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The past was not that cute

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430 points mhb | 1 comments | 06 Dec 25 21:53 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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tinkelenberg ◴[06 Dec 25 23:12 UTC] No.46177465[source]▶
A lot of what appeals to people about the past isn’t so much about returning to a golden age but recapturing authenticity. We rarely get the real thing nowadays.
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pixl97 ◴[06 Dec 25 23:53 UTC] No.46177764[source]▶
>We rarely get the real thing nowadays.

I'd say it a bit different....

We can't afford it, or at least don't want to pay for it. And quite often, attempting to give a significant fraction of the 9 billionish people on earth something authentic of the past would be an ecological disaster.

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venturecruelty ◴[07 Dec 25 00:01 UTC] No.46177828[source]▶
I mean, it's not like everyone having a personal automobile and AC set to 68 isn't an ecological disaster... I don't want to return us all to subsistence farming, but unless we do something, we won't really get to make that choice ourselves anyway.
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1. Qwertious ◴[07 Dec 25 09:53 UTC] No.46180514[source]▶
AC is fine, with sufficient PV and insulation - most of the time, hot days are sunny days and thus easily renewable.

Most people shouldn't own personal automobiles, because most people live in cities and cities shouldn't be built around the personal automobile in the first place.