OK, put a hidden directory in your website, fill it with several gigabytes of core files and other junk and list it in robots.txt as not to be searched. Honest search engines won't even look at it, but the rogues will spend bandwidth sucking it down and lots of expensive computing time trying to make sense of it. Serves them right!

And what makes it really weird is that every post was composed in a browser and all browsers, even in phones, have a spelling checker to avoid exactly that. Now, I understand that if you're using your phone to place the ad, backing up to correct a typo isn't easy; about the only practical way is to delete text until you reach the typo then re-enter the text and hope that you get it right this time, but that's a different rant. If you must use your phone that way, keep an eye on the text you're entering, and correct mistakes quickly, before there's too much deleting to do.

- Omitting inconvenient facts
- failure to seek out opposing views

And almost always, the inconvenient facts are those that support an opposing POV because the so-called journalist writing the article believes that it's his job to push his personal political/social/economic slant rather than the truth, and his "editors" want a site filled with thinly-disguised editorials instead of facts.

You don't understand. Many of the people religiously wearing masks during the pandemic honestly believed that wearing a mask would keep them from contracting COVID rather than preventing them from spreading if if they were contagious. Yes the masks served as an important part of keeping COVID from spreading, but it wasn't the way many, if not most people thought it was, and that's what I'm referring to as public health theater.

Wearing masks to keep yourself from contracting COVID is nothing more than public health theater, because it doesn't keep the COVID spores from reaching you, it keeps them from getting out if you're in the contagious stage and don't know it. Still, during the worst parts of the pandemic I made sure to wear a mask in public, not because it made me safer but because it made other people feel safer. I'm retired, and I live in a small city that's now down to about 8,000 people, compared to the 20,000 here when it was incorporated near the end of the 19th century and I don't know how many, if any cases there were here. The same thing goes for children; it may keep them safe, but if it helps keep their parents from worrying too much, it's a small price to pay, and I congratulate you for insisting that your children wore masks even though you knew they didn't help. If nothing else, it calmed the fears of the other children's parents, and that's not a bad thing.

Why didn't you simply block their number? Did you really like having them call you at random times during your workday?

Yes. I even still remember that the name was actually Windows Me, not Windows ME.

That's the only plausible reason for the situation described in the story at the top of the thread.

Oh, I can see another reason that's very plausible: Apple is jacking the prices on replacement parts up through the roof in order to to discourage their customers from repairing them. Where I come from that's called "acting in bad faith," and if it's not against the law, it should be.

Or, if you don't trust Chromium, install User Agent Switcher and have it tell that site that you're using Edge.

Either that or he got some seriously bad junk from the Old Dope Peddler.

The number of charging spots is probably determined by the amount of land available and the cost of buying it.

Actually that is a problem, and it's a large part of the slowdown in sales. EVs are a fabulous option for affluent early adopter personalities that can add a charger to their home. Plug in every night. Wake to a full charge.

That's great, if you own or rent your own house. However, in many of the biggest cities, most of the affluent live in luxury apartments in high-rise buildings near the center of town. Yes, they come with underground parking, but unless those buildings are either very new or recently upgraded, they don't come with chargers, and installing them is going to be a major expense for the owners, which is going to be passed on to the tenants, along with the time that the spaces aren't available because the charging equipment's being installed, much of it under the floor. What do you think all of those rich early-adopters are going to do about that?

OH, I don't know about that. There's a famous case from the late 17th century where a student had learned enough Latin to translate a bit of verse into an indirect insult to his professor.

I was asking if Lance Armstrong were descended from the title character of the radio show Jack Armstrong the All-American Boy. It's a joke; laugh!

I never said it did. However, if you had followed that link, you would have had a pleasant surprise. You, sir, have been had!