kent_eh @ kent_eh @lemmy.ca

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And when they run out of places to profitably insure?

They'll run out of places to sell insurance pretty fast if climate change isn't effectively countered.

I'm thinking a death match between big oil and big insurance.

If they run out of people/places that are profitable to insure any more, there won't be any profits to make.

They should be putting in effort to reduce climate change impacts. It's in their financial interest, even if they have no capability to have a moral motivation

You'd think that insurance companies would be on the forefront of pushing climate change mitigation and prevention specifically because the impacts of worsening climate change will have a massive impact on their bottom line.

Maybe they can counter some of the petro company propaganda with their own marketing.

It's going to be hard to undo the tipping culture due to this.

So, because something isn't easy we shouldn't even try to improve the situation?

she relied on tips.

That's the real problem.

No employee should rely on the arbitrary generosity of their customers.

Employers need to pay their staff properly for the job they're doing.

And if some staff member happens to go above and beyond, a customer can optionally choose to reward them for that extra level of service with no societal pressure or guilt..

They're getting emboldened by the criminal in chief (elect).

What is that surprising?

The police acted appropriately to an individual pulling a gun on them during a traffic stop.

What would you have done in the same situation?

As a landlord (with only one house) I do not understand why a landlord would raise the rent unless they need to.

You don't understand because you're not a sociopathic "line must go up, moar profitier to infinity and beyond" asshole.

One way it could happen is the CPC limits CBC resources every year, forcing it to gradually degrade, & increasingly rely on advertisers. Then when the plug is finally pulled, it won't seem so bad, because it's so degraded anyway.

AKA starve the beast

I'm ready for life without Pierre Polierve.

They also have a lot of easily accessed geothermal heat.

It might work in regions that have natural thermal vents (such as in the mountains), but I don't think that's an option across much of the country.

We're part of Canada too.

Judging by the national media's coverage, you'd never know that.

And this disagreement was one of the main reasons Trudeau abandoned the attempt. (Noting that the attempt was started then abandoned as a failed effort, which I see as different from a cynically broken promise)

There was no clear path to a consensus, even among experts, on which other system to adopt.

Couple that with the reality that the majority of Canadians don't really care about the minutae of the voting system.

Sure highly politically engaged people in discussion forums might care deeply, but the average person really doesn't.

And now we see the obvious reason why Trump ran for election - he sees it as the only way to keep his sorry ass out of prison.

Trump would not elaborate on what he meant by his threat

That's on-brand for him.

It's just vague posturing. A concept of a plan for a threat at most.

Or maybe the scam is "click here to claim..."

first they tried to argue the contract shouldn't have been written that way so I still had to pay.

"So what? You're the ones who wrote the contract. It's your fuckup, you pay for that not me..."