Like, how did I leave Bangkok at 8 AM and arrive in LA at 8 AM the same day, both local time? Time travel.

  • nymnympseudonym@piefed.social
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    3 days ago

    Honestly everything since electricity. The number of people we now support at a level of comfort that was unimaginable to even a king 250 years ago.

    Waking up at night in the middle of winter in a warm house instantly lit, getting up to poop on a warm comfortable indoor throne with fresh spring breeze scent in the air. The poop flushes away effortlessly and your hands and bum are quickly fresh & clean with running warm water scented soaps and dry with materials 10x more soft & absorbent than the famed Turkish towels. You decide to eat an orange (despite the fact they don’t grow within 1,000 miles of here) and heat a frozen snack in the microwave before heading back to bed.

    And, unlike most households for most of history, neither you nor anyone in your family currently has tapeworms