Loved my last CEO. He was plenty tech literate, but when something new came up, "I don't want access to that." When auditing accounts, "Nope. Delete my account."
Be easy to make an argument for a few years later, but 1994 has always stuck in my mind as the take off point. By then there were "information superhighway" items all over the news, everybody got AOL disks, Windows 95 was right around the corner to take the pain out of PCs, stuff like that. That's the year I'd point to and say the internet was no longer a nerd thing.
1994: I was still fiddling with a 286 (WITH a math coproccesor I installed!), way beyond my skills at the time. LOL, my gf and I had to drive across town a beg a local IBM guy to give us a copy of the BIOS on a floopy when ours crash. He acted like Neo giving Choi the disk, "Yeah, I know. This never happened. You don’t exist."
Have a look at swarm theory. Absolutely fascinating and explains much animal behavior.
Reminds me of the original Battlestar Galactica in the end. They're watching LA freeways and marveling over the incredible coordination on display. Nope. Swarm theory.
Botox doesn't have to be expensive and ridiculous. Last gf was cute as shit at 50-yo. She'd just get a few pokes every 3-6 months. Her face wasn't plastic or unnatural, you'd never know. Maybe a bad example as she hadn't had shots for months after I met her and she didn't have wrinkles to speak off.
The Vietnamese and Afghans could probably tell us a thing or two.
One aspect I don't think many appreciate is the deterrent effect of private gun ownership. The fascists would have already overrun us were we not armed. Notice the major ICE raids have been in NYC and California? Those are the two places in America with the strictest, and often dumbest, gun laws. Anecdotally, being visibly armed likely saved me two ass beatings in the past year. LOL, one guy was so fucking mad he was shaking, choking himself to be polite.
Most of our military might can't be brought to bear on civilians. The examples you gave are purpose built to fight another military on their turf. The Air Force isn't going to deploy fighter jets to put down a riot. And NONE of those things will continue working about a week after civilians pull support.
Said here before, I clean the local woods on every trip. I can tell where I haven't been for awhile by the trash.
It's made a serious impact! Ya know, the whole "broken windows" thing? Most of the crap is from 3 things:
People chunking beer cans. I can understand (without condoning) that they're likely underage and don't want to get busted.
Snack wrappers. Again, likely kids given the waste I find. That's on the parents.
Crap that floated down from higher ground. People see trash and assume it was chunked on purpose. Nope. Tons of it simply flooded down from spilled trash cans, fell out of the car when exiting, shit like that.
We ALL litter, believe that. No matter how hard we try our waste gets away from us. Hell, I've found my own beer cozies on various trails, 4 times in the last year. I find my own crap at our camp every trip. "How the fuck did I drop that?!" Oops. Pick up more than you can possibly lose. That's all a man can do.
LOL, my kid's when boating, "No daddy! Don't go mess with that!" Now? They're actively hunting trash and fishing tackle. Hell, my wife was the same way and now makes us turn around for fishing bobbers.
I can't do that. :( I'm often wanting a part for a project or just the right thing for, whatever. FFS, I save broken glass for when I need to cut it down to fix something.
YouTube was working at a massive deficit to capture video streaming. I didn't mind them trying to "catch up", but they've gone way, way too far.