It may not be the best answer, but it’s probably the nerdiest.

I definitely think it was a deliberate choice, but more in the vein of “look at this bumbling moron driving this piece of shit French car” as a way of further masking his actual abilities.

But the show started in the 60s, and it’s the same car. You could argue his trenchcoat and hat (de rigeur when the show started) were more affectation in later years, or accept that at some point those simply occupy the role of signifiers that “yes this is Columbo.”

He’s a sergeant.

Columbo. Neurotypical is debatable, a lot of his behavior is an act to make the suspect less guarded. But he drives a shitty car, is happily married, and isn’t “too old for this shit.”

“No, the name ‘Milka’ doesn’t refer to milk, why do you ask?”

If you read it in Kermit the Frog’s voice, it’s like you’re in the room with him. Minus the smell of meat-and-benzo sweat.

The Daily Mail article says he’d killed elephants before, so ¯_(ツ)_/¯

“We wiped out the apex predators so now we have to be the apex predators” is an…interesting take on justifying trophy hunting.

You could just fund conservation for animals like lions and hyenas in the savanna, and other predators in other environments. It’s better overall, see the effects of reintroducing wolves to Yellowstone.

Guerilla plant fast growing plants in vacant areas to suck up as much CO2 as possible?

(Yes I know this is like a drop in the ocean.)

You can stand in front as a shield, but only then.

Martial arts? Like monks are trained in?

A horribly designed sex toy.

On the bad site there was a whole dontputyourdickinthat community.

Between Burnet and Lamar

Are you in Austin? Because Austin has that.

And LLM slop coding will make it exponentially worse.

Even without that culling, half the calories are not calories humans can process. We can’t digest stalks of corn or wheat, for example. Various livestock animals can digest biomass that would otherwise go to waste.

He should be yelling at Hank, not Jesse. This renders your argument invalid.

That also solves the problem of the dealership needing to continue charging hundreds of dollars to replace a lost key.