reminds me of the recently enacted FAIR plan in California for last-resort wildfire insurance. It got state dispensation to carry otherwise-disallowed, lopsided balance sheets to cover more people -- but if a small fraction of those people do experience wildfire it'll go bust!
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edit: see below, I was wrong about FAIR being newly enacted
I had subscribed to an IPTV service with SO many channels that loading it was a massive pain, so instead I dipped my feet into python for fun and created a filter service that breaks it into a more manageable list:
I since stopped subscribing to IPTV so the project is abandoned, but I have a couple of friends who still use it; I'd probably write it completely differently today - but it's still trucking!