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The only thing I would truly miss is indoor plumbing. And certain foods. One thing I learned when I used to go on vacation prior to the existence of smartphones (back when they were just cellphones), you miss the internet for a few days, until you realize how much you're enjoying yourself without it.

You had to pick a corolla, that's gotta be one of the most boring cars! Sure aren't making Earth look very good.

No, but besides family/friends obviously, and toilet paper (unless they have something similar) driving cars might be the only thing I'd miss. But I wouldn't miss a corolla, that's for sure :)

Well, I was originally going to go with a Lamborghini, but how many people actually have those? So I thought of what is a common car, and I went with a Toyota Corolla. As for the other pictures, I looked up "apartment building" on google images and went with the most stereotypical looking "apartment building" looking apartment building. It's supposedly an apartment building from Greenwich Village, meaning you're looking at probably $2,500-5 large per month for one of those apartments.

I didn't say I'd miss the internet or smartphones, I said I would miss the advancement of technology and knowledge in general as a whole, and how accessible they were.

This is why I need internet access. One summer I was two months or so without internet, and it was extremely annoying. Even after a few days I started to feel pretty awful, when I realized that my main source of sanity was unavailable.

While I have a somewhat similar attitude towards information and knowledge, what good is knowledge alone if you can't apply it to anything? If life would be easy and pleasant enough without technology, then why would one need to advance it? Then again all of this is simply impossibility on my part, seeing how dependant I am of machinery of all kinds.

How would I not be able to apply it to anything? What about applying it to a new world around me? IMO having all that taken away would be like hitting a reset button on hundreds of years of human progress from my perspective. I can only imagine feeling very depressed about it.

"Convenient" perhaps, but also utterly stupid. Like it's "convenient" to shoot rabbits with a bazooka, but it doesn't make much sense though.

Makes for a good fertilizer, and of course the excess needs to be disposed in some manner, like buried in the ground for example. But as I'm not an engineer, I can't go through all the possible options how else it could be done, but suffice to say we took the easy way out with flush toilets.

It's not just about using the water, but as you also so helpfully pointed out, we contaminate said water by using it to flush toilets and then we have to clean it again. How does that make any sense?

It appears you do not quite know who you are talking to, because I for one am possibly the most dependant when it comes to creature comforts and the like, but I also know to differentiate between the ones that are more wasteful than they are useful. I prefer safety, but I also prefer to have my environment in working condition that it doesn't go and die on me, because that's when you loose all safety, like when you loose clean water for example.

Because we want to get rid of the biochemical hazard as quickly as possible? It's essentially a generator of disease, after all.

Isn't almost everything a generator for disease, that is everything that can be used as a nutrition and a habitat for bacteria and alike?

The irony to talk about this subject while being ill, but that's winter for you.

Up to 30% of the mass of faeces is bacteria. Animals such as cows have an entirely different digestive process. There are dozens of diseases that are primarily or solely transmitted through the associated contamination of soil, food or water. It is possible to handle it without processing, but this is NOT viable for large populations, or even a small town.

Humans are overpopulating themselves right out of existence. The problem IS, that they will drag most of the rest of the flora and fauna right down the drain WITH them.
Niri Te

You underestimate life's resilience. Even in the worst-case scenario short of actual planetary destruction or the removal of all biological material, life will persist even if conditions (and by necessity, species) change. The state of life has never been held in a constant state, and artificial human attempts to do so can still change the status of others even if successful.

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