If you use Kagi it will let you filter sites by default.

https://theonion.com/you-people-made-me-give-up-my-peanut-farm-before-i-got-1819585048/

I hate TikTok even more now.

It was cool when Trump negotiated it but a dereliction of duty when Biden did what Trump promised. You can’t win with the morons who worship Trump.

You don’t “force through” a negotiation. Trump and his crew of brigands deserve no credit and you should feel embarrassed for thinking they do.

But don’t you dare call it a genocide!

What they should probably do is is cap the settings to what computers at release time can handle, then patch it later with “graphics enhancements” that do nothing but raise the cap. They could even do it more than one. It keeps users’ expectations reasonable at launch and then lets the developers look like they’re going the extra mile to support an older product.

As a bonus, they could store the settings in a text file somewhere that more sophisticated users can easily edit to get max settings on day one.

Something about the “not human” phrasing is bothering me. I get what they’re trying to convey and I don’t dispute it, but it also feels inaccurate in a way that might lead us to miss important aspects of the situation.

I’m sure if you asked an Afghan man how many people live in his home, he’d include women and children in his answer. So I don’t think they literally see women as a separate species.

My gut feeling is more like Afghan men don’t generally believe in the concept of human rights, as opposed to separate sets of rights for men and women. Hell, they may not even believe in the Western concept of rights at all, and may think only in terms of things like religious obligations and cultural norms.

I wonder if there’s a different phrasing we could use that has the same emotional impact but doesn’t suggest questionable conclusions about the world view of Afghans.

The US government ought to require insurers to ensure everywhere had a reasonable cost, or get out of the fucking business.

That’s literally what’s happening at the state level in California. And the insurers got out because they can’t cover their operating expenses while charging what the state considers a reasonable cost.

It was always a terrible idea for the government to offer insurance when private insurers wouldn’t. It just forces everyone to subsidize the lifestyles of people who choose to live in disaster-prone areas. Perhaps it was necessary for a time to avoid major economic upheaval, but constantly rebuilding in areas where disasters keep happening should never have been allowed to become a long-term policy.

In the US, voters have shown over and over that they don’t care if a lot of people become homeless. Why would you expect them to care about people who become homeless because of fires than they do about people who become homeless because of economic conditions?

I think we’re likely to see a collapse of housing markets in places like CA and FL no matter what.

Note the glaring absence of you mentioning their fiduciary responsibility to maximize shareholder value.

A lot of insurance companies, including big ones like State Farm and Liberty Mutual, are owned by their policy holders. So yeah, I made the mistake of not mentioning their fiduciary duty to maximize value for their customers.

Do you grasp the notion that home owners can’t instantly pull up stakes and teleport to more insurable locations?

What do you expect insurance companies to do about it? Keep offering policies and collecting premiums while knowing they won’t be able to pay all the claims they get? That’s called fraud.

You say they’re “slinking off” as if they’ve stolen something, but what have they stolen? You say they’re leaving with their profits, but what profits are you referring to? Do you really think they’d be leaving if they were making money?

Bowties have been out of fashion for so long they just look silly most of the time. That seems like exactly what you’d want for a character who’s supposed to be whimsical.

Also a necktie doesn’t go with a tophat. For reasons I can’t explain, that kind of incongruity looks more accidental than it does whimsical.

Yes, but you also have to believe the system produces satisfactory outcomes often enough for the whole thing to be worth it. It looks increasingly like a system that does little more than punish poor people for being poor and foreign people for being foreign. I would certainly be reevaluating my life choices if I were a criminal lawyer.

FFS, no. Do you even know what insurance is? They are always on the hook to make payouts for any policies that are active, and it happens regularly. Most of the money they take in goes toward paying claims. Most of the rest of the money goes toward overhead, which includes paying actuaries to evaluate how much risk they’re taking on and how much future payouts are going to cost. They determined that providing homeowners’ insurance in CA would soon cost them more in payouts than the state allows them to charge in premiums, so they decided to stop doing business in CA. Nobody was scammed. Their customers all got what they paid for while they were paying for it.

So many people here are speaking as if real estate insurance companies are doing something evil by pulling out of markets where it’s impossible for them to make a profit or even break even. The companies are not reneging on any obligations, just turning away customers they can’t afford to insure, and people here are responding by saying things like all insurance is a scam, and the insurance companies abusing their customers to enrich their shareholders.

I get the feeling they’re taking their opinions of the private health insurance market and applying them to insurance in general, and in doing so they’re demonstrating a lack of understanding of what insurance is for, why it’s required for certain purchases, and why people choose to do business with insurance companies even when they don’t have to

That’s not how it works at all. You’re thinking of health insurance. This thread is about insurers declining to renew contracts, not denying claims.

Good for you, but I like being invited to parties.

Guess what? I still use Reddit, too, because content on Lemmy is extremely scarce in comparison. Mastodon is likewise a fringe network. I’ve barely even heard the name Friendica so I can be certain there are approximately zero people I know there. Shopping local is great when local businesses actually put their prices and inventory online, but they rarely do.