Personally, I just prefer it. I get a lot more anxious considering that death is the end, given how it could come at any moment. I prefer to think it's not. Since I was raised with the alternative being that God exists, I go with that.
wastes literal resources extracted from our planet to fix or replace the car
This is the big part for me. The car exists. It's made. That can't be undone. Making it unsafe (from vandalism) to drive, the only remaining option is for it to go to waste, for the most part. Sure, it can be recycled, but that's still wasteful compared to continuing to use it.
Well, it depends. If everyone does what Trump says instead of what the court says then that's true. If the people who actually do the work do what the court says, then that's not true.
You could try putting up a cloudflare proxy and Turnstile (their captcha product) to try to help with it.
The truth is, though, if it's static content, then you have to be able to stop them every time. Once they get it once, they got it. With how frequently they can try, it's going to be difficult to stop them.
I'm with you. I'm on vacation in a foreign country. There was a performance and part of it was asking the crowd where they were from. I felt no enthusiasm when the performer asked the crowd to cheer if they were from the USA. It felt shameful.
Needs to be updated with "we cooking" and "we're cooked"