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Now unfortunately people will donate again to BLM and she'll be right back to where she was. Recall when I said eat the fucking rich? I don't always have that opinion but in this case yeah fuck that whore. My friend in Edmonton says that about 30% of your income taxes are related to various Canadian health services and that they are collected at the provincial level, i.e. that would be roughly similar to how it would be if it was collected as part of state income taxes in the US. As a result everything from an ambulance ride to emergency stabilizing care basically is free. Anything that's not going to kill you right away though you're going to wait. It took him 6 months to go to a specialist for a thrush infection in his mouth. In the meantime he had been trying to treat it with basically every type of off the shelf treatment.
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Not all lenders find out right away.
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It is a problem for sure. Same issue with the health insurance system because we're subsidizing the sick people when we're healthier. People want to argue that it's part of taking care of our own etc but it's all arbitrary and up to their discretion.
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Technically you're supposed to if you have a mortgage yes. Some people forego it but at that point it's time to sell the house and move if you can't maintain insurance. If the house is paid for and you don't have insurance that's called being a retard. If your insurance company cancels on short notice it's time to either sue, sell or find another insurance company FAST. I'm still not seeing where I should have sympathy for people who are in denial about it. Three of my friends in Tampa suffered flooding in the past year and their insurance company canceled. Two took the repair payout to pay down the house mortgage as much as possible and sold the house to move. The last one is being stubborn but he has at least decided to do something smart and negotiated with his insurance company and they have agreed to help him pay for raising a house on pilings. That's not an option for everybody and he's extremely rich but there you go. The Palisades fire is affecting two areas that are heavily populated: Malibu and northern Santa Monica. These areas are rich. https://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-search/Malibu_CA/overview https://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-search/Santa-Monica_CA/overview If you're telling me you can't fucking insure your house then you deserve what happens. I don't want to be a shit person here but listen why am I supposed to feel sympathy for people who are living in denial? Because this happens every fucking year and it's gotten worse every fucking year. Are you going to sit there and tell me that every time I should bring out my handkerchief and wallet? Because I don't for Florida. I straight up told my friends that if they stayed they were going to fuck themselves financially unless they made changes to their house and compromised their lifestyles. And because I know that y'all are gonna mention it: https://www.zillow.com/home-values/47019/pasadena-ca/ https://www.redfin.com/city/21169/CA/Altadena/housing-market Yeah no sympathy for rich white people who make stupid decisions sorry. By comparison, here's a semi close county to me and an idea of our housing market: https://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-search/King-George-County_VA Less than half. We get very little wildfire activity, we have had exactly one earthquake that you can feel over the past 200 years, no hurricanes, little snow, reliable power, plenty of fucking water. I'm sorry but by comparison I'm living in fucking paradise and we can afford homeowner insurance out here despite being fucking broke. So stay mad.
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I'm not the one who kneels at the holy altar of neoconservatism and begs the politicians to mack in my mouth. I'm also not the one living in denial that my state is unsafe and harmful to my health. The majority of areas affected are affluent, white neighborhoods. You think I'm going to feel sorry for someone who's going to end up getting more money on their homeowners insurance than their house is worth? There's nobody to have empathy for.
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Southern California has been having increasingly bad wildfires for a long fucking time and people have plenty of notice to, you know, leave LA behind? Like a sensible person. You think I'm bad on california? You should see what I've been saying about Florida after this past storm season. Same problem different cause. I don't have any sympathy for people who chose to live in a fire prone area. Especially the ultra wealthy. James woods. Paris Hilton? Heidi Montag? Fuck them they have insurance and three homes elsewhere. Everyone else in LA lives in tiny houses or apartments struggling to get but and have had multiple opportunities to leave. Why didn't they? You always have a choice. Also the sooner that SoCal burns to the ground and depopulates, the sooner they stop being water thieves for the Colorado river. Y'all are taking way more water than it sustainable. Ever wondered why coloradans hate you guys as much as Texans? For my part, fucking love Texans. They're some of the freest bastards. Out east we know how to manage our forests. They aren't massive old growth but they are absolutely there, just fragmented much more in order to help control spreads. We clear cut, replant, and do it every few years in places close to residential areas, each time moving the location of the strip. And yes their policies have made it worse. 10AM fire rules, no controlled burns, etc.
