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Automakers have been selling data about the driving behavior of millions of people to the insurance industry. In the case of General Motors, affected drivers weren’t informed, and the tracking led insurance companies to charge some of them more for premiums. I’m the reporter who broke the story. I recently discovered that I’m among the drivers who was spied on.
Kashmir Hill is a technology writer who was duped into signing up for a secretive OnStar program that reported her driving habits back to GM, and then onto insurance companies. All without her knowledge or consent.
If it happened to her (a paranoid technology writer), she reasons, what chance does the average consumer have?
Unpaywalled article here.
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This is particularly funny to me because for some reason, Passover is when all the kosher places bust out the gummy-type treats.
You got your fruit slices, and your chocolate covered marshmallows, and your ring jells...
Last night, an entire package of these disappeared in like ten minutes, no lie.
idk what they're using, but they sure seem to think something gummy-ish is kosher for passover.
Shit, my gummy edibles probably aren't kosher for Passover.
People, I sense an as yet untapped market? Seasonal to be sure, but still...
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So fucking awesome! What an achievement!
They fixed Voyager!
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Technically Passover doesn't start until tomorrow night but for reasons that don't bear explaining we're starting tonight, which is to say I've been on my feet since first thing in the morning, my back already hurts, and I don't want to move. I have about an hour until the family arrives. And then tomorrow is the song and dance Passover extravaganza.
These things are usually fun once family gets here, but it's just been a lot recently.
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I do not know the answer to your question, but the writers have already reached a tentative deal as of Friday 4/19.
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[Can anyone confirm that they have cut ties with A*TISM SPKS?]
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Big win for me today: managed to purchase a non-binary b'nai mitzvah card for my friend's nb kidlet.
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I am so fucking angry all the fucking time. I do not know what's wrong with me.
#i seriously just yelled about somethi g to my boss for ten minutes#i fucking hate everyone and everything right now#wtf hormone is this
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This NPR interview with with Angela Saini about how race science never really left the global scientific consciousness is super interesting! I’m gonna read her book!
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Witnessed some peak petty behavior at lunch today.
Several women sitting outside the cafe, two dining alone, one couple. Solo woman #1 decides to make a call on speakerphone (rude). Solo woman #2 gets up to tell her that it's rude. Woman #1 defends herself by saying speakerphone is no different from speaking to someone sitting with her (wrong. so wrong. incorrect all around.)
Woman #2 returns to her seat for a bit (at which point the couple nearby agrees with her that the speakerphone is rude because it is.), but when she realizes woman #1 is not hanging up, she gets up and stands next to her table, back slightly turned, and just plays a video on speakerphone.
Peak. Petty.
#i'm here for peak petty#would have loved to see this play out#but i had to get back to work#i do not know why people are delusional about speakerphone
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I legitimately feel bad for the UPS sales person who fought really hard to win our account over from FedEx and now we have become the absolute nightmare account. Among the issues we have had to get resolved:
Multiple delayed package deliveries
Double-billed packages
Over-billed packages
Missed pick-ups
Reference information omitted from waybills and tracking
Reference information omitted from invoices
Obviously I don't think these errors are our fault, but geez we are constantly sending this dude emails like 'Hey what's up with this?'
Poor guy has received two emails today alone. Probably not worth it to either of us to keep going in circles on this stuff.
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My mother and I have now been assigned our 'parts' at the seder. We are tasked with the introduction, essentially, and we were directed to 'act it or sing it' or do whatever we want. ACT IT OR SING IT.
Friends, I have never attended a Passover seder and thought 'You know what this needs? A musical number.'
And my mother was totally shocked that we were assigned these roles for the seder -- she hates being asked to perform. And I just... I'm so fucking frustrated.
THIS IS WHY I DID NOT WANT TO GO TO THIS SEDER. I knew it would be like this. It's a ton of people we don't know and it's being hosted by Jewish educators. It's going to be a fucking five to six hour event. I want to hurl myself into the sea.
I have NO IDEA why my mom didn't know it would be like this.
And NOW that my mom has managed to get her arms around our "assignment" she wants us to write a parody song to perform. I just...
I sometimes wish I was the sort of person who could say 'no' more often. But I was raised in this fucking family where you show up for people and support people and a lot of the time that means doing shit you don't want to do.
Anyhow, now I need a person to bring to this seder and I need a musical number to perform. Suggestions welcome.
My mom bullied me into going to a Passover seder at some semi-related family members, and I agreed cause she's old and I don't have many of these left.
They sent out an email instructing people to bring a photo of someone that we would like to have at the table but who otherwise could not attend.
As someone who has lost a father, all four grandparents, an aunt, an uncle, and a cousin, this is like telling me to bring a freight train of emotion to a stranger's table, and I am so annoyed by it. I understand that it's a nice gesture, and I'm sure as we go around the table talking about who we would like to have with us who can't be there, that it will be a meaningful moment to a lot of people, and I hope that I will somehow manage not to burst into tears (no, I will, I am getting teary about it now just thinking about it), but FUCK.
I don't know. Maybe I'll bring a photo of Harpo Marx. Nothing says 'we were slaves in Egypt' like the occasional interruption of a honking horn.
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I'm curious. what job would you do if money was no object (you just automatically had an income you could live comfortably on)? including work like volunteering, studying etc. please share in the tags :)
#whatever i say it would still get real fucking annoying really fucking fast#just let me chill somewhere nice and quiet forever#no work forever
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ATTENTION
If you see this you are OBLIGATED to reblog w/ the song currently stuck in your head :)
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Being a lawyer is like living in the fucking multiverse. I have to warn people about any remotely possible fucking scenario and any remotely possible outcome just to cover my ass.
#if this happens then we do this#if that happens then we do that#all roads end at me suing the government btw#that's the ultimate conclusion of all possible multiverses
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Starting off this Monday by filling the office with smoke on account of the ongoing thermostat problem we're having, so things are going great.
#it's officially freezing in here#we need to get this problem fixed asap#we're lucky we didn't set off the sprinklers
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And another thing! After wondering what was going on for a bit, I just realized that my favorite film reviewer right now, Justin Chang, has moved to the New Yorker after all the staffing upheaval at the LA Times and I am so bummed. His takes on bad movies were hilarious, and his observations about smaller movies were always so thoughtful and beautifully written.
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