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Florida woman shoots interstate drivers, says God told her to because of the eclipse, police say
  • Ehh I dunno... I'm as atheist as anyone with an IQ above 60, but I think religion is just a convenient scapegoat for mental illness here. I'm pretty sure someone who shoots strangers on the highway would have done it in a world without religion too, and they would say it's a different mystical force that made them do it. I don't think Christianity actually moved this person to do this.

  • US man sues Powerball lottery after being told $340m win is an error
  • Ah yeah, that's not as nice as I was picturing then. I still can't help but side with the guy at least a bit though... it's just something about the predatory nature of lotteries. In fact it's almost more offensive that it's run by a government haha.

  • The numbers will determine your fate
  • This is the kind of thing that seems good on paper, but in practice it alienates anyone on the outside of it. If you're born into a low credit score (i.e. born poor) you're automatically at a disadvantage. No one will lend you any money because you have a certain score, which in turn means you're never given an opportunity to improve your score. When credit scores start including rent payments, I'll be open to seeing it as equitable.

  • A crowd set fire to a driverless Waymo taxi in San Francisco, as tensions about driverless tech grow
  • Both can be true though. I don't support things like Uber and Lyft but only because of how horribly they treat their employees. I don't have much sympathy for the taxi industry that never bothered to modernized over the last 50 years.

  • Maryland bill would force gun owners to get $300K liability insurance to wear or carry
  • "Undue" is a word with a huge range of meaning though. You're buying a device whose sole purpose is to kill or injure, and it's exceptionally good at doing those things accidentally. If you want to own a device like that, accident insurance is not all undue.

    In fact it's kinda surprising that people can get guns without it. I feel like in an alternate universe where gun insurance was the norm, people would think it's insane to remove that requirement. It's a requirement for cars which are now less deadly than guns and arguably way more important to people's survival, but people think gun ownership is such a marker of liberty that they're willing to put the rest of society at risk for it.

  • What I'm paying to find out I don't have breast cancer. I have insurance. (Ultrasound and mammogram in the USA)
  • Goddamn... as a fellow celiac sufferer, I'm very sorry to hear that. If the blood tests are pretty conclusive, you can probably assume it's celiac without the colonoscopy. The downside is that if you start a gluten-free diet now and decide to get a colonoscopy later, it might now show anything since you're off the gluten. Best of luck!

  • Maryland bill would force gun owners to get $300K liability insurance to wear or carry
  • It isn't if they want to own a tool that can accidentally and immediately end a life. The guy below you made a joke about a car and insurance, but that's actually a great point. Just because you can find a $300 car doesn't mean you're absolved from getting insurance in case you crash or kill someone. And that's a car, something that's crucial to a lot of people's survival. Even better argument for a gun.

  • Maryland bill would force gun owners to get $300K liability insurance to wear or carry
  • I appreciate the info because frankly I didn't know they were that cheap. I still don't think that absolves someone of being able to pay for an accidental injury/death caused by a tool that's designed to do specifically that.

  • Maryland bill would force gun owners to get $300K liability insurance to wear or carry
  • Why are "the poors" buying expensive guns? If you're buying a tool that can accidentally and instantly murder someone very easily, and you have no way to pay for that mistake, then gun ownership is too expensive for you.

  • Maryland bill would force gun owners to get $300K liability insurance to wear or carry
  • Your case is for reasonable vs unreasonable expenses though. When someone can afford thousands for a gun and many other recurring expenses, a $50-100/month policy is completely reasonable. At the very least, it doesn't separate gun ownership into different wealth classes.

  • Mission Hill (1999-2000)

    One of my absolute favourite shows from my childhood, sadly cancelled after 13 episodes. There have been rumours of a reboot but nothing confirmed for a while.

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