I don't think they're deluded in the slightest.
1. It's a plausible sounding sales pitch.
2. It's a bait-and-switch to get the hook set, ensnare people, and use them for political ends.

Good times. Those sub-optimal things in the past do not absolutely have to be prisons.

There's really nothing to see here. Except that long distance with per-minute charges are still a thing. And AOL is still a thing, I guess? I definitely would not have called that. And old people are easily tricked into buying both those things. I don't think addressing the ease with which old people are tricked is on the agenda. Whether it's aluminum siding or their uncle in Uganda, tricking old people is just way too easy. And phone companies will just let you run up tens of thousands of dollars in arbitrary charges in one month, and let you keep doing it for several months when you don't pay the first one, that's definitely been a thing for a while. I'm actually a bit surprised AT&T waived it. In the stories I've heard in the past, the telcos usually put up a pretty good fight about that sort of thing.

It creates a "Virtual quantum burrito"? As long as there's a burrito in the microwave, thrust is always guaranteed to be generated!

at least 2 USB, plus power connector (could be a 3rd USB 3.1 connector I suppose...), a video out port (again, I /suppose/ it could be yet another USB 3.1 trasporting DP. Rather just have mini-DP though), and an RJ-45 port.

Same thing happens with doctors and nurses, quite frankly.

I think d_r is a doctrinaire Commie, which his why his feelings were so hurt by telling it like it is about Karl Marx. Fustakrakich is some kind of a burnout spitballer, who just likes to poke people. A lapsed Catholic, I think.

No, seriously. Postmodernism makes everything a social construct. It's all appeal to the flesh; all about stirring hormones; all about burning the culture for political power.

Just about anything can be rationalized.

I'm sorry that you remain stuck in a previous century.

I'm sorry you're stuck in the 18th Century.

Please reset your Apple Watch to the correct date. It's the 21st Century, the year is 2015.

Most PhD and Masters graduates are women nowadays. In many of the top research fields the majority of faculty are women.

Please be advised the culture shock may be severe. But you will get through it.

I'll bet the reviewers repeat ideas women in their committees say, as if they came up with the ideas themselves, too.

Well the tests keep showing the damn thing works! Maybe it's just magic. Works based on fairies flying out of an engineer's butt, or something. Hopefully it doesn't break the universe :-/

It turns out it was only actually torture about 39% of the time.

Real doctors take an oath to do no harm with the knowledge they've been granted. I guess that's why the CIA went with psychologists.

I never knew that; probably due to the Zero Positive Catholic News rule.