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what fact about our current world would freak people out if it were a newspaper headline a century ago? (self.asklemmy)

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Some news that would be completely mundane today but scary or shocking in the past.

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[–] bitsplease@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago

The vast majority of us use these wonderous devices to get into arguments with people we are extremely unlikely to ever meet in person

And also about things that we generally either don't really care much about, or can't actually do anything about lol