Tradition, mainly. It's so ingrained in the majority of cultures that you can't simply uproot it with a law. Although it should be a more controlled substance, no doubt about that. It's addictive, debilitating, incredibly harmful and it simply destroys more lives than literally any drug known to man.
Cringemobile
Behold Chinese colonialism.
While it's normal to do this (outside of obvious one-upmanship) I think what makes it autistic is the crushing awareness of the pattern and the realization of how wrong the reaction to such an innocuous thing can be if interpreted incorrectly. Some sort of paranoia of being misunderstood.
Most of these hit close to home, except that I'm obsessively punctual, check my messages even when there are no new notifications and my file system is a work of art that I can spend hours organizing. But that goddamn chair though...
Let me paraphrase: Gen Z refuse to take any bullshit from deluded boomers.
Not to mention charisma and sick sense of style.
Jesus fuck that's brutal even for a desert.
What a bunch of cocks.
My first ISP in the late 90s was Skynet Online.
Touch controls in a car is definitely up there among the absolute dumbest ideas of the century.