people who think it’s ok to live over 25km from where they work

This isn’t always a choice, especially for those with families and those who own their homes. Moving is expensive, risky, time consuming and harms children’s sense of place. And that’s assuming moving would actually reduce the amount of commuting. If the individual and their partner both have jobs moving might trade one commute for another. Maybe the kids are really heavily involved in a local club or activity that they’d have to leave or commute to after moving. Maybe the commute makes sense because one stops at a friends’ or family members’ place on their way home from work.

Honestly, your opinions seem to be based on very limited sets of experiences and have a lot of externalities that you don’t seem to have considered or have simply accepted without challenge. I appreciate your bold vision and encourage you to keep envisioning bold change for the world, but please do try to consider alternate viewpoints and experiences so you can create a vision for the world that more people can share in.

My opinion on commuting is we simply have way too many office workers commuting 5 days a week without good reason. We saw in 2020 the kind of incredible improvement for everyone that remote work provides, rapidly improving air quality, reducing congestion, making people happier and reducing costs for the masses. I think its an obvious solution to institute a road use tax for employers of office workers and combine it with an equal tax break for remote work scaling based on how many days a week employees are allowed to work remotely. This would push employers who might not otherwise allow remote work to embrace remote work or pay for the negative externalities they create

Yeah I primarily buy frozen for that purpose and observe better texture from it, but I’ve got more cupboard space than fridge space, so keeping some cans for when I’m out of everything else has been good

it’s strange that they all “need” to rush around all over the place and travel much larger distances then they did in the past

Honestly this is a good thing. The world is an incredibly huge and varied place and getting to experience different places is awesome. Generally someone who travels will have better perspective on things than someone who’s never left the town they live in

I think its about the same? I haven’t looked too hard and typically purchase based on what I’m intending to do with the veggies, but I do like to keep a few cans of veggies in the cupboards for a rainy day (or more accurately for when the whole family is sick and none of us have the energy to go to the store, which happens at least once every winter thanks to having young kids)

I’ve been seeing more and more kei cars around. I live in a small college town and I’ve seen a couple of personal kei vans, the college has a small fleet of kei trucks and vans for use around campus and there’s even a few local contractors who use kei vans and trucks as affordable vehicles with decent fuel economy for running from site to site. Honestly if I’m seeing kei cars where I am they have to be getting increasingly common across the country. I can see why the auto lobby might want to try to get them banned, since it’s an unfilled market niche that the American auto market refuses to fill

I mean the island of Sark was unsuccessfully invaded by a single dude in 1990 (apologies for the terrible linked source, its just one of the first search results that wasn’t a random reddit thread or other even less reputable source)

The local volunteer Constable, the only law enforcement on the island, being informed of the invasion thanks to the notices, decided to take the threat seriously. On the morning of the invasion, Constable Perrée began to plan the island’s defense, which was a two stage scheme. First, he went looking for Mr. Gardes. He found him sitting on a park bench in army fatigues preparing for the massacre that was about to befall this island. As the Constable approached the invading army (a.k.a. Gardes), he saw Gardes loading his automatic weapon.

The first “showing up” stage now complete, Mr. Perrée executed the second stage of the plan. He complimented Mr. Gardes on his choice of gun and convinced Gardes to remove the magazine and let him see the instrument of the island’s assured defeat, so the constable could better admire it. When Gardes acquiesced, the Constable took the gun and punched him in the nose. The invasion was over. The gun used in the attempted coup now sits in the Sark Museum next to old ships and a dedicated exhibit to one of the island’s two original telephone calls.

Edit: I’m a little disappointed there isn’t a Wikipedia article on the subject with a list of belligerents, details of the strength of forces and a tally of the casualties and losses like this:

Sir, [email protected] is leaking out and beginning to spread

In the US, depending on the store carrots might be sold in bunches placed into loose unsealed plastic bags (and priced by weight) I can’t find any photos of this practice in a quick search, but I suspect its more for branding reasons than anything

Canned veggies are cheap and great for mixing into a pot of other stuff. For a really cheap meal, toss a can of veggies into a pot of ramen. Ma fairly filling meal that hits multiple food groups yet it only costs about a dollar. I imagine most people buying canned carrots are doing so for cooking with

instructions unclear, learned I enjoy a larger member than my wife does

Seeing the person chewing out folks for calling for a fork is pretty funny in hindsight. They aren’t wrong, but now they’re the recorded naysayer in a pivotal moment for a major open source project. It’s like anyone who said Open Office shouldn’t be forked when Open Office was purchased by Oracle. Now Open Office is abandonware with only functionally useless commits and multiple unpatched security issues and Libre Office has completely replaced it

You forgot the step of “presidential candidate quotes the Facebook post in a presidential debate”

It specifically mentions email addresses (used for account creation I assume) and what content is being watched, which a VPN wouldn’t do anything for.

Okay, y’know how vanilla is very mid? Go buy a pint of vanilla yogurt, a bowl and a spoon and have it for breakfast or brunch. Or as a late night snack. My wife had a pregnancy craving for vanilla yogurt one evening and we’ve just kept a pint in the fridge ever since

I enjoyed Andor but I think that has more to do with it seemed to focus far more on telling a good story than relying heavily on all of the tropes that make Star Wars content Star Wars

My suspicion with Forrest Gump is more that it appeals to the people who saw live the news clips it parodies and lived through some of the times and experiences it depicts, since it depicts past events in a nostalgic tone, without ever trying to change how one might feel about any specific political policy that influenced the events, and it never tries to change anyone’s mind about anything. It’s just a story that never really challenges you

You can also see this when watching films from the 50s and 60s as they were really designed to cover a variety of genres at once. Has a little romance sub-plot for mom, action sequences for little Tommy and some cool cars/gadgets for dad. Y’know because everything had to be stereotyped to hell and back. But it is jarring seeing how much of variety films old movies really were

I’m currently reading the LOTR books because I’ve never actually consumed any LOTR content and holy crap it’s very long-winded. Entire conversations that could be just a couple of sentences go on for pages. I appreciate the incredible scope, the sense of scale and the creativity that goes into it but reading these books I can only think how perfect they are for adaptation into film or any other format really. Or if authors “covering” another’s works like musicians do ever becomes a thing LOTR would be a fantastic candidate, because Tolkien’s writing style is such a slog to read through

It feels like it should’ve been 2 films. The last quarter or so of the film just felt a bit rushed and overly-convenient. I absolutely loved the world building and general lore to the movie though

My wife addores early Adam Sandler films, and I’ve really never seen any of them. She had me sit down and watch one Adam Sandler film one evening and while I could not stand his character in Billy Madison and turned it off within a few minutes, Happy Gilmore was quite enjoyable and a fun subversion of golf tropes.