Yeah, I keep wondering when I last used a plastic bag. These days it’s either prepackaged, directly in the shopping bag or a paper bag.

Reminds me of Max Headroom getting stuck on a segment

The imperial system makes you a worse shot. Everybody in American stories misses by inches. In European stories, they miss by millimeters. It’s quite the difference: 25 times worse.

Those were gimmicks from that boom time, when wages were generally high and sooner folks switched jobs within weeks. Perks mattered in that period. Then wages dropped but the mindset that these perks mattered remained.