cheap desktop microphone (those white/grey/cream sticks, you know the ones I’m sure).
You mean the same microphone every desktop had in the 90’s? Boy do I!
When asked when the downfall of humanity began, alien anthropologists all come to the release of a single piece of media:
Lotus 123
I love how the complexity of life is taken as evidence of intelligent design, since that falls apart if you look at it more than a few seconds. My favorite example is the recurrent laryngeal nerve, which loops down your neck and comes back up for no good reason. Better yet, it’s the same for giraffes, which means they have a massively long nerve that goes all the way up and down its neck just 'cause. If an electrician wired something like that, their fellow workers would call them anything but intelligent.