Can talk to you, and more importantly listen to you, endlessly, never getting tired. Checks out ;)

Even there, used wisely it can be helpful.

Ever heard of "rubber duck programming"? Try to explain what you are doing to a rubber duck. Just the act of conversing about something can give you a different perspective in thinking about it.

As it was back in shit posting in 1920 classified ads or on MySpace, people want a platform to scream into the void.

And just as an aside, one of the most talked about VHS videos at my school was the "Faces of Death" series. With no internet or phones, we were trading bootlegged copies of these things not even knowing the original film had been out for 10 years and that it was fake. You can either forbid it and punish your kid or you can sit down and watch the video with him and say, "Wait, is that monkey brain a cauliflower." and try to replicate "monkey brains" in the kitchen.

Seriously, after seeing cauliflower in red jam, I suddenly knew it was all stupid and fake. At the same time, I knew I couldn't tell anyone about this or I would be ostracized. We are continuously always in High School (or Kindergarden). You cannot stop society, you just learn to live with it.

"EVs can lose almost half their driving distance when temperatures drop"
"In January, Seattle-based Recurrent, a company that tests and analyzes EVs, found an average range loss of 20% in extreme cold"

No one would say 20% is almost half. That is not how numbers work.

Sometimes it's not even for cost cutting.

E.g. I mean yeah, I get it; you're in marketing/"creative", so your converted-into-an office house in a bad neighborhood downtown is very cool and hip. Yet for some reason, some of your employees just still don't want to go there physically every day.

... despite a full court press to get everyone back in the office physically, they've managed ... a little over half?

This is a run to the bottom with people on prices. I mean I get it, paying $70 for a AAA game with DLC's and a battle pass is outrageous. Paying full price for No Man Sky is worth it only because its been out 10 years and you know your going to spend the hours in it. But what about the guy who makes a decent 2D game, not as good as SilkSong, but passable with a good 20 hours of play? You cannot even judge your enjoyment by price either. Look at Undertale. Its not the kind of game for everyone, yet its loved by those who grok it. On the other hand, SilkSong took 7 years and after a few months the hype will die out. They made enough on the last game they could take their time and not worry about the profits.

  Meh I am just confused on what I should or shouldn't pay now. You got Steam sales, thousands of games in the market, great gems with like 20 reviews because they were never featured yet want $30 bucks. It's a mad house I tell you.

Should governments be able to regulate those awful tech bros however they want to, or should we have the ability to choose digital privacy if we want?

The Slash-geist seems to lurch dramatically between the two ...

So the energy that we all - including you - used during those years would have come from ... what instead? Unicorn farts and moonbeams?

If only we had had a Gazprom instead of the companies that we did have?

Not seeing how it's the companies that matter.

So if the energy business had been run by the government during that period, the CO2 would have magically disappeared then?

Will this change my tax exposure when providing 'gratuities' to supreme court justices?

It's the customers' opinion that matters in the end, not his.

Well, then the glasses will likely help.

"No dummy, that house ... you know, the one with the huge number over the garage and by the door, that matches the number on the package."

... it made the chickens stop laying! And the cows dry up! Burn the witch!

Seriously ... so we're going to build nuke plants now? What's that, no ... we're just going to emote? Carry on then (cracks open a diet root beer) ...

I'm actually surprised that there are not more incidents of serious fires on airplanes.

They are quite a bit like submarines in that regard - contained environments where heat and gasses build up very fast. And it's not as if you can leave - submarine crews are trained to all rush towards the fire (with fire-fighting equipment).