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B B posted:Robert Mueller left the DOJ at the end of May in 2019 and didn't testify until July of the same year. Was this also a move to avoid ethical guidelines? The special counsel office was shut down in May 2019 and he originally was not supposed to give any testimony - he had to be subpoenaed. He didn't plan his retirement for the day before he was supposed to testify, lmao.
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KillHour posted:If it is, the EU is going to take a chunk out of GM's rear end with the GPDR. It sucks that we have to rely on the EU to police unethical behavior by big corporations and even then they avoid adopting the same regulations in the US if they can get away with it.
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Here's the full NYT article for people who are paywalled: It looks like GM is doing a similar thing to what many insurance companies already do - track your driving habits to get a discount or adjustment to your premium based on driving habits - but, they are doing it without asking customers or opting-in. The source of the sharing seems to be coming from an optional "On-Star Smart Driving Program" that gives drivers statistics and information on their driving habits, but GM did not inform people it would be shared with insurance companies - which may be illegal. Senator Ed Markey is having the FTC investigate whether it is currently illegal under existing federal law. Drivers do have to opt-in to the program, but they didn't have an option to opt-out of the data sharing if they opted in. GM did not explicitly warn people who opted in that their data would be shared with insurance providers. Also, some people may have been opted-in by a dealership who gave them a free subscription as an add-on perk during the sale without their knowledge. Suburu, Kia, Acura, and Mitsubishi also share much more limited versions of data (odometer only) if you opt-in to their advanced driving service (called "Driver Feedback" or "Driver Score") when you buy a new car. Ford also shares data with insurance companies, but they at least require an explicit opt-in and warning before you agree to do so. quote:Automakers Are Sharing Consumers’ Driving Behavior With Insurance Companies Leon Trotsky 2012 fucked around with this message at 02:06 on Mar 12, 2024 |
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:Here's the full NYT article for people who are paywalled: I have never felt so vindicated from saying “no” to an upsell before. I just thought OnStar didn’t sound worth the price, but now I look very smart. Also person who is considering buying a used Bolt : I just did that, and I can tell you it god drat rules. Feel free to PM me or find the EV thread in AI : if you are thinking about switching to an EV this is probably the best way to do it.
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I feel like the bigger issue is Databrokers, and how they just hoover up your data from any source and sell it to the highest bidder. Which is what is happening with the article referenced.
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Also a bolt owner and agree it owns. If you hate cars you’ll love the bolt. Ideal tool for the task that is driving.
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Xiahou Dun posted:I have never felt so vindicated from saying “no” to an upsell before. I just thought OnStar didn’t sound worth the price, but now I look very smart. I have positive experiences driving a Bolt too.
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And if I drive perfectly, my rates go down, right?
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haveblue posted:And if I drive perfectly, my rates go down, right? That’s a question for your insurance company, but never going to a gas station, plugging the car into my house and just paying an extra 20$ in electric is real loving sweet.
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haveblue posted:And if I drive perfectly, my rates go down, right? State Farm paid me to install a dongle in my car and during Covid my insurance halved because I had less than 7k miles driven per year. So, sometimes!
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:State Farm paid me to install a dongle in my car and during Covid my insurance halved because I had less than 7k miles driven per year. So, sometimes! If you WFH (or walk/bike to work), it's absolutely worth keeping track of your annual mileage to see if you can get a low mileage plan (usually between 5500 and 7k miles). The only caveat is that occasionally your insurance company might call you for an odometer check, but even that hasn't happened to me since 2019 (or so).
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I have that State Farm thing and they will periodically request the mileage
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surely their algo now has a WFH factor in it by now? (oh and then they get data from biking, walking, or other phone apps and spike you because a human body isnt in a machine is more vulnerable?)
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PhazonLink posted:surely their algo now has a WFH factor in it by now? I don't have a dongle in my car, but different insurance companies do it in a couple different ways. They generally fall under 2 categories - an ODBII dongle you plug directly into your vehicle, or a bluetooth device you install somewhere in your car, that you pair to your phone. It's supposed to only use data from when you are driving and the device is active when calculating any premium changes (meaning if someone else is driving your car, you should be able to disable it for that ride). As for the algorithmic changes, none that I'm aware of. Your car insurance rates are generally calculated based on a combination of factors, including: - Type of coverage and limits - Year/Model of vehicle - Insured person's demographic data (age, gender, etc.) - Insured person's physical address and, if applicable, storage conditions for the vehicle - Insured person's driving history Whether or not someone works from home is immaterial when it comes to evaluating risk for your driving, however, total annual miles does impact your risk profile. Just because the former impacts the other doesn't make it relevant. As for what other data they collect, I'm sure people have gone through the Ts & Cs for each app to figure out what's being recorded. That said, the app should only be recording and sending data based on when it's active, i.e. when you're driving, and I'm sure folks would have raised some privacy concerns if they found it operating continuously.
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The bloodbath purge of the RNC months before a presidential election, done to strip it of its non-lackeys and turn it into the trump crimes piggybank, is the poo poo i live for because that kind of fashy "realignment" just kills your whole movement
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Staluigi posted:The bloodbath purge of the RNC months before a presidential election, done to strip it of its non-lackeys and turn it into the trump crimes piggybank, is the poo poo i live for because that kind of fashy "realignment" just kills your whole movement Wapo article reported they laid off like 60 people? I don't know what an RNC employee does, granted, but presumably someone has to email/phone call to purchase an ad and someone is coordinating placement. If all you're doing is wiring funds to cover legal costs, thats one thing, but presumably a normal party fundraising/campaigning arm needs staff for operations. I'm sure it'll be like the first trump campaign and the trump org in general: super lean, staffed with family, maximum graft.
