Of Flying Cars and the Declining Rate of Profit
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A secret question hovers over us, a sense of disappointment, a broken promise we were given as children about what our adult world was supposed to be like. I am referring not to the standard false…
  • disco [any]
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    3 years ago

    Electricity is just magnets spinning around a coil of copper wire.

    • Horsepaste [they/them]
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      3 years ago

      Technology has not progressed since Benjamin Franklen. We’ve been stagnant since 1776.

      • EmmaGoldman [she/her, comrade/them]M
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        3 years ago

        The only way to convince America to switch to renewables will be making a corporation with the stated goal of replacing the entire grid system with lightning kites that collect power from thunderstorms and calling it FreedomPower. Put a cartoon Ben Franklin in all the ads and it will work.