Does your irony meter ever go off when you try the dementia thing?

... I mean "reading better for you brain than TV", news at 11?

The old SAT was a thinly disguised IQ test. I doubt that the prep helped much, unless some people were totally unused to taking standardized tests at all. (Which is doubtful; I recall being peppered with them all through school.)

... the days of wandering musicians and "players" companies.

Songs were copied, and tweaked into new works, left and right. So were plays.

Seven years, renewable once to 14, was good enough for the founding fathers. Would be good enough for me ...

Life is all about comparative risk. Obesity has HUGE risks.

... almost 100% of drownings come from just one compound, H2O!!!!!!!!!!!!

... nothing terribly unique about "edtech".

Videos. Text. Forms. Reporting. Not too difficult to just use generic parts to assemble a whole.

Eh, I do (unless I'm emailing some stodgy unknown who might be offended)

A smile indicates that I am, you know, smiling. A laugh indicates that I am joking. Context is provided; communication is improved.

My coworkers and our clients seem to take me seriously {shrugging faux emoji here, lol}

Which part of the planet? Rotherham, say?

... that I was so special (eye roll).

Or, just maybe, you aren't counting everybody, just large companies.

Yep, exactly.

It's popular for some of the cool kids to posture and kvetch about it right now, but no, normal people really don't care - as long as it's a good game.

To be honest, I didn't much care for movie going then either, lol. But the wait for some other method for any given movie was considerably longer.

Society itself has changed.

For the shared movie going experience in a theater to be enjoyable, that depends on most people following largely unwritten and unenforceable (except socially) rules. And we mostly don't have that anymore, as a society.