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AHemlocksLie ,

For real, was like damn, McDonald's charging that much for uniforms? Because that's a McDonald's unif- oh.

AHemlocksLie ,

Tangentially, John Dies at the End is fucking great, easily one of my top book series. Kinda prefer the original online version of the sequel, but that's hard to find these days, and the print version is still good. The movie's pretty good, although it's a shame they cut so much. I get why, movies can only be so long, but would have been cool to see all the stories from the book get told.

AHemlocksLie ,

Yeah, the core plot idea was pretty much the same, but the way it played out was pretty different. The whole thing stays way more low key, and I wanna say the whole jail thing never happened. It's been a long time since I read either version, so I'm fuzzy on the details, but it definitely got a significant rework for publication.

I've tried to find a copy of the original before, and I think I found a poorly cloned website with the original links a few years ago, not updated to point at the new clone so I had to tweak it every time to continue. I'd love to get it converted to an ebook so I could archive it, but I haven't tried in years now.

AHemlocksLie ,

Kinda looks like Todd Howard's face on Henry Cavill's body and skull.

AHemlocksLie ,

You can get yay for an AUR package manager, but it's generally not recommended because it means blindly trusting the build scripts for community packages that have no real oversight. You're typically advised to check the build script for every AUR package you install.

AHemlocksLie ,

I have no idea why you're being downvoted because you're right. You don't really own hardly any of the software you buy. You don't buy the software, you buy a license to use it in almost all commercial cases. It would be financial suicide for companies to revoke those licenses in most cases, but it still is what it is.

AHemlocksLie ,

Sure, but I'm not making a statement about the ethics of it. I'm just stating that that's the current reality. That's how commercial software is sold. I'll freely agree it's a bullshit practice and we should actually be able to own things, but that's a whole different discussion.

AHemlocksLie ,

That assumes the outdated map software manages to somehow make an accurate report. Most likely, if it makes one, it'll be "Going X over a Y MPH area" even though Y is wrong, or it'll be just "speeding by X MPH for Y seconds/minutes". Either way, nobody is likely to verify and correct the data, so you could be punished for perfectly safe and legal driving.

AHemlocksLie ,

Maybe not legally punished, but this very article we're discussing is about how insurance companies are, in fact, punishing you financially for it.
As for the false accusation, sure, but how likely is anyone to even figure it out? You're not being dragged into court, and people don't even know this is happening yet. It's only illegal if you get caught.
I don't expect them to report it to anyone. I just expect data collectors to sell data and other businesses to buy it for the express purposes of financially screwing you. You may stay out of court, but that extra 21% charge is gonna cost you a couple hundred per year at least.

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