But it was already there before she bought it, if she had a problem with it than she shouldn’t have bought it. It’s really that simple. It doesn’t matter if it should have been there in the first place because it was there when she agreed to the price.

How is the government wrong here? You only own up to the high water mark plus there is an easement in place. She bought the land for as cheap as she did cause of those things, it would be bullshit to reward her for trying to renege on the agreement she made by buying it. She’s a lawyer, she knew exactly what she was buying, if she didn’t like it she shouldn’t have bought it or she should sell it.

Except she knew how it was when she bought the property. If she didn’t like the way it was she didn’t need to buy the property. If she wants to give the land up and get a tax wrote off that’s fine, but the local government shouldn’t pay her a fucking dime.

As much as I would love that, I still want them to stay. My dream is for Trump to form his own frothing at the mouth party, and assuming they could win a few seats which seems likely, it would actually open the door for us to get out of this horrible two party system. Trump will blow it for sure like he does with everything.

It just goes to showing how screwed up the Republicans have become. I don’t know for a fact the Baker would win again, but I think the odds would absolutely have been in his favor. The Republicans would rather throw away a winnable governorship than pick a moderate in their party, so they end up with the first dual women as the heads of the state and a lesbian to boot, it’s priceless. I’m real liberal but the Baker impressed me on multiple occasions and blew me away with his handling of the pandemic, especially when compared to his fellow Republican Governors. The odds are low that I would have voted for Baker over Healey, but I would have at least contemplated it and have been fine with it if he had won.

They knew Diehl had no shot, they should have just punted on the race and saved money for more winnable elections in the state. Frankly I’m happy they didn’t do that, until Republicans can come to their senses they have no right to win anything so the less money they have to flip something the better.

I think that came from Europe. In college I had a friend from Poland, she was drinking some Polish beer that did it years before the US started advertising it.

Here is a more recent article than the 19.4M cited before, it’s from September 2021.

“Through various announcements, the recall has grown to include 67 million airbags from more than 42 million vehicles in the U.S.” “To date, there have been 19 deaths and more than 400 injuries because this problem in the U.S. Worldwide, NHTSA reports that there have been at least 27 deaths.”

https://www.consumerreports.org/car-recalls-defects/takata-airbag-recall-everything-you-need-to-know-a1060713669/

Putting all of the casualties together the odds of being injured are 0.00064%, that number is insanely small. If there is that chance the airbag will randomly kill you but a 30% increased chance of it saving your life or prevent major injury in a serious accident than you are better off with it than without.

> The fact that anyone died means they’re not better off with a faulty airbag that might slash your major arteries or maybe “just” further injure you.

That’s not how statistics work, when dealing with 64M airbags did they save more people than they harmed, based on all the data on air bags they saved more people. Different article I read this morning said 2,750 peoples lives were saved in the US by airbags in 2016 alone, that’s a hundred times more people saved in a year than faulty airbags killed in the 20ish years of the issue. I’m not saying the company shouldn’t recall them, I’m just saying have a faulty airbag is better than no airbag and the numbers back that up.

Are you an antivaxxer? There is an incredibly small chance the Covid vaccine can kill you, like any vaccine, but the odds are so insanely low that it’s worth the risks. There will always be at least one person who will die from it that wouldn’t have anyway and that’s just the odds that we live with when we are talking about billions of people. We are absolutely safer with the vaccine and losing a few people than we are with horrible viruses running around unchecked.

Yup, Reddit never ceases to amaze me, show them actual evidence and they are just like nah. The faulty airbags killed 1 in a million people, there is no way that airbags didn’t save more than 1 person per million. Oh where I came up with that 19.4M number was from an old article, it has grown to 67M with 27 confirmed fatalities and 400 injuries. There is absolutely no way people are safer with a disconnected airbag than one of the ones being recalled.

Early windshields were made of glass so in accidents they cut people to shreds, just because safety glasses is newer doesn’t make it less safe. We are is much safer in cars than we ever were before, airbags save lives. Just like seatbelts, there’s always a person who says well not wearing one saved my life, but they are the exception not the rule.

“Front airbags reduce driver fatalities in frontal crashes by 29 percent and fatalities of front-seat passengers age 13 and older by 32 percent”

https://www.iihs.org/topics/airbags

That means you are significantly safer with airbags. The deaths from this recall are tragic, but they are a very small number one, the vast majority of people with those cars were safer with faulty airbags than without.

I’m sure you are still way safer with it on and the possibility of it cutting your throat then having nothing but steering wheel to cushion your head. If the fatalities were that common it would have happened much sooner than 8 years after the 2001 Accord came out. It’s obviously still dangerous to possibly have that issue, but considering how many cars they produced it only effected a small percent of them.

Edit: Downvote if you want, but I have no clue why. Please enlighten me why my opinion is wrong. It killed 24 people over 10 plus years with at least 19.4M airbags effected, that number is minuscule. I’m not saying that the faulty airbags are good enough, I’m just saying you are safer with this airbag that is faulty than disconnecting it as the person above me said.