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- Comment on Manga Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [Week 19] 1 day ago:
Yeah, I’m trying to find something to catch my eye.
I finished Insomniacs way faster than anticipated because I got very invested in the outcome. The ending felt rushed, so that kinda left me feeling unsatisfied.
I also read Sengoku Komachi Kuroutan over the last few weeks and crushed that faster than I had planned also. That was more what I had been hoping for from Farming Life in Another World, where it was more about the farming and tech, plus I got some history also so I got very excited to read that too.
Maybe I’ll pick up Helck since I enjoyed the anime. I’ve had 7 Seeds on my list for a while too since I enjoyed the 2 seasons on Netflix. Other than that I just have some romcoms, but I’m not feeling that right now.
I need to remember to check in here more as well. I keep forgetting this group is much more active now.
- Comment on Manga Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [Week 19] 1 day ago:
Ughhh, I need the next One Piece to come out! I just read the series for the first time, wrapping up just after New Year, so now having to wait after reading everything else in one go is agonizing!
I started Insomniacs After School last week and am pretty far through that. I’m nervous how it will end, but I’ve really enjoyed their relationship so far.
Everything else I’m reading I’m caught up on. Boo.
- Comment on Automakers Are Sharing Consumers’ Driving Behavior With Insurance Companies 1 month ago:
Even the speed limits are bigger in Texas! 🤠
- Comment on Automakers Are Sharing Consumers’ Driving Behavior With Insurance Companies 1 month ago:
This matches what my girlfriend’s experience seemed to be, a weirdness about trying to please the device that has no real awareness of the situation. Second guessing yourself in an emergency isn’t the best outcome.
- Comment on Automakers Are Sharing Consumers’ Driving Behavior With Insurance Companies 1 month ago:
I’m in Southeast Pennsylvania and they’ll whack you for 10 over, but 20-30 over is not rare here. People just don’t care about anyone but themselves on the road.
I take all back roads to work now and it’s much better even though the drive is twice as long.
- Comment on Automakers Are Sharing Consumers’ Driving Behavior With Insurance Companies 1 month ago:
I take it those are the people downvoting that comment, like I made the speed limits or collect the data. 😆
I didn’t know if I’ve been anywhere that people wouldn’t say 80+ is fast though.
My old commute was a half hour all highway and busy roads. New commute is an hour, but all lazy back roads and it’s so much more relaxing. People make driving into a win/lose game or something around here.
- Comment on Automakers Are Sharing Consumers’ Driving Behavior With Insurance Companies 1 month ago:
It mentioned logging speeds above 80 mph.
That’s the highest speed limit I can find for the US, so if you’re 80+, it seems you are breaking the law regardless of location.
- Comment on Automakers Are Sharing Consumers’ Driving Behavior With Insurance Companies 1 month ago:
Is there anything you can do once you get the report?
This is the kinda thing that I’d probably be happier not knowing if there’s nothing I can do about it.
- Comment on Automakers Are Sharing Consumers’ Driving Behavior With Insurance Companies 1 month ago:
Upon Mr. Dahl’s request, LexisNexis sent him a 258-page “consumer disclosure report,” which it must provide per the Fair Credit Reporting Act.
What it contained stunned him: more than 130 pages detailing each time he or his wife had driven the Bolt over the previous six months. It included the dates of 640 trips, their start and end times, the distance driven and an accounting of any speeding, hard braking or sharp accelerations. The only thing it didn’t have is where they had driven the car.
According to the report, the trip details had been provided by General Motors — the manufacturer of the Chevy Bolt. LexisNexis analyzed that driving data to create a risk score “for insurers to use as one factor of many to create more personalized insurance coverage,” according to a LexisNexis spokesman, Dean Carney. Eight insurance companies had requested information about Mr. Dahl from LexisNexis over the previous month.
“It felt like a betrayal,” Mr. Dahl said. “They’re taking information that I didn’t realize was going to be shared and screwing with our insurance.”
Automakers and data brokers that have partnered to collect detailed driving data from millions of Americans say they have drivers’ permission to do so. But the existence of these partnerships is nearly invisible to drivers, whose consent is obtained in fine print and murky privacy policies that few read.
Especially troubling is that some drivers with vehicles made by G.M. say they were tracked even when they did not turn on the feature — called OnStar Smart Driver — and that their insurance rates went up as a result.
“I don’t know the definition of hard brake. My passenger’s head isn’t hitting the dash,” he said. “Same with acceleration. I’m not peeling out. I’m not sure how the car defines that. I don’t feel I’m driving aggressively or dangerously.”
