Boomers blame everybody else; it's the American way (for generations anyway.)

There is no point in arguing with a boomer; a minority of them were ok and somehow still can't admit their generation really should be called the ME generation. Not that us gen-X are a lot better...(but we are better.)
Starting with the boomers we should call the following century "the century of the self." like the documentary by the same name. I suggest you watch it. 4 part mini series.

It's going to end with Trump who represents the peak of selfishness; a fitting end of that century... a bit early but the clear transition will noticed by 2040 with it beginning slowly this year already. So not a fully century. Rome didn't fall in a day, it took like 350 years with plenty of debate as to which things and turning points etc. So they took longer than the USA existed. Some people ...like a third won't even know the USA collapsed out of denial; it'll have to fall at Germany extremes and even then, they might have had a hard time accepting failure if they didn't have most of those cultists die off -- fighting to the death, literally.

Anyhow, the broader picture is in the docu-series. Plus you do realize political control of that generation has been going on almost since they could vote...

I have a 2013. mine is handling rust well and I live in the rust belt. It helps to wash the car in the winter... also spraying the underside with wool wax and/or truck bed liner... plus a big part of the car is covered in plastic so it doesn't rust too much.

The old batteries can be repurposed to run the house. hacks are out there how to do that... so the battery is not going to waste. even the 1st battery.

MS is betting everything on AI and migrating resources to that-- they blew a bunch of money buying out other companies because they suck in house. Then they will gut those companies if not destroy the culture that produced the success which was the whole reason they were worth buying.

Every single MBA should have to read the story of the golden goose and get an oral exam on the moral of the story. Nobody should graduate without passing that exam.

It's pretty bad that they are aiming to use XBox to shore up their dying Windows brand... or vice versa...

The leaf is the best EV. the battery has been hacked and 3rd parties sell full replacements. with cooling. 350 mile range. go search, you'll see it and proof. it's about $8.5k shipped; not USA because... obviously. add a bunch more $ and you can probably get it.

I will stop as needed. I simply change my life around the limitation. People used to visit you and you had to feed them, a tradition that continues.... but it was necessary when you traveled by foot or horse to feed and stable their horse (as cheap as electricity for their EV) and feed them because it would take day or more to travel to visit and it's the least you should do for their REAL effort to travel to see you. Also, these things were special occasions as well. People are too spoiled to the point we will destroy things for our children simply because we can't be inconvenienced! Seriously, this attitude is behind why the Boomers have screwed everything up; bunch of locusts... do you want to be like the Boomers?

Nissan screwed other nations out of support. They worked online and reverse engineered the battery system. I don't know of anybody else who has open batteries but Nissan (unwillingly but it works.)

You can buy 3rd party batteries for a Leaf that give you 350 miles range for about $8k before tariffs. Try youtube, there are people literally driving for hours showing it working. by the time you actually must replace it, those batteries will be $5k and go further... plus the replacements likely will last better too.

"They" is every stock traded company and planned failure has been the norm beginning with GE and the light bulb (there is a whole documentary on the light bulb conspiracy.) Even with product cycling, we can't make enough purposely jobs to employ everybody on earth; we need tons of consumerism to the point we lack the resources to fuel it and automation will curb the number of jobs, even the pointless ones for pointless products. We've been running to hard realities for a while and it's going to hit harder and harder... unless you are born into the ruling elite who will shield themselves from as much as they can... until they need a world war to cull the useless peasant population, maybe they'll even have open hunting season for people like Don Jr? Sounds crazy but think of the sociopaths we allow to rise to such power and how easily they could get into unthinkable topics...

...and wouldn't it be nice to get something in return for our tax dollars? Other than billion-dollar ballrooms and pointless wars, I mean?

Do they need cover to reject anything? In my projects, I reserve the right to reject anything, for any reason, solely on the grounds that they are my projects, and if someone doesn't like it, they can fork off (their own repository).

Without a hostage there is no ransom!

Being rich doesn't make you stupid, but being really rich starts to isolate you in a bubble of luxury and sycophants, and eventually you start to forget what the rest of the world is like, and start making decisions based on the unstated assumption that other people don't matter.

