Living in the future
You know, I'm so happy I live in the future. I think my life would fucking suck if I lived in the past. For one thing, I'd be dead now. For another thing, I probably would have died terribly young, thanks to some horrifically painful disease that comes from not eating enough fruit or something. Not to mention that I'd be unable to function in my surroundings because of my allergies and I'd be functionally blind.
This morning a dude in a not particularly large sedan fell asleep on El Camino Real with his foot on the accelerator. He got up to around 70 before he swerved off the road, through a lamp post, bounced off my neighbor's F350, and went head to head with my neighbor's son's F250. His impacts had enough kinetic energy to spin the F350 around and send it careening horizontally to destroy two garage doors, move my car a meter, take out a support pillar, crush a Subaru and snap the axle on a Prius.
And the driver of this kinetic energy delivery vehicle left the scene of the accident upright, in a police car and not an ambulance. He was fine.
We have *that*.
And we have *vaccines*
And we have *email*.
The future is GREAT.
This morning a dude in a not particularly large sedan fell asleep on El Camino Real with his foot on the accelerator. He got up to around 70 before he swerved off the road, through a lamp post, bounced off my neighbor's F350, and went head to head with my neighbor's son's F250. His impacts had enough kinetic energy to spin the F350 around and send it careening horizontally to destroy two garage doors, move my car a meter, take out a support pillar, crush a Subaru and snap the axle on a Prius.
And the driver of this kinetic energy delivery vehicle left the scene of the accident upright, in a police car and not an ambulance. He was fine.
We have *that*.
And we have *vaccines*
And we have *email*.
The future is GREAT.