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

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[-] andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 year ago

1923?

Lenin's body lays in the mausoleum on the Red Square for the last 99 years. Impersonators of him and Stalin walk around in their daily routine, asking money for photoes with them. In a shop not far from them, you can purchaze chinese merchandize with a soviet, russian flags, as well as with a monarchist-sympatising one, even though Romanovs are as dead as they were back then. Some items cost over a thousand of rubles, a sum that was enough to buy a factory - and that's after two recent denomonations. Pretty good that these crowds of international tourists don't count their money being there, these prices can easily drive someone insane.

[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 1 year ago

See, in 1923 "the USSR fails" wouldn't surprise people, but "the USSR is a great power and also fails and also is still locally popular" would be hella disorienting.

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[-] makingStuffForFun@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] Phen@lemmy.eco.br 12 points 1 year ago

"world now has more androids than people"

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[-] baatliwala@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

That people from my country actually had the gall to behave like our country belonged to us and not white people.

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[-] raubarno@beehaw.org 12 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year 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.

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[-] TerminalEncounter@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago

The suffragettes won 😲 🫨

[-] MudMan@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago

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.

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[-] intensely_human@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago

ALL KNOWLEDGE OF SOLONS LOST
Recent Poll: Zero Percent of Americans Thinking About Solons

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[-] JWBananas@startrek.website 9 points 1 year ago
[-] D3FNC@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago

Lol the average American lifespan in 1923 was 58 and in my county in 2022 it was 64 and dropping

"doubled"

[-] arthur@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 year ago
[-] D3FNC@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago

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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[-] D3FNC@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago

I would guess pretty much everything about our current world would freak out people from a century ago

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