I was a "Fox News"-viewing turd in high school, too.
Conservativism mirrored what my parents viewed at the time. Seemed edgy. And offered simple solutions to all of life's problems.
Then I grew up. Five years later, I was voting for Barack Obama and terrified of Sarah Palin.
"I owe my soul to the company store" song comes to mind.
Grew up in an old union mining town that had some pretty violent strikes in the 1910s and 20s. Didn't realize it was still going on other places into the 1940s.
Set local minimum wage law to median rent prices. And watch landlords/NIMBYS and employers fight each other. That's the only way to dig out way out of this mess.
You're bringing back nightmares from grad school. The "online" homework problems... Shudder.
No kidding. I remember when I bought my new car in 2011, having Bluetooth was like #3 on my list.
In the end, I bought a great Honda without it. But that was only after I figured out a way to add it aftermarket.
For any car buyer under the age of 50, AA/ACP will be a top item. But we live in a weird world where most of the customers are under 60, but we're broke. So everything is marketed to Boomers, even though they are a minority.
Weird times.
What is Reddit...
... Baby, don't hurt me! Don't hurt me! No more!
More adults are alive now than adults who died.
Most of humanity didn't survive to adulthood.
Oh my gosh! I remember that!!! 😲
Counterlogic: Act WAY too interested. Like a crazy person. Unbreakable eye contact. And start asking them very personal questions about themselves with a huge smile on their face.
Meanwhile, I'm laughing all the way to the bank with my Brother color laser.
Yes, the printer didn't have a low subsidized price up front. But now I can enjoy big toner cartridges that seem to last forever. And I can use all the knockoff ones I want. And the printer itself is bulletproof.
Huge fan of Brother!
I was an avid Firefox user back 15 years ago, when the Windows program would gobble up all the ram.
Chrome was so light and quick, like everybody else, I switched.
About 5 years ago, a new Firefox came out and I gave it a try and never looked back. So many neat plug ins! And uBlock on my phone!
I tend to lean toward OP's original scenario never happening.
Back when signal jammers first came out, people used doom and gloom to say that autoritarian powers would jam our phones so we couldnt use them. It never happened.
Not because there weren't people who didn't try. But because the United States doesn't have one "government." We have governments. So if an out of control state legislature tries to do something, the FCC fights back. And if Congress gets too crazy, courts will strike it on Tenth Amendment grounds.
In the end, people are going to find a way to record cops. So we will. And -- despite internet pessimism -- most of the people in our governments will actually back us on it.
Good riddance. I could always tell how inefficient those bulbs were, simply from trying to touch them to change the bulb. All that heat is wasted energy.
Plus there's a lot of neat things we can do with the new LED bulbs, including adding Wi-Fi circuits to make them smart bulbs. And the price of those LED bulbs is dropped so much, I don't even really worry about the price difference anymore.