That’s an interesting idea. I can see local businesses having a whinge about it for a couple reasons: 1) people less likely to buy snacks/drinks on the go and 2) the business now has to deal with lots of extra rubbish that used to go in the public bins outside. Was there any push back? People were a bit whingey about the plastic bag ban here at first but I think most people have accepted it now (although I do forget my reusable bags on an annoyingly regular basis).

why would a good scientist stop researching?

Probably when you start to wonder if all your research is for nothing since nobody seems interested in enacting policy grounded in science.

Lol I had exactly the same thought and instantly googled “archer inventive”.

I’m impressed you remember it! Unless you’re in 3rd grade now, in which case it’s not as impressive.

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I still do bottom right. Whoever owned my car before me obviously didn’t and the steering wheel cover has melted into the wheel itself.

I am irritated by electric windows. Every time I park and turn off the car someone (often me) has left their window down.

Same here in Australia with the Eureka flag.

A shame, it’s a really cool flag.

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Look up Furby next.

There should be a simple signup that looks something like:

[choose a username] @ [choose an instance]

Where the first one is an input field and the second one is a drop down or search bar. People can pick whatever instance name piques their fancy to get started. Once they understand the fediverse better they can move to another server (hopefully migration will be built-in at some point).