The world has lost a true visionary.

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    13 hours ago

    A really great person on so many levels. I like to believe that he had a good life.

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    24 hours ago

    He had emphysema… they didn’t specifically connect it, but I would be shocked if the fires had no effect on his health. Ash causing strokes and heart failure are some of the specific things they warn about in the air quality warnings. There’s still ash everywhere because it hasn’t rained and they don’t expect it to for at least another week, probably longer. So every time a car goes by in the street it’s kicking up ash that people are breathing in.

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      23 hours ago

      In the 2020 Oregon fires, everything was coated in ash even though we were 20-30 miles away. I used a respirator while working outside and it didn’t take long for the filters to get all sooty. You’d come outside in the morning and your car would be covered in it as if we’d had fresh snowfall. I have no doubt that it caused problems for someone with emphysema.

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    19 hours ago

    What the hell, this one caught me off guard. He was another one I thought would live forever.

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      9 hours ago

      He smoked for nearly 70 years straight, and had emphysema so bad he couldn’t leave his house, and had to be on constant oxygen.

      He’s been on death’s door for a few years now.

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    24 hours ago

    I’ve always been vaguely bewildered by people getting upset at the deaths of people they’d never met and didn’t know. Now I know better. I’m just glad our time on this planet coincided and I got to experience the work of a unique mind.

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    23 hours ago

    Damn this one is a bummer. I always found his work interesting at the very least.

    That jump scare in Mulholland Drive gets me every time still.

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    21 hours ago

    May he have beautiful blue skies and golden sunshine, all along the way.