SnotFlickerman

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[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

No individual should be expected to use insurance to protect themselves from theft as a solution to it. That’s a crazy take.

Then I really don't understand what you're saying here. Insurance coupled with wiping your device remotely makes you whole and renders your device unusable to the person who stole it (sometimes it even leaves you with a nicer, more current device). It's not like the police do much more to help an individual with theft, even when you can show them where your device is with Find My Device enabled. Sometimes you might get lucky and they'll go retrieve it and allow you to press charges, but that's pretty rare, frankly.

I still maintain this a better solution than trying to beat the shit out of someone, possibly failing and ending up hospitalized or dead yourself.

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (6 children)

It feels like it's the other way around, from my end. Natural disasters don't stop happening, and crime doesn't stop happening, ergo, having insurance for both is reasonable.

"I'm really not here to represent any candidate," Paterson said.

"I'm just here to villify the one who actually won the fucking primary because fuck democracy, y'all. We own your asses, we call the shots, and like hell are we gonna let you people change that!"

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 221 points 1 month ago (7 children)

We literally cannot have even one nice thing in this country. You best start believin' in cyberpunk dystopias... because you're in one.

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Damn it Seven is such a classic film. Best film of the late 20th century.

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Or maybe more people are really that stupid and easily entertained than we would like to admit.

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 month ago (8 children)

Yet insurance for theft exists because it continues to be a thing that happens. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm not assigning blame here, I'm just talking about the cold, hard reality of what actually happened.

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 1 month ago (10 children)

Gosh I guess that means we should get rid of insurance for things like natural disasters, too, since often your home is unrecoverable in the event of a hurricane, volcano, or some other event with no recourse.

Lmao

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 month ago (3 children)

As do I. Sometimes the bullies genuinely have the upper hand. Like the Nazis versus the people in their concentration camps. Fighting back just lead to more violent retribution against those who were already being mistreated. You can't magic your way into suddenly winning a losing battle. It's absurdity after absurdity in here.

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone -5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This assumes that you can do it perfectly every time, not that you'll sometimes be outclassed by someone who is actually in shape, actually faster than you, or has better control over their motor skills and can dodge or jump to escape you. Your little anecdote about the one time you tackled someone without breaking your body trying to do it doesn't prove anything.

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