Unfortunately, quality transit and safe bike lanes are far from ubiquitous in Europe too. Americans like to think of Amsterdam or Denmark when thinking about EU bike policy, but majority of Europe is still miles behind for bike friendly policy. Similarly for transit, huge variance between countries.

Beautiful but neither connected on the north or south end to the rest of the East River walkway. It’s good for photo ops, but not that much for people living there and using the walkway.

Same thing for apps like Slack and other similar ones, which basically fill the same purpose as IRC clients back in the day. Somehow they need at least 1 GB of RAM, because devs don't write machine optimized code anymore but just package webpages in containers and ship that as an app.