I am glad I have front wheel drive.

Watching rear wheel drive BMW's is a fun sport this time of the year. It becomes a "will he get around that bend or up that hill" festival. Cop a load of my drive, It is over 6 inches deep in white stuff.

We now have 5 stray cats living here (outside in the barns).

Spot the cat is easy in the snow.

They are all twice the size they are in the spring/summer, they eat more than me in the winter it seems.

The bidbot debate.

Although not nearly as talked about as when I first arrived here, some people still harbor deep hatred and resentment towards them. Well I have spent many months now researching who benefits the most from them via delegations, and it would seem the top two are stinc owned accounts, created on the 31st March 2016, the day before the site went live with the Alpha testing.

One of the accounts that cash's a "lot" of money out of here is one of them and named interestingly Alpha https://steemd.com/@alpha This account only has 41sp and seems to being paid interest from bidbots delegated to by the other account that was created on the 31st March, again one day before the site went live https://steemd.com/@freedom.

You can see various encoded messages between the two accounts also on steemd.

Apparently (according to a steemit annalist.) The alpha account is a steemit (stinc) fund manager account to pay wages/costs etc.

Let us take a look at how much that single account owned by stinc is taking out of the kitty shall we?

The only way to end bidbots it would seem is?

To fork off and take ned and his new google partnership out of the equation for once and for all.
I know the ads are on the login page, though what next? Underneath all our posts? I can not stand google, and that is my prerogative, I would not use goggle (yes on purpose) if you or they paid me, but ned is happy to get into bed with them.

Anyone that has researched them knows exactly why!.
Anyone that says they do not care if google sells all their details as they have nothing to hide I say take down your curtains, fit a webcam and let the whole world watch your life then. Privacy matters. (To me at least.)

Ned did not have an account on here until the 31st March 2016

And if you go to the end of neds steemd. you will see dan who made his account, sending ned some steem to show him how the site works.

The bidbots are never going away and any talk of that whilst ned is involved and taking huge amounts of steem or sbd out of here is pure fantasy, you may as well bang your head up a wall or simply cash out. Even with stinc making a fortune off bidbots the truth is they do most of the time, benefit the person using them too. I tested it yesterday and many many times before. I paid 110 steem to bidbots and the return if the price of steem remains stable is 150 steem/sp. So plus 40.
I stand zero to gain by saying that and I would much prefer to earn on here without them, though I can not make them go away and I am not willing to sell my soul and only write what other people want or like to be "popular" and playing tag a steemiam is also not my kind of fun. Massaging egos is not for me!...

If anyone genuinely wants bidbots gone, then the only way I see it is you have to talk to the top 20 witnesses and get them to refuse to accept bidbots and do some real coding. Good luck with that 1.

@shepz1 is never covering the bidbot topic ever again! Wishing you all a perfectly pleasant weekend and week ahead. Stay warm.