To be fair, we sorta knew it was possible because birds. I think it’s more impressive when we don’t know what can happen, like breaking the sound barrier or putting people in space.

I don’t need ignorance to feel wonder. I think things are cooler when I can marvel at the complex mechanics behind it all.

We keep living next to rivers because reliable water is the single most important consideration. Flooding happens. Most parts of the world independently developed sun and moon worship as well, and name colors in roughly the same order.

Remote start of any kind is a luxury and it’s wild to me that someone would defend internet car controls as any way important or even desirable. That’s what I’m talking about. Physical keys work totally fine and add like two seconds of time to the process.

It’s a good thing we invented remote start at the same time as the car itself, I can’t imagine the horror of only operating a motor vehicle I’m next to (let alone touching)

They have to believe in meritocracy, that wealth isn’t intrinsically tied to exploitation and a long history of classism.

Some of us never left.

Or. Or. And hear me out on this: participate in society.

Off power grid maybe, imagine the nightmare of urban well-digging or apartment septic tanks.

You should never expect privacy in someone else’s car.

Grain is also fruit, botanically speaking.

In addition to the other thing, dams have a dramatic and disastrous impact on the ecology in the immediate area and the entire riparian system they connect to. It’s “green” in terms of emissions but they’re still harmful and we should be phasing them out for lower impact alternatives as much as possible.

Why assume that an illusion must have a constructor?

I’d rather be nuked than starve to death.

A lot of those island colony-states aren’t self-sufficient and will have massive famines when the trade routes stop.

That assumes that interstellar travel is possible. Physically, economically, socially, there’s a lot of boxes to check for near-light extrasolar expansion (let alone FTL, which probably is impossible)

I think the easy solution to the Fermi Paradox is that we’re stuck in our fish bowl and so is everyone else.

Tempered glass is still sharp but it breaks into tiny pieces so it can’t cut deeply.

Aliens.

Hey Withers, here’s 100 gold to turn a better character into whatever role I need.

I don’t think chickens are usually referred to as “dog-sized” even if it’s occasionally true.