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ToxicSlurpee
Nov 5, 2003

-=SEND HELP=-


Pillbug

HardDiskD posted:

This has to be illegal or something.

No, insurance companies will rules lawyer themselves out of anything and everything they possibly can. If you make their favorite method illegal they'll just find another one and raise the price to cover the money they have to pay now.

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Johnny Aztec
Jan 30, 2005

by Hand Knit

ToxicSlurpee posted:

No, insurance companies will rules lawyer themselves out of anything and everything they possibly can. If you make their favorite method illegal they'll just find another one and raise the price to cover the money they have to pay now.

It's almost as if Insurance companies are leeches on society or soemthing

Bip Roberts
Mar 29, 2005
The Mt Pinatubo eruption happened simultaneously with a typhoon and it dumped a ton of wet volcanic mud on people's roofs which collapsed. Pinatubo was also a huge stratovolcanic eruption unlike what Hawaii gets.

oohhboy
Jun 8, 2013

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

chitoryu12 posted:

The ultimate flashbang.

It reminds me of a series of rts fire fighting games. This one had a series of tutorials and one of them was for a metal fire. Being overzealous the first thing I did when the team entered the room was to start pouring water on it before the game could tell me not to do that.

Mustached Demon
Nov 12, 2016

Bip Roberts posted:

Clean your hood jfc

Label your poo poo too it takes 2 seconds.

Powershift
Nov 23, 2009


Johnny Aztec posted:

It's almost as if Insurance companies are leeches on society or soemthing

It's more like they primarily exist to provide value to shareholders, with the service they provide being only a secondary function which cannot be allowed to interfere with their primary purpose.

Capitalism got us again :argh:

ToxicSlurpee
Nov 5, 2003

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Pillbug

Powershift posted:

It's more like they primarily exist to provide value to shareholders, with the service they provide being only a secondary function which cannot be allowed to interfere with their primary purpose.

Capitalism got us again :argh:

Yup. Insurance is fine because risk pooling is a good thing. The issue is that, because capitalism, it's primarily a way to shovel money into some rich guy's pockets.

Sundae
Dec 1, 2005

This is a glorious photo.

Public Service Announcement: Ever leave something like this in one of my labs and I'll loving fire you.

Bloody Hedgehog
Dec 12, 2003

💥💥🤯💥💥
Gotta nuke something

Sundae posted:

This is a glorious photo.

Public Service Announcement: Ever leave something like this in one of my labs and I'll loving fire you.

Say Nothing
Mar 5, 2013

by FactsAreUseless

tsa
Feb 3, 2014

Johnny Aztec posted:

It's almost as if Insurance companies are leeches on society or soemthing

what a stupid thing to think!!

Powershift posted:

It's more like they primarily exist to provide value to shareholders, with the service they provide being only a secondary function which cannot be allowed to interfere with their primary purpose.

Capitalism got us again :argh:


someone get this guy a cookie for figuring out how investment works lmao

check out veneuala for a place where insurance and capitalism doesn't exist, i hear it's lovely there :newlol:

tsa fucked around with this message at 01:34 on May 6, 2018

Lurking Haro
Oct 27, 2009


It took me way too long to see the guys planking. One is even wearing high-vis!

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

BREADS

Bip Roberts posted:

Clean your hood jfc

Mustached Demon posted:

Label your poo poo too it takes 2 seconds.

Sundae posted:

This is a glorious photo.
Public Service Announcement: Ever leave something like this in one of my labs and I'll loving fire you.

Those are fresh brimstone deposits.

It’s also not my hood. :ssh:

PainterofCrap
Oct 17, 2002

hey bebe



Memento posted:

The volcanism happening right now is kind of the least of their worries. The massive seismic events they're experiencing indicate that the magma chamber that is venting right now is enormous, so the poo poo spewing out of the earth is only going to get significantly worse.

Leilani Estates won't be there by the end of it. Someone who knows more about insurance than I do, is that covered? People have already lost their houses, lots more are going to by the end of this. Seems like insurance is only for things you can't see coming; building a house in Hawaii and then having that house eaten by lava is pretty foreseeable.

Probably not for structures. Definitely not for land.

Ensuing fire losses may be covered - not from direct lava but sparks, flame firebrands.

Cthulu Carl
Apr 16, 2006

Lurking Haro posted:

It took me way too long to see the guys planking. One is even wearing high-vis!

It took me way to long to realize it wasn't a gif

Memento
Aug 25, 2009


Bleak Gremlin
USGS interferogram from around 3pm Hawai'ian time indicates the potential rift is pretty drat long



The Kilauea summit is deflating as the magma finds a path of lower resistance to go into. The eruptions at the moment are around the star, and you can draw a line from the word East through Rift and then to Zone and see that it's all lifting up along that line. Potential rift is ~35km long, magma will probably find several places along there to vent out of and the other parts will deflate slightly.