Actually, I think people can and do grow past 14-- but quite a small number of people do this. The bulk of the bell curve is around 12 like you said. I would argue that this is not important. You have a conscious mind, called System 2. That is where you exercise free will or as close as we have to having that and it is not emotional; it controls those teenage impulses but it takes a lot of energy to activate so we run on autopilot most the time. Logical thinking must be learned as does impulse and emotion management.

You(parent) might think some mature adult is 14 years old but they are simply better at self control and could be 8 years old. While somebody who is 18 probably doesn't stand out too clearly from self controlled people and simply being emotionally evolved. I can't spot them too easily; people going thru really hard stuff and not turning off their emotions but processing them really well are hard to find given the test that has to occur to make it visible. Most well coping people go into a rational robot mode for a while and suppress their primitive System 1 "teenager" inclinations at least for a while. The delay helps a lot but it's only a delay, it'll come back somehow but most likely not as intensely.

This society is engineered to promote impulsive thoughtless behavior because that makes for great consumerism. Self control is too difficult; even our super heroes these days are encouraged (and desired by the immature audiences) to let loose and give into their power and desire for vengeance etc. Even if it is just a petty mean thing to the bad guys, so the teenage audience can get their kick without turning it into a vigilante story.

They can create many issues for superman and retain the optimistic positive and superior nature of superman. He's not supposed to just be a man with powers; but an alien who is an example... for children, quickly turning into a Jesus like figure but with only the necessary amount of punching... he takes all the punishment then sets things right without spite, murder, etc. The child sees him getting beaten up like every cliche fight show and even though they learn he wins it's enough to make some suspense and tension that can evoke the joy of the tables being turned. The inner child remains in us all but it's harder to reach or impossible if our guards are all the way up.

It is HARDER WORK and writers will work hard to be lazy!

For example, you can go quite heavily into the mystery genre since he's over powered, he has to figure things out and then the whole part of bringing justice or making right can be quickly handled by super powers. One reason they had a smart human as his main foe was that it created puzzles for him to work his way out of. Of which was the powering down problem that got way way too old and became poison instead of just powering down... hell, he didn't fly at 1st which is where the leaping over buildings came in. Another tired thing is being in 2-3 places at once; something Flash has to deal with almost exclusively...

Like magic fantasy, an unknown made up magical (or newly disclosed ability) whatever just solves every trapped plotline... or going back in time by flying really fast around earth (which was supposed to be the lame escape for superman 2 the movie but was stuck into superman 1...either way it was LAME! 2nd movie ended better because they put it's planned ending on the 1st movie. 1st could have simply had her survive in a hospital with him helpless with human doctors being the only ones that could save her...then him praising them with a good line that might have inspired a bunch of kids to get into medicine and be REAL heroes! There, that took no time and effort...who do they get to make these movies??? In a few minutes I made a better movie that had real consequence.)

Adults get hung up on this stuff because we're still children inside but cling too much to our childhood these days.

It's all about maximizing profit far too often. Spend too much and you have to earn it back with more customers... and either sucker them (marketing, which is hard with an opposing social media campaign) or you have to please a large majority of people to overwhelm the trolls.
Lowest.
Common.
Denominator.

That said, when something takes up a brand such as Star Wars, Star Trek, Superman, etc. It is supposed to represent the source material not just mine it for shallow references to fool simpletons. We are cynical now because anything good is exploited as they cos-play (or re-themed) any crap whatsoever treating us like mindless idiots... and for entertainment we generally are tuning out... Fans can go either way: if they are suckered by nostalgia they will eat shit, if they want more of what made them fans (which they may not even be conscious of) then it'll fail or even find it insulting beyond just a desperate money grab.

I think it may be evidence that Amazon has a shitty corporate culture that squeezes every penny it can out its employees.

Corruption can happen anywhere, but it's more likely to happen in totalitarian cultures where people feel like the system is rigged anyway. That's why countries like Russia and China have corruption problems. But I suspect the same feelings of me vs. the system occur in a capitalist enterprise like Amazon where employees are governed by dystopian, rigid, computerized metrics.

Fun fact: Paris was founded around 225 BC.

... so they've come to Slashdot to recruit volunteers; very resourceful of them. :)