silence7 @ silence7 @slrpnk.net

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Exactly. Insurance handles low-probability high-impact uncorrelated disasters really nicely, and is worth paying for to protect against those.

Correlated disasters require public policy and shared infrastructure to lower their risk and the extent to which people are exposed to them.

Exactly. I'll vote for the kind of politician I want in the primary, and vote tactically for the one who is closest to my views, but who stands something of a chance of winning in the general.

What's going on here is that Sheldon Whitehouse, the Democratic Senator, held a hearing which made data about insurance drops and rate increases public. That's creating a news cycle about it

You probably can't pay out of pocket to replace your house if it burns down.

This article is about homeowners insurance, not health insurance

Both sides do raise money to operate, but the people funding the two parties are, to a very large extent, different.

They do occasionally enforce the signal jamming laws. Do it with any regularity in a way that messes up police radio, and they will work to catch you.

I'm using Firefox with ublock origin and no problems. Maybe Voyager strips out the access token from the URL?

There's a fairly small list of names it refuses. Almost all names are ok; the author's is not.

Mostly because really messed up state on your device can keep Javascript from running.

It's a gift link. You won't hit the paywall during the next couple weeks unless at least one of the following is true:

• You've disabled javascript
• You're running a browser extension which strips off the access token (you may also see this problem if you're accessing the post via mastodon instead of lemmy)
• your device desperately needs a reboot

It's buried because it's not new. They covered that back when it was first announced

Pretty much.

Light pollution hasn't really changed (though it does increase in December every year)

What has changed is a social phenomenon of people taking photos of ordinary stuff, such as planets, stars, or commercial aircraft, posting it to social media, and telling others that it's nefarious drones. This creates social contagion of the idea and action, as others do the same.

Since "mysterious object in sky" gets a lot more social media engagement than "Here's a not-very-good photo of Jupiter" the whole thing spreads.

It's really tough when you get things like a former governor posting a photo of the constellation Orion and trying to claim that it is mysterious hovering drones.

This is the third story of the NYT ran about this today. The other two covered the policy itself, and the likely health consequences

He's old enough that he had polio before their were vaccines to prevent it, and had a leg paralyzed for an extended period of time. Probably saw other kids forced to live in an iron lung and maybe even die

Here's a gift link you can edit into your post so that everbody can have access to the article.

It was. Got raised to 250k a few years back

There's also an implicit guarantee that the federal government would step in an make deposits good if there were a bank failure large enough to wipe out the FDIC

And then China, since they make all the mining ASICs, will simply launch a sybil attack and crash Bitcoin. The ultimate rug pull.