If you have to push your tech by purposely limiting previous tech, then your tech sucks. BTW Compact Fluorescents we were pushed SOOOOO hard to buy contain mercury,and now tons of these things are just sitting around waiting to dump that crap into the environment.

-"So IMO, we absolutely *need* government interference, or progress will stagnate"
Nope. Just No.

Screw Toytota. I just bought a hybrid last month. Search went like this:

Mazda: we've got a monster SUV hybrid that gets 38 MPG, otherwise none.
Me: Nope.

Toyota: (guy at door before even entering the showroom) We have had inventory problems since COVID, and if you want to drive a hybrid you'll have to buy and reserve one, wait until it arrives, then drive it.
Me: Wait... I can't even test drive one?
Toyota ( smugly ) no.
Me. Can't drive, can't by. Nope.

Honda: Yeah, we've got hybrids out here, wanna drive one?
Me: yeah!

I ended up buying a Civic hybrid sport that gets 50 MPG, and is a fantastic car. If Toyota can't keep up, move on.

The plane that went down wasn't a 737 max.

Every single story about Amazon makes me say "I'm glad I don't use Amazon".
Try it, you'll like it.

The problem with this attitude is that if you wish to only cater to the large fish, you reduce the total ecosystem of that software, and risk losing the "but everyone uses X" ideal. Other companies will then step in, and present an alternative. If enough people use the alternatives, a new primary ecosystem may develop, and suddenly you're not it.
Microsoft has managed to not make this mistake with office, though they've flirted with it. Sometimes you need lots of small fish to lure the big fish.

He also followed that quote up with a line: "And I realize some of you may be having trouble deciding whether I am kidding or not. So from now on I will tell you when I'm kidding."

Yes, if the subject is "off-topic speech keeping solely to whatta-boutisms"

If it's from a fairly respectable company, unsubscribe. Unsubscribing from National Geographic isn't going to get you spammed.
If it's random nonsense, just block it.

My dad growing was poor, essentially sharecroppers, with 3 brothers and one sister, a mother who worked as a schoolteacher at a time when women didn't work, and a father who suffered from stomach cancer for years before it finally killed him.
All of them turned out to not be criminals.
It's not just poverty.

You can't vote for "lower property prices" .

At my job we've used some of those overpriced ACER laptops that have the built in non glass 3d displays. I know that those systems would use sensors to determine your head placement/eye placement when presenting a 3-D image.
Testing with their software and built in models, the 3D system worked fairly well, but any movement of your head would result in losing the 3d effect until it "caught up".

Wait, did you really just proudly post "I have no interest in learning someone else's opinion, and my echo chamber is a good thing!"? I mean, I guess one could wallow in their own self-enforced ignorance and try to pass it off as "empathy".

Everyone I know who buys on Shein/temu/wish/Chinese flavor of the moment is an absolute idiot. They keep rationalizing their savings with a statement somewhat like: "Here's the is really good sweater, well not really good but good enough, and It only cost me $3 but I didn't really need a sweater anyway so I'll throw it in my closet in case I need it . But it was $3!!!"

I think there's also a concern among companies in firing older people, and a fear of being accused of age discrimination.