"Sorry but I only have video about the construction process. All the cameras I've set up got fried when I've set this thing off, including the memory cards. It even messed up the magnetic tape in the old school relic we had as a backup. With that out of the way, let's get into the construction. This episode is sponsored by ..."
For cars, you're gonna need something a bit bigger. Large coil, capacitor bank to generate a static field and some high explosives to disrupt that field to give the pulse. It fries the wires in a car. Single use only.
The finance bros tried that one too. Mortgage-backed security was the magic word. Cut up all the little mortgages, repackage them, and sell for profit. Then it all crashed down in 2008.
"You see, there is no kill switch, but you do have to install this software license that expires every tree months. That's so we know you paid for the required service updates and software support."
"But if you don't give a license, the plane doesn't fly!"
"Well, yes, but we can't shut it down remotely so it's technically not a kill switch."
That would never work around here. We complain about everything. And then we'll complain how much everybody is complaining. Our happy state is complaining.
According to the other comments, they ask "How are you?" ans the response is "eVeRyThInG Is gReAt" and this gets written down as a 5/5 on the happiness scale.
but I think vr at this point has become an expensive novelty
Always has been. I went to demonstrations of this tech in the nineties when I was in college. It was going to be the next big thing. That never happened. It seems to come back every few years and then fade out again.
Line in the sand? Going after political opponents. Censoring information. Dismantling media. Abandoning rule of law. Business and government mixing too much.
Part of? They want it all, just not saying it out loud most of the time.