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We talk about the fires in Los Angeles, Evgenia’s precog abilities that stopped us from moving back there, the similarities between me and Roman Polanski, and my reporting on the billionaire farmers and old oligarchic land speculators that built LA and California. And of course water — we talk about water.

—Yasha

PS: Read my essay on the fires and the terraforming-aqueduct system that made the fires and life in Los Angeles possible.

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