Either use a straw or only fill one side? Is that cheating?

“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping a human face… forever.” - Some book or something.

You lost me in the last sentence. I think what you said rings true with an exception. I don’t believe that the people you’re referencing will bother with learning how to care again. It would be a tacit admission that it was willful ignorance.

This one has been easy for me lately: They spell ‘lose’ as ‘loose’.

Base 16 is superior and once you learn binary math, easier to divide and multiply.