Eight year olds, dude.

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.

We do. Next question.

This has been going on for decades. My dad became a COBOL programmer in 1980ish after taking an aptitude test in answer to a newspaper ad. Y2K consulting was a pretty good gig.