Um, that's "seriously", not "serious". Also, you don't need that comma between "methodology" and "and".

What you may find, should you revisit them, is that many required books are actually quite good, but were introduced to you when you unable, or incapable, of understanding them properly. Rereading some of these things years later often makes me say to myself "wow, that's actually pretty damn good", when I despised them as a teen.

I don't think they do it anymore, but my school used to have the MS read-a-thon, you'd get people to sponsor you money per book you read, and there were prizes for most money earned, most books read, etc. I was constantly getting beat out of first place in numbers by this guy who'd read comic compilations ( Peanuts!) while I was reading the Hobbit. It felt unfair to me at the time, but I ended up finding a lot of authors and books I loved.

Ah yes, the old 1930 "The Zionists did it" mantra. Worked so well that time around.
You understand there's only 15 million in the entire world, yes? You may as well be blaming The Zimbabweans.

So Pay. He's totally free to contribute up to all of his income, if he so desires. Lead by example.

I like how these are always presented as if the user is somehow better or more intelligent.

The actual reality is that younger customers are resistant to learning new things after a certain age, and they're even more set in their ways : in this case their ways being their phone as opposed to some 150 year old guy riding a horse.

I've had an easier time teaching my 90 year old dad to use use technology than I have teaching my nephew to use it. At least my dad is open to learning new ways of doing things. My nephew assumes his technical knowledge is superior ( which is ironic, seeing as I'm having to teach him how to do things)

centralized buttons with known functions are infinitely more safe in a car than a screen that changes.

"We produce 400 million tons a year of plastic waste. You're not going to turn it all into cookies,"

Someone isn't thinking big enough.

Many of the companies that followed the "we'll just raise prices because we want to and they'll eat it" are finding out that not only did people stop buying their stuff, but they also stopped the habit of using their stuff.

Now that they're unhooked, so to speak, from the habit they have no way of getting them back. And the consumers have no interest in coming back.

Anecdotal. I simply stopped buying soda, and stopped purchased fast food. And I don't care at all about it anymore. Those 12 packs I used to buy? never going back. those burger meals? nope, sorry.

alternately, I feel BETTER from doing that, so they've lost their consumer.

For that price, just buy a neo with a bunch of accessories.
I need to replace my dad's mini, and I'm leaning towards that myself.

My 2019 Mazda 3 had this down. A screen just under where you'd look while driving, non touch.
A center console knob surrounded by four buttons that did everything on that screen. It took a few weeks to get used to, but once I did i never needed to look away from driving to do anything. Once you had the spinning knob in hand, the buttons lay around it and you never needed to feel for controls.

I've had Sirius for a while and I love it, but they have some weird issues. For example, during free week I get the free traffic notifications that tied into my car's navigation ( Mazda 3). When I tried to actually purchase that system, I was told it wasn't offered on that car, even though it had just been working the week before when it was free.

"AI, produce a musical piece in the style of Dr. De". "AI, tell me in technical terms how terrible and overpriced Beats by Dre equipment is, and suggest a reasonably priced replacement for these overpriced trinkets"

books are tangible.

It's amazon. They probably burn the books to generate excess CO2, and us the heat from that process to run large noisemaking fans to annoy anyone within three miles of the facility. There's probably a kitten killing machine involved as well for no clear reason.

Every single article about Amazon is pretty much Dr. Evil level nonsense.
Why do you people keep buying stuff from them?