Wayne Zelensky. This guy is the protagonist of Disney's 1989 live-action film, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, its 1992-97 sequels, and the television series in the franchise.

In it, he is the scientist father of a teenage girl and boy, and he accidentally shrinks his kids, and two other neighborhood teens, to the size of insects. Like a total melon. After that, the teens must fight diminutive dangers as the father searches for them.

This is the guy everyone's talking about in the news, which confuses me, but eh.

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  • CyberMao [it/its]
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    3 years ago

    So if we didn’t have cars, would cities be nearly silent? I lived in the middle of nowhere and aside from the occasional car, all you could hear was nature and at night it was dead silent and you could hear someone yelling waaaaay down the road. Now I live in an exurb and there’s never enough time in between cars passing that one arrives after the last one is no longer audible. Except at like 4am, when you can occasionally get a minute or two of silence. But then there’s little to no nature sound either. I can only assume that carless cities in the middle of the night would be like anechoic chambers

    • thethirdgracchi [he/him, they/them]
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      3 years ago

      Back during the initial covid lockdown I walked around Manhattan a lot, and there were basically no cars. On quiet streets I heard birds singing in the trees, the subtle rocking of metal street carts and the low murmur of conversation by those on their daily walks. It was bliss.