No need for the brackets.

The Israelis also bombed defenceless Gaza and had a lot of help from the US with that.

The M1 Mac mini, the PS5 and the Xbox Series X|S were all released on November 2020.

Since then, Apple has released the M2 mini (Jan 2023) and the M4 mini (Nov 2024), and I'd be willing to bet we'll see an M6 mini later this year. The PS5 has had the habitual mid-generation "Slim" refresh and the Pro (a smallish specs bump), and Xbox Series X|S has seen barely any changes.

My M1 Max MBP is still a beast of a laptop, but it hasn't been the current model in aeons. My Xbox Series X is still current.

Stop getting your technical info from ideologues in the reddit comments. Each of those investments is an order of magnitude less valuable than the first.

Wear your seatbelt. That's 90% of the battle.

Crumple zones in particular punch below their weight class and are grossly misunderstood on the internet. Their primary purpose is to let the front of the car hit something before the cabin starts decelerating to buy time for airbag deployment. Force absorption is a secondary nice to have. They only make a meaningful difference to the forces in the cabin at a narrow range of speed.

Side curtain airbags punch above their weight class though because there's not much else to help you in that direction of movement.

ABS is pretty meh. It only really beats the operator by enough to matter in specific situations.

If your reflexes are so bad that the lane keeping is what's keeping you in the lane there's other problems.

I'm not gonna pick apart every one of these improvements and they do add value. But they do not add the amount of value you are acting like they do.

>Why aren't performance improvements scrutinized the same way? How often are huge trucks given a pass

Because you're simping vehicular safety theater. So where the dollars and cents actually matter, commercial trucks bought by commercial interests who can push back, what gets adopted is actually based on what's real vs emotion driven screeching. Like for example semi trailers got ABS real early. It's extra valuable in applications where weight changes a lot.

>despite never having anything in their truckbeds?

Because the 2nd row of your car gets so much ass?

This came across as part lip service, part cheeky “this should be the parent’s job, not the state”.

"I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness.

And when the dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30-second sound bites now down to 10 seconds or less, lowest-common-denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance."

- Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (with Ann Druyan)

I mean, of course I tell myself this is the last time we're ever moving, and that this is the forever spot. However, experience suggests this is never, ever the case, and there's no actual precedent for that.