It really annoys me when fiction is based on real events, takes a lot of liberty with the source material that it enters into the public consciousness.
The classic case is the "The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus" where it was claimed he was aiming to prove the Earth was not flat.
My personal peeve is movies like "The Imitation Game".
I think it is mostly just a problem with Victoria - and they are are hardly conservative.
Hospitals and ambulance service is a state issue and other states fair much better.
Related to unspecified vs undefined. I recall some C code was trying to be tricky and read from just allocated memory. Something like:
int* ptr = malloc(size);
if(ptr[offset] == 0)
{
}
The code was assuming that the value in an allocated buffer did not change.
However, it was pointed out in review that it could change with these steps:
1) The malloc allocates from a new memory page. This page is often not mapped to a physical page until written to.
2) The reads just return the default (often 0 value) as the page is not mapped.
3) Another allocation is made that is written to the same page. This maps the page to physical memory which then changes the value of the original allocation.
Higher levels of bisphenol A (BPA), a plastic commonly used in food packaging, were detected in urine samples taken from women pregnant with boys later found to have autism.
Florey researchers identified the biological molecular mechanism underlying this association.
And the other reason for dlls for common system libraries, security. If a security bug is found in a dll that is shared amongst a lot of programs, that can be updated without having to recompile all the programs.
If you are thinking about the C runtime on Windows, you can statically link those dlls into your program via compile time options.
There are valid reasons for dlls however. The main one being symbol name collision.
For example, you can use a dll that links to version 1 of a library, while using version 2 of the library yourself without having any name collisions.
Many years ago when I did Linux development this was a main gripe of using .so files - imported names could clash with the same global names in your program and you get random runtime behaviour.
I don't think a town in Tennessee recently outlawed homosexuality in public,
They just added:
"No person shall knowingly while in a public space engage in indecent behavior, display, distribute, or broadcast indecent material, conduct indecent events, or facilitate any of the foregoing prohibited acts."
Problem was that the referenced indecent statue definition included homosexuality, which was then removed from the definition even before it blew up on social media
People have also converted some small sections of Unreal 5 demos into splats https://superspl.at/scene/692c4f91
Or perhaps use a real world scan - it was suggested this one would make an ideal setting for zombies https://superspl.at/scene/6359774f