heywood on 16/7/2023 at 01:32
Regarding insurance, old risk models don't account for the increase in severe weather and natural disasters. So insurance companies are losing money.
Going forward, insurance is going to get much more expensive, and/or people will have to take on much bigger financial risks. This is one of the costs of not reducing emissions.
Starker on 16/7/2023 at 02:48
The little I've seen from DeSantis, this guy's got a snowball's chance in Florida of becoming president. He is deeply weird in a very off-putting way.
Nicker on 16/7/2023 at 06:27
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He is deeply weird in a very off-putting way.
Exactly how the "Hurrrrr, stoopid religious right-wingers." like their prezzydints! Huyck.
As for snowballs in Florida. Don't write them off too quickly. I remember celebrating Christmas in Vancouver, (1983 ish). We had the windows open is was so hot and on TV was footage of the Florida orange crop encased in ice.
lowenz on 16/7/2023 at 07:42
Quote Posted by heywood
Regarding insurance, old risk models don't account for the increase in severe weather and natural disasters. So insurance companies are losing money.
Going forward, insurance is going to get much more expensive, and/or people will have to take on much bigger financial risks. This is one of the costs of not reducing emissions.
it's why the Right Wing is so eager to dismiss climate change as a "libtard legend" and not a scientific phenomenon......because they know too much well how this thing will STORM (pun intended) the insurance sector.
Of course thanks to "freedom of speech" you can dismiss science too as a "progressive legend" because you can always ask God for mercy.....God >> Science, so just pray!
That's why freedom of speech can be used
against practical freedom of.....living a relative safe life.
Starker on 16/7/2023 at 09:23
Quote Posted by Nicker
Exactly how the "Hurrrrr, stoopid religious right-wingers." like their prezzydints! Huyck.
I don't think they like them creepily weird and just plain awkward. Quirky, sure, but they generally have to be at least somewhat personable and charismatic, like pretty much all of the modern presidents have been. DeSantis is just a weirdo who doesn't know how to act around people and comes across as robotic and stand-offish even when he's trying to act likable. Plus there's that voice of his.
I know Florida has seen snow in the past, but for that to happen, his opponent must be extremely bad.
Nicker on 16/7/2023 at 10:07
True. Desantis is all the evil, half the stupid and none of the charisma of T***p.
Cipheron on 16/7/2023 at 13:31
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Maybe there are bigger issues going on with the economy. Maybe it's not so simple as "Hurrrrr, stoopid religious right-wingers."
But nah, you guys are always completely
certain that you know everything.
Good try. We're not certain know everything, but we're able to use Google.
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https://www.ocregister.com/2023/06/13/southern-california-inflation-hits-26-month-low-is-that-good-enough/)
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The latest stats, released Tuesday, June 12, show noteworthy cooling. L.A.-O.C. prices were up at a
3.2% annual rate vs. the 8% inflation rate of a year ago. Inflation in Riverside and San Bernardino counties went to 3.9% from 9.4% in May 2022.
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https://edition.cnn.com/2023/07/10/economy/florida-inflation-hotspot-regional/index.html)
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Florida is America's inflation hotspot because of a persistent problem with sky-high housing costs.
The Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach area has the highest inflation rate of metro areas with more than 2.5 million residents, with a 9% inflation rate for the 12 months ended in April.
That's more than double the national average of 4%, according to data from the Consumer Price Index. The Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater metro had the third-highest inflation rate in the country, at 7.3% for the year ended in May.
If you notice, the national average is 4%, and the major areas of California have lower inflation than that. So while inflation is high, it's not *specifically* high in California. In fact just a year ago they were saying inflation in California was a "losing battle". But they seem to have actually won the battle:
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https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2022-06-10/inflation-consumer-prices-southern-california)
So yeah, inflation is nothing to sneeze about, but California actually got it under control better than most places.
Also, why would there be so many unexpected "severe weather events" which have increased the risk for insurers? Bigger and more destructive storms due to global warming. Those aren't localized to specific states.
Nicker on 1/8/2023 at 22:22
The most Bigliest Indicted President in history!
Number Three and counting.
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https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/241) Rump indicted under USC Section 421, Title 18.
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If two or more persons conspire to injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate any person in any State, Territory, Commonwealth, Possession, or District in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him by the Constitution or laws of the United States, or because of his having so exercised the same;
demagogue on 1/8/2023 at 22:33
We haven't even gotten to Georgia yet.
And of course there's no justification for the obstruction charges listed in Part 1 of Mueller's report not going forward now that he's no longer president. Those should be another slam dunk indictment and conviction if they were allowed to go to a Grand Jury to actually get the indictment, but I guess Trump has such an embarrassment of riches in indictments, they'll hardly even be missed underneath the flood of the other ones going forward.
Nicker on 1/8/2023 at 23:00
At the very least, T***p will spend the rest of his life in various courts.
I am torn between wishing he chokes on a cold cheese-burger or living a long life of misery and fear.
Poll?
