flabberghaster

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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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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flabberghaster OP wrote (edited )

Reply to comment by hollyhoppet in Why do we have kWh when we already had joules by flabberghaster

Well I mean specifically that a watt is defined as one joule of energy per second, energy over time. Then we multiply that by time and we're left with a kWh being the same dimension as the Joule.

It's like if we measured distance by saying how many "velocity seconds" apart things were. (Which we do in space, we measure vast distances by light seconds but that's not my point)

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flabberghaster wrote

Reply to if u ever have to scrub something super nasty and caked on by skookin

A paste of just baking soda and water also makes for a good abrasive to scrub tough caked in soap scum from your shower, I find. It takes kind of a lot of baking soda to do a whole shower but it works really well, like diatomacious earth kind of.

I wonder if there's another option for it that works as well.

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flabberghaster wrote (edited )

Reply to i think i'm just going to use amazon actually by twovests

Bookshop dot org may be an annoying site to use, I don't know. Amazon is also a spammy and junky website that sucks to use though.

I don't know who owns bookshop dot org but I do know Jeff Bezos is like, at best one step above being a modern slaver and Amazon is definitively complicit in genocide against Palestinians.

So like, yeah there's no ethical consumption under capitalism, I'm not saying bookshop dot org isn't probably also doing son shit behind the scenes, don't know much about them, but Amazon is absolutely one of the most malign forces currently extant on this planet.

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flabberghaster wrote

Reply to comment by twovests in Iron crosses on aluminum-backed stickers invading your neighborhood? It's quicker to cover up an unwanted sticker than it is to debond it from a traffic sign. Carry duct tape with you to cover them up by twovests

It does have a very "check your kids' candy to make sure no one put razors or fentanyl in it" vibe to me. A very scary thing everyone is told to look for but no one has actually seen.

That said I have seen news reports about lawn signs with razors

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