I’ll start paying for YT before I ever start watching ads. I won’t as long as I don’t have to, but the second they finally figure this out, I’m subscribing.

It’s well worth the money considering how much I use it and for how long I’ve used it for free. It’s honestly one of the few streaming services actually worth paying for.

Apparently there is a way around it as I’ve been watching YouTube all day and haven’t encountered a single ad.

Well, they don’t in this case either - they just add an extra step to it. You can buy a bit like that off eBay.

I went looking for a screenshot of that scene but got distracted by all the shop-vacs painted as R2D2. Off to buy white and blue paint.

Not to defend BMW here but it’s likely a very specific part that this screw is used for and 99% of home mechanics probably are never going to encounter it. Most likely having something to do with the high-voltage system which you shouldn’t be messing with anyway.

That’s why I don’t immediately judge people when they say something I disagree with. I want to know how they arrived at that conclusion. Their reasoning might be solid - just shaped by different life experiences and beliefs that led them to a different view. And that’s okay.

I can still see them as an intellectual, trustworthy person whose opinions matter to me, because I trust they’re capable of independent reasoning.

It works both ways too. Someone agreeing with me means next to nothing if it’s just an adopted view they accepted as fact without ever really thinking it through themselves. The “stamp of approval” from people like that is basically worthless.

Probably didn’t read it because it was clearly low-quality slop - not because the final output was written by AI.

People don’t mind AI-generated content when they don’t detect it as such. It’s the low-effort garbage they don’t want to deal with.

Nobody has a perfect radar for AI content. This is just the good old toupee fallacy in action: “All toupees look terrible because I’ve never seen a good one” - except the good ones are the ones you never clocked as toupees.

Mopeds used to have pedals as well. The term comes from Swedish words motor and pedaler

eBikes requiring pedaling is mostly just a software limitation - not a hardware one. I can’t quite see how it stops being an eBike after you disable this limitation.