Which argument were you referring to when you said you had been left out?

Probably wool (maybe wool and cotton) since it's held up for this long in a high traffic semi-public area and was installed around 1909.

It's more of a translation-based mnemonic device, really

Before those apps appeared (and still to this day), people who needed extra money to make ends meet would approach people who might have work for them: offering to clean windows for locally-owned downtown businesses, walking dogs, mowing lawns, cleaning houses, detailing cars, doing odd fix-it jobs for homeowners. It requires some social skills to get going, and it works better if you bring consistency to it, but it also pays better and sucks less. Unfortunately, the places you can approach people are dwindling (by design) as we allow ourselves to become more averse to interaction, so it's harder than it used to be.

Perhaps we're getting hung up on the semantics of "replaced." Where once there were horses, there were later internal combustion vehicles of many kinds. But the point the article makes is simply that that "replacement" wasn't as direct as the typical claim, as urban workers were not commuting on horseback. People did not ride into the dealership in a personal carriage, trade in the horses, and drive off the lot in a Model T. At that time, communities were denser and people were walking and using transit. Some of the transit was pulled by horses, later replaced by individual cars as the auto industry systematically attacked transit and reshaped cities, but that's not what the "replaced" claim implies. It has the sound of a 1:1 swap.

How long before the solar panel people realize that's bad for business? The phrase "they don't make 'em like they used to" will eventually apply here, if it doesn't already :( but that just means that the second-best time to invest in solar panels is probably today, not tomorrow.

Have you read the article? It's really not about horses at all, and it makes some good points that help put the horse comment into context.

Eh, probably, but it's a lot to ask of someone in their declining years to move away from everything and everyone they know, especially if dementia is a factor. It'd be different if families stayed close, but so many older adults don't have anyone nearby. They should be moving in with their kids. But their kids are overburdened, over scheduled and underpaid. And not all of them voted to keep it that way...but...

Anyway it's different from person to person, but it rarely seems to be simple.

She's in a long term relationship with a woman, but she's fluid. Everyone is in with a chance

That seems wild, since her face is clearly visible.

You can set feeds up in an RSS reader app like feedly and then just put that app in your doomscrolling rotation

The good Internet has been dead for at least a decade already.