It was fine until “the adpocalypse”, when advertisers pulled their ads because they were being shown with offensive videos.

While YouTube has been trying to fix the problem the quality of the ads has reduced. So many advertisers now only go through sponsorship, which doesn’t give any share to YouTube.

The door lock failing should just disable the self cleaning mode

I don’t think cheesecake is difficult

Mix ingredients - how long? Until they are mixed. If a thing needs stirring for a length of time the recipe will tell you

Beef doesn’t go golden brown when you sear it

Golden brown is the colour of cooked wheat flour products - things toast to golden, they don’t sear to golden

Framework still don’t have open firmware

ISP around me had policies like “we can provide Usenet except for the binaries trees”

Legal eagle has a video spelling out which laws are broken. Note that there are specific laws against paying people to vote

Use a throwaway email, drop it as soon as the promotion is over

For safety.

When you back in you have good visibility on your way in - you see in and behind the spot you’re taking as you drive past it to line up

When you leave you have excellent visibility ahead as it’s on front of

Also the car is easier to steer into the spot in reverse

I guess some people are really bad drivers

Leave the spot just the opposite way to which you entered the spot. Then try again.

Ideal: exactly centered between whatever defines the spot (lines, cars, kerbs)

Ideal’: close to a kerb and far from the neighboring car/line

Occasionally my phone recommends an article to read that I find interesting, I click it and it opens in the built in chrome based browser and is a sea of ads. Fortunately there’s an “open in Firefox” button so I actually can read the article

The Flynn effect makes that a time sensitive achievement

Gen X here. I agree torrents are for legit uses only

Usenet is the best for piracy

Is that a deliberately 3d image pair?

They seem 3d with the cross eye technique

I’m seeing cats planning how to get off those sticks so they can knock the baked goods to the floor

It’s more than that. You need a chance for your body to recoup. People exercising hard more than 3 times in six days are doing themselves damage

People since ancient times have lived as long as modern people

More of us make it to the very old ages than twenty thousand years ago, but even back then those who survived childhood had a good chance of making it to old age

It’s not very true. Our bodies work fine for a good long time. It may be the cause of some of the problems we get as we age though

Incidentally I have heard (no idea whether it was folk stories or science) that kids who don’t crawl (some roll and drag themselves and learn to walk very early) get bad backs young

Most of the great apes are more or less upright much of the time