Who blew up Nord Stream?

plasticbertrand

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Consider the technological changes in the last 78 years. in 1944:

- Most electricity was produced by burning coal
- Many homes still did not have electricity, or phones
- Public sewer systems were just being installed in many towns
- Cars were really primitive compared to what we have now, and not so reliable either.
- Limited access highways didn't exist
- Neither did computers, or TVs

Note how far we have come on all of these items. Now think how far we'll go in the next 78 years.
I recently found this channel, it's bloody fascinating watching 1940s in 4k, which @Ifallalot said will never be a thing.

 
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Ifallalot

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Also in 1944 most Americans had never flown on an airplane. Now 88 % of Americans have.
Airplane tickets used to cost about half the price of a car.

Technology advances exponentially, the human mind has trouble keeping up.

A fuckton will happen in 78 years.
That's futurist nonsense

We happen to live in a time that had massive advances, while even a cursory glance through history demonstrates ebbs and flows of technology with long periods of stagnancy

We're even seeing intelligence and skill losses in basic technologies as focus is only put on computer and other emerging tech for the next generation
 
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StuAzole

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That's futurist nonsense

We happen to live in a time that had massive advances, while even a cursory glance through history demonstrates ebbs and flows of technology with long periods of stagnancy

We're even seeing intelligence and skill losses in basic technologies as focus is only put on computer and other emerging tech for the next generation
Ah yes, the old “we are getting dumber and less advanced” theory.
 

plasticbertrand

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That's futurist nonsense

We happen to live in a time that had massive advances, while even a cursory glance through history demonstrates ebbs and flows of technology with long periods of stagnancy

We're even seeing intelligence and skill losses in basic technologies as focus is only put on computer and other emerging tech for the next generation
Glancing back through history, when was a long period of stagnancy in the past 2 centuries?
 

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can we talk about the absolutely hilarious Streisand Effect he just unleashed?

it seems like a few people knew who he was before, but now everyone knows his full name

tremendous backfire!
The best part of the whole saga!
 

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That's futurist nonsense

We happen to live in a time that had massive advances, while even a cursory glance through history demonstrates ebbs and flows of technology with long periods of stagnancy

We're even seeing intelligence and skill losses in basic technologies as focus is only put on computer and other emerging tech for the next generation
I'm definitely not a futurist.

A cursory glance through history does not show any flow like the current one, nothing even close to the last 150 or so years. Of course there will be some ebb, but the advances will happen more often and and with shorter duration between for a while IMO. I could be wrong, but neither of us will be around to know who's right.

Is there even enough oil to go another 78 years?
 

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Here is Doofus Brandon's quote
What would you make of the most powerful person in the world making this statement?

Speaking to reporters on February 7, Biden said: "If Russia invades, that means tanks or troops crossing the border of Ukraine again, there will no longer be a Nord Stream 2."

"We will bring an end to it," the president said. A journalist asked Biden how he could do that since Germany was in control of the project, the president replied: "I promise you: We will be able to do it."
 

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I think it would be a safe bet that for the next 100 years we will continue on the post-industrial revolution trajectory of rapid and continuous technological advances. Not linear, but always a positive slope.

IMO the only things that would derail this would be a worst-case climate change scenario coming sooner than expected, or nuclear war.