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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Anti public sector messaging from yesteryear always throws me for a loop

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

In the new electric age--as always--people will benefit most when served by companies

...Uh huh

Whatever you say, newspaper ad. That future sure came to fruition, eh?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

700 dead Texans can't be wrong! 😬

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Exxon mobil approves this message

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They had such high hopes for us back in the day. I only wish we could’ve been who they thought we’d be, and even more.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This appears to literally be an ad if you read the last lines.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

I did indeed read the entire thing. I was talking about the mindset of the generation at that period were thinking the future was going to be so so bright and advanced.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Doubling prices maybe

[–] merc 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm more interested in the magic transparent insulation. Warm enough to sunbathe on one side, cold enough for snow on the other side, and no melting? Not only that, but it appears to be paper thin and extremely light because it's supported by thin metal tubes.

Sure, with massive amounts of electrical heating you could make a heated plastic dome. But, you'd also melt all the snow nearby. There would be little rivers of melted water all around.

This dome is basically a perfect greenhouse, and is way beyond what we can currently achieve with cold-weather greenhouse technology.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Kinda makes me interested in greenhouse technology. I think you sent me down another rabbit hole

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Man I really love the green house pool that actually seems like that would make sense.

But, also the description saying that electricity will move our houses hour to hour... LoL no, no way moving the whole house all the time is efficient for anything

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

It might come true, if capitalism isn't that greedy.

Middle class is gone. We only have the rich and the poor.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

We, the middle class, never reach this new kind of living due to capitalism greed.