“Don’t call me buddy, guy!” “Don’t call me guy, pal!”

Because Gary Oldman is that good. He learned to mimic AI before AI could mimic us.

I had a 2009 BMW 335d that caught a semi tire tread in 2017. Took out one of the self-leveling headlights, the lower bumper grille, and the hood needed repaired. The quoted repair on the headlight from my local BMW dealer was $6800. Ended up doing almost 17k in damage resulting in the car being “totaled” by insurance

Always fun when your employer shows up on one of these lists. Odd to see State Auto still listed as that brand is actively being dissolved into Liberty/Safeco

Been planning on heading up there in my Miata for the weekend course. Glad to hear another glowing testimonial. Will make dropping the $2k a bit more palatable 

Cite my 13-month-old now. Her new favorite game is wait until dad isn’t looking and then shriek as high and loud as possible to watch my reaction. Scares the shit out of me every time. Not sure what the fine should be... I’d get stuck paying it anyway

I’m in Columbus and somewhat regularly take trips to Detroit for concerts or events. Had a Hyundai Ioniq5 rental while my Kia PHEV was in the shop (again). On paper, I should have been able to make it with plenty of range to spare but had to hit a fast charger on the way up to be safe, charged fully on a level 2 while…

That’s more reading about a single chemical than I have done since my sophomore year of college and I couldn’t stop. That stuff is fascinating in such a terrifying manner

One would hope

The insurance company may have already denied coverage and wiped their hands of it. Most homeowners policies have exclusions for “Government Action” that can be interpreted rather broadly. That’s my guess as to why the individuals are suing rather than their insurer.

This doesn’t make much sense. The point of the movie is that Ken was being overlooked.

California is one of the toughest insurance markets in the country for a couple of reasons. State regulations aimed at protecting consumers can cost insurers millions of dollars to implement and adhere to, which gets baked into the base rates. Also, California has a significantly higher rate of litigation for simple…

A few things that come to mind track use, off-road use, and ride-sharing aren’t necessarily covered. I know the first two there are kind of “no-shit” type deals but you’d be surprised at the number of claims that come in for stuff like that. In the third situation, it’s definitely better now but in the early days of…

Insurance guy, here. “Full Coverage” is a misnomer. It means Liability, Collision, and Comprehensive coverages but it does not offer coverage for any and all situations

I believe it was yoinked from theaters shortly after release because some media outlets were blaming The Matrix for the Columbine shootings. Once things settled down (read: once our goldfish brains moved on from caring about that particular shooting) the movie was re-released later in the summer.

I rented one in San Francisco. It felt cheap and was the roughest ride I’ve ever had. It was throwing codes the whole weekend I had it. It was fun in the twisties tho. The exhaust note was one of the better parts of the experience

This is a good take

Companies can’t get enough rate in auto right now. When the pandemic hit, frequency of auto accidents went down and has stayed lower since... but the severity of those that did happen went WAY up. Overall auto claims cost are up 40% over pre-pandemic levels and are showing no signs of slowing down. Part of that is…

While I don’t think the concept of insurance is a scam (full disclosure: I work for an insurance carrier), I think that there are plenty of flaws in the system, as a whole, that cause it to be perceived poorly. Are there bad insurance companies out there? Yes. Are there bad/ignorant actors within good insurance…

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