They just up their premiums in high risk areas and fight paying out after events. Just another broken part of the system.

Yup this is the city and Centerpoint that should be on the hook for this

I agree. I’d fucking love that.

Although being disconnected from the national grid is a problem. This isn’t the problem this time.

This was poor preparation and response by the city and power company. We haven’t had proper tree trimming around power lines and there weren’t repair crews staged for this. Not to mention trees dying off from extreme heat/cold then being blown down.

A buried explosive will still have a non-zero chance of detonating.

Would you walk through a field of “self-disarmed” land mines?

This isn’t a credit issuer problem, it’s a wage problem.

You are delusional if you think more will never come.

They dropped half their flavors too, you either get generic protein shake or banana based fruit smoothie in 5 variations.

I can’t see him saying Marxist, not intentionally anyway

Lock out, tag out

One can write for newspaper and not be a journalist. Columnist for example.

Far from it, his life being worse doesn’t make mine better.

I find that with a lot of movies lately

States rights*

*terms and conditions apply

For me I think it depends on insider ownership. If the management and developers are holding reasonable stakes then it encourages putting out a product that is profitable… I convinced myself out of it, profitable doesn’t always mean good.

These need an abdomen with a shell.

Do you use something in place of it?

You might enjoy dougdoug

They already have

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