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Shiftless2
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I thought about submitting thoughts and prayers but my claim was denied ...
Seems a bit of a tangle to me.
I appreciate the satire. And while many have heard - the welfare of our children is our top priority -
a few generations passed before seatbelts were installed on school busses.
Extrapolating from tea leaves, I'm guessing actuarial statistics have gotten more precise in the past half century or so.
That may at least offer the potential to lower insurance premiums.
But as a practical matter I suspect it instead provides insurers larger profits.
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Why would it lower premiums? Inflation will always be with us.
It may allow insurers to differentiate between high and low risk exposures (and don't say "I've never had a claim so I'm low risk" - that's not what the term means).
Indeed.
And that progressive inflation trend is the baseline for whether insurance premiums are getting cheaper, or more expensive. It's the basis for calculating in "inflation-adjusted" $dollars.
To oversimplify, when operating costs are lowered, $savings can either boost profit margin, or by stabilizing profit margin, lower $cost to consumers.
We see this consumer cost reduction vividly demonstrated in consumer computers. Depicted below, the "portable" computer of its day.
Contrast that to *:
The latter is hundreds of thousands of times more powerful, costing an order of magnitude $less.
Had insurance mirrored the cost trend of personal computers, insurance premiums might cost less than the postage to mail the policy payment checks.
The information is proprietary, but the profit margins for these computer manufacturers is probably about the same, in inflation-adjusted $dollars. Meaning, for computers, the savings have been passed on to consumers, thereby stimulating the market.
I gather in the insurin' bidness, "low risk" is a statistical assessment of probability of the class, not the individual. "Assigned risk" for teenaged drivers comes to mind, not based upon individual personality, but statistical probability of the population sub-category.
I hope all of that was not a dull ramble.
* note:
In the suitcase style dinosaur pictured above, the monitor is tiny, probably (amber?) monochrome, dot matrix, mainly for text, unsuited to graphics.
In the much lighter notebook, the screen is over four times the size, and high resolution color, ideal for graphics; all likely drawing less electricity for operation.
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Ask yourself how narcistic you have to be to accept that blessing
Has anyone we know said it?
Part of the reason for inquiring: I suspect a mismatch, a meme composed ransom-note style, disparate elements combined for ulterior purpose.
That may not undermine the cause of feeding starving children. But "blessing me instead" is an obvious finger in the eye to some organized religion.
An all-powerful, omnipotent deity would not have to ration blessing.
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That's implied every time someone thanks god for the "blessing" they just received. They just don't vocalize the part about the starving children.
hmmm
That's cynical to a broader swath of the population than I'd initially envisioned.
The other side of that coin, my side of that coin:
is the life of an ingrate worth living? If a person doesn't appreciate it, why waste food?
Appreciation does however provide agar for mysticism.
A believer might argue: grateful? Grateful to whom? Needlessly self-serving in my opinion.
"Whom" may be relevant when exchanging holiday gifts.
But it's not necessary to embrace an entire supernatural religion to be glad to not starve.
There are surely some that apply this view, that their own good fortune is:
- a) god's choice, &
- b) at the expense of others more needy.
It's a simplistic perception, not consistent with an omnipotent deity. No worries. The ego-centrism you identify in #1,466 is clear enough.
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bro' ! What size personal massage device does that battery fit?
Internet Movie DataBase lists 3 movies titled Batteries Not Included, 1987, 2008, 2016. John Cleese listed in the 2008 version.
It seems bro' ! may have struck a little deeper into the holiday Zeitgeist than customary.
Appomattox Courthouse: where General Robert E. Lee surrendered to General U.S. Grant, ending the War of Northern Aggression
Shiftless2
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Reductio ad absurdum: from the pulpit:
Lord Jesus protects us all ...
No he doesn't.
But the dead ones, the ones J.C. did not protect aren't there to call the preacher a liar.
Frame #3 #1,472 grim.
An account of life in North Korea reported the average diet is so limited in North Korea, North Koreans average about 2" shorter than their South Korean cousins.
Not merely stunted physical growth, stature.
Reportedly also malnutrition related brain / mind deficiency. Thus in NK stunted growth both physically, & mentally. tragic
In Africa plumpy nut, fortified peanut butter may be helping a little. But this noble effort is dwarfed by the scale of the challenges.
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Anticipating matrimonial rivalry before meeting her? - blame it on Mom ... -
When there's a gas explosion in a house, there's often not enough left
to imagine what it looked like before.
If you smell gas ... . Do NOT switch the light on to find your way down the stairs.
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Didn't want that to waft into cyber-obscurity.
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Way to go Maury .....
Saint Thom said:
"... no man shall be blamed for reasoning in the maintenance of his own religion." Thomas More (1478 - July 6, 1535 @ age 57)
Fine Sir Thomas.
But you present as on the defensive, understandable in your circumstance.
"Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear." Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), U.S.president. Letter, 10 Aug. 1787
Similar notion, expressed by a revolutionary.
Satire is tricky.
#1,478 may be a finger in the eye to Christianity (the son), yet simultaneously an embrace of the father. Divide & conquer?
And now, a muletide message:
Big G !
Santa's not gittin' 'er dun! I ordered a unicorn before I became a teenager.
WHAT'S THE HOLD-UP SANTA ?! It's been a half a century.
Big G, I still want my unicorn
and a rocket ship with a swimming pool in it.
Please hurry. Only 7 more shopping days until Christmas!
"... no man shall be blamed for reasoning in the maintenance of his own religion." Thomas More (1478 - July 6, 1535 @ age 57)
Fine Sir Thomas.
But you present as on the defensive, understandable in your circumstance.
"Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear." Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), U.S.president. Letter, 10 Aug. 1787
Similar notion, expressed by a revolutionary.
Satire is tricky.
#1,478 may be a finger in the eye to Christianity (the son), yet simultaneously an embrace of the father. Divide & conquer?
And now, a muletide message:
Big G !
Santa's not gittin' 'er dun! I ordered a unicorn before I became a teenager.
WHAT'S THE HOLD-UP SANTA ?! It's been a half a century.
Big G, I still want my unicorn
and a rocket ship with a swimming pool in it.
Please hurry. Only 7 more shopping days until Christmas!
Shiftless2
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If "God" does exists and wants people to believe in him (let alone worship him) you'd think that he'd at least provide some verifiable proof of his existence.
