First post, hot gritz, car analogy, robotic overlords, Beowulf cluster.

Can someone explain this to me with a car analogy?

Yes, there are statisticians that end up working in other fields and they tend to be better at statistics than a typical practitioner in their adapted area of expertise. Thing is, these statisticians are no longer in the field of Statistics, they are researchers in these other fields.

Following is anecdote, but when someone I knew approached multiple statisticians with a model question (related repeated measures), the understanding of concept was not there. If your view that "everyone is complete shit at statistics", that should include statisticians.

They have patched all input field sanitization bugs after some smartass called Merlin exploited the heck out of it.

Statistical analysis is now more complex, and statistics are better understood in science than a decade ago. There are number of software packages and libraries that simplifies and standardizes techniques.

Correctly applying all of these require subject matter expertise. You need to understand what you analyzing. As a result pure statistician is not very useful - generic analysis can be performed by software, in-depth analysis requires specific knowledge.

This is not unlike complaining that assembly coding is dying. Well, yes, we now have less need to code everything that way because we have better tools.

I build my own PCs from carefully researched performance parts and have not had a single instance of OEM (me) installing any bloatware. I also purchase full version of Windows directly from Microsoft and keep legally using it on a single (but drastically changing with time) PC.
 
For multiple high end business-line Dell laptops I have purchased from vendors, not a single one had any bloatware on it.
 
Maybe you get what you pay for? That 299$ laptop probably has 20$ sponsored by bloatware companies.

With upcoming war on weather, they will still somehow find a way to feed the prison industry complex with taxpayer money.

Because heart attacks happen, we should treat everyone as if they are having, or about to have a heat attack. Because you never know, and HeartAttack Culture!

>>>Why do enough members of my own gender have to be such creepy bastards that we need something like this to be developed?

You are welcome to self-loathing narrative, but I refuse to buy into evidence-free assertions of this kind. Men are not any more likely to be abusers, rapists, sociopaths and so on than the general population. Awful people exist, but gender is not a reliable predictor of this.

People do awful things, and we should take measures to reduce or mitigate this awfulness. This nail polish is one good example of such mitigation tactic with no downsides to it.

What isn't a good example? Well, turning a large number of gender issues into moral panic where proposed TSA-like solution is arguably worse than the problem.

There is very little upside to having various infrastructure devices and appliances networked. Downside are too numerous to list here, and securing them is overly expensive.

Solution? Air gap it!

No surprise ending - the main character rides off to sunset over horizon.

If I can mess with your drive-by-wire system remotely, then yes, it is A LOT more likely to happen than having line cut.

Understandably, I 100% disagree. It is possible to secure almost everything. How? Use the goddamn airgap! Don't network what you can't reasonably secure from tampering.

Everything from the elevator control panel to SCADA have no place being remotely accessible! If you do need remote functionality, you better secure it!