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Humanity making progress like it always does (mbin.grits.dev)
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[–] [email protected] 66 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

This has bothered me for years. It's a really strange thing to be telling younger relatives about how you legitimately could not drive any substantial distance without windshield cleaner at certain times of year. I remember them being plastered across the front edge of the hood and against the radiator after a long trip.

It's one of the most visibly different things about the world today, IMO, and it's a little eerie.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 5 months ago

The sounds, too.

I was talking with my dad walking near to a place that had frogs croaking, and he got a little emotional and excited to hear them over the phone. Normally it's just traffic noises now, and silence.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago

I remember the wasps always buzzing around the vehicle grills munching on all the dead bugs too. Now it's just shiny and chrome.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago

I still remember 10 years ago when I was driving on the Autobahn at 130 km/h and a juicy bug hit the windshield. It was literally a loud splat. Besides the grill always being covered in bugs.

Hasn't happened since, nowadays I can count the number of bugs on the grill with one hand. And that's after months of driving.