I lay a lot of the blame at J.J. Abrams’ feet, not necessarily because he directed both Star Trek and Star Wars (though somewhat because of that) but because of Lost specifically. He largely started this trend of every episode being a cliffhanger and every plot point needing to top the last. At the time it was a fresh way of seeing a story which is why it became the trend, I don’t understand why it won’t go away though. In the end, Lost is largely remembered as having lost the plot much like Game of Thrones or more recently Stranger Things. They don’t start these things with an actual plan anymore and frankly I see that as the big problem. Take MASH for instance, they knew they that no matter what happened in between the show would end with the end of the war. They don’t even start shows with that little a plan anymore.

My single gay friend adopted a kid in Oklahoma in the mid 2000s. This is definitely one of those your mileage may vary things.

Kent State happened, he doesn’t need to look outside the US for ideas.

In fact, recreating the computing experience of the Commodore 64 (and BBC Micro as they are a British foundation) was one of the specific purposes of the Raspberry Pi.

The MythBusters did that one, obviously the info is a bit out of date now but IIRC over the three decades of models they tested they found that motorcycles, while more fuel efficient per mile, have none of the pollution controls of cars so they put out more emissions per mile than the average car of the same age.

An anti-static bag wouldn’t do anything. I assume you mean the Faraday cage bags, which would prevent your phone from pinging anything as would a hardware switch but wouldn’t prevent them from searching it if you get arrested.

No SIM wouldn’t really make any difference, all (US) phones must be able to make a 911 call even if they aren’t currently in service (that’s what SOS in the signal meter means too, you aren’t roaming or don’t have roaming turned on but the rival carrier’s tower that you are hitting legally must allow you to make a 911 call). Just because your carrier doesn’t support those frequencies anymore doesn’t mean there aren’t other carriers that do or that the mobile cell tower spoofers won’t still scan for those frequencies. If you trust that it will stay in airplane mode and that the custom rom’s Bluetooth stack is locked down enough to not ping any Find My devices or similar then maybe but standalone Meshtastic device sounds like the best bet to me, or maybe something like IP over HAM radio. Maybe it’s time to dust off the Cybiko!!!

Don’t take your phone to a protest. Even if you turn it off or in airplane mode. iPhones ping the Find My network even when turned off for instance and Google has their own version of the same thing. Feature phones, insofar as they still exist won’t save you either, in the US all cellular devices are required to have a GPS built in (it was part of the same law that made the Amber Alert).

Because there aren’t any developers in charge any more. At places like MS and Google now promotions are given to people who make a big splash. Fixing a bug doesn’t get attention.

When I was in high school the trend was baggy pants and lots of women did wear men’s pants.

We absolutely saw those photos in school in the US… maybe this person just didn’t pay attention?

The Malt-O-Meal brand I used to get started being really bad about that to the point that it was almost rarer to get a single piece rather than a combo piece.