Yeah, I actually do not much like the "modern amenities" -- it's for getting me and some load from point A to point B, it's not a mobile entertainment center. Also greatly prefer bench seats, and dislike how front wheel drive handles. Narrows the options. Curmudgeon? Me?? :)

I really don't give a flip one way or the other. Drive what you like. But don't try to dictate what I should drive -- that's where I start having a problem with it.

And don't come whining to me, or worse to the gov't, when whatever you choose isn't suitable for the environment.

And, right, I have absolutely no use for an EV. I drive an F350 because that's what I need, it's paid for, and it's reliable. For all of last year I only drove three hundred miles (the wonders of living a mile from the feed store) but I still need it.

I am looking for a little run-around truck that's 4x4 and up on legs (we get enough snow there's good reason for more clearance, and yeah, the -40 now and then) and older, because suits me better, but thanks to the wonders of the EPA, they're scarce as hen's teeth.

The difference is that with ICE engines we can do reasonable things to get them running. (Tho I've never had to do anything more complicated than a block heater, and the '63 Olds would start without it, even at -40. With the block heater, I got into a warm car.)

What do I do when an EV says -40 is fuck-you temperatures?

When I was rehabbing PCs that formerly belonged to middle schools, I trawled through some of the educational software, just curious.

Concluded that the software did not teach the topic. Rather, it taught how to get the software to spit up the desired answer.

Well, I can tell you that the whole damn site is so slow in SeaMonkey, with no adblocker but minimal javascript, that it enforces using Chrome (at least for me) ... tho videos aren't affected, just everything else. (Just had reason to fight with it on not-the-usual-PC, so was reminded... it was faster to hie myself to the usual-PC, root up the link I wanted, and email it to myself from there.)

But yeah, interacting bugs are a thing.

Yeah, all problems. The djinn is out of the bottle.

Who cares, if you're the marketing department, and the person you need to convince to pay for the advertising is the manager who approves the new campaign?

There is the trouble with most ads nowadays. They're no longer aimed at selling product, only at selling ads.

Okay, that's good to know. I was wondering if something could be done with a hash and a server that would not have touched the image, so anyone could confirm it; same principle.

You're not the customer. The customer is the manager who buys the ad campaign from the marketing department.

Is there a reason it can't be both? or that AdBlock is just more sensitive to whatever fuckery Youtube is doing?

[No idea, I use UBlock.]

Well, so far the competition ain't doing so good either. A couple weeks ago I happened to look at a Rumble video in a browser without an adblocker, and seldom have I been so assaulted by such obnoxiously-shit advertising.

Marketing isn't about selling product. It's about selling ad campaigns to managers.

Considering what I've noticed about the proliferation of bot-generated content, that may well be the case. (See my comment above about that)

And lately, even with creators I like, I find myself going, "Same old, same old..." and in the entire long list of daily updates (I have about a thousand subs) I find one or two things I want to watch.

Being stuck on a shit connection, I never watch above 720p and often below. I wonder if that's why I haven't noticed any slowdown... I'm already close to rock bottom.