I started lurking in 4K enthusiast groups to see if they were all cracked up to be. The arguments about relative quality of various BD/4K releases isn't even the most interesting part.
It turns out that there are a lot of issues with set top boxes playing particular disks. The disks themselves also seem terribly fussy.
Educational standards have been declining for a long time. It hasn't just recently gotten bad because of Corona. Both math and English instruction have declined to the point that people like you are making excuses for remedial instruction in college.
The sabotage is intentional even if those doing it don't think they are engaging in sabotage. This is painfully obvious if you interact with the K12 education system.
Parents these days have to more to repair the damage done by professionals.
The kinds of foods that trash your LDL predate the FDA and the United States.
Sometimes experimentation is the only thing standing between you and certain death. None of us would be surviving cancer if not for patients being experimented on.
Beyond terminal illnesses, the regulatory burdens should be very high and not lowered because something shiny and new comes along.
Large houses in hot climates don't have enough roof space to accommodate the number of panels you would need to displace grid power. Using obsolete panels that generated less power when they were new is only going to make the problem worse.
Leaning into unreliable power sources when demand is increasing is just going to make any supply issues worse.
Premature optimization is the root of all evil. -- D.E. Knuth