For example, Bill W speaks about being trapped or surrounded by quicksand. Apparently, nobody today understands quicksand. So they remove the word quicksand.

I'm 44, and this makes me feel like an old man yelling at clouds.

I'm not trying to drag religion into this, despite my obviously doing so on the surface.

I am trying to see where certain flexibilities might be found, since there seems to be some flexibility on personhood in law.

My own deal evolved from there into I should always probably have a lighter in case I need to light something of flame, not in a pyromaniac way, but in the way of, "does anybody have a lighter?" Type of way. Somebody leaving to light a candle, start a campfire, need to light a smoke, whatever.

Or even to melt the ends of a nylon rope to hedge against unraveling.

This has oddly come in handy more often than one would think.

He made a comment about how good orange peels smelled when you burned them. I leaned into this comment with curiosity and personal ignorance on the matter.

He said yeah and then looked around made the shush shush signal and leaned in, and invited me to do the same. He took an orange peel and brushed it across his opened lighter flame. Nobody caught us, and I smelled firsthand What he was talking about. Nobody got into trouble over this innocent demonstration. But for sure as hell you would have gone into trouble for this uncensioned demonstration of fire usage.

(A blatantly obvious silicon valley TV show reference)

Yelp reviews, TripAdvisor, Google reviews, yes.

And as honestly never crossed my mind to check with BBB about anything.

But I haven't done any major purchasing like with property, land, or similar.

"But that's just Facetime on your phone but on your wrist."

"What's wrong with current smart watches?"

You still need a smartphone on or near your person. Maybe sometimes I want to be available for contact without the rest of the dizzle-dazzle in a retrofuturistic manner [flip phones aside].

I've not before seen this word used to substitute for being checked over for being robbed.

A lack of "right to repair" seems to kill some aspect of both if not one of these.

This reminds me of Asimov's Multivac home terminals where every user, in the comfort of their home, could dial in a query on their computer terminal and the massive infrastructure which is the continental-sized Multivac computer will respond with an answer.

This is a good portion of why I switched to Linux full time over 10 years ago.

My computer does what I tell it to do, when I tell it to do it, as I tell it to do it. I fuck up? It's my fault and I know it and I have to fix it myself.

No more "What the fuck just happened?" bullshit.

In a particular one, a journalist is compelled to investigate, write, and publish a story regarding some implications of this transport booth technology in order to help "clear his name" of some possible legal charges. In one scene, the guy is walking down a few streets crowded with new "temp" housing and shops and micro-industry and foot traffic where there once would have been nothing but vehicle traffic and empty parking spots and delivery-only zones and such. "These folks have caught on quicker than the rest of us", the guy considers.

IRL with dead malls laying around for ~30 years, every time I've passed by I've had similar marbles rolling around in my head.

It may be a buggered memory, but I don't recall seeing a movie about reverse engineering often.