You're safe in your box and it dehumanises all the other road users a bit
Lots of people just hate it (because blizzard or microtransactions or whatever) and can't understand that people like different things. Ignore the numbers, you got some decent discussion!
The Lib Dems really aren't just as bad, they're actually one of the better major parties. Unfortunately they made a deal with the devil to get a chance at power and the Tories completely fucked them over. That said, Clegg (their leader at the time) then left politics to work for Facebook so maybe he was a bastard all along!
The vast majority are private cameras pointing at businesses and probably still writing to vhs cassettes. There area probably some high-tech networked face-recognition things running at the major train stations, but it's not like we're living in Watch_Dogs.
Are you constantly baffled by why people buy consoles instead of simply building a PC, researching and configuring the right emulators, ripping or sourcing the desired ROMs, and getting it all working? We as techies are by far the minority, most people just want to play the game and don't enjoy the tinkering.