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I hadn't thought about this before, but isn't such a streamlined primary going to leave a shitload more money in their war chest?
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Boeing planes continue to have a shitton of problems. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/11/us/politics/faa-audit-boeing-737-max.html Totally coincidentally a Boeing whistleblower was found unalive today when he was supposed to appear for a third day of testimony. https://www.bbc.com/news/business-68534703 quote:In 2019, Mr Barnett told the BBC that under-pressure workers had been deliberately fitting sub-standard parts to aircraft on the production line.
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Bellmaker posted:Boeing planes continue to have a shitton of problems. His lawyer said he was found dead in his truck from gunshot wounds. https://www.corporatecrimereporter.com/news/200/boeing-whistleblower-found-dead-in-charleston-after-break-in-depositions/ quote:"Today is a tragic day,” Knowles wrote. “John had been back and forth for quite some time getting prepared. The defense examined him for their allowed seven hours under the rules on Thursday. I cross examined him all day yesterday (Friday) and did not finish. We agreed to continue this morning at 10 a.m. (co-counsel) Rob (Turkewitz) kept calling this morning and his (Barnett’s) phone would go to voicemail. We then asked the hotel to check on him. They found him in his truck dead from an ‘alleged’ self-inflicted gunshot. We drove to the hotel and spoke with the police and the coroner.” It's almost as believable as randomly falling out of a window in Russia.
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Bellmaker posted:unalive let's not
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Found corporeally houseless
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Boris Galerkin posted:His lawyer said he was found dead in his truck from gunshot wounds. Isn't this just a normal state of affairs in America?
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Bucky Fullminster posted:I hadn't thought about this before, but isn't such a streamlined primary going to leave a shitload more money in their war chest? No, the RNC is broke because all the money has been going to Trump directly, this is going to accelerate that, Trump is going to suck up all their money and leave none for anyone else.
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The DoJ released the full transcript of the Biden/Hur interview and it turns out the special report was relying on an old legal trick called "lying" https://twitter.com/mviser/status/1767521169417105854 https://twitter.com/mviser/status/1767521789062648001 I think the crassness was about when Hur released a misleading report that falsely claimed that Biden couldn't remember when his son died, among other things. https://twitter.com/charlie_savage/status/1767529253988401588 https://twitter.com/aaronstrauss/status/1767528617393700925 Biden doing one armed pushups on the conference table. Anyway, sure were a lot of reporters and partisan campists who were all to eager to slurp this obvious hack-job up. zoux fucked around with this message at 14:04 on Mar 12, 2024 |
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"Just like what they did to Trump" I can already hear some boomer saying
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zoux posted:The DoJ released the full transcript of the Biden/Hur interview and it turns out the special report was relying on an old legal trick called "lying" Yeah. It’s about what i thought. A lot of the quotes from the report felt like bad faith spins on the interview.
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Also he's literally Diamond Joequote:At times during the interview, according to the transcript, the president made noises like a car.
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USPOL 2024: (Makes car sound)
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zoux posted:Also he's literally Diamond Joe Lol, this is pretty good stuff. I don't even really care if he's sundowning there or just loving with the interviewer, it's good entertainment
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CNN and the NY Times seem to be going out of their way to avoid saying Hur lied or was biased.
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Eric Cantonese posted:CNN and the NY Times seem to be going out of their way to avoid saying Hur lied or was biased. Indeed. This thread notes the glee with which the major outlets ran stories on this https://twitter.com/MattGertz/status/1767534730742788470 NYT ran 30 stories in 4 days on Biden's mental fitness. Wapo ran 33 and the WSJ a mere 17.
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I can't believe Robert Hur would do this.
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Piell posted:No, the RNC is broke because all the money has been going to Trump directly, this is going to accelerate that, Trump is going to suck up all their money and leave none for anyone else. Why won't someone do something
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zoux posted:Also he's literally Diamond Joe Vroom-vroom!
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Failed Imagineer posted:Lol, this is pretty good stuff. I don't even really care if he's sundowning there or just loving with the interviewer, it's good entertainment Catskills Joe
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haveblue posted:USPOL 2024: (Makes car sound) mods...please...
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Also owning literal Mongols at archery
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:State Farm paid me to install a dongle in my car and during Covid my insurance halved because I had less than 7k miles driven per year. So, sometimes! I have Liberty Mutual, and I remember they wanted me to put that in my car, so I said "okay". Anyway, three months later, it shows up to my door and doesn't work, and when I call the insurance company they tell me the thing expired and that they're just going to take 10% off my rates.
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Yikes. Unless the full audio includes Biden slurring all of his words or blanking for minutes at a time, then that transcript is pretty damning for Hur and is exactly why the DOJ normally bans speculation or derogatory personal commentary from reports when you are declining to charge someone. Some of those original descriptions, like the Beau death quote, aren't even issues of opinion. It looks like it was just straight up incorrect.
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:Yikes. Hur's supposed to be testifying before House Judiciary today after resigning from the DoJ yesterday. I thought it was going to be another hit job but we have the transcript, what's he even going to try and say? Also Merrick Garland needs to be gone immediately.
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