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Yeah, someone would have started to cross the oceans eventually. Europeans happened to do that first.

Yes, but, unfortunately - devices like that exist.

And now it slaps "xbox" on everything.

Yeah - it's a mess. Some devices only charge with a charger that supports PD. Some other devices need a charger WITHOUT PD support.

We are pumping oil that's located under the seabed. It would have seemed completely insane in the 19th century when all oil was easily accessible. Asteroid mining might be feasible in a few decades. If it really gets going - it could make gold as cheap as aluminium is today.

Honey, I shrunk the Grandkids.

If I had a disease like that - I would not want to drive at all.

A tariff is a tax - so additional tax on BDs, DVDs, cinema tickets, etc. It's stupid, but it's possible to implement it.

The guy who took that photo of Barbra Streisand's house had no idea how significant that photo would become later.

We are no longer in the film era. You won't run out of storage. So I take pictures of both.

Disc rot is a thing unfortunately. And they are no longer making new PS3s.

Germany committed the Holocaust in my country. They murdered more than 100k of our citizens. And even more died in the WW2 that they started. But now we are in the same political, military and currency union with them, because countries and their ideologies change.

NSDAP hasn't been in power in Germany for like 80 years now. Meanwhile Mao's CCP is still in power and they haven't disowned him.

Imagine if switchboard operator careers were protected. We still would not have the Internet today.

If that was true then we would still be living like in the 18th century. They would have pumped out all the easily accessible oil. It's not possible to access current oil fields with 19th century tech.

So yeah - if this civilization falls - the next one won't be able to have their own industrial revolution.