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Economics & Investing / Re: GEICO is Terminating Insurance Coverage of Tesla Cybertrucks
« on: October 08, 2024, 07:50:09 AM »
Insurance companies are relentless.  If they want to drop you or your vehicle they will find away.  They'll just wait until nobody is paying attention and cancel or raise the rate until you can't afford it.

>dropped

To be fair, the insured's driving record counts too.  It's not just the vehicle.

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Economics & Investing / Re: GEICO is Terminating Insurance Coverage of Tesla Cybertrucks
« on: October 07, 2024, 08:17:19 AM »
>terminating

Others will now follow.

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Web Development / Re: The blogosphere is in full bloom. The rest of the internet has wilted
« on: October 05, 2024, 09:31:33 PM »
>full bloom

There are some really good, thoughtful bloggers out there.

Feedle is a search engine for blog feeds and podcasts and a good way to find them.
https://feedle.world

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Water Cooler / Re: Helene Was Ruinous. The Insurance Reality Is Worse
« on: October 04, 2024, 08:26:25 AM »
>insurance

Flood insurance aside, regular homeowners insurance is going up like crazy even in "protected" places like the US Midwest.  Storms, wind and hail damage particularly to roofs and siding are increasing insurance claims across the country and insurance companies are passing the costs on.

Homeowners and builders need to take a real hard look at the materials we are using to build homes.  As an example, metal roofs were unheard of here a few years ago but now are becoming more popular for their resistance to fire, wind and hail.

>flood insurance

At some point the Federal govt is just going to have to quit issuing flood insurance in some areas.

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Water Cooler / Re: Widespread vulnerabilities in US voting and government systems
« on: October 02, 2024, 08:36:54 AM »
>Ditto

Ditto, ditto.

Y'all thought I was sleeping in the back of the class, but I was paying attention to the "never bank online" and such.  That extends to bills.  I get deluged with mail, write a lot of checks and pay a lot of postage but it works.  Whereas, a friend of mine who pays everything electronically, had his bank account compromised and it was a nightmare straightening it all out.

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Hardware & Technology / Verizon Mobile service outage
« on: September 30, 2024, 03:41:39 PM »
Verizon’s mobile services are down across the country

https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/30/24258362/verizon-mobile-services-down-sos-mode

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Water Cooler / Re: Tugboat powered by ammonia sails for the 1st time, showing how to cut emissions
« on: September 30, 2024, 07:52:46 AM »
In the Midwest, a lot of family farms have gone straight grain and no longer raise cattle or hogs like they did up until the 1970's.  It's hard to compete against huge factory cattle operations.  They have even removed the fences which used to enclose each field since the fences are not needed for cattle anymore.

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Traffic / Free Web Search Day, Sept. 29th 2024
« on: September 29, 2024, 04:40:46 PM »
Some interesting things on the website.

https://freewebsearch.org/en/

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Economics & Investing / Re: The Surprising Effects Of Fast Food Kiosks | Hackaday
« on: September 23, 2024, 05:44:12 PM »
I don't use these.  I don't use self-checkout at the grocery store either.  If they want my custom they need to act like it.

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Water Cooler / Re: Rewilding
« on: September 22, 2024, 10:24:33 PM »
How restoring rivers' natural curves can prevent flooding

https://www.bbc.co.uk/future/article/20240918-how-restoring-rivers-natural-curves-can-prevent-flooding

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Hardware & Technology / Re: Air Con: $1697 for an on/off switch
« on: September 18, 2024, 08:29:55 AM »
>tech-nerd read

It was good.  Reminds me of something you would do RC.

>disposable systems

This isn't really nerdy enough, but my furnace motor died.  The "technician" (they don't call them repairmen anymore) recommended I replace the whole 20 yr old furnace but said he could try and find a replacement motor.  Long story short, he "found" a new replacement motor and the furnace works great.  Furnaces and hot water heaters sure do not last like they used to and are becoming as disposable as modern dishwashers.

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Water Cooler / Re: EV Tires: They should have been reading here.
« on: September 17, 2024, 07:24:45 AM »
In the future, we are going to see a lot of articles about rubber tire particulate pollution from these EV's.

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Water Cooler / Re: EV Tires: They should have been reading here.
« on: September 16, 2024, 08:15:24 AM »
>6,000 miles

We're down into the old bias ply territory here, but with tires that cost a heck of a lot more, just to haul around a whole lot of ugly.

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Marketing / Re: Google's lucrative ad tech business goes on trial
« on: September 10, 2024, 08:38:46 AM »
A slightly different take:

https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/a-post-google-world

BBC makes it sound like the Justice Dept. will have a hard time winning against Google, whereas this article makes it sound like Google has an uphill battle.  We shall see.

Get your popcorn.

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Water Cooler / Re: Ford Patents In-Car System That Eavesdrops So It Can Play You Ads
« on: September 08, 2024, 04:39:59 PM »
Tell your teen, "Don't go parking in the Ford."

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