"Nearly died" is quite different than "died" though. In the US we have ambulances and Epipens. If your throat closes up you not only feel like you're dying, you nearly died.

What??? Multiple doctors said this? Wtf. Those aren't even the symptoms of lactose intolerance and stopping breastfeeding is actually a horrible reaction to lactose intolerance.

He has the mind of a child, yet has a family and a stable job. That's winning in my book.

What ereader prevents you from doing these things? Kindles have the ability to do this easily, and even has built-in things to share them online. You have to opt-in to it revealing your location. And not all the books have DRM (which is on the books, not the readers) - in fact, the DRM on ebooks is decided by the publishers, not the ereader companies.

1. Room in my house. I have a small house; the number of books that can fit inside is limited. We're a 6 person, homeschooling family, and my husband collects comic books. My books get the least space priority.
2. The ability to immediately start a new book when I finish a book, without having to carry around multiple books. I can also immediately check out a new book from the library without waiting for my husband to get home with the car, and then fighting the snow and sub-zero temperatures.
3. No-handed reading. With a dead-tree book, I have to hold it open. With an ereader, I can do something else with my hands, pausing only to press the "next page" button when necessary. I often use this to knit or crochet while reading.
4. The ability to switch between ebooks and audio books, or reading and using text-to-speech. I can continue the book while I have to cook, drive somewhere, etc.
5. Weight. My Kindle is much lighter than most dead tree books I read, making it much more comfortable to hold. I can read longer because my hands/wrists don't get tired.
6. Okay, I'll admit it... piracy. I buy a lot of ebooks, get ebooks from my local library and am subscribed to Kindle Unlimited, but I pirate books too. (Most often books I can't get electronic versions of legally.) Printing out a whole novel when you're paying for your own ink is not cost effective, though admittedly I did it a few times in the 90s using the free printing at the school library.

Why play ANY video games for that matter, when that time could be spent mastering some real-world skill instead?

Because that never died.

That's a problem with all methods of teaching. You can't teach creativity.

Where is the ingredients panel located on a banana?

I remember, when I was a child, that computers DID cost $1000+. The first computer I ever used, an Apple II, cost $1298 at launch which is the equivalent of - jeebus - $5005.80 now.

Maybe people would - crazy idea here but - use other OSes? Maybe there would be some actual competition in the OS world?

Butbbutbut they stopped a bunch of pedos from fapping... for the 5 minutes it takes to find a new source.

Except those "monsters" were not on the street... they were inside their houses, fapping to the porn.
Now that the porn is gone they might have to go outside to get their fix...

How about people driving remotely, then? Someone who wants to play Car Driving Simulator can drive while I get to sleep/knit/watch tv for the whole trip.

Why should death and serious injury be the deciding factor? If it reduces accidents at all - even non-fatal accidents, minor injury accidents, and no injury accidents - that's good in my book.

Do you even have the internet? All that stuff exists in fanfiction and fanart, kids see it, and Disney is still drowning in money.