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That's not really how insurance works. Everything gets paid for by someone, it's not magic money. A systemic increase in insurance payouts causes a proportional systemic increase in insurance premiums which are ultimately passed onto the customer.

One person is more culpable in the life ruining than the person who contacts the police.

I watched from my roof as someone rammed a moving van into multiple store fronts. I'm going to stick with my lying eyes.

You're conflating 1A with free speech. Free speech is the principle that inspires 1A but it's a larger concept and the same reasoning applies to things like reddit. This whole "don't let you political opponents speak or coordinate because you happen to have the power to stop them" is the weapon of a tyrant, one of these days a real tyrant will seize the reins of these platforms and show us all how they're really used.

There are ways around this. Just having each account only able to do the verification thing occasionally and resetting that timer when it's done on your account make this a very slow process that manual intervention should be able to thwart.

Comment or post karma? I have 200k comment karma just because I have a 9 year old account and post semi-frequently.

When corporations push diversity as a terminal value it's almost always to suppress labor costs. It's very easy to win arguments if you just assume everyone who disagrees with you is a racist.

It really is strange, I can only credit its success so far to the fact that it's tapping into people's primal urge to be able to literally shout down the opposition instead of just metaphorically shout them down. I don't know why anyone would find the format of being forced to debate on the spot better than having the time to construct posts at your leisure. Every clip or story I've heard/seen come out of the app has been a completely mess.