If a doctor is going to give me a rigid logic tree, can I not just have the diagram and diagnose myself?
That seems much easier for all involved
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A friend of mine who is a high level professional and long time volunteer fire fighter tells me he believes that the fire unions are trying to squeeze out volunteers by continually increasing training requirements to make it too onerous for volunteers to stay in.
Commonplace: Matter of Survival - How the nation’s largest volunteer fire department endures mag.commonplace.org/p/a-matt…
It seems we may need to cut the cables
Just got quoted $2,400 to paint a 23 by 13 foot living room.
The 4 gallons of paint it takes to do the job costs about $110 at Home Depot, or around $160 if you want Sherwin Williams.
This is not a particularly skilled job.
You went to trade school, not medical school.
You own a brush and a roller.
Stop ripping people off, contractors.
I can’t prove it but this seems to be upstream of many Euro/Latam socioeconomic struggles.
Anyways to recap, Hunters point is both ignorant and also does not get redeemed if the facts were his way and arguments like his are a root cause of a lot of malaise. /end
Very pleased to see that my hometown is now firmly entering the twentieth century.
NYC Council bans horse carriages in veto-proof vote that will end 150-year-old Central Park tradition trib.al/qZwmUXA
running an artic at 2:20am with 2% utilization purely for the love of the game (which is maximizing maintenance expenses)
I also had an ex with one of these in her car and she would regularly run lights like a full second after they went from yellow to red because she didn't want to set off the accelerometer
Since then I've been extremely skeptical of the legality of these things
A few years ago, my car insurance offered a deal: put a tracker in your car for six months and MAYBE your insurance rate would go down. The tracker had a built-in accelerometer and any time you messed up, it beeped at you, letting you know you were a bad driver.
I took the deal. What I noticed was that the most common reason for getting beeped at was slamming the brakes too hard. Coming to a sudden stop was, in the car insurance company's opinion, evidence of bad driving.
Long story short, I ran a LOT of red lights over those six months. I wouldn't want to dangerously slam the brakes, after all.
And after the six months were up, my insurance rate went way down!
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I had one of these through Progressive, they called in Snapshot. My insurance premium was cut 30% and it was amazing. Or at least it was until I tried applying at the Post Office years later. At the time, my car was registered in Florida where I lived, but I parked my car while I was over the road at my parents house in South Carolina. Progressive calls me up about a month or 2 after I have the Snapshot plugged in, asking why my car was always parked in SC. I explained that I was a truck driver and that’s where I parked it while at work. They told me that since my car was in SC for the majority of the year, it needed to be insured in SC. Sweet, my premium dropped even lower. Then a month later I get home to Florida and I see there’s a letter from the DMV in Florida demanding I reinsure my Florida-registered vehicle back to Florida, or they were cancelling my license. The deadline for that was 3 days before I got home. Oops. A few phone calls and a $100 or so fine later, everything was fixed. But for the next 5 years, that cancellation, not suspension, of my license would come up every time I applied at USPS because that’s how far back they checked your driving record. What a pain in the ass.
A few years ago, my car insurance offered a deal: put a tracker in your car for six months and MAYBE your insurance rate would go down. The tracker had a built-in accelerometer and any time you messed up, it beeped at you, letting you know you were a bad driver.
I took the deal. What I noticed was that the most common reason for getting beeped at was slamming the brakes too hard. Coming to a sudden stop was, in the car insurance company's opinion, evidence of bad driving.
Long story short, I ran a LOT of red lights over those six months. I wouldn't want to dangerously slam the brakes, after all.
And after the six months were up, my insurance rate went way down!
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It’s clear this stuff is debanking for the AI era. They can lobotomize you without due process. There are legitimate safety concerns but the way the system works right now is broken and insane. Shocking that the same people expect us to trust them with literal brain implants and mind reading technology
