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These companies are all the same. Provide nothing and make it mandatory to pay them.

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Home insurance here is getting wild. Our agent called us because the corporate office canceled our policy because our roof had worn shingles on it. Underwriting sent a done to our neighborhood to take photos of our roof. The roof was replaced in 07 ffs. Not even 20 years old.

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What kind of shingles do you have? Do you have to provide that info to the insurers?

I think they’re trying to make up for their losses in states hit by climate disasters.

…line must go up.

We had normal 20 year, 5 tab architectural shingles. The house passed inspection when we bought in last January and the previous homeowner did the roof in 2007. What our agent told us is that corporate underwriting got absolutely pulverized during the pandemic with fly-by-night companies soliciting homeowners for roof repairs. The companies would offer to repair the roof at no cost but only if the homeowner filed a claim for roof damage. The company would use historical weather data to pull up when a storm went through the area and give that to the homeowner who would, in turn, file a claim. The “damage” in question wasn’t necessarily something that would require a total repair job but it would be up to corporate to figure that out.

Sometimes underwriting would catch it and deny it, but at least according to our agent, a lot of times they didn’t and paid out thousands.

The result was corporate cracking down on roof conditions which led them to conduct a mid-year drone inspection of our roof without us even knowing! Long story short, we wound up having to get the roof completely replaced and I’ll be paying for it until I die.

https://x.com/skynews/status/1850839858329059618?s=46

‘Waaaaaaah why are we being replaced?!’

Cost of living and general life instability. Doesn’t take allot of brainpower to figure that one out.

Lots of comments in that tweet saying it’s got nothing to do with the economy, but because of the jabs people got during COVID.

Absolutely bombastic.

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Some of those will be from people who are putting having kids off for financial reasons. Superb :smile:

This is why these people are too far gone.

Or more likely, these always online idiots should just be ignored.

The budget doesn’t look too bad. Obviously companies and employers will do their best to shift the impact onto workers and customers. But as budgets go, I thought the government might have done more to directly fuck me.

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10% more on hand rolling tobacco, but cigarettes only get a 2% rise.

Not sure how that makes any sense.

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As I don’t smoke, I don’t know how to judge that. Was rolling tobacco taxed more heavily beforehand as well?

Given how anti-smoking this government seems to be I’m not at all surprised they’d hit products with as much tax as possible.

Isn’t hand rolling tobacco a lot more popular than smoking cigarettes nowadays?

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Don’t know about that, but just smoked a cig called Gudang Garam. And I liked it, given I don’t smoke much these days. Apparently my friend got it from Indonesia. You’d hardly call it a cig though. All flavours of cinnamon and herbs and stuff.

I’d say almost certainly not.

If you mix it with weed

It’s no1 in Holland at least

Can roll
A dang good blunt

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Not only their automotive industry is collapsing, their government is too.

One of my colleagues holds VW shares for years. RIP his investment.

I’m rather surprised it held together this long, considering the broad span of their political ideals. Yet that is also a healthy thing and good for democracy. Unlike in many other countries where political ideal has been thrown out the window, just so the party can stick to some kind of power.

Will be interesting to see how France, Germany and the wider EU handles the next 4 Years.

A Trade war could be devastating