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After the Dog Head fire in New Mexico, where hundreds of homes were destroyed, State Farm just almost immediately canceled thousands of fire insurance policies all over the state. There were no refunds, inspections, or any sort of reasonable actions. I had to go to the local fire department to...

With something like health insurance, you start paying in during your 20s, at something like $1000/month for a family. You have been paying in close to half a million by the time you are 60 years old, and then when you are likely to actually need medical care, then can just drop you and keep...

It has been a while, so I don't have perfect recollection of the details. But a couple years ago there was a Dog Head forest fire in NM, and State Farm almost immediately canceled my fire insurance near Grants, several hundred miles away, forcing me to go with Farm Bureau, that has federal...

Since I am somewhat sympathetic to Russia, it sort of seems an insult to Russia to call Trump a "Russian asset". While on the surface it would seem to Russia's advantage to break up NATO as Trump risks doing, the reality is that NATO has never been the good guys, and instead participated in the...

Mao was correct. Normal human society is similar to Meerkats, where the tribe all shares and defends each other out of instincts of empathy and sympathy. Due to Mideast desertification, people were forced to increase population density along river banks, and human nature was over ridden by greed...

{... In the RCP Average, Trump’s approval rating hovered around 43% during his first term and currently stands at 46.9%. Stacking this up against other presidents, he doesn’t fare too well. The only president with approval below Trump’s at this point in his presidency was Trump himself during...

The New Testament is not bad, but the "Genesis 1" reference by Cissie Graham Lynch, was the Old Testament, which is not Christianity but Judaism instead, and it is not so great.

{... As of January 2026, Donald Trump's approval rating is approximately 41%, reflecting a slight increase from previous months. Overview Current Rating: Trump's approval rating is reported to be around 41% as of early January 2026, which marks an increase from below 40% in December 2025...

Its pretty scary that anyone would want to run this country on an ancient Byzantine bible instead of modern science?

I never did get what all those boat strikes were actually about since there is no way these boats could carry enough fuel to get from Venezuela to the US, thousands of miles away. And if a boat it not bound for the US, then clearly US laws would have no jurisdiction at all?

The peaceful status quo was the Ukraine being a Russian ally. Which they were from their independence in 1991, until the Maiden Coup in 2014. It was the US that disturbed that peace and justice by sending in Hunter Biden with billions in bribes for the ethnic Polish generals in the Ukraine. It...

I disagree because the Ukraine as always been a very significant part of Russia, and that only changed after Hunter Biden bribed the ethnic Polish generals into the Maidan Coup in 2014. And what we did was illegal, such as encouraging the Azov Battalion to murder over 30k ethnic Russian, unarmed...

But how is mapping the currents and ocean floor even remotely related to any militaristic purpose as Gen Grynkewich is claiming? We have no subs up there, so how does that help them "counter NATO capabilities"? North of Alaska is the Northwest Passage, which is more and more enticing as global...

Agreed. The idea of violating NATO would do a lot more harm than we could gain from wealth out of Greenland. Even if global warming makes Greenland more profitable, I doubt the infrastructure cost would be worth it.

I disagree. I have often had insurance companies cancel policies for no reason that I was at fault for. Such as car insurance cancellation from moving to a new address they redlined, home insurance cancelled due to a forest fire in a completely different portion of the state, or health insurance...

The idea of a joint risk pool makes sense, but because the payments in exceed or are made before the payments out, whoever administers the pool really should not really charge anything, since they get the advantage of being able to invest that pool when it is in excess of pay outs. Which is...

Dilbert was also very influential since I was a computer geek.

Easily done, but finding one that is easy to understand would take more time. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8236094/ The point is corona virus are mimicking exosomes so they can trick the human cells into letting them in. That seems nearly impossible, so lots of people think...

Its not that complicated. A vaccine traditionally is an actual pathogen that has been killed or otherwise made harmless. Since we do not know how the immune system identifies a pathogen and stores its identity information, there is no way to create a synthetic vaccine like with mRMA. The mRNA...

Yes the small harvest from the palm oil tree to make diesel fuel is not all that efficient in terms of yield, but land in Africa is cheap, so it does not matter that much. And the advantage of palm fruit is you just squeeze the oil out in a press. There is no expensive processing and water...