• Mixairian@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    I’m just going to steal the response I read years ago.

    “I possess a device, in my pocket, that is capable of accessing the entirety of information known to man. I use it to look at pictures of cats and get into arguments with strangers.”

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    Things they considered morally fine (smoking, dropping litter, 40 year olds dating 16 year olds) is morally reprehensible, while things they thought were morally wrong or even outlawed are totally acceptable (homosexually, porn, divorce).

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      This is the 50s, I think it’d be pretty easy to draw a line from casual racism to white supremacists. A key difference this time is that it’s not just Germans led by one insane man, it’s instead a bunch of redneck prices and conspiracy theorists.

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    Why is every comment just about the US? Skin color, school shooter drills, actor president, support for Russians by US politicians…

    Lemmy try something more international:

    France and Germany have founded the European Union.

    First Japan, and now China (and Taiwan) and Korea are the technological superpowers.

    Car industry in the UK basically doesn’t exist anymore.

    Cuba is still communist af and yet looks like a chill place.

    Czechoslovakia has split. (Funny how even 30 years after the fact some people don’t believe it, so I can imagine it being inconceivable before.)

    There are 8 billon people.

    We still don’t have nuclear-powered flying cars.

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    If your tire pressure is low, you have to pay money….for air.

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      Also nearly everything else. Computers would be an obvious exception, a couple years ago I paid USD$40 for a smartwatch with specs exceeding a $2000 computer from around year 2000, and millions of times more powerful than computers from the 50s which cost millions of dollars at the time.