From experience, more places than you'd expect only have you badging in one direction and not both.

Probably fire safety laws

Yes, locking people into buildings (which is what you are doing if you need a key to get out, whether it's an RFID badge or a skeleton key) has been illegal since the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire

As I mentioned in a sibling comment, you don't lock them in, you just set off major alarms and send an armed response if the door ever opens without badge activation. This presupposes some things about the facility and the facility operator, though.

I guess we're ignoring the existence of prisons.

Those and mental hospitals are the exception to the rule(/law)

But places that actually take access control seriously do implement bidirectional badging, and just opening the door to leave without badging out will send a group of people bearing guns in your direction right away.

You'd think that, but, as someone who did a phyiscal pentest on a prison recently, that's 1000% not the case.

You can set up your access controllers for anti-passback, but, most folks don't, because companies don't want to pay the costs associated for an 'in' reader and and 'out' reader and implement that level of security.

Well, the costs for the 'in' and 'out' reader are really not the major issue for most companies, as you could conceivably set a particular perimeter that cordons of 'secure' from 'not secure' and would only have to configure anti-passback for that perimeter. The real trick (and therefore problem) is in making sure that people do not walk through doors together, that is, making sure that only a single person passes the perimeter for a single access request. Single-person passages are way more costly than the readers, and have the additional problem of not allowing all that many people to pass per hour. That means that you may even need multiple for a given people flow. And that's leaving aside the convenience issues.

Not to mention having to train your people on why it matters. In most places, that's going to... never happen.

And also pay for the people to enforce it.

Yes, some places do. But those places are rare.

I was talking more SCIF, less prison.

And nothing of any real value would have been lost...

Oh, wow. Blast from the past. Let's see... Opus-CBCS, then QuickBBS with FrontDoor, then RemoteAccess with FrontDoor, at some point I was convinced to switch to D'Bridge. All eventually under DesqView for a few years, then under OS/2 until I went off to college...

I bet I still have all the floppies I saved everything to in my garage. Alas, the SyQuest 88MB removable disk drive (in all its SCSI glory) that I eventually ran everything off of once that "huge" 20MB Seagate drive filled up bit the dust a few years ago.

Around...2005? 2006? I discovered someone had deep-linked to an image on work's webserver, where I was admin (being one of the few who knew Linux).

Instead of just outright replacing the image, I set up rules in Apache to check the referer, and if it was our site, serve the correct image. Anyone else, it served up something...questionable.

Problem solved.

I'm in my 40s, and he both influenced me, and has affected me, more than I can ever state...

Honestly, a lot of tech has been initially pushed by the adult industry. VHS and (arguably) DVDs to name just a few. Not making any value or judgement calls, but they seem to be trailblazers for further mass market.

I just let my thermostat alert me, based on run time. It worked with my old programmable, it works with my Nest (yeah, I know). And since I buy 3-packs of the filters, when I get down to the last one, I just add "16x20x1 filters" to my shopping list. When I'm at Wallyworld or Home Despot/Blowes, I'm there for a reason, open my shopping list, and see the filters listed...

Even as a kid, I had to drop breakfast. For literally decades, the several hours after I woke up, I'd be nauseated. I cut out certain categories of foods, and now I can eat whatever I want from the remaining categories, but I've also picked up intermittent fasting in the meantime. So now I typically don't eat until sometime after 4pm, with the majority of my intake at dinner. It's working well for me, but my wife just can't handle it.

Yes I used to feel exactly the same as a kid, and into my teenage years. Only really cared about having something to eat in the morning once I got into my mid 20s.

I work with a guy who says he still feels the same now, well into their 30s.

When I had a physical job, I had two breakfasts (6:00 before work, then 9:00). And I needed it, or I'd be super hungry. Now, at my desk job, I have a single breakfast.

And in warm weather, I have difficult to eat in the morning at all.

Oh, man, I lived through the '80s hysteria about D&D, to the point where one of my (parochial school) friend's mother wouldn't let him associate with the rest of us classmates if D&D was even suspected. Years later in college, I read "Mazes & Monsters", and while I thought it was an interesting story, I could clearly see the mental illness involved, which was entirely outside any concept of RPGs. If anything, one could lay blame at (spoiler warning!) J.R.R. Tolkien, for the "twin towers" references in his works and where the title character ended up.

Watching the video clips had me howling/cringing. The later frenzy directed at other RPGs, like the SJG stuff already mentioned, just pretty much seals the deal that "the previous generation" (let me live in the past, please) just didn't understand fiction/fantasy. That was a whole 'nother set of data points in my education/maturation process as an independently thinking adult...