I'm afraid this is an entirely accurate assessment. :(

Blackouts only happen if your local team isn't selling out the stadium. Back when my favorite team wasn't well regarded some times a local company would buy the last few hundred seats to make sure the game was sold out and wasn't blacked out for the region. We still missed a few games though.

It isn't a big deal. The rolled it out in New Orleans. I just say "human please" and it immediately dumps me to the human ready to take my name from my app order.

Who cares?

No, Not like that. This is way worse.

That's me! Total Annihilation is still a kickass game from 1997.

Yeah, that was prohibition and organized crime causing the rise in homicides during the 1920's.

Ask the Neanderthals. It's the same thing we did yo them.

That would only work in one direction, and it assumes all the streets are clear and there is no discernable traffic. As soon as you add 1 idiot looking at their phone while driving going 15 mph under the limit to make sure they are going slower than the car in front of them it all breaks down. I just wish they could add proximity sensors in the lights, rather than in a magnetic loop under the light which are expensive to install and maintain. There is no reason for a light to stay red for 2 minutes at midnight on a rural road when there is zero traffic.

Preach. In the 90's our computer porn was 256 colors and 640x480. I still had tons of it. I knew how to use uudecode at like 15. Not to mention the giant stash of older girlie mags that the neighborhood kids had collected. There is literally nothing new under the sun. Only new ways to do it.

Too many workplaces use VPN for remote networking to just ban it without major repercussions. It's a de-facto part of the internet now.

I always liken it to someone peeing in the pool and expecting that it will stay in that corner. Even if 100% of lottery money goes to education, it doesn't mean education gets more. It just means the money that used to be spent on education gets put in the general fund instead.

It's a problem governments have faced for centuries. It's the Cobra Effect.

https://www.formpl.us/blog/cobra-effect#:~:text=What%20is%20the%20Cobra%20Effect,worse%2C%20usually%20by%20a%20government.

I doubt it, unfortunately.

I could never see the old cartoon camel joe as anything other than a cock and balls once it was pointed out that his face is shaped that way.