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JohnnyCanuck

@ JohnnyCanuck @lemmy.ca

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  • Thousands of Los Angeles homeowners were dropped by their insurers before the Palisades Fire

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  • That's an entirely different argument, and your math is way off.

    You pay $2000 a month for 360 months

    I'm pretty sure the insurance is closer to $2000 per year. So $2000 per year for 30 years is $60000, which is not going to cover the total loss on a $300000 home. $2000 per month would be on something like a $10million home.

    They've been collecting insurance payments on those houses WITHOUT LOSSES for many months.

    If there had been no losses, people wouldn't have needed insurance. There are 1000s of homes insured and some percentage of them will have had some amountof payouts from the pool of money. Insurance pays out for lots of different types of losses, and they have to weigh the risks. They're not charities.

    Don't get me wrong, insurance is a racket and they will do everything they can to deny coverage and stuff the pockets of their investors. But if you want to force them to provide coverage when there's pretty much guaranteed losses, they will just exit the business altogether.

  • Thousands of Los Angeles homeowners were dropped by their insurers before the Palisades Fire

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  • It's a way of making reasonable profits providing a service people need.

    And 6 months ago they saw that they were likely to take major losses insuring homes in that area so they stopped renewing policies. So the options were to use the last-resort state provided insurance (FAIR Act), go uninsured, or move. A lot of people didn't switch to the state insurance.

  • Zuckerberg calls for "repopulation" of "cultural elite class"

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  • Trump’s invasion of Greenland would be ‘the shortest war in the world’

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  • Maybe the shortest invasion, but the USA invading an ally, and a NATO ally specifically, would have repercussions long after the invasion itself. It could result in the dissolution of NATO altogether which would greatly embolden Russia, and perhaps China and Iran, in their ambitions. I don't think Trump is particularly concerned about all that, which is the scary part.

    In short, it might be the shortest invasion, but it might be the start of another long war involving most of the world. Which doesn't seem like a great way to "protect the free world".

  • What's something you can't buy ready made, but have to make at home?

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  • I make sure to never get attached to one brew so I can drink it anywhere, anytime. I'll drink instant without hot water if I need to (and not just frappe.)

  • What made you join Lemmy?

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  • I still have RiF installed for the nostalgia.

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    New Oklahoma Law Says Students Can’t Graduate From High School Until They’re Accepted Into College, A Trade School, Or Join The Military

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  • They'll write a law saying the college has to be government approved. They don't want any loopholes letting people out of the draft.

  • Bogus Pirate IPTV Portals Run By Law Enforcement "Entrap Hundreds" * TorrentFreak

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  • I'm not OP, but I would say it's not a well-written informational article, and the entire argument made by the author is to directly contradict the title.

    The author seems to be trying to come off as an investigative journalist, but does so by trying to weave an entertaining story. In the parts where the author does make journalistic points (rather than creative writing) they often aren't clear about their points. They vaguely mention things without telling you what they think that means. For readers, that means you have to work to glean the actual points from their story, both by deciphering what isn't creative writing, and by unraveling their unexplained quotations and off-hand statements.

    When they finally start getting away from creative writing, you're subject to a bunch of info and quotations pulled directly from the Repubblica article before finally getting to the meat of the author's argument (emphasis mine): "The report strongly implies that these sites exist to lure in unsuspecting customers, gather evidence of wrongdoing, then use self-provided names and addresses to issue fines." There are a couple of quotes that kind of back this up. However the author even agrees that the quotes aren't really supportive: "It doesn’t state that directly but most reasonable readers seem likely to draw that conclusion."

    But most of the discussion/quotes in this area are just telling you random info from the Repubblica article that is unrelated to this argument anyway.

    Then the article takes a left turn and starts randomly talking about sting operation legality in multiple jurisdictions, and some random statements about the (il)legality of IPTV. I think the implication here is that law enforcement wouldn't do this type of sting since it would be illegal, and what the targets are doing isn't likely to be deemed illegal anyway. This seems like a weak argument, at best, but it's the best I can come up with since the author didn't explicitly tell us their point here.

    As a reminder, the title of the article is 'Bogus Pirate IPTV Portals Run By Law Enforcement “Entrap Hundreds”'. That means you're going into the article thinking you're going to get a story about Bogus Pirate IPTV sites. But then the author is basing that title off an article they spend their whole article debunking. That just makes it that extra little bit of difficult to quickly read the article. A more accurate title would have been "Italian Journal Claims Bogus Pirate IPTV Portals Run By Law Enforcement to Entrap Hundreds (But I Don't Think It's True) ”.

    All in all, I think it's a difficult read, and most certainly a difficult scan.

  • What traits do you think makes someone a multi-sport athlete?

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  • I don't think anyone has mentioned: being very competitive.

  • Can you imagine how good Smurfs must taste when Gargamel can't decide whether to eat them or turn them into gold?

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  • They're "Les Schtroumpfs" in French.

  • Ffs. Really now, has anybody ever said "omg yay Santa Baby has come on! I welcome this development!"

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  • Somewhere uncomfortable

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  • Pricing software adds billions to rental costs, White House says

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  • Yeah, it requested an email address.

    Your blocker must be blocking that.

  • Hornets apologize after pretending to give child PS5 and taking it away off camera - Yahoo Sports

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  • Psych!

  • The 7 Prominent Theories Explaining the Mystery Drones - Decrypt

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  • Some politician posted a video of "drones" in the sky and it was literally the constellation of Orion.

  • Pricing software adds billions to rental costs, White House says

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  • Having to provide an email address is a paywall.

  • 17 December 2024

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  • Upgrade your Tablet to use replaceable batteries.

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  • Cool, but I'm not seeing a link to the tutorial.

  • Tencent and Guillemot Brothers' Ubisoft buyout reportedly held up by dispute over control

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  • Username checks out.

  • Mexican troops seize a record fentanyl haul in northern Sinaloa state

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  • For perspective, in the recent "super lab" bust in Canada, 54 kilos of fentanyl were seized (plus a bunch of other stuff, including 390 kilos of meth).

    I think I read that 54 kilos is like 25 million strong doses, but I'm no expert.

    Almost 1500 kilos of fentanyl being seized is truly massive.