• Camille_Jamal@lemmy.ml
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    2 days ago

    Everything, almost. Cars, phones, computers, spices, water on demand, electricity, the quantity and quality of almost everything, etc.

    If the average person from, say, mid 1600’s were teleported to now, they would be so unimaginably confused, and hostile towards everything, and that makes sense, since so much has changed.

    The internet would be something beyond comprehension for them, yet it’s something most of us use multiple times a day.

    Have a great day, be kind, and I hope this answers the question! :D

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    3 days ago

    Being able to use my magical talking rock to talk to people on the other side of the planet.

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    4 days ago

    What wouldn’t be?

    Something as simple as flipping on a device with a light switch would seen like witchcraft.

    Want to know what time it is in the dark of the morning? reliable time keeping might be possible in a house, but certainly not in a bedroom, and certainly not millisecond-accurate or observable in the dark.

    I think the only thing they wouldn’t be impressed with is alcohol consumption, but even then we have a variety, production scale and safety level they couldn’t fathom.

    And the capitalist overlords will readily trot out these points and claim we live like nobility from the 1600s while sapping us of our every free moment and waking thought. Forgive my turning this political

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    5 days ago

    Using toilets and showers. Sanitation and hygiene are among the biggest factors in the increase of life expectancy we get to enjoy. Yet we take those things completely for granted.