You exemplify typical leftist views, where you believe the only reason someone could disagree with your views is due to character fault of some kind.

How should I spend my moderation points?

Concentrate more on promoting than on demoting. Try to be impartial about this; simply disagreeing with a comment is not a valid reason to mark it down. The goal here is to share ideas, to sift through the haystack and find needles, and to keep spammers and griefers in check.

I don't think this is entirely true on individual level and most definitely not true on demographic level.

On individual level, this might be the result of self-selection bias. Generally, individuals move away from liberal enclaves to escape crime, unemployment, and high taxes. At least some of them would realize that these are all consequence of liberal policies.

On demographic level, it is shown that migrants from blue states tend to push red states into blue direction. Austin TX is a prime example of that.

The issue with most AI is that it is trained by people with a strong political ideology. So you have GIGO issue at the core, even before prompt engineering happens. This is how you end up with popular LLMs that have left-leaning political slants:

In a new paper, Andrew Hall, a professor of political economy at Stanford Graduate School of Business, and two coauthors demonstrate that users overwhelmingly perceive that some of the most popular LLMs have left-leaning political slants.

For 18 of the 30 questions, users perceived nearly all of the LLMs' responses as left-leaning. This was true for both self-identified Republican and Democratic respondents, though the Republicans perceived a more drastic slant from all eight companies that created the models, while Democrats noticed a slant in seven.

People do change their views, but it happens gradually and overtime, unless some drastic life-altering event occurs.

Only a decade ago I was a liberal that believed in social welfare, greater good of immigration, and existence of systemic impediments for minorities. Then as I got wiser, I realized that past some minimum necessary point welfare creates permanently dependent population that is kept that way by politicians to buy votes, I observed de-cohesion of society and decoupling of shared culture and values as the result of uncontrolled immigration, and I have observed how disadvantaged minorities, given an opportunity, create much worse discrimination against everyone else. So I changed my mind and now against all these things.

You don't need to offroad. Subaru is awesome in snow. Well, gasoline only versions are, their hybrid is not.

You have to look into wiring diagram, typically the shark fin contains both.

AWD wagons are useful regardless of your sexual orientation.

I owned multiple Subarus, some from new, and 243K miles is pushing it. Doable if you drive it from new and meticulous on maintenance, but if you are 4th owner and purchased it for cheap... what did you expect exactly?

If you intended to keep your truck, look into disconnecting the satellite antenna, it is only used for Sirius.

Bearing failures are consequence of too thin oil not being able to handle output torque. The same bearing that fails in a turbo engine would be just fine in a naturally aspirated version of the same engine or in a larger engine with more cylinders. This is because there is a set number of bearings per cylinder and each bearing has to take percentage load from overall torque produced by the engine. I am skipping crank flexing, knocking, oil supply issues, etc. to demonstrate the connection.

Help me update my knowledge by providing any example where energy-intense manufacturing is powered by renewables. A single example will do.

Except geopolitics play into that, as AI data center in UK has to abide different set of regulations that one in Japan. There are also data privacy considerations, as every country's intelligence community wants a backdoor access to the data.