Hamtramck is dominated by a Muslim majority. There is not one USA, but many.

Are people just now discovering that Reddit has run on full censorship for a long time?

Boomers got to live through the boom of the 70’s

Might be a typo there. You probably mean the 80s and early 90s. The 70s were pretty grim.

Higher education is typically liberal leaning.

You can see why they would oppose it then.

The political system filters out the noncompliant, so the parties start to resemble one another.

Allowing users to instance block also lets us filter out the simply irrelevant. Good thinking.

Sure, and both were exposed to PARC and early 80s experiments in GUIs. There was a certain amount of convergence. But it is interesting that Windows was in motion first.

The whole “Christian nation” thing makes me nervous. A lot of the founding fathers were deists or agnostics.

Interesting that Windows was in development before the Macintosh. To be fair, lots of 8-bit systems had experimental GUIs at the time as well.

What a classic machine, but I was also fond of the VAXen.