@Steve-Miller Oh. I don't have that option because my bookmark shortcut takes me directly to my subscriptions page. I never go to the home page, but if I do it doesn't show anything except a message, "Your watch history is off" with an option to turn it on. Well, duh, of course it's off. Don't want them nosey's watching my every move! I'm pretty strict with Youtube and do everything I can to see only what I want to see. My subscription page shows videos only from creators I'm subscribed to and includes any shorts they create. I very rarely click on a short.

Thanks for the link to that video, @wtg. I did have that option enabled, but while I was on that page I noticed at the bottom of the screen it said I'd opted to never save passwords for google and earthlink. I don't remember doing that, but I deleted both sites and it appears that might have been responsible because I use my Google account to log into Disqus. Ok then, I'm on Brave for another trial run! eta, it didn't last long. It continues to log me out of Disqus if I so much as refresh the page or open a new tab. Ugh. eta, I might be on another trial run. If I turn off fingerprinting for that specific website, it seems to behave.

Just went out to get wood from the shed. Everything is still covered in ice. Heard the cracking of tree limbs (I image) from the forest. Yes, @wtg, it can be destructive!

@AndyD There are 3 listings, I'm assuming you're referring to the 1st one? Mettingham Castle? I LOVE it! Never seen a green AGA before.

@wtg said in “I’m a very aesthetic person”: it’s just shameless self-promotion. Or a huge branding exercise at the expense of the American public Both.

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On a related note…Hard to believe this is the first baby born in this little Italian town in the last 30 years. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/26/italian-village-first-baby-in-30-years

This is an annual event not far from me, a celebration of Our Lady of Guadalupe. https://www.chicagocatholic.com/photos/-/article/2025/12/23/frigid-temps-no-match-for-guadalupe-pilgrims

This must excite so many hi-tech villains and intelligence apparatus.

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Special days. Soup for the next fortnight️

Iran is part of the global nuclear monitoring agency. Israel isn't. Israel refuses to say whether it has nuclear weapons or not when the world has known since the time of the Kennedy administration that it does have them. Fears are not facts. Insinuations are not facts. Accurate, concrete intelligence represents facts. I don't have a reason to think that there isn't fear mongering and war mongering happening now on the part of the powers that be who have openly, publicly been announcing their intent to go to war with Iran for decades now.