When I was a kid, first using computers in the mid 1980s, blue LEDs were considered to be impossible to make.
So my basic bitch IBM clone only had red indicator lights.
The implication is that people who grew up with newer technology had stuff that was fancier than the stuff older generations had, which is objectively true.
I'm sorry that you didn't get the joke, and I'm sorry that I had to explain it to you.
Unfortunately that usually results in all of us, just chilling at the bottom of the pile, because while we were helping eachother, everyone else used us as stepping stones to get closer to the brim.
Over time the gap on Justice has only gotten wider. The rich will literally bankrupt someone with legal fees long before any kind of judgement can be enforced; even if they're completely in the right, they can't get justice because companies have enough money to throw at the problem that they can effectively ensure that any judgement against them is squashed.
Most will settle out of court at best, so that the whole experience can be over, while the rich barely need to show up for court when they're charged with anything. Their lawyers take care of everything.
The police are just an extension of the same problem. The whole idea of police has been hostile to the common man from the start. It's basically boiled down to, if you don't do what you're supposed to, then we're going to fine you money you don't have. When you fail to pay up, we're going to throw you in jail.
Even if you can pay, is kept on your record and held against you for years to come.
Forget getting decent employment if you're convicted of any crime.
But the rich are barely affected by any of this. Punishments are usually a joke to them, like, they need to pay a few grand? Sure, in the time they the cop decided to do that, they probably made more money than the fine is, from their investments.
Everything is balanced towards those with money are affected the least, or completely unaffected, when they commit crimes, yet for commoners and poors, we get fucked for the rest of our lives.
We live in an era of being able to buy things, sight-unseen. In that era, there was no way for an investor to bid without physically showing up, so if they did, and aggressively outbid everyone else, then they already have a noose set up for them.
Now? People don't need to be at the auction in person, there probably wouldn't be an auction to begin with. The Bank would hire a real estate agent, who would pass it off to whomever makes the highest bid. Simple as that.
I'd like to think we would, as communities, as a society, but in this society is also money hungry, faceless corporations that will do whatever they can to make a dollar. There are so many layers of obfuscation between the person who is buying the property, and the person who ultimately owns it.
I get it. I miss when words meant something specific.
The one I'm still unhappy about is jealousy. It used to just be the fear of losing something you have. Now it also means wanting something you don't have.
Envy is a term that always meant, wanting something you do not have.
Over time, people have used the terms so wrong that the definition changed.
I think it says something about society that we have a word that means something, but we used another word to mean that thing so much that we changed the definition of the word to fit the usage.
Motor vehicles are designed to keep you safe in case someone else has a bad day and hits you, they are not designed to keep any other people safe if you hit them. It is, IMO a lethal device.
Irresponsibly using that device, so you can benefit at the risk of others (as many seem to do), should be criminally negligent at best. It's selfish and self centered. Anyone with a shred of compassion for their fellow humans should avoid using such a device if it is unsafe for them to do so.
But people often downplay the risks and have more confidence in their ability to do something that they really really shouldn't do, with no justifiable reason to believe that they are capable of that.
I was very tired yesterday and instead of driving home on the little consciousness I had remaining, I deferred to my S.O. to take over and complete the journey home. I probably could have made it, and risk was mitigated because we were on country roads, but I'm not taking that chance.
The remainder of the trip I dozed in and out of being awake and my mind started mixing dream images with reality as I was drifting in and out.
To be fair, I stopped trying to stay awake after I left the driver's seat (I got us about 1/3rd the way home before conceding), but if that micro sleep happened while I was still behind the wheel, I can't say I would have made it home no matter how much I tried. I also can't say that I couldn't have.
If I had been alone in the car, I would have stopped and taken whatever sleep I could before finishing the trip. I've been driving long enough that I know my limits, and I hit it hard when I pulled off.
I was so tired that once I got home, I slept from around 5pm or so, to around 11pm, then went back to bed before 1am and woke up at 7. I slept for nearly 12 hours and I still feel tired. I pushed hard to complete my task because I know my SO doesn't like driving very much, less so in unfamiliar areas, but I appreciate that they could, and did, take over when I just couldn't do it safely anymore.
I'm not trying to one-up anyone, and you're situation was very different from mine. But I told this story because it happened literally yesterday. Driving isn't just "I'm good" and you go until you get there, it's a constant evaluation of whether you are still capable of operating the vehicle safely; for you, your passengers (if any), for other road users, and for their passengers, loved ones and families, as well as any pedestrians or other people. If you cannot reasonably say, without bias, that you are capable of operating the vehicle safely, then don't. It's just that simple.
But, like I said, most tend to be biased that they can do anything, which makes it difficult to get people to do the right thing sometimes.
Wow, that seems like a violation of their duty of care.
What makes me happy is that you knew that you couldn't do it and pulled off until you could again. I swear some people drive when they really really shouldn't, and just rely on everyone else to make up for their lack of eyesight.
Kudos where it's due. Thank you for being a reasonable and responsible driver.
There's three main types, vertically oriented, horizontally oriented, and irregular.
What is depicted would be vertical.
I have an irregular astigmatism in my left eye, things just seem blurry, not in one direction specifically, just blurry. Lights don't have this kind of bloom for me.
My right eye is fine tho, so that's fun.
When I was a kid, first using computers in the mid 1980s, blue LEDs were considered to be impossible to make.
So my basic bitch IBM clone only had red indicator lights.
The implication is that people who grew up with newer technology had stuff that was fancier than the stuff older generations had, which is objectively true.
I'm sorry that you didn't get the joke, and I'm sorry that I had to explain it to you.
Good luck with life, seems like you'll need it.