Or perhaps it presumes a shortage of domestic workers that are both qualified and also fit into the pay scales that US employers wish to pay. That intersection may be harder for employers to find.

Analog an illusion? Yes.

Tactile effectiveness an illusion? No.

Yes, there can be challenges about where to put the batteries, and some vehicles are certainly easier than others. But that hasn’t stopped a LOT of people from doing it anyways.

30 seconds of internet searching will show plenty of retrofits. One guy retrofitted a 1980s Delorean with a Chevy Bolt electric powertrain, and now it accelerates twice as fast as it ever did with gasoline.

My 2015 Nissan Leaf asks every few weeks if I want to allow the telematics to phone home. When you say no, it obeys. (I also removed the SIM card anyways.)

Sure, English is terrible. Don’t forget dollar, pillar, cougar, burglar, doctor, actor, or aviator. Yet, oddly enough, somehow most people deal with them, and life goes on.

Go read about The Great Vowel Shift; it’s pretty informative.

I’d have to say pre-Nixon

That’s harsh. I think there is a meaningful distinction between lying and being ignorant or misinformed.

when later devs have more work with forking it than with independent releases.

If that were true, then how do Brave and Librewolf even exist? Clearly it was less work to strip the garbage than to start from scratch.

I went to expireddomains.net and searched for ones ending in “__mail.net”. Found a good, short domain that was once a regional ISP and email provider 15-20 years ago. (I still get spam for some of their old subscribers.).

I do not use subdomains for this one. Generally, I combine a simple name with a number for the mailbox name. Like “johnathan2715@zzzmail.net” if I think it needs to look like a real name, or some other word like “giraffe1238” or something like that.

It’s working great.