That people from my country actually had the gall to behave like our country belonged to us and not white people.
I'm at the airport, and the robot waiter is standing at the bar, staring at me in a passive / aggressive manner. Taunting me with its non delivery of my food.
Now, I'm no writer, but there's a headline in that somewhere.
The suffragettes won 😲 🫨
In 1923 they'd have won in about half of Europe, but I guess if you happened to be talking to a conservative person you'd bum them out a bit.
The storm of the U. S. Capitol would be the most shocking one, probably, as nobody dared to do that.
Also, 9/11 events, nuclear/thermonuclear bombs, nuclear power plant disasters, many things.
Technologically, the fact that an everyday laptop can deliver tens of billions of arithmetic instructions per second is still mind-boggling to me.
I would guess pretty much everything about our current world would freak out people from a century ago
Definitely the fact that we have access to technology that allows us to effectively create and spread misinformation at lightning speed, all without having to leave the comfort of our homes. Misinformation that can be seen by millions of people across the globe in a matter of moments after it is created.
Human Lifespan Doubled
Lol the average American lifespan in 1923 was 58 and in my county in 2022 it was 64 and dropping
"doubled"
Humans can be found outside America too.
Ok? It's still not true, this is just classic ignorant neoliberal propaganda. Even your own source doesn't support this, unless you go well into the 1800s.
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