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Didn’t some magazines ship software with plastic records that could be played on a conventional record player?

To use your car metaphor, there was a time when you basically needed to know how a car worked in order to own/operate one. I'm talking like the 1910s-1920s. They were unreliable, simply made, manual transmission, hand crank start, and needed a lot of maintenance.

Millennials grew up at a time when you needed to have some understanding of how a computer worked in order to do basically anything.

I suppose the issue is that the car metaphor breaks down because a vehicle really only does one thing. Push pedal and go. Maybe worry about snow conditions if that affects you.

Meanwhile, computers can still be used to do thousands of different tasks and the only thread tying all of those tasks together is that they're done by the same machine. So knowing fundamentals about the machine gives you access to a lot of capability vs. just memorizing how to do a few tasks.

I think it’s saying that estrogen has more double carbon bonds, so it’s more stable as a molecule

Sure. Either way, if the goal is to keep older cars on the road, I don't think EVs are impacting that. If cars are useful, they get driven. If there isn't a market for them here, they get shipped overseas to developing markets to be used there. Nobody is throwing away functioning or serviceable vehicles.

People tend to not drive their old cars into the ocean when they buy an EV.

They sell it to someone who is probably replacing an even older car. Newer cars tend to be more efficient than older cars, so the effect is the same.

Yeah except one is a private entertainment establishment, and the other is a public transportation service.

The perfect consumer-facing example of this is Clear at the airport.

Instead of waiting in line to have your ID checked by a TSA agent, you let an iPad take your picture and then have an agent walk you to the TSA agent and vouch for you.

The whole iPad thing is marginally faster than just checking your ID by hand, so really they just found a way to monetize cutting the line. This provides zero net benefit to society except for extracting money from people for something that's supposed to be free.

Also, when everyone has Clear, we'll be back in the same boat with long lines and they'll probably charge more for Clear+ or some shit.

Vodka is renewable

Hm... isn't a holiday coming up in a week or so?

I once had a conversation with my girlfriend where she didn't get a joke. I had to explain it to her and when she got it she said "oh, yeah. lol"

But the "lol" was said like the way you'd say "right" or "got it."

"lol" expressed that it was funny, but the tone expressed understanding.

Unfortunately the hunt for some of these eggs is ongoing.

Took me 5 minutes to learn spoiler tags, hope I didn't ruin it for anybody.

We can't keep sucking Chell back into the lab. Let her be.

Oh huh. I just remember him winning the new shareholder vote for which I believe the stakes were "gimme money or I leave" despite there being no legal requirement to pay him.

Yep. There was another shareholder vote and he won it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirth%27s_law

They just paid fucking 60 billion dollars to him to keep him from quitting. Maybe a smidge of sunk cost fallacy.

In other words, someone may be willing to pay you for parts,

Except for the parts that Windows obsoleted. Not saying that they're valueless, but they certainly tanked the value of otherwise useful parts.

My thoughts exactly. Didn't think anybody would get the reference.