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Cake day: July 1st, 2023

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  • If they did not setup Legacy contacts (people who can access their account after their death), you will need to either gain access by resetting passwords, or via court order.

    The attorney handling the probate might help you, or you can try the legal aids that work with that courthouse.

    And as an aside, don’t forget to setup your own legacy contacts now and possibly get your parents to do it now. Having gone through this a couple times recently, it was very nice to have the legacy contact access. Made everything simple.



  • I think it is way more likely they just bought imagery from existing sources. There are tons of high res imagery out there that you can purchase. Price is usually determined by how old it is. This seems way more likely than an insurance company hiring a drone operator and going door to door. Secondly, companies never share the details of things like this. Wherever the source, they are unlikely to share it. Companies don’t give details because they don’t want to fight you. They just want to cancel your account and move on.

    That isn’t to say this is right.

    Do we want insurance companies peering into our backyards from imagery? I don’t. Regardless of if it’s a drone or not.


  • I was making my way over-land from Vietnam to China and there was only one train a day from this town and the border crossing took too long.

    So here I am stuck in this tiny border town and I go to the only “hotel” in town.

    The “bathroom” did not have a toilet, just a 3 inch sewer opening where a toilet should have been. I had to aim as best I could. The bed was obviously rough, I did not trust the sheets at all that looked dirty. Luckily I brought my own little sarong I could put down. Too hot for any blankets luckily.

    Later that evening the hotel keepers son kept bringing girls to the room to try to sell, and his parents were cussing him out over it at the top of their lungs while he was trying to present them.

    The “hotel” was not approved for foreigners and the hotel keeper was adamant I get out of there early in the morning before the police came by.

    That was quite the welcome to China, and the next two very long days in “hard seat” class on a meter gauge rail line winding through China, while beautiful, about broke my spirit.