You're looking for https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Character_encoding Which explains the funny characters.

Unfortunately, those aren't designed for your drinking experience; they're designed to make you drink as much high-margin beverage as possible.

I propose no ads ever anywhere

All microwaves can be silenced with a big enough mute ~~bat~~ button.

Who is we?

Tesla has never, ever, had anything remotely resembling a lead in autonomous vehicles. The actual AV industry doesn't consider them part of it.

Lie day?

I'm still booting 0.94c from floppy.

We do. Next question.

Geolocation data isn't authenticated or in any way secured against spoofing, so this isn't a security hole. And it's frequently wrong anyway (I am not now, nor have I ever been, in Ashburn, VA), so using it as the sole authority for "where are you?" and not providing a manual option is simply a bug; sloppy UX at best.

States always wind up being run by self-interested psychopaths.

That's not a "flaw;" it's the fundamental nature of the concept.

And just think, they only have to find 3 more of those clients to pay the CEO!