Sure it's bizarre to see somebody believe that, but it's because it is so easy to believe with all the shit going on, not because it's something difficult to believe.
I have had adductor/hamstring leg cramps in the past that were gnarly enough that my muscles bled. Big deep bruises coming up from underneath that looked like I had a broken bone or something.
About a decade ago I attended a week-long reliability training held by ASQ (the American Society for Quality). One day heading back to my hotel room I shared an elevator with the then-president-chairman of ASQ.
He was chatting about airliner safety, and how the engineers would do things like test/measure/calculate to find the necessary thickness of a part, and then just triple it for safety because they could. He said he'd never hesitate to ride a commercial airliner.
He then said he would never ride in a helicopter as long as he lived, lol.
It's fun to imagine an opposite world where everybody has EVs and other more efficient forms of transit, and then industry wants to introduce ICE vehicles to the market.
You fill it with flammable liquid poison and it shoots gaseous poison out the back while it's running, and nobody can refuel at home, and it's immensely more mechanically complex, but at least it's quick to fill with fuel at the fuel store! Just try not to inhale the poisonous explosive fumes or spill the poisonous volatile liquid on yourself while you do it.
Price aside, as somebody who has gotten pretty good at ignoring my old normal slab smart phone, this might only make sense for nostalgia and conversation starter reasons.
Now if I could force this thing upon other people in my life who cannot separate their eyes from their doom-screen, we'd be on to something!
This feels like a game of, all together now, "Which Evil Is It??"
Is it because they are abusive pedophiles who want fodder for their kind, or is it because they are evil capitalists who want fodder for their factories?
I have experienced the reality behind this comment so deeply in the past year.
I have been building a lot of stuff recently, and in 2026 alone I have made several large Home Depot lumber runs.
It's always me in my old shorts & t-shirt, loading like 2 dozen 2x4s or 4x4s or plywood into either my little mazda3 sedan or the family SUV my wife drives that has a mix of "cute" and "sassy feminist" stickers all over the back. All around me are trumpy-looking chuds in their pristine business casual work clothes carrying a single little bag or mailbox post to their also-pristine emotional support trucks.
And I'm not faulting them generally for clean clothes and nice cars. I'm a software engineer with a desk job, and I am way overdue for a fun new car that won't even fit lumber. But I am way way way over the stupid culture in this country where having a good job makes one a valid human and having a big vroom vroom truck makes one a legit rugged big strong boy.
The gold standard in my experience is Sweden. They probably do the same thing in other countries, but that's the place I have visited.
Instead of having a single big open men's room with 2-3 toilets and a couple sinks, next to a single big open ladies' room with a similar layout, there is a short hallway with four doors on each side. Behind each door is a small restroom with its own toilet and sink. I think they each had a urinal too.
It is superior in every single way except maybe for initial construction cost. It has a higher number of toilets which are all gender neutral, on top of actual privacy and there not being a "bad time" to go if it's busy.
It makes total sense if you give a shit about people and aren't trying to penny pinch construction costs while making the facilities user-hostile so that peons don't spend too much time in there.
This issue is right up there with healthcare as far as the level of stupidity (just not the level of death) because we collectively in the US won't take a note from other countries that do it better. Plus, you know, respecting human dignity.
Restrooms don't need to be gendered in the first place if they give you some damn privacy.
But as an american I know all too well that private bathrooms means potential small costs for landlords, and the ability for employees to hide and/or drug addicts to shoot up, so half the country would fight the change until their dying breath.
Hopefully the human first responders are automatically dispatched when one of the drones responders to something, so that they will be there to patch up the people slashed repeatedly by the blades on that drone. Which, given the world we live in, is guaranteed to happen.
In the year of our lord 2026, it's more like they TELL us to save water while standing in that shower making constant eye contact with the camera with water running down their face. And just before their message ends you see a cloud zip past a window behind them because they're on a private jet while recording it.
Sure it's bizarre to see somebody believe that, but it's because it is so easy to believe with all the shit going on, not because it's something difficult to believe.