As I was reading your description, I suddenly realized they are just a legalized mafia. The pizzo is just called a premium.  

Needless to say, I’m really glad I held off on buying High On Life. 

“Name another business that can legally discriminate based on sex, age, marital status etc.”

Even worse, they had chipped keys until 2016, when they decided to save money by removing the immobilizer chips from the vehicles without push-button start. 

 Insurance is the WORST kind of organized crime.  Name another business that can legally discriminate based on sex, age, marital status etc.  And of course what they are doing here is legal - The insurance industry long ago bought and paid for the politicians who make the laws. The WORST 

Yup.

It’s already fucked. Instead of fixing it properly, they offered a $400 bandaid that was really a $200 bandaid

At this point your best bet might be to hope that it just gets stolen so you can go buy something else that is cheaper to insure.

FYI, The Last of Us should be safe to watch. The first season adapts the first game, and is expected to end in the same place. The first game tells a complete story, and its ending is not a cliffhanger (it is somewhat ambiguous, but not in a way that demanded a sequel).

Bezos loved The Expanse so he made a special effort to rescue it, and it was Comcast he rescued it from, not Warners. But I don’t think we can count on billionaire hobbies to rescue shows very often.

Because he was asked. Anyone expecting a developer hired to make a PS5 exclusive game to answer this question with anything resembling “PC version incoming, so don’t feel the need to buy a PS5" is living in a different universe.

This guy was hired to make a PS5 game.  He was not hired to make, nor comment on, decisions to port the game to other platforms.  

Tuners will just get into jailbreaking. Buy a base Dodge EV and have your local tuner turn on all the options and power the hardware permits.

That is stupid and should be illegal IMO.

“Now, we don’t want to lock the cars and say you can’t modify them,” says Kuniskis. “We just want to lock them and say modify them through us so that we know that it’s done right.”

The Teslas that have had their features turned off while under new ownership already answers your questions. Even if someone does buy the mod and passes it on, there’s plenty of opportunity for OTA updates to either intentionally or accidentally turn them off and now you are left to fight with a corp the size of Tesla…

Muscle cars are not transportation meant to safely get you from one place to another. That’s what a Toyota Camry is for. Anything from a Mustang, to Camaro, to a Hellcat Challenger and EV Charger are to provide driving excitement in the form of harsh acceleration

Tesla Model S

Yeah, you can get a generator, but you’ll still be in texas.  Not what many people would call an ideal situation.  How long until they just become the Republic of Gilead?  

Why the fuck would you guys “update” this with all new phones instead of just writing an entirely new story? Who wants to read comments from literally over a year go about completely different freakin’ phones?