@78ecc8f6 Harvard took 9 million in stimulus money from the federal government then fired all their food service workers in spring '20.  Harvard has a 50 billion dollar endowment.  If that did not wake people up to how poorly the universities treat people I don't know what will.  Maybe there is a chance now that the adjunct prof won a Nobel. 

 @b4c50e1b @0269c0e4 They will use the fact that an adjunct won the Nobel to push all the faculty to adjunct status. 

 @3967703f @432f6e91 I lived in a house 25 years ago that bordered a stream.  I used to catch trout and sunfish in the stream.  It snowed a foot one day then rained that night.  The next morning the stream that could be stepped across in 2 steps was 100 feet across and moving at 20-30 mph.  A bit higher and homes would have been lost.  That kind of thing is happening all the time now. 

 @432f6e91 @3967703f I think very few.  What is a flood zone anyway?  When "500 year floods" now happen every few years, most of us are in flood zones.  A buyer who signed 30 years ago may have made what was a good decision then but now... 

 @432f6e91 @3967703f There is no way to insure against a sure thing.  The companies cannot provide home insurance given the climate crisis.  In CA we are offered earthquake insurance.  It is expensive.  The deductible is enormous.  The maximum payout is not much bigger than the deductible.  It's such a bad deal because there will be an earthquake sooner or later.  With the climate crisis the homes will be wrecked, sooner or later.  They cannot offer good policies when it's a sure thing