[i_haz_rabies]

Wow, the people interviewed in this article are wildly out of touch.

“What are we supposed to do, just have dirt around our house on four acres?” -- if there is a drought, then yes. there are other ways to landscape, and these people can afford to pay someone to make a pretty rock garden for them.

[ceejayoz]

I'm honestly baffled that people will talk to a major media outlet like this, knowing full well the quotes will be going into the article.

> And she defends the amount of water she and her neighbors need for their vast estates. “You could put 20 houses on my property, and they’d have families of at least four. In my house, there is only two of us,” Butler said. So “they’d be using a hell of a lot more water than we’re using.”

"I have enough land for 80 people, I should get more of other stuff as a reward."

[ClumsyPilot]

"I have enough land for 80 people, I should get more of other stuff as a reward."

What is this logic?

[i_haz_rabies]

I keep having to downgrade my baseline for "the good in human nature."