Okay the image is messy but the snake coiling around the scales is actually a sick concept.

Jesus Christ, they’re like the villains from Captain Planet.

I think you need to use the same phone number you signed up with, but other than that I don’t know. If you signed up with a burner phone, maybe you could do that.

I don’t know, but mine guesses correctly when I’m a passenger about 90% of the time. Unlike the other commenter, mine doesn’t have a bluetooth connection to my car or a device in my car.

Once in a while I have to tell it I’m not driving.

For each trip it tells you things like how often you touch your phone, what % of the trip you spent using your phone, and how many times you braked hard (which is a proxy for things like tailgating or general inattentiveness, since it can’t see the road). Mostly it seems to be a “don’t use your phone” score. There’s an overall score, and you can see how big your discount is, but the score itself is largely meaningless without the ability to compare to other drivers.

Discount on my insurance.

My driving is being non-secretly scored, I have an app just for that. Currently it just complains that I have power saving mode on all the time, so I don’t know if it’s not working or if it is and I just can’t see the results anymore. (I’m not turning off power saving mode.)

The $250/month plan supposedly includes unlimited traffic. If there’s actually a limit where you’re supposed to switch to a more expensive plan with no standardized price, maybe CF should say what the limit is?

He is also in the article, yes.

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) said he voted against the reauthorization “because it failed to include the most important requirement to protect Americans’ civil rights: that law enforcement get a warrant before targeting a US citizen.”

Heartbreaking: The Worst Person You Know Just Made A Great Point

I don’t know, I didn’t write it!

Edit: Wait I get it, if you bracket the statements differently (so that “do not have” applies to each one instead of all of them) you get (!A && !B && !C) instead of !(A && B && C). That seems super unintuitive and I can’t believe the majority claimed that there’s no ambiguity, when I feel like they’ve chosen the much less obvious interpretation.

The losses are being distributed among society while the corporation keeps the profits. No one thinks this is actual socialism, that is the whole point of the saying.

I think it’s way more likely that he gets sentenced to house arrest, which he could serve at Mar a Lago. The other option is to have Secret Service agents following him around inside a prison trying to protect him from the other inmates (and possibly the guards), and I don’t think either the prisons or the Secret Service want to deal with that.

Hey, I dislike her as much as the next person, but can we please avoid attacking her appearance, using gendered insults, and calling for violence? That’s, like, not good for any of us. We can attack her policies and stances instead, the things that matter.

Like Descartes?

Had a bunch of friends in college but we all lived in the same hallway, so when we wanted to talk as a group we just… talked in a group. Other than that we somehow got along texting individually. That was before everyone had switched to smartphones, anyway; I started college in '07, before the iPhone.

Then I moved a few times over the last decade+, and the people I’m still talking to are separated by thousands of miles of space and years of my life in terms of when I knew them in person.

And like I said, when I’ve been in groups organized around an activity like D&D, we’ve had chats for scheduling, but they pretty much stayed on topic and didn’t become, like, friend-group-chats.

This is fascinating to read as someone who has never been “in a group chat” in the way this writer uses them. I’ve been in groups for scheduling activities before, or in work groups, but they were always used pretty strictly for scheduling or conveying activity- or work-related info. None of the people I chat with recreationally know each other.

Edit: Sorry, meant to reply to the comment above you!

They’re not really leases either. Leases last for a defined period of time, like “one year,” or they renew at regular intervals, like “monthly.” “Pay up front and we’ll let you keep this license for either forever or until we decide to revoke it without notifying you” isn’t the same thing.

For some reason I get an urge to stockpile cigs every time they announce this, despite smoking less than a pack a year and not smoking menthols at all. Weird hoarding instinct.