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People often point to the terrible things in the world as evidence we're living in "the worst timeline". What examples are there of things that suggest our timeline is actually better than it seems? (feddit.uk)

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[–] Zier@fedia.io 18 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Instead of sleeping in a cave and spending all day trying to kill food with a sharp stick, you can use your pocket internet to have food delivered to your door. In your very comfortable living space. Thank you Science and all the smart people in history that brought us here. Life is not as bad as the losers would have us believe.

[–] 200ok@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

And there are so many foods that can't be grown in certain parts of the world, but I can get almost anything.

Even something as commonplace as a banana has to be shipped to a large portion of the world where it doesn't grow natively.