I remember being blown away by Nintendo 64 in the 90s.

He’d never get anything done.

A modern car would be pretty impressive to someone from the 70s, even without the ability to fly.

“not chronically online”. Has a Lemmy account.

Could you imagine showing a modern game console to someone from the 70s?

Don’t sequoias grow really slowly?

I don’t go to bed until I’m nodding off. Works great. Sure, sometimes I won’t start nodding off until it’s getting late, but when I hit the mattress I’ll go straight to sleep instead of laying in bed awake for hours.

Gotta cover my bases just in case I was informed incorrectly.

Call in sick and go fishing, spend time with my family at the creek.

My wife lost her job last year due to illness. Had to take a loan out against one of the cars. My income alone wasn’t enough. Got behind on bills. Shit happens, man.

When have you ever needed to know yards in a mile?

The only thing on US cars that isn’t metric these days may be bolt threads, but I’m pretty sure even those are metric now, except maybe for wheel nuts.

I already know how many cups to a pint, pints to a quart, and quarts to a gallon there are bad fractions are so simple that we learn them in the 1st grade.

Is it that much easier? I think y’all make US customary out to be more complicated than it is.

We’ve been doing that for decades.

Functionally, what’s better about it? I mean, really.

Not going to make any difference if the bank closes.

Luckily, I don’t have that particular debt, but I’ll cross my fingers in solidarity.

Well, I’m at least half joking, but I can’t help but think that I’d be better off in a global collapse than most people.

If the economy collapses, causing banks to collapse, I’ll be debt-free.