Quick-to-anger, quick-to-use profanity are the first recourse of the small-minded.

I get not having to deal with carrying sufficient cash and restocking at ATMs not dealing with coins. Like I said: cash and coins are annoying.

I've been buying everything on credit since I got a credit card 35+ years ago. I also always pay off the bill in full. For me, it's an interest-free loan for approximately a month. Historically, dealing with cash and coins was just annoying. Now that I can pay with my phone (linked to my credit card), paying with credit is even easier.

BNPL is an unfortunate name since, technically, credit cards are also buy-now-pay-later. But BNPL is a different kind of credit, i.e., the terms, repayment schedule, and interest are different than credit cards.

Except there's no ROI for any private entity to fund a Mars mission. Science is done for its own sake, not ROI.

People used to manage to unfold paper maps and refer to them while driving, back in the 1970's and earlier, without wrecking into people, too.

Sure, but that doesn't mean there were zero accidents caused by it. For those that were, they fell under the umbrella law of distracted driving where the source of the distraction is irrelevant.

The anti-cellphone laws aren't really new laws. They just explicitly call out one specific source of distraction to make convictions easier, e.g., a cop can see you holding a phone whereas they can't see an unfolded map in your lap or on the passenger seat. (If you hit someone or were pulled over and had any sense, you'd fold up the map and put it away before the cop could see it.) For the phone, just holding it is a crime rather than trying to prove you were actually distracted. Whether you were or not is irrelevant, i.e., easier conviction.

No, because it's pointless, both then and now. Then, we were in a pissing contest with the Soviets for space supremacy. Now, there's not even that.

I can't speak for the OP, but the big difference for the moon is that it's much closer, so much less radiation exposure, much less bone loss due to zero gravity, etc. Plus remote rover technology wasn't possible in the '60s. Now that we have rovers, it's just silly to send humans and have to engineer life-support systems and the means for a return trip. Rovers mean the trip is one-way.

My fifth speed is an overdrive.

Everyone keeps complaining that everything is too expensive, but almost no one is buying the low cost options anymore.

Except you're conflating a brain with a mind. The ship example is an analog of brain cells. The upload in question is not uploading your brain cells, but your "mind," that is a snapshot of the state of all your brain cells, i.e., which cells are connected to which other cells, how strongly they are connected, and whether a given cell is firing (1, not 0). Hence, the ship example does not apply.

Their description of 'uploading' says "replicating", which = a copy. If you copy a human mind, you are not being uploaded, you remain in your human body.

Every upload of anything is a copy. If your mind were uploaded, then, yes, the original "organic" you would remain in your body. But if the machine to which the copy were uploaded to were able to "run" your mind (a big "if," granted), then there would be two of "you."

What3words doesn't address things like floors or apartment numbers. It's a replacement only for latitude and longitude.

They should phase out nickels and dimes while they’re at it. I can’t remember the last time I used a coin smaller than a quarter.

I have a merchant services account through First Data and I get emails from at least 8 different domains, have disparate logins on another 6 or so domains, all of which require password changes every 90 days, there are at least a dozen different numbers to call depending on what kind of help you might need if something isn't working.

On top of that, they're still sending statements to an old business address I left in 2016 and they can't seem to figure out how to change it to the address I've been at for the last 9 years.

My quibble was the use of the word "pioneered." Tesla didn't pioneer anything. Earlier attempts in the 20th century of EVs were half-hearted attempts from existing ICE auto-makers. They also styled their EVs oddly that was off-putting. But the basic technology was (and had been) there.

Tesla, being an all-EV company, was all-in on making EVs work, made cars that looked like normal cars, and also built out their charger network. Spurred by the upstart that was Tesla, existing ICE auto-makers got a case of the FOMOs that finally kick-started EVs in earnest.

So, to give credit where it's due, Tesla did kick-start the modern EV push, but, again, didn't pioneer anything.