Andy1
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Amazing D game plan by McDermott. The best of the season so far.
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Lamar is amazing. I don’t think he deserved the MVP last year, but that’s not his fault. He fits Baltimore. Josh fits Buffalo. I’m thrilled we have Josh. Josh has to deal with the small market anti media bias against him but F em all. The vote calling Josh the most overrated player was ridiculous. If we can win just one, the entire narrative will change.
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That was a real KC style win. I’ll take it
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Football gods are with us today
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Needed to tush push with a heavy package there
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I don’t feel great about that even though we got the 3
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Crap offense coming out of half killing us now
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Brady needs to adjust. They are stuffing our runs and screens aren’t working now.
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Well that was a win just giving them 3
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Now that is some beautiful complimentary football!
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3 hours ago, Motorin' said:
Millions of people actually make their livelihood as creators on TikTok.
Millions of Americans???
God help us.
Donald the great savior of tik tok. Time to make a new Mt Rushmore for him.-
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La Porta with amazing one-handed catch. Well done.
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9 hours ago, leh-nerd skin-erd said:
My assumption was you had seen or read something from an official source (California Dept of Insurance, governors office, etc) raising the alarm on this looming crisis.
Were you just speculating or guessing? Your “fine print” comments lead to that conclusion.
If so, I feel like your comments are blendavious and might lead to confusion.
For the record…. I was not reporting official information from the state but discussion from reporters. I made no claims and certainly hope there is nothing to it. I am just always skeptical about the response of insurance companies. They have a reputation for denying claims based on the details of policy wording, all being legal. Just see reports from the people in FL trying to rebuild after hurricanes. Time will tell…
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47 minutes ago, leh-nerd skin-erd said:
How does the fact that the fire was set by an arsonist potentially limit or negate compensation to homeowners from their insurance companies?
I’m sure it all depends on the fine print details of the policy purchased by the home owner.
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5 minutes ago, 4th&long said:
They have a machine that taps right into the clouds and convertes the vapor into water so they don't have to wait for God to do it.
Wait… I thought the government controlled the weather and that’s why they were sending hurricanes into Republican states. And can someone tell me about all the failure of leadership in Republican North Carolina that led to so much damage and death there after Helene?
On a serious note, now they are saying that if the fire investigators determine arson to be the cause, that may limit or negate compensation paid to homeowners from their insurance companies. That would absolutely suck.
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5 minutes ago, leh-nerd skin-erd said:
It simply seems to me you're quite willing to state "Ah, geez it happens everywhere!" because it's your guys on the hot seat this time. I do agree that accountability standards should apply in red states as well.
Absolutely not. It does not happen everywhere. Different states and locations have different levels of risk for different events. The take home lesson is for leaders of other states and insurance companies to reassess risk, adapt infrastructure, review building codes and requirements to retrofit older buildings, zoning to allow or prohibit development, emergency response preparedness, etc. Hopefully, the costs of people living in high risk areas will not be passed on to those living in lower risk areas.
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5 hours ago, leh-nerd skin-erd said:
There’s a lot packed in here, but you hit the nail on the head: the local, city and state government is tasked with enacting laws and regulation to best serve and protect members of the community. In many cases, these people were elected by the people they represent. The question of competence v incompetence is a fair one to ask. It is exceedingly painful to have the debate while people are being impacted in such a horrific way, but if not now, when?
The mistake that many are making here on PPP is thinking that this disaster is unique to the Dem politicians in CA. The mismatch of infrastructure to needs to respond to a disaster is not unique to CA. CA is under the microscope just because this time, the disaster happened there. In North Carolina, 104 people died from the floods caused by hurricane Helene with 54 billion $ in damage. All over America, in red and blue states, people are living in places of high risk, with emergency response capabilities inadequate to the increasing severity of potential disasters. Infrastructure everywhere needs upgrading to be adequate for the changing climate. Building high density housing with flammable materials and landscape vegetation in fire prone ecosystems is a dumb idea. New homes and buildings in CA survived the fires due to use of more fire proof materials.
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1 hour ago, BillsFanNC said:
When fire hydrants in fire season are dry, then calling out that inexcusable failure isn't "politicizing" a disaster, it's observing a failure in real time.