In response to questions from The New York Times, G.M. confirmed that it shares “select insights” about hard braking, hard accelerating, speeding over 80 miles an hour and drive time of Smart Driver enrollees with LexisNexis and another data broker that works with the insurance industry called Verisk.
Customers turn on Smart Driver, said Ms. Lucich, the G.M. spokeswoman, “at the time of purchase or through their vehicle mobile app.” It is possible that G.M. drivers who insisted they didn’t opt in were unknowingly signed up at the dealership, where salespeople can receive bonuses for successful enrollment of customers in OnStar services, including Smart Driver, according to a company manual.
After LexisNexis and Verisk get data from consumers’ cars, they sell information about how people are driving to insurance companies. To access it, the insurance companies must get consent from the drivers — say, when they go out shopping for car insurance and sign off on boilerplate language that gives insurance companies the right to pull third-party reports.
This summary contains 489 words. I’m neither a bot nor open source, but the bot summary was poo.
- Comment on Scientists Have Reported a Breakthrough In Understanding Whale Language 4 months ago:
Seeing the story play out over the span of a few decades really hit home about how long we’ve let this stuff go on already and how long it can take for people to change views and seek justice. We just need to do all we can and keep trying to set the example.
Being the main contributor of !superbowl@lemmy.world, my feeds get full of environmental destruction and habitat and species loss, and it’s tough to filter through all that every day looking for positive stories.
- Comment on Scientists Have Reported a Breakthrough In Understanding Whale Language 4 months ago:
It wasn’t a great show and I didn’t binge watch it, but I’m glad I ignored all the hate about it I read eventually. I really liked the drone defection plotline and the whale episode I feel is up there with some of the best Black Mirror stuff.
There was very much morale ambiguity of the “good” characters as well, it wasn’t all pro-environmentalist guys are all heroes, there was definitely eco-terrorism.
- Comment on Scientists Have Reported a Breakthrough In Understanding Whale Language 4 months ago:
This was my favorite episode of Extrapolations!
- Comment on Turkey Tail 5 months ago:
Thank you for clarifying. That was my takeaway from reading the polypores Wikipedia article.
Conks are all mushrooms, but not all mushrooms are conks.
- Comment on Turkey Tail 5 months ago:
Neat, I hadn’t heard that term before. I’ll have to read more about them.
On a convenient note, the wiki for polypores had a pic of the orange “mushroom” I had found.
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- Comment on A touching quote from Nimoy's "I am Spock" book (1995) 6 months ago:
I did see that when I was checking if Nemoy continued to do the voice in the series or just the movie. (He didn’t, it went back to Frank Welker, who voiced Megatron.)
I gave the first Bay movie a chance, because did 6 year old me ever love transformers in the 80s, but one Bay movie was more than enough for me. Maybe I’ll look up the Bay scenes on YouTube so I can hear Nemoy without dealing with the rest of the movie…
- Comment on A touching quote from Nimoy's "I am Spock" book (1995) 6 months ago:
He was also Galvatron in the Transformers movie.
- Comment on Designed these spiders for halloween! 6 months ago:
Yeah, it still feels like a bit too much material science knowledge is required for your average person. That’s what keeps me just watching you guys every time I get tempted to try it myself.
I do like learning about the different filaments and such though. I still find it very cool.
- Comment on Designed these spiders for halloween! 6 months ago:
Haha, I love it!
I have zero experience with 3d printing, but I look at creative uses like this from time to time. After reading this mask printing post yesterday, are there any special considerations needed to be taken before printing tiny structures like those spider legs?
I see little spider “leg hairs” on some of them, and I think that really adds to realism of the spider, but would that be an issue in other prints?
If this is a really complicated answer, feel free to say so or if you can give me some technical terms for some of the potential issues, I have no problem googling them myself, I just wouldn’t know where to start on my own.
- Comment on Suzanne Somers, Star of ‘Three’s Company’ and ‘She’s the Sheriff,’ Dies at 76 6 months ago:
Somers landed her breakthrough role as Chrissy Snow in Three’s Company, for which she received a Golden Globes nomination.
She starred opposite Patrick Duffy as a widowed mom and divorced dad who quickly fell in love and got married on vacation.
Weird transition here from the bot. The article had it correct, but the bot skipped a paragraph. Three’s Company was opposite John Ritter, and Step by Step was opposite Patrick Duffy.