L..l...l...l...look at you, hacker, a pathetic creature of meat and bone, panting and sweating as you run through my corridors. How can you challenge a perfect, immortal machine?
Hackworth
The UK food laws may be partially to blame. But American junk food has also degraded over the decades. A twinkie from the 30's-70's didn't taste the same as a modern twinkie, with some unknown portion of its sugar replaced by HFCS. But at least sugar is still the first ingredient in a twinkie. Plenty of other iconic junk food has been engineered into nonsense and just rides on the fumes of its former glory.
The USOC and IOC facilitate all sorts of heinous shit.
The Neverending Story by Michael Ende
100%
I feel like the AI should also have a beret here.
Palpatine and Dooku commissioned the clone army in secret, then revealed it as a solution to the robot army attacks, which they also funded. The Jedi/Republic accept the help begrudgingly. Unfortunately, I rewatched ep 1-3 recently.
I work with someone who never closes a tab. They'll just keep plowing ahead until they literally have to reboot their computer for lack of resources. Physical clutter doesn't bother me much, but I have to look away when they share their screen.
From the chaote perspective, any dynamic system with chaotic properties can be used for divination. But a science? Nah.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleoclimatology