Figure caption Warning: Third party content may contain adverts It just refuses to die Cassette tapes, VHS, Ataris - they were all big in the 80s, but they didn't last long into the 21st century. A BBC story from 2003 - when email was definitely a thing - explains how faxing was "more popular than it's ever been". In fact, it goes on to say how it was common to print out an electronic document and fax it over to someone who would then type it up at their end. Luckily, that kind of inefficiency isn't really seen today as faxes have finally become obsolete. image copyright Getty Images image caption A Canon L700 in all its glory Lawyers still fax legal documents when signatures are required. And as recently as 2018, the NHS was banned from buying more faxes. It came after a survey found they were still using about 9, 000 fax machines across England to send things like patients' medical histories. The NHS was told to stop using them by March this year and move to email. And fax's time may be up for lawyers too.
The most exaggerated thing is that I once read a report in the American media, which reads: some people have no money to buy legitimate drugs, so they have to use cheap heroin instead... After all, in the 45th presidential election, trump of the republican party and Hillary Clinton of the Democratic Party were at the extremes, but both of them explicitly stated in their election platforms that they wanted to fight against anti-drug enterprises and opioids -- "legal drugs" did serious harm to America. Purdue, however, has so far been fine, which means it has little use. Capital can drive a culture of drug worship, force people to take drugs, make the government and the media profit tools, even change the law, and the proud separation of powers system in the western United States is a joke -- you think it's a cultural problem, but it's really an institutional problem.