• CyberEgg@discuss.tchncs.de
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    2 days ago

    Really? When was tge last time our leaders were like “We have a problem, let’s listen to what the actually smart people have to say and act on that”?

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      19 hours ago

      In the 80s scientists discovered that ozone layer has a growing hole caused by CFCs. All UN members signed the Montreal protocol designed to protect the ozone layer. It has been healing all this time and right now the problem is pretty much solved.

      Another good example is year 2000 problem. Computer scientists outlined the problem, got the financing for that and solved it with almost zero issues.

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        Hah, the smart people would be laughed outta the room as nerds! Unless of course they had an idea, in which case it was actually always the rich peoples ideas, and the poor inventors were simply assistants.

        Recently watched a video on the beginnings of the internet and boy is Samuel Morse and all those old timey fucks just as bad as today.

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          And gave him 3 days to figure it out after sending him to prison. And if it wasnt for a fight after a hand job he would have died and nothing would have changed.

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          Yes because nobody was smart enough to horde all power and money and deny anybody else from changing things.

          Yes probably in a thousands years we still have rich assholes who control everything. But they hadn’t in idiocracy

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            Yes because nobody was smart enough to horde all power and money and deny anybody else from changing things.

            We don’t know enough of the world of Idiocracy to draw such conclusions. We don’t know who owns that giant store, the TV stations or the appartment buildings.