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flabberghaster wrote

Reply to Math is important because I was radicalized about insurance when I learned math by twovests

Even simpler from that, my understanding of it was: Insurance is a risk pool. Everyone pays a certain amount in to a pot of money, and then if they need money from it they get to take a little bit to pay for what they need. That way everyone pays a little bit, and then usually most people don't need it because most people don't get badly injured or very sick very often, so there's supposed to be enough money when someone does.

but wait, if you think about it, if there's just one person paying in to that pot of money, it's not likely to have very much in it if a disaster happens. If there's two people paying in to it, it should have a bit more in it, so what if you and everyone in your household paid in to one? That's more money in the pool, but what happens if something happens that affects everyone in your house? So what if we get everyone on the block to pay in? That way if any one house on the block is affected, collectively there's enough there to help. But wait what if there's like a flood and the whole block is injured or damaged? So what if we got everyone in the town to pay in? The larger your risk pool and the more people are paying in to it, the more money it has and the more the risk is spread out across the population.

So the logical conclusion is shouldn't everyone pay in to one single risk pool?

No that's socialism.

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cowloom wrote

Reply to comment by WRETCHEDSORCERESS in set up a radio :) by WRETCHEDSORCERESS

I know! I miss being able to press a button and instantly hear jazz. Now I have to press a button while I have a Wi-Fi connection to get instant jazz, and that's just a smooth jazz internet radio station. I miss my jazz fusion.

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flabberghaster wrote

Reply to Kevin Can F**k Himself -- Worcester, Alcohol abuse, White Feminism, and Spoilers by twovests

Yeah I liked how almost every time Kevin shows up, it becomes a sitcom. He just takes over the entire world when he's around, except for one single time, when she she's gonna divorce him and he's finally out of power. Late in that season everyone finally started to leave him and that was kind of the last straw. It was cool, pretty well done.

I didn't really get the drug dealing thing. Tammy's really the entire neighborhood's plug and doesn't realize it? What's going on here?

I wish I had something smarter to say about it but this review is really good, thank you.

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rain wrote

Reply to Microbe Monday: To Rust the Earth Itself by WRETCHEDSORCERESS

Thank you! I’ve had this touched on before but never with quite such a vivid description, and it has changed how I mentally image the whole event. Now I’m picturing these new bacteria doing their thing, pumping out their toxic wastes without a care in the world as all the earth’s buffers just kept eating it up. Then, just like a beaker high school science experiment suddenly changing color in the blink of an eye, the buffers fill up and BAM! the entire atmosphere becomes toxic, and life itself becomes fire.

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__0 wrote

Reply to set up a radio :) by WRETCHEDSORCERESS

When i was involved with community radio whenever i was really hung over i would play whole whole godspeed song because its epic and it would give me enough time to take a nap in the booth haha. My shows were pretty insane I remember once i just grabbed random people off the street and got them to play songs on the aux, i would egg them on to play the most out there stuff, ended up doing a line off the broadcast console with one dude, brought a bunch of synthesizers into the studio and played weird sound effects over the songs that the strangers chose was so fun haha, we got a lot of confused calls into the station :) kept going all night cause there was a no show for a few people who were scheduled on their last night of programming. Community radio is great and deserves to be accessible! Give all the freaks a radio show! Its a great platform and all the corporatization of radio has absolutely sucked the soul out of something that has the potential to be one pf the most livid forms of posting tbh!

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