I don't starve if I don't work the fields.
this post was submitted on 29 Sep 2024
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Crime accross the board continues to drop year over year in the US. There is still a ways to go but pharmaceutical costs are down for things like insulin thanks to the generic availability. On top of the policy changes, medical advances are moving at blazing speeds. Clinical trials for stem cell treatments are popping up everywhere. Basically a cure for everything except cancer nowadays. College athletes are no longer legal slaves and are able to be compensated for the work and risk they put themselves up to week in and week out. It's an employees market for finding jobs. There are more companies looking to hire in all industries than there is available tradesman to fill the openings.
You get to exist and understand that you do. That's pretty huge already, as far as I can tell.
Thatβs an interesting comment. History and science have proven that we have evolved in a way that everything we do becomes easier. Arguably the end goal is that everything is easy (can be debated in many ways, even philosophcally), but thereβs no denial that humanity has done everything in its power to make things easier. Thatβs the whole point of the creation and use of tools
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We live in a world of plenty where we still produce enough food that nobody need go hungry.
I know this is suppossed to be a good vibes post, but "nobody" is probably a slight underestimation.
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we have a lot of life saving technology medically that we use to snap people from the jaws of death so that the state can execute them later
WIN WIN WIN
I believe we are statistically in the most peaceful time in world history right now. Unless someone triggers a nuke.
Humans domesticated wolves in this timeline. Imagine being in one of the dogless hellscapes.
Standard of living has been steadily improving in China since the revolution, and it has managed to develop in an overwhelmingly peaceful fashion. China has achieved astounding feats of engineering with projects like cross country high speed rail, and it's currently leading the clean energy revolution globally.
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Applebeeβs has announced the much-anticipated return of its All You Can Eat Special, which includes Boneless Wings, Riblets, and Double Crunch Shrimp.
I hate... so much about the things that you choose to be.
Medical science.
I mostly just think worst and even better is hard to judge. We just exist here. Good and bad are just labels. And I find absurd to be an often more applicable one when it comes to the timeline stuff.
You could have been born on Mars when it had water. All that's left is dust
The aliens haven't yet consumed our planet in this timeline. Consider yourself lucky.
Pick any human development index measurement and view its progress over the past 10 years
Indoor plumbing, heating and air!
We got the Beetlejuice sequel we have now instead of the original script they had planned.
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If you're wealthy, everything is better than ever before
I can think of a dozen ways to make it worse, so it's clearly not "the worst".