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    Whenever you want a view that’s closest to the “truth”, look at what the insurance rates are like. Insurance companies’ whole business hinges on turning objective reality into money.

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    The federal government will be subsidizing Florida homeowners soon enough. Florida is politically important and it’s is everyone’s god-given right to move to somewhere warm when they retire and have their homes rebuilt at no cost to them every 5 years.

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    Have they tried selling them to Aquaman, Storm, and other comic book heroes not known for their real estate investment strategy acumen?

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    Homes that are fucking made of paper, wood and polystyrene do not help either

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      I have heard essentially one arguments for this so far: Anything will be blown away anyway, so why bother spending more money for a concrete structure?

      To which I like to ask what the shelters are made of. Hmmm…

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      Homes are built with the materials that are readily available in the local area.

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        Yeah…but you can also make bricks, like, that would be a good argument if we were in any year before 1900, right now they mass produce 5nm CPUs in large scale and distribute them all over the world, but USA can’t produce bricks to use for houses…

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          you can also make bricks

          Absolutely correct.

          that would be a good argument if we were in any year before 1900 2100

          Fixed it for you

          USA can’t produce bricks to use for houses…

          What? Why the fuck not?? Has clay and shale become scheduled substances?