Because people have no sense of history. Instagram isn't (necessarily) cross-processing. Most of the effects just make photos look as if you've stored them in sunlight for a few years. Photos back then didn't look like that - they were a bit grainier than what we expect now, but they certainly didn't look washed out.

Android rootkits, too, have been flagged (on windows) for a long time because "it's malware from a software/hardware manufacturer's point of view".

Someone missed a few fine points when the read the Cliffs Notes for Greek Myth.

So says the guy with the seven-digit account number.

Route learning? "First play this, walk to the center of the stage, play that, kneel, play the other thing, stand up, go back to the bassist and play this again." Or do you mean "rote learning"?

Pounds Sterling. Fucking limey.

Just tell your computer it's a US keyboard and touch-type. You can touch-type, can't you?

All the elements for the latter are in place, except for private ownership of printed material. However, if no-one reads them, then it really doesn't matter what they say. As to being about to get humans out of Terra's g-field...sigh. And Hard AI is so much harder than what anyone had imagined. And is much harder than what the Transhumanists and Singularists could possibly imagine.

Read and watch "2001: A Space Odyssey". (The book and the movie were developed simultaneously and you really need one to fully understand the other. I'd read the book first.) Then read "2010: Odyssey Two". Both written by Sir Arthur C. Clarke. Psychedelics optional where permitted by law, sitter who knows and loves the story highly advised.

Except Europa ... Attempt No Landings There.

The horror isn't in the slaughter (although it's not pretty, especially in some operations) — the horror is in the factory farming operations where the living, breathing, conscious animals are treated like machinery.

As to Einstein:

From a letter to Harmann Huth, 27 December 1930

Whereas in the Old Testament, having a wife and concubines was commonplace. Some men had more than one wife. The New Testament didn't change that, either, with no real mention of plural marriage either way.

How many parsecs do they go?