American, huge fan, but I was in Germany for my formative years, right as Millennium was released.

Ok sure, but maybe I should have said those few thousand miles were in 1x 2500 mile round trip and a few 150-200 mile trips.

I do believe my body would expire.

So I own a big stupid truck TM and while it’s only used a few thousand miles a year to pull horses, occasionally I need to run to the store with it. What I don’t do is try to pull into a narrow ass tiny spot near the door, I park as far to the back as I can so I’m inconveniencing the least amount of people and at a much smaller risk of dinging something.

Do I think my truck is ridiculous? Yes. But I can’t pull 5 tons of trailer and horses with my bike or compact. And I try to limit its non-agricultural use as much as possible.

Having said that, man that guy is a jackass.

Oh my God thank you. I’d been trying to think back to an animated short story about a house with no living humans going about it’s programmed life that I saw in school in the 80s. On and off for the last 20 years I’ve searched for Asimov, Clarke, even thinking maybe it was Adams, never considered it was Bradbury. There will come soft rains. 20 years!

I used to carry my kindle Paperwhite in my lunch bag, reading on breaks at lunch. Upgraded to a fold 7 this week and have been using that instead, it’s beautiful and I love it for daily reading and pretty much everything else I can throw at it. The Kindle app makes looking for new titles (unlimited has so many LitRPG) so much easier than on reader or PC. It’s truly changed how I do reading on the go.

Having said that at home I still prefer my kindle, not because of the screen, the size, the physical heft, soft leather case, extreme battery life, no those are all good reasons but physically not much different than my phone. No I prefer to use my kindle because I don’t get text messages, reminders about ongoing sales, emails, video streaming recommendations, none of that. I just get my book.