- It may be called global warming to some, but its practical impact so far has been a lot less shoveling and more days that I’m not as cold as I should be living in New England, with less snow shoveling. I realize it may be short-sighted, and there may be bad consequences for the future, but right now it’s all positive.
- tvs are thinner, lighter, bigger and cheaper.
- And how about the stuff you can watch on those TVs! Cable channels, plus Hulu, Netflix, Amazon! Never before have we had so many shows and movies at our beck and call! With special buttons on the remote control!
- It is vastly easier to organize a meeting because of the near ubiquity of email and voice mail. Never mind free programs like Doodle. If you serve on a committee or a group, those things have made meetings so much easier to organize!
- Weed is readily available, better, and more reliably excellent quality.
- Vape pens are amazing. Your own wife won’t even know if you catch a buzz while watching TV next to her!
- Remember how hard it was to learn the lyrics of a song? Having to play each part of a song over and over again? No longer! All on-line.
- Salad packs. All those weird-o leaves you’d never buy on your own, because they’d go bad, all together to form the base of a salad.
- Beer. At least in my lifetime. Not sure how good pre-prohibition beers were, but beer lately is wonderfully flavorful, much better than the beer of the 1980s.
- Tarps, or tarpaulins(?). They use to be expensive, heavy, and God help you if you put them away wet! now they’re indestructible and dirt cheap!
Things that suck more:
Political advertisements on tv
Hi-def crappy food adverts like KFC, the images that essentially make everyone fatter by wanting it. Pizza ads too.
Everyone’s fatter.
Network TV shows are less intelligent. Or maybe that’s always been so.
Democrats and Republicans don’t get much done and are rude to each other.