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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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Mobile phones and the internet.
I think where technology is in general would be really difficult to grasp. Imagine telling someone you can instantly get a hold of all of your family members and friends wherever they are. Or that They could just press and button and get instant, overwhelming amounts of entertainment or up-to-date information from across the world. Imagine trying to explain how airpods work to a person that has never experienced active noise canceling. Or rule 196, or rule 34 for that matter.
Nope. It’s the other way around.
People in the 50’s were expecting space colonies by now. Nuclear energy being this wonderful fix all.
explaining why theres no flying cars or robot pets or instant gourmet food generators, etc
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The remote control T_T
If your tire pressure is low, you have to pay money….for air.
What? Where do you have to do that? Air is still free in my country :-(
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