And skip that Exit 11b crap. In my neck of the woods we get big signs saying "Main St 3 miles", "Main St 2 miles", "Main St next exit". It's only once you've taken the exit you see that little sign that says "exit 11b".

Your car won't run without computers. Take your catalytic converter (CC) as an example. When your engine runs lean the exhaust has extra oxygen, the CC captures those atoms. When the engine runs rich the exhaust has extra carbon. The CC uses it's stored oxygen to turn the exhaust into CO2 and H2O. Your engine constantly moves from rich to lean and back again. If they do that for smog control, what do you think they can do with ignition timing, variable valve timing, and all the other doo dads they can control based on data from sensors all over the vehicle.

One reason is the number of ads they throw my way. Before starting a video I always think "is this gonna be worth the ads?". Another reason I've noticed is the people I follow aren't posting as often. Some have even quit YouTube. I suspect the ads are also the root cause of this.

Let them do that route for a few years, then we can talk about letting them on roads in my neck of the woods.

Wonder what it's like in a Chinese Wal-Mart? "Hey! I made that yesterday!"

is modern American innovation.

That's why the first thing I do with anything electrical is check for power.

Disclaimer: I spent 3 years as a hardware tech. The first things checked are power and clocks.

I don't want a western, thriller, comedy, or whatever. I want to see some nudity, sexual situations and coarse language dammit!

Southern Baptist. I'd heard some music on TV and such, but there wasn't a radio in the house and my parental units always had religious music in the car. I was 13 when I built that Heathkit radio and discovered music.

Back in the 70s my first radio was a Heathkit shortwave that also had an AM band. It was my first exposure to music outside of church and I liked a lot of it. What I really hated was the incessant yapping of the DJs who loved to practice what's called "talking to the post". This is basically talking over the start of the song until the lyrics start.

Didn't take long for me to get an FM radio, who's DJs respected the music and let it play without excessive yammering.

If Google thinks I'm going back to DJs yammering over my music they've got another think coming.

Eventually AI will write a really good song lots of people will like. Is it still slop? Remember all the old fogies who didn't think rock n roll was music?

I use my phone to stream music, to headphones when I work out and to my sound bar when at home. Does that count as using my phone?

Likewise, I know a woman who loves to take pictures with her phone. You'd think she has a $2k DSLR, everywhere we go she's framing shots. Does that count?

I used to work for a company that made suitcase-sized telemetry doohickey's (1980s). Sometimes they would lock up for no apparent reason, the only fix was to power cycle. So we're at a trade show (ITC) and my boss is demo'ing the box when it froze. The customer hadn't noticed it, Mike said "and you can plug all your peripherals in", leaning over the box to show the back panel when his stomach hit the power button. Oops!

The device had a detachable keyboard. The solution to the random lockups was adding a ground wire between the keyboard and the box.

Pigs could sprout wings and fly. I don't think it's gonna happen, but it could

I suspect folks in Balkh were using the internet to shake things up.