Careful you can catch a ban for sectarianism, we are (or at least used to be) sensitive about that
I'm an ML, but I personally don't like hostility to other leftists tendencies, and think that we need to be more proactive about stamping out pointless drama.
I never understand this.
“Porky screws you over? Just take it with a smile! The rich have no responsibility and let poor porky roll around in the mud in peace, stupid moralizer!”
I think Bill still presupposes/assumesthe American Dream of being a petit propretaire is still there.
Lmao, this is literally the Ben Shapiro tweet where he suggested that sea level rise won't be a problem because people who live on the coast could just sell their property and move.
The response is a reference to an Hbomberguy video where he busts through a wall and shouts ”Sell then to who, Ben? Fucking Aquaman?”
I remember that vividly. Way to tell your rich friends who can afford the coast that their treat-lifestyle just has to be collateral damage.
So, in general, home insurance is required by mortgage lenders. I wonder if corporate real estate companies (e.g. Blackrock) are going to buy these uninsurable homes (in cash, ergo no mortgage). Too much risk, or count on the government backstopping it because they always bail out corporations?
I think it's going to change the face of real estate, not for the better.
traditional mortgages will be gone, black rock can swoop in and buy up the ashes for peanuts and use their access to non traditional financing to put up cheap housing and force renters to purchase their in-house fire insurance products that, reading the small print, don't cover hardly any belongings/possessions and dump all the liability on the occupant. so, in effect the renters are paying rent + premiums on fire insurance that only gets used to rebuild the houses when they evitably burn down.
or some shady shit like that, and probably localized to the neighborhoods in highest demand for worker housing.
no clue whats gonna happen with beachfront premium property. cheaply built short term rentals?
Eh. In Malibu and Pacific Palisades the local nimbys will probably prevent anything like that unless they get a big kickback. I expect those towns will just be rebuilt even richer by people who are wealthy enough to not need financing and therefore not required to have insurance.
And I imagine LA city government will bend over backwards to install some sort of wildly expensive gadget meant to be like "Iron Dome for wildfires" that will probably be as effective as the original.
The market has determined the American civilization must abandon its greatest cultural center.
There is no alternative.
I thought the wildfires were happening in LA, not New York.
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
The Human Torch (Jonathan Lowell Spencer "Johnny" Storm) is a superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character is a founding member of the Fantastic Four. He is writer Stan Lee's and artist Jack Kirby's reinvention of a similar, previous character, the android Human Torch of the same name and powers who was created in 1939 by writer-artist Carl Burgos for Marvel Comics' predecessor company, Timely Comics.
I'm guessing Carl Burgos did not get any extra money
Yeah, it's a typo. If I made that typo ngl I'd probably delete the post and curl into a nautilus corn cob out of embarrassment
Because otherwise it's a banger of a post
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
Honestly I think there is a window of opportunity here where, if you accept (far) less than market rate, that is feasible, right now. Before they find out.
its real. I have been trying for a decade to get my boomer parents to recognize that there won't be a big alarm announcing the time to convert their home equity in a dangerous disaster zone into home equity in a safe, decent area. that the door to get out will one day be locked and they won't know until they try to open it and realize they are trapped.
they don't care. they see Zillow estimates and think they can just take a check for that whenever they want.
