There are a lot of good words in the good book but if you look around at most of the Christian church-goers they are golden-calf people.

Let’s fix that exclusionary headline by removing one word…“Politicians are not your friends”.

I’m great at carburetors. Especially the Holley 4 barrel carb. Trial and error made me good at it. I had the freedom to try. We no longer have that. So, yes, all digital tech. Just electromechanical so we can save huge amounts of dollars by not getting involved in the “repair industry”. Transmissions are a different beast but if all the “Chilton’s’” auto repair manuals have not been secreted away and completely destroyed then I at least have a fighting chance to figure it out.

Stupid questions exist. Allowing them into this forum is a failure of the moderator(s). /s

Is it possible to retrofit a used “computer” vehicle and remove all digital tech to make it electromechanical again, where the owner has complete control of what they purchased?

This is just history repeating itself. A while ago it was typewriter repair persons vs. the keyboard. New tech won and time marched on. Having said that…fuck AI.

I would rather paint a portrait by myself, spending the time to do it, rather than asking some computer prompt to spit me out a picture. Same logic applies with coding for me.

We’ll fix those greedy bastards! Just like we did with Ticketmaster! What? We didn’t?

That used to be true, pre-1980’s, when the middle class was way, way bigger than it is today.

I don’t use the computer part of a phone so I just bought a ZTE for 85 bucks.

We are going to see a lot more of this type of bullshit now that there are no standards anymore. Fuck everything else and make that money people!

Catastrophe because we gave up the broom and mop. Oh no.

Darkness is only defined by the existence of light. Logic dictates that there have to be some benevolent bots out there.

Not when Sammy Jackson says it. /s

That’s because “Montreal” is French for “Mount Royale with Cheese”.

So some bots are good, just like people.

The real heroes.

Get around this by passing fucking laws people. The law has for too long favoured the rich and powerful over the forces that create the wealth (the people). You don’t need unions if you are protected by law. Skip the middle man. No salesman will enter your home. I’m only pro-union until the laws catch up (but they never seem to, right?).

Good tech fucked up by sneaky tactics and greed. I hear there is battery-draining techno-wool in those ridiculously expensive cut-up socks.

It’s all bought and paid for. Nothing much left for the masses unless they pay a fee.