I'd not thought about it like that, but it seems you're right on it.

A handful of assholes are basically driving up the costs of ALL ELECTRONICS so they can turn useful electricity into heat, incredibly inefficiently, with the side effect of lowering the signal-to-noise ratio of basically everything through the tsunami of AI slop.

Fuck these AI billionaire bros right in the ear.

Yes, heaven forbid someone could walk to an auto parts store that they can see from the elevated roadway they broke down on, buy the part, and then come back and use a rudimentary tool kit to effect a repair.

You know that replacing an alternator is usually just a few bolts, yeah? Maybe you need a pry bar to get the belt tensioned?

Who said anything about tearing the top of the engine apart on the side of the road to replace a head gasket besides you?

And someone that uses ad hominem attack and vulgarity to try to make a point, doesn't have a point to make or is very bad at making it.

Now that you've proven you can be safely ignored with no valuable insight lost, it sounds like we can both go about our business.

I'm sorry, did you time warp here from 1930 and you haven't heard of roadside assistance that you can call with a wireless telephone?

More than that, if you have created a product that someone has to "understand" for it to be useful, you've created a small-market niche product.

If you create a product that is inherently understood by the intended audience, then you have removed a barrier to a sale.

Expecting the entire world to figure out your product and chiding them for not understanding it just means you've made a singularly bad user experience that nobody wants to understand, or your marketing people are fucking morons.

Oh there's still lots of things that can go to shit in an ICE car that can be fixed on the roadside:

timing belt / serpentine belt
alternator belt
alternator
fuel lines
clogged fuel filter
clogged fuel injectors
vacuum leaks
clogged air filter
failed mass airflow sensor causing bad inputs to the ECU
failed O2 exhaust / emissions sensor causing bad inputs to the ECU
failed thermostat not opening / failing to close
ruptured radiator hoses
dead water pump
failed ignition coils
dead battery

I'm sure you can think of a few more, too.

And you should face the reality that whataboutism is the absolute worst way to try to make a point.

What, are you trying to get a rise out of me with your "well whatabout Rob Reiner!!!!!111!1one!"? How is that germane to any conversation happening right now, other than you trying to justify a bad actor's bad behavior for reasons I will never understand?

Please grow up and realize that everything doesn't have to be "us or them" and making it "us or them" when it doesn't have to be makes you into a political hack that can be safely ignored as someone without objectivity.

That's the political right's favorite excuse for when they say something abhorrent and stupid.

Trump used that one so often the tire tread is gone, and we're looking at the steel belts. Maybe don't joke about being a racist scumbag, and then you won't have to say "you were joking" about being a racist scumbag.

And I don't care if he's dead or alive - being publicly racist makes you publicly racist. I'm stating facts here that are not concerned with the "alive" property.

Yes, there are less side effects of ivermectin, when taken at proper dosage for the condition you are treating (parasites)

Yes, there are side effects, as demonstrated by idiots taking horse dewormer at hundreds of times the concentration that is appropriate for human metabolism.

No, there is absolutely no evidence that ivermectin does any more than the square root of jack shit against bacterial or viral infection. It's a fucking poison that kills parasites while being weak enough to leave the host alive. The end.

We know how these things work, what they do in the body, and where they will have absolutely no effect without uselessly trying anyway. There is no mechanism for ivermectin to do jack shit to stop uncontrolled cellular replication without killing ALL celllular replication by killing the host. Period.

With each and every participant signing a piece of paper saying that they were informed that they could be in the placebo group, getting a gelatin pill. I.e. informed consent.

Maybe don't point out the obvious as anything but obvious?

An "all of the above" treatment regime is fine, as long as you are consulting with doctors to make sure the unproven stuff doesn't get in the way or cause reactions that can be problematic.

Where it's not fine is when you believe some untrustworthy media personality for medical advice. That's when shit goes bad really fast, and everyone looks at you and says "why would you do that when actual medical experts are saying otherwise?" - see Steve Jobs.

Remembered for hitting the bullseye on corporate bullshit, as well as being remembered for espousing racist, segregationist views and getting himself de-published by anyone with a printing press that matters.

Being a victim of your own ignorance and stupidity is valid. See: Steve Jobs and treating his aggressive pancreatic cancer with fruit.

I don't want to go all the way to "right wing politics is a mental disease" but we're sure stacking up a lot of correlating evidence to support that conclusion these days the farther right you go...

Until he showed his true spirit with his racist tirade calling black people a "hate group" and essentially declaring himself pro-segregationist which got his comic strip cancelled in hundreds of newspapers.

Turns out he was just a racist shitbag at the end.