This is not all that dissimilar to gold, which is and has been mined primarily for exchange and bragging value, rather than usable value, and the mining caused much human suffering for the enrichment of few.

So when the 12V battery fails, you scrap the whole car? Sign me up!

The non-working parent then financially depends on their spouse. In many professions forever, since it's hard to get a job after say a 10-year break. Nothing has done more to empower women recently than having them be a part of workforce.

However one or both parents working reduced hours, that can work.

On the contrary. All regularly used paper maps tear apart at the folds.

Or "the hurricane formerly known as Beta".

However, product "serial" numbers often have to be typed manually or even read over the phone, and UUIDs are too long for that.

Comparing different measurement can get you anything. It's like saying "if Bezos was a dick, he'd be huge!".

Of course. Not as critically as above, but if I were going over plans for my house with an architect, I would expect them to be able to answer most questions on the spot and rarely say "I need to check that, I can answer tomorrow".

Wires often come in pairs that carry a single phase, so no voltage difference between them. The different phases are kept apart at a distance that would make it difficult to touch more than one.

With phones becoming thinner and thinner, it will in a few years.

So next generation of phones can be another 0.2 mm thinner. But 2 cm bigger in the other two directions.

Not a panacea either. Any non-trivial system has a non-trivial definition of how exactly it should behave. If each implementation defines its own, they'll never agree on anything non-trivial. But if all your implementations use the same definition, you're not safe from bugs in the definition itself. Of course, you're not safe from that with unit tests, either.

They'll switch to ride-a-bicycle-through for the anal testing.

Poor sanitation is not positively correlated with covid cases. Everyone expected huge breakouts in poor and crowded parts of Africa, Brazilian favelas, refugee camps etc, but little of that happened. One theory has it that it's primarily spread by air (not droplets), and the poor or no housing actually helps because it's (unintentionally) well ventilated.

Exactly. It doesn't end well when The Party decides what's "providing something" and what's "just using resources". Both Francisco Franco and the Khmer Rouge thought art provides no value.