I believe Santa Claus has already done this

No no, it’s great, thanks for sharing and sorry for your troubles. As I was reading your first comment I was getting freedom vibes and then, oh shit, you dropped their name. Yay! /s

The level of incompetence I’ve seen is peanuts compared to what you’ve been through. I looked up the specifics of PMI cancellation from the consumer financial protection bureau and the last letter they sent is simply wrong, while the second one was 99% correct. I think I’ll send them copies of the letters and ask for clarification just to be a hassel.

Again I keep thinking AI. In what way they’re using it, I don’t know, but the randomness of the responses I’ve received makes me think nobody is at the wheel. The one time I called, the person gave me inaccurate numbers for pmi cancellation, and he said had to wait for a calculator to spit out a value. Perhaps they are interacting with an AI that dictates their output.

I also noticed there is something fucky going on at Freedom Mortgage. I asked them about the requirements for canceling my PMI. The guy on the phone said one thing, then I received an unrequested letter saying something else, then another unrequested letter completly contradicting everything prior, saying I can’t cancel PMI even if I pay down the principal to the PMI threshold, which I’m pretty sure isn’t how it works. I think they have AI running everything or something.

I can’t help but detect some passive hostility in your response.

Not in the US apparently

I didn’t know sony made phones

Alright what phone are you using with a jack?

That’s not simple. That’s very specific, and you really listen for 10 solid hours? Also if you’re dropping 10 hour flight money… I feel like there’s a wireless solution in your price range

I bet if your parents seduced him he’d probably be more open to having sex in their house.

The battery? Mine last at least 8 hours and charge in two.

Okay, I’m going to ask… why don’t you use wireless?

Edit: some results are in, and the only reasonable answer is better audio quality, although that’s probably no longer true. The rest are fairly weak reasons.

Lol’d at the 10m extension cord though, thanks for that one.

Get an old leaf with a new battery?

How can an attacker control the steering?

Ffs, by what half baked metrics are people rating that guy?

I agree. We obviously need to make huge changes to how we live asap, but it seems so profoundly stupid to let a few unelected people break things without a collectively agreed upon plan in place.

I can’t believe you’ve done this to me

So this guy helps create a technology that turns bots up to 11 and then he turns around to sell us a privacy invasive solution to the problem he created? What a fucking asshole.

But Canadian money isn’t real money

I don’t think so, since once revealed the capability can be easily removed or mitigated.

OP, I wish you would stop spreading rumors. As others have pointed out, there’s no real evidence these allegations are credible.

For more context, nearly all modern solar equipment and energy storage devices (like Tesla Powerwalls) come with cellular equipment for firmware updates and production monitoring when there isn’t a better connection available. It’s just how it’s done nowadays, it’s not inherentely nefarious.

Now for some critical thinking. What does China really gain from taking out PV power sources? Those power sources are only producing power less than half the time people need it. Wouldn’t it be better to attack the 24/7 baseload power producers like a gas powerplant? If you take out the PV that gas plant will compensate, just like it does when it’s cloudy. For this reason there’s little point to attacking the auxillary, intermittent power sources.