Twitter accounts are press. Not only are they press in a 4th estate sort of way, they are also press in the "content duplication machine" kind of way. Any way you slice it, they are press.

hackathons are leisure activities, and gluing together libraries isn't fun.

"I didn't even have to take a programming class"
(starts offering a vibe coding class)

This is why it's important to know your audience.

What products -are- you talking about, and how are they bad?

Their consumer products? Thats not even half of their revenue anymore.

Energy imbalance of earth is not a new catch phrase. Carl Sagan was using this back in the 80s because "greenhouse effect" is not an accurate metaphor for how CO2 warms the planet.

The people who want to control how you run your life are running your life right now. They convinced you that "woke" and "anti-growth environmentalism" are something you should pay attention to and rally against. And here you are, doing their bidding on slashdot like a good little lap dog. Unfortunately, there is no milk bone in your future for this loyal act of service.

paywalled didn't read

Those "critical components" are not required for my analysis. The rarity of old Hondas and Subarus is what makes them notable. You see "shitloads" of them, but its not over half of all cars on the road, as would be the case if they were actually still around, and built to last. Its like maybe what, 5%? Do that for cars from the 80s and its under 1%. In 10 years your "shitloads" will be a reduced to a handful of wrxes at car shows and in barns, meticulously cared for by people nostalgic for their glory days. Where I live, road salt has already consumed any car over 25 years old that was made of metal. I haven't seen a 90s civic for a long time.

Like I said, survivorship bias. If cars from the 90s lasted 25 years the roads would be full of them. Total new vehicle registrations in the us for that decade is 180 million. That would be over half of all cars currently registered.

Old dependable cars is a textbook example of survivorship bias. Peak auto lifetime is an illusion. Cars have never been built to last.

Because tax increment financing is still legal just about everywhere in America.

Why do I even use windows? According to MSFT its not even secure or even good.

Indeed, much much better to send somebody elses death machine to the urban area and pick it up for you.