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TehBamski@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 2 years ago

If someone from the 1950s suddenly appeared, what would be the most difficult thing to explain about life today?

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If someone from the 1950s suddenly appeared, what would be the most difficult thing to explain about life today?

TehBamski@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 2 years ago
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    Too broad a question.

    Select a specific person.

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      Alan Turing

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        Interesting question. Given how intelligent he was, I don’t think that modern tech would be very hard for him to grasp.

        I think that he’d find it difficult to understand how people the likes of Musk waste so much time and money on bullshit like Twitter instead of changing the world for better, with a snap of their fingers.

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          Yeah, he would be hard to explