(MDMA) from Mullumbimby hahaha. Fucking crazy times!!!
Doing the lords work Sofa.
I picture him more wearing one of those fruity aprons that finish chippy’s like to wear. His would definitely a lavender pastel though.
wavepools are the ultimate enshittification of surfing.
a crappy corporate arse raping
Yes they are mate. They disgust me
Have you ever actually been to one?
No and I never will!!
missing nothing mate.
Lets start a go fund me for him. The council taxes and Trump have really taken a toll on him. He is a proud man and would never ask for help.
Only place ive been barrelled 5 waves in a row
My personal best was 6 barrels in 7 waves at an undisclosed beachie in NSW.
No turnstiles. No time limit. No paying at the entry gate.
But you get sand in your toes !! Sand !!
I’m afraid that wavepools would put sand in my vagina ( metaphorically).
almost too lame for words.
I was so happy and proud when a group of the local groms went down there and came back saying how lame it was.
never been so stoked on the next generation.
If you gotta fly 1000 ks then drive for an hour i could understand their frustration
gotta fly 6 hrs and drive 6 hrs to get to Krui- which doesn’t bother them
I spose they aint payin either
have to be rich these days to live on the coast
So thats why theres so many nepalese and tibetans living in Dee why!!
Just quietly, my neighbour told me theyd do anything they could to not live near muzzos
That is insane and sad to me. I don’t know how as a grom you wouldn’t have a blast there.
I like spending money
Never been to Fiji or Indo Bexy?
Apparently not
No and yes
I was living on the Goldie first couple years of South Straddy.
40 or 50 barrels in a session.
Thats cause ur so good.
you could probably do it too Bexy.
If you can ride one of those little midget barrels at the tub, you could probably get a real one.’
just pull in and aim for daylight
The wavepool tubes look hard. No draw off the base, tight transition. Made for Lord Tyrion Lannister.
They are, but it can be worked out, then you cant miss
so, like a root in the knock shop?
Hey man if it makes you happy to be unhappy about them then im happy for you
not unhappy at all mate- never felt better.
but appreciate the sentiment, same to you.
probably more fun on a lid
Seen plenty of vision on your point, points. Got a deep deep one on the inside of the pass believe it or not, foambal spit, the works