is that even a real name? I think I would have made this name up in middle school as the blowhard commentator for my fake newspaper

“live without 19th Century technology challenge accepted.”

*looks around the drafty log cabin for a charging port for my smart phone, but no electricity*

“well, shit.”

this ratioed post and its many replies make me appreciate the 19th Century and its many inventions more. Good thing we didn’t throw them out when inventing or improving even more stuff!

that said, I’d really like the 20th century technology of bullet trains too.

It’s possible to have yards and parking and three or four bedrooms and not have 100 mile metropolitan diameters and 100% car dependency

nothing like a balmy late November windows-open day

even with sprawl being the cheapest subsidized thing to quickly build, there are a huge range of options between “small urban apartment“ and “exurban McMansion”, and prices in more walkable areas sure seem to suggest that more people want this - especially on a unit basis

The newest innovation in Clippy technology is that this Clippy will advertise you some makeup

Wild that this is somehow British News. Do they know what Seattle is in the UK, or is this like when I hear Fox News say how, like, Birmingham doesn’t allow white Christians in anymore and I think “wow, Alabama will forever suffer from its sin of apartheid”

maybe Poo Poo Point is up there

Vancouver is what Star Trek thinks San Francisco would be like in the future.