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      Listen. Alexander Hamilton died in 1804 and the current year is 2025. If I died today and found out that in the year 2246 that the laws, mannerisms, dress, economics, attitudes, and technology had changed so little that I "recognised" it, I wouldn't be proud, I would be concerned. My mind would be going "what the fuck why hasn't anything changed". I would expect things to be different, if I noticed that nothing or little had changed technologically, socially, economically or politically, I would suspect there had been a collapse akin to the Bronze Age Collapse that society was only just recovering from.

      My Grandmother was born in 1920. She was born two years after women got the vote, Modern Art was in it's heyday, Cinema was still silent, the quickest way you could sent a message to anyone was via Morse Code, and there were people around who were born in the 1830s. She used to have to take a fucking candle up to bed with her like in those Bugs Bunny Cartoons. She lived to see gay marriage in the UK, The Lord of the Rings Trillogy, Video calls, and the Moon Landing.

      I expect to see commercial Fusion Power and a moon base by my 90s. If I was told that little changed between now and 2246, my first question would be a terrified "why"?

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        Listen. Alexander Hamilton died in 1804 and the current year is 2025. If I died today and found out that in the year 2246 that the laws, mannerisms, dress, economics, attitudes, and technology had changed so little that I "recognised" it, I wouldn't be proud, I would be concerned. My mind would be going "what the fuck why hasn't anything changed". I would expect things to be different, if I noticed that nothing or little had changed technologically, socially, economically or politically, I would suspect there had been a collapse akin to the Bronze Age Collapse that society was only just recovering from.

        My Grandmother was born in 1920. She was born two years after women got the vote, Modern Art was in it's heyday, Cinema was still silent, the quickest way you could sent a message to anyone was via Morse Code, and there were people around who were born in the 1830s. She used to have to take a fucking candle up to bed with her like in those Bugs Bunny Cartoons. She lived to see gay marriage in the UK, The Lord of the Rings Trillogy, Video calls, and the Moon Landing.

        I expect to see commercial Fusion Power and a moon base by my 90s. If I was told that little changed between now and 2246, my first question would be a terrified "why"?

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        I love how you make it sound like the moon landing happened after LOTR.

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          I love how you make it sound like the moon landing happened after LOTR.

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          It did though? The Lord of the Rings was written in the 1930s and 1940's, the moon landings took place in 1969-1972.

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            It did though? The Lord of the Rings was written in the 1930s and 1940's, the moon landings took place in 1969-1972.

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            They just said "Trilogy," so it's unclear if they meant the movies or books. But video calls were definitely after the moon landing, as was gay marriage in the UK being legalized.

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              They just said "Trilogy," so it's unclear if they meant the movies or books. But video calls were definitely after the moon landing, as was gay marriage in the UK being legalized.

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              The first two-way video call was demonstrated in 1930.

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                The first two-way video call was demonstrated in 1930.

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                And the first message sent over the internet was in 1969. They're clearly referring to when it became easily accessible to the masses.

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                  And the first message sent over the internet was in 1969. They're clearly referring to when it became easily accessible to the masses.

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                  and the moon has been there a lot longer than 1960s

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                    And the first message sent over the internet was in 1969. They're clearly referring to when it became easily accessible to the masses.

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                    They’re clearly referring to when it became easily accessible to the masses.

                    When have you been to the moon?

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                    • bigbananadealer@lemm.eeB [email protected]

                      and the moon has been there a lot longer than 1960s

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                      Not much, though, geologically speaking.

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                        They’re clearly referring to when it became easily accessible to the masses.

                        When have you been to the moon?

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                        "The moon landing" refers to a televised event.

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