Fire hydrants have a singular purpose. If they fail to fulfill that purpose when needed then its an absolute failure. Zero excuses.
This is obvious to all outside of useful idiots.
The facts are that we are in a changing climate. Infrastructure designed 20 or 30 or 50 years ago isn’t adequate. If there are 20 hydrants on a line and 5 of them have hoses hooked up to them spraying water, the hydrants on the uphill, end of the line are going to be dry. The system isn’t designed to deal with this level of catastrophe. Same with the roads leading in and out of these hills and canyons. They can’t accommodate fire trucks going in while masses of people are going out. Changing infrastructure is damn hard to do and expensive. No one can predict where the next disaster will happen, but it will, somewhere, so we roll the dice and say, hope it’s not here.
People live in ignorance or denial about climate change affecting them. No one anywhere wants to make changes until the sh_it hits the fan and now that has happened. Fire pushed by 60-90 mph wind is impossible to stop. Government at all levels is at fault, people living there are at fault. Maybe moving forward, better building codes will help prevent another one from happening.
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23 minutes ago, daz28 said:
Just want to say how proud I am of the political propaganda machine, that disasters can now be politicized as the people are literally still dying, and the disaster is active. They've divided the country, and now we literally fight each other as mother nature herself is still giving it to us. Bravo!!! What's worth more than a bucket full of mis/disinformation during a wildfire? Maybe a bucket of water? tHe dUmBoCrAtS RaN OuT oF waTEr!!! I wonder if the powers that be sit back and read this crap they filled your heads with, and laugh their asses off at how dumb and misled you've become. Their little puppets.
So true. There’s not even time anymore for “thoughts and prayers”. Social media has pushed people directly into the blame game of outrage even while the disaster is still happening. Thank you tech billionaires. You are contributing so much to our society.
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56 minutes ago, The Frankish Reich said:
How about applying conservative, market-based principles here? We are subsidizing people to live in places like Malibu by artificially limiting their insurance premiums. Let the market work, let Malibu depopulate.
The cost to live in high risk areas must go up given the much greater risk of catastrophic events caused by the changing climate. Communities are going have to spend a lot on infrastructure and fire/fuel management to mitigate risk. Insurance companies will need to raise premiums to appropriate levels. Alternatively, states can insure their citizens living in high risk areas. Eventually, maybe people will migrate back to low risk, boring states with gray skies, rain and snow but cheaper cost of living.
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1 hour ago, aristocrat said:
The dems have ran this area for decades and are completely at fault here. What is your solution?
This is like saying that republicans are to blame when Florida gets wiped out by a hurricane. Nothing is stopping a fire pushed by 40-90 mph winds. Burning embers are flying miles ahead of the fire everywhere. The solution is to stop the wind.
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26 minutes ago, Orlando Buffalo said:
I worked fire claims near Sacramento in 2008. I understand the fire situation in Cali. Keep calling me stupid but I have discussed it with the people who tried to get the state to do the right thing back in 2008, to no avail. As for how much money they have spent, spending it improperly does not do any good. Your not having an opinion on whether it is enough, which is the only standard that matters, is all I need to know you have no clue.
Tonight they are estimating losses of at least 20 billion $. Any thoughts on how the insurance industry will respond to this type of event? It will be interesting to see how they respond. I heard so many stories about companies paying out peanuts to people after Florida hurricanes. Seems like the most prudent solution is to just pull out of the state and insure other areas with less risk for catastrophic events, unless State money helps them out.
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42 minutes ago, Orlando Buffalo said:
You seem to think a brush fire is harder to prevent than a forest fire. Brush fires should be very rare where they get out of hand. There is a reason that you never hear about other well populated areas catching on fire every few years.
Nearly all of Cal is in fire ecosystems where fire is what happens. Most western states are the same. Fuel/ vegetation management around structures is important. Hurricane force winds will push fire past any fuel free barrier. The problem is that people are moving into the hills and mountains where there is more vegetation. Combine that with drought and stronger storms and you get a lot of destruction. Same thing with people building in coastal areas getting wiped out by hurricanes. It’s people choosing to live in vulnerable places.
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1/19/25 Division Round Playoff Post Game Thread Bills vs. Ravens
in The Stadium Wall
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Another example of I’d rather have a great offense than a great defense, though the Bills D was great tonight, and the offense did just enough.