Yeah the zip code reassessment seems like the most likely explanation. Maybe the rate of accidents, car thefts and vandalism went down in OP’s zip code, so the insurance company lowered their premium.

I recently moved one mile away to a different zip code and GEICO increased my premium from $130 to $175 which I understand is very expensive for what I’m getting for coverage. I’ve never filed a claim, never been at fault for an accident, my car isn’t worth much and my only traffic violation was speeding more than a decade ago. Weirdly enough my pet insurance premium decreased by $25 when I moved. 🤷‍♂️

I’m not following, how is this sticking it to the man?

Everyone loses here though. Walmart will only lose money because people can’t spend their SNAP money there and it’s not like they’ll be spending it at more ethical stores.

I suppose this qualifies as an unpopular opinion, but it’s some of the most cringeworthy pseudo-intellectual garbage I’ve ever read.

You view nature as useless and hostile, but you ignore its most basic undeniable benefits – food, oxygen production, climate regulation. You view cities as clean and efficient utopias, while ignoring that they’re plagued by crime, air pollution, industrial waste, disease outbreaks, noise, social isolation, and the urban heat island effect. Your preference for steel and concrete over living ecosystems doesn’t change the fact that those ecosystems keep you alive.

You identify as an anarchist (lol, of course you do) but you admire “Soviet tech optimism” which was based on central planning, state control and authoritarianism. You argue in favor of neoliberalism which is directly opposed to anarchism. You claim to be anti-degrowth and pro-sustainability, yet degrowth promotes sustainable technology. Your political viewpoints are a confused, incoherent mess and maybe someone more knowledgeable than me in that area will take the time to point out your other contradictory statements and misrepresentations.

You don’t consider what happens if most plant and animal species die, or its devastating effects on food production, the climate and human survival. None of that matters to you because your worldview doesn’t extend beyond your home and wifi network. Of course the fact that billions of people find comfort and purpose in nature is incomprehensible to someone like you whose life is devoid of meaning.

Your “meat flesh prison” comments are especially pathetic considering that all human experience (including your miserable urban-online existence) is mediated by biology. You can delude yourself into believing you’re above the disorder of the natural world, but you still rely on the very biological processes you claim to despise.

This is an embarrassingly bad take and you come across as someone incapable of forming real human connections. Most of the rest of us will be out embracing the chaos, beauty and unpredictability of the real world while you wither away, unhappy and unfulfilled, in the sterile prison you’ve created for yourself.