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Anonymous ID: 7aabb3 Oct. 8, 2021, 8:17 a.m. No.14746211   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>6249 >>6250 >>6263 >>6505 >>6609

'Heartbreaking' Loss of Giant Sequoias Reported in California's KNP Complex Fire

 

https://www.newsweek.com/heartbreaking-loss-giant-sequoias-reported-californias-knp-complex-fire-1637045?piano_t=1

 

Wildfires raging across Northern California might have burned hundreds of the giant sequoia trees that grow naturally in the Sierra Nevada, according to an official. Christy Brigham, the head of resource management and science for the Sequoia and Kings Canyon national parks, called the potential loss "heartbreaking," the Associated Press reported.

 

Brigham said that the KNP Complex Fire, which ignited on September 9 from a lightning strike, has burned into 15 of the parks' giant sequoia groves. The effect of the blaze on the trees varied, with fires burning at a low- or medium-intensity level in most groves, which Brigham said many of the trees have evolved to endure.

 

Two of the groves, however, seemed to have been hit by high-intensity fire that can shoot flames up to 100 feet high, AP reported. Those flames have the ability to sear the canopies of the soaring trees, putting them at risk of bursting into flames "like a horrible Roman candle," according to Brigham.

Anonymous ID: 7aabb3 Oct. 8, 2021, 8:24 a.m. No.14746251   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>6274 >>6303 >>6304 >>6329 >>6508 >>6558 >>6635 >>6852

Dave Chappelle: 'If this is what being canceled is like, I love it'

 

https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/in-the-know/575932-dave-chappelle-if-this-is-what-being-canceled-is-like-i-love-it

 

Dave Chappelle is seemingly embracing "being canceled" amid a controversy over transphobic comments in his latest comedy special.

 

"If this is what being canceled is like, I love it," Chappelle said Thursday during an appearance at the Hollywood Bowl after getting a standing ovation, according to the Hollywood Reporter.

 

"F- Twitter. F- NBC News, ABC News, all these stupid ass networks," the 48-year-old comic told the crowd during brief remarks. "I’m not talking to them. I’m talking to you. This is real life.”

 

Critics accused Chappelle of "ridiculing trans people" in his Netflix special "The Closer," which debuted earlier this week.

 

"Gender is a fact," Chappelle says in the program, while defending author J.K. Rowling against critics who have called her transphobic.

 

"Every human being in this room, every human being on earth, had to pass through the legs of a woman to be on Earth. That is a fact," Chappelle said, using crude terms to refer to a transgender person's anatomy.

 

The National Black Justice Coalition, an LGBTQ advocacy organization, had urged Netflix to remove "The Closer" from its platform, saying the media giant "should know better."

 

GLAAD slammed Chappelle, saying the comedian's brand "has become synonymous with ridiculing trans people and other marginalized communities."

 

A Netflix spokesperson denied ITK's request for comment on Thursday.