Gunshow Poophole
Sep 14, 2008

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Clapping Larry

Memento posted:

USGS interferogram from around 3pm Hawai'ian time indicates the potential rift is pretty drat long



The Kilauea summit is deflating as the magma finds a path of lower resistance to go into. The eruptions at the moment are around the star, and you can draw a line from the word East through Rift and then to Zone and see that it's all lifting up along that line. Potential rift is ~35km long, magma will probably find several places along there to vent out of and the other parts will deflate slightly.

This is cool thanks for reading slash interpreting

Bunni-kat
May 25, 2010

Service Desk B-b-bunny...
How can-ca-caaaaan I
help-p-p-p you?

tsa posted:

what a stupid thing to think!!



someone get this guy a cookie for figuring out how investment works lmao

check out veneuala for a place where insurance and capitalism doesn't exist, i hear it's lovely there :newlol:

Leave it to someone named after a government jobs program to bitch about socialism.

Mustached Demon
Nov 12, 2016

Platystemon posted:

Those are fresh brimstone deposits.

It’s also not my hood. :ssh:

I hail Satan as much as the next scientist but I label my heating baths. :colbert:

chitoryu12
Apr 24, 2014

My mom's friend is in the path of the volcano in Hawaii. This is a Facebook Live video he did. He doesn't go inside until lava starts splattering on the roof right in front of him.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqsNVzfswB4

Arrath
Apr 14, 2011


I'm gonna need some marshmallows and a 40ft stick.

Deteriorata
Feb 6, 2005

Arrath posted:

I'm gonna need some marshmallows and a 40ft stick.

I'm gonna need a goat and proper ritual instructions to keep Pele happy.

:tif:

Johnny Aztec
Jan 30, 2005

by Hand Knit

Deteriorata posted:

I'm gonna need a goat and proper ritual instructions to keep Pele happy.

:tif:

I-understood-that-reference.gif

ekuNNN
Nov 27, 2004

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
https://i.imgur.com/sKB32pD.mp4

https://i.imgur.com/B8V40Mb.mp4

https://i.imgur.com/6ZN2tQu.mp4



https://i.imgur.com/Bnsqg5h.mp4

PhazonLink
Jul 17, 2010

ToxicSlurpee posted:

Yup. Insurance is fine because risk pooling is a good thing. The issue is that, because capitalism, it's primarily a way to shovel money into some rich guy's pockets.

iirc from some public radio stuff i heard, its the shift in mind sets.

stakeholder value(workers and customers(?)) to shareholder value(blood suckers).

PhazonLink fucked around with this message at 06:50 on May 6, 2018

oohhboy
Jun 8, 2013

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Yipe! Lets a go!

Bondematt
Jan 26, 2007

Not too stupid

PainterofCrap posted:

Probably not for structures. Definitely not for land.

Ensuing fire losses may be covered - not from direct lava but sparks, flame firebrands.

Homes are absolutely covered for direct lava flow. Business Owners Policies and Commercial Property Policies include it as well.

Volcanic eruption is specifically listed on HO-1 and it includes lava flow.

Cleanup is at your own cost however, and that is what is going to gently caress these people over.

https://www.iii.org/press-release/hawaii-homeowners-renters-and-businesses-owners-have-coverage-for-lava-flow-damage-says-iii-103014

Baronjutter
Dec 31, 2007

"Tiny Trains"

Just sittin' on my roof crying and filming lava

Snowglobe of Doom
Mar 30, 2012

sucks to be right
https://i.imgur.com/JIuiRPH.mp4

Synthbuttrange
May 6, 2007

Same, cats, same.

Guyver
Dec 5, 2006

Well the bit did say it was for hammer drills.

Powershift
Nov 23, 2009


tsa posted:

what a stupid thing to think!!



someone get this guy a cookie for figuring out how investment works lmao

check out veneuala for a place where insurance and capitalism doesn't exist, i hear it's lovely there :newlol:

Memento
Aug 25, 2009


Bleak Gremlin
https://twitter.com/kenhrubin/status/993047451345928198

I think this is actually the 9th fissure, near the south end of where they're opening. USGS map for ~13 hours ago in the tweet below.

https://twitter.com/janinekrippner/status/992894648640262144

Moving steadily south as the magma wells up and tries to meet up with the main vent to the southwest.

SelenicMartian
Sep 14, 2013

Sometimes it's not the bomb that's retarded.

The floor is Hawaii :stare:

Ursine Catastrophe
Nov 9, 2009

It's a lovely morning in the void and you are a horrible lady-in-waiting.



don't ask how i know

Dinosaur Gum

SelenicMartian posted:

The floor is Hawaii :stare:

Ak Gara
Jul 29, 2005

That's just the way he rolls.
Test Drive Unlimited is getting an expansion? Sweet!

Oh. Ooooh. :(

ekuNNN
Nov 27, 2004

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
flash flooding in ankara
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Z5RXPFpD1s

3D Megadoodoo
Nov 25, 2010

tsa posted:

check out veneuala for a place where insurance and capitalism doesn't exist, i hear it's lovely there :newlol:

Hello Spongebob meme from two years ago.

Say Nothing
Mar 5, 2013

by FactsAreUseless

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ChesterJT
Dec 28, 2003

Mounty Pumper's Flying Circus

Where's Dave?

Dave's not here man!

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