Add on top of that all the natural disasters from mud slides fires, earthquakes—I just don't get it.
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I currently live in the Midwest, but everyone always thinks we get tornadoes all the time but I haven't even seen one (aside from some storm chasing I did back in college where you drive far away looking for the right storm). They're super rare and typically only affect a small area, unlike hurricanes, unless you get a once a decade storm like Joplin.
You understand that you're making precisely the same mistake you're accusing others of, right?
California is the third-largest state by area (with the largest population of any state, around 39 million, and the fifth largest economy
in the world). Heck, San Diego
county is larger than the
states of Rhode Island and Delaware
combined. Things that happen "in California" don't happen in every part of the state, even though people see "fire in California" on the news and think
all of California is on fire.
I've lived here all my life, and there's been only one time I can remember when we were told, "stay home, don't travel, because of the fires", and that was due to fires that were still many dozens of miles away. Similarly, major earthquakes have happened elsewhere in the state (as have a handful of mudslides) while I've been alive, but all far
far away from here.
It's like someone from another country hearing that the United States had fires or hurricanes, or tornadoes, and just assuming that meant every bit of all 50 states were on fire, or under water, or flying off to Oz to land on a wicked witch.
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Rainbows were just colorful rainbows, and duh, part of the original Apple logo, before it meant anything about orientation.
Aside from the colors being in the right order for Apple's logo, and the wrong order for any Gay Pride connection, it seems like the people who get their noses bent out of shape about "sexual orientation being on display in public" are actually upset about an orientation
other than their preferred one appearing anywhere in public. They don't loudly protest the absolutely enormous amount of
heterosexual oriented displays we are inundated with every day, including beautiful (and frequently scantily clad) women on billboards and on TV posed and presented in displays specifically designed to sell things to men (as they say, "sex sells"). Our culture is positively drenched with open
heterosexual displays, yet if an ad appears anywhere that has a gay couple in it, a small but loud crowd will rise up to call for a boycott of the company in question, for such an affront on their narrow-minded sensibilities.