What is it with this week? It’s been a pretty shitty week for the world, obviously. I’ve personally had a terrible week and I had lunch with two old friends yesterday. One was fired and the other got dumped. It’s honestly been a bad week for a lot of people I know.

This website (and its readership) just spent time whining about people whining about hotel perks, rather than spending time with their families or building houses. How meta. How ironic.

*European. Every Euro brand uses them, except Jag and Land Rover thanks to Ford’s meddling.

My friend had a 2014 escape as a rental. A first gen neon rear ended him, tented the hood, smashed the windshield, set off an air bag and totaled the car. The left exhaust tip was bent down about an inch, but enterprise didn’t even notice

That’s my dad! He dailyed his 06 Sierra to a quarter million miles and traded it in for a Sierra on a whim. Zero research. Took one right off the lot because he liked his last one.

It baffles me how much more attractive BMWs used to be than Mercs back in that day. Especially interior wise

I still haven’t found a better appliance car. It’s huge on the inside, efficient, cheap to buy and dirt cheap to own. I think the enviro-elite have moved on to the Leaf.

They don’t have a torque converter. There is an electric motor that acts as a torque converter + motor.

To prevent teens from ruining their lives by ruining it for them

Silly Germans, actually thinking a wealthy executive can go to jail in America. lololololol.

*in before the Tesla dick swinging*

You’re very close. It’s partly that and mostly something called tonicity. One is hypertonic and one is hypotonic (can’t remember which). And I’m sure there’s something to do with the particular sediment that means they can’t disperse their tonicity like usual. This is pretty much a guess. It’s been years since I took…

Who are you ripping off by using the adblock? The website. The website doesn’t care if you buy anything, so long as you see it and they get that money. And it’s not all about clicking through to get a sale. No, no, no. That’s the first rule of advertising. Do you click through a TV commercial? A billboard? A print ad?…

You were bombarded with ads years before the Internet was in the picture. You can’t skip ads when you watch a show on TV but nobody complains about that. But if you watch the same ad, on the same show, but online, all of the sudden you’re irate and its invasion of privacy (lol) or whatever.

Yes. Yes chance absolutely does. I don’t work in advertising but I have worked with them and that absolutely does matter whether or not you can see the ads, even if you don’t click on them in most pricing models

Why do people keep using this argument. Do you really think AT&T or Comcast or whomever provides your Internet gives a penny to the websites you visit? They don’t. Please stop with this stupid, elementary argument about paying for an Internet connection.

When I go to Chipotle, it’s to eat a burrito, salad, taco or some specific thing. I don’t want to be bombarded with the cashier asking me to pay for my food when I could be using that for other things and if there’s a way to avoid it by just walking away, I will.

Notice how ads get progressively more annoying over time? It’s because AdBlock causes lost revenue for these companies and they need more intrusive ads to make up for lost revenue.

YES, YES ADVERTISERS ARE LIKE A CORPORATION BECAUSE THEY ARE AN F’ING CORPORATION! So is Gawker, Google, Facebook, or any free content website you read. They are COMPANIES out to make a PROFIT by delivering a PRODUCT/SERVICE. Their product is online content. Their profit is ads.

This is not actually true. Advertisers get paid more for click throughs. They also get paid on impressions. It gives them more data to find out which ads are more effective.