I don’t think its hilarious as much as it is insidious. Imagine your grandmother seeing the meme and deciding correctly that it does look similar, but not be sufficiently versed at maps to recognize the scale differences. She doesn’t have the faculties to be sufficiently inquisitive enough. She reblogs it to her…

Because possibilities like “matches” and “cigarettes pitched off the freeways” and “backyard fireworks” and “idiots trying to deep-fry turkeys” are all too boring for them to believe....

Oh FFS. What’s to be gained by torching rich folks houses in fucking MALIBU? 

That’s hilarious. Use two maps at completely different scale to make it look like there similarly shaped data overlaps.

Why the fuck to conspiracy theorists have to come up with the most unlikely chain of events to support their crackpot theories?

Yeah, PG&E has been behind many big fires, especially in NorCal. We’ve also had fires cause by hunters that think they need a campfire at the end of summer, idiots pulling their car off into high dry grass, morons dragging a trailer with a blown tire sparking for miles, and the slightly understandable homeless camp…

When you don’t trust anyone. You’re constantly thinking that nothing is real and they’re all out to get you, that’s paranoia. So you convince yourself that everything is a conspiracy.

Yeah, they said this last year when California was on fire.  And I said the same thing then:  Why lasers?  Why not a lighter?