this goes into it a bit and is a good listen in general. https://overcast.fm/+AAyIOzvst0E

they are not real businesses in the insurance sense. its all federal money for flood insurance. they’re just servicers kinda like mortgage originators.

why is the federal gov doing this? let Texas and Florida die if they cost that much. their bad people just fuck everything up and the real estate seems destined for trash in 50 years.

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pssh I wish I could use my own hardware. even if you get a great machine at first they never upgrade. do it like phones where you get an allowance if you use your own for work. I’d dual boot and always have top of the line

was it by the Potomac? are they done now?

really? life in prison would have me seriously consider it. I’ve considered it plenty from normal life also so maybe that’s why.

Dunder Mifflin puts love in their paper.

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I really don’t understand what Yall are talking about. ISPs don’t host childporn. In fact they host nothing, and should not be responsable or even aware of what goes through their pipes. It should be illegal for them to snoop. Starlink is an isp. Even if starlink starts blocking x, or anything else, which they shouldn’t be able to, people can vpn around that. People shouldn’t have to though. This is a net neutrality issue. ISPs shouldn’t be allowed to block or alter or selectively slow or disable content on the net.

as far as how it always worked, it never even required willingly going to war, just loosing. id bet there are no people on earth that haven’t been conquered and displaced or assimilated at least a bit. many of them hundreds of times. these no such thing as indigenous/native people or land unless you work with a very short memory or have no history.

you deal with the people doing it and not with the people who control the pipes.

edit. I see the part of my comment that was confusing and I edited it without removing it. i still have more nuance to that part of the statement but its more than I’m willing to type and just muddys my point.

isp’s and even governments should not be in charge of censoring content. child porn and state secrets and even twitter can be illegal without forcing an isp to censor peoples internet. for years I’ve seen lemmy and reddit fight for net neutrality and common carrier status, but as soon as elon is involved the hate boner takes over. lemmy is so weird.

don’t stop the CJ!

haven’t carried a wallet in more than a year. phone only. its quite nice.

it was a different time. people did things because they were hard because they themselves were harder. they were also teamed together, opposite of now. people use to get worried if the city over got the new jobs, not the country over.

eh. I was the poor lifeguard sometimes. not much worse than picking up your dogs poop. its not like you have to do it with your mouth, there are gloves and bags.

I’ve worked at pools. its about a half dozen times a summer at a fairly busy pool. pool gets shocked (extra chlorine) and then I forget how many hours and its good to go. oh and any chunks are netted out first. the lifeguards get a nice break.

I think they are different levels of bad. To paraphrase the old adage, If sales takes over your company, be wary. If accountants take over, start looking for a new job. If lawyers take over quit.

Better them than accountants and lawyers.