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I think the biggest reason why California constantly has the worst wildfires is because of poor forest management. They didn't let fires burn for years when the forests are naturally designed to do that so all the brush built up. Now the environmentalist won't allow loggers to clear cut which is the only way logging companies are willing to do it because that's the way that you clear out the brush and at the same time get profit. And yes clear cutting you replant and you can save some seedlings along the way and do it in strips so that you're not completely destroying a forest. If you do this enough times, you end up making the forest more resilient. But in general it's shit like this that makes me wonder the sustainability of continuing to settle Southern California. Seriously we should not be irrigating deserts. Very little sympathy for the people who stayed and the people who are losing their homes at this point. They've been warned for more than 20 years that their lifestyle is unsustainable and now they're getting what's coming to them.
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Car culture is something that isn't exclusive to one political ideology or the other. I'm cool with people who are liberals as long as they keep their politics where they're at. Three families moved into my area from the channel Islands and all of them are conservative so I have no problem with any of them. They're all awesome
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What's your suggesting is still impractical. Top level domain names are a country specific thing so .ru content policy is going to be different than .co.uk or anything like that. It's going to be impossible to get dozens of countries to agree to that, especially say .TV (Tuvalu) because a lot of their revenue comes simply from domain name sales. Your ISP can't filter that effectively and neither can Google. And we shouldn't be giving Google carte blanche to censor shit either. They already do but giving them permissions just like "ok now we double rape you then" The internet is the centralized and unregulated for very good reasons. Pornography access by children is a pearl clutching by the Republican party but it's really not a serious thing and as the governor candidate in the past election in North Carolina showed they have skeletons in their closet too regarding porn
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To illustrate the absurdity of just telling your ISP "I don't want my internet connection to even access this particular internet content as a whole." Consider how the internet actually works. 85% of the internet traffic is secured over TLS. This means your ISP doesn't know the domain name (e.g. pornhub.com), the page or any other aspect of the content other than your IP address accessed X IP address. That IP address might be shared with dozens of websites due to NAT. A DNS (Domain name system) request is usually secured at this point either by TLS or DNSSEC, so it can't be monitored. So your ISP is going to say "yeah that's impractical/impossible" and you're going to end up getting laughed at. With the way the internet works, internet filters basically rely on self-reporting. But then I only porno site needs to do is create a proxy site, which is cheap and easy enough to do that anyone with the basic tech know how can do it. Or they give out the direct IP address which at that point you're screwed unless you know that it resolves to that. There is no way to do this effectively or practically. It's an absurd take and it's absolutely hilarious people think it's similar to how channels operate. It's not. And these systems have been in place and established for over 40 years at this point. For you to argue that it can be changed or modified or this that or the other would be absurd. So how do you protect kids? Well when they get to that age you do it any responsible parent has to do and you got to set them down you got to talk to them about it. You let them know your expectations with regards to them accessing this material and you sit down ground rules and if you've gained your kids respect by being a fair and decent parent instead of a strict dick head they're more likely that not rebell against you. As it turns out old 1950s and '60s parenting methods fucking sucked for the most part (except some aspects of corporal punishment) '90s parenting techniques were equally terrible, fwiw. Participation awards are stupid.
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Yeah Muslim countries have restrictions on access to porn and it doesn't work out so great there. Look up the studies. I don't know about you but I don't want to emulate anything about a goddamn Muslim country. You look at the places that are actually restricting access to these things and they have higher incidences of all sorts of crime against women. And it doesn't stop people from accessing it. It only makes them more desperate to access it. I don't like pornography anymore than you do especially being accessed by children but you can't fundamentally from the way the internet is designed: null route massive amounts of traffic. Internet filters don't work. The internet is not like a goddamn cable box
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So apparently I now disagree with the socialist of America. What the fuck kind of timeline are we in
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I think that the bigger issue is that people aren't able to contextualize pornography effectively. I remember I was 13 and I had titty pictures on my laptop and thought it was the coolest thing ever because I could get away with it, and because my parents were such prudes that anytime the topic broached anything sexual I got sent to my room. If you don't want your kids to access what's on the internet then don't give them internet access. Period. Always assume your kids are smarter than you when it comes to internet access if you're really that paranoid but yeah we don't need to give kids internet access. You don't need the internet if you have a computer necessarily there is still plenty of ways to have locally hosted or even offline resources for children.
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Dexron IIi works. Don't buy the most expensive brand
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Ehh the small porn sites don't care. You can do your tally whacking on small porno sites instead.