What the list tells me is that if you do that, they might just kill it in year six anyways.

Not exactly how that works.

Got any pointers to references we can read up to learn more?

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

Nextcloud contacts gives you CardDav, so it works with Android, iOS, and any number of Linux/Windows/Mac clients. Thunderbird certainly, and many other desktop mail clients. (Don’t know about a Linux or Windows app limited to just contact management over CardDav, but it’s probably out there.)