20 Sep 2022 8:15 pm
Remember when there were no "devices" ?Monderegal » 20 Sep 2022, 7:20 pm » wrote: ↑ This is a little off topic for politics but I saw in my email today that apparently the stick shift will not be offered in automobiles anymore. Automatic transmission works but now just about everything else doesn't. The ever more present gadgets in our cars always have some sort of malfunction. The fridge might be state of the art but I can't tell you how many times the ice maker on my two year old fridge has broken. The light on the stove remains on and the TV Fire Stick has to be continually rebooted. This article in the Atlantic is from 2017 but mentions the new "advancement" of the public restroom. The automatic faucets don't come on and toilets that are "automatic" yet either don't flush or flush 3 times. Do we really need all this progress? Is it really even progress to not turn a knob? Does it save any time or energy? Link to article here.
You did not have a 100,000 "friends" . . . . and you had a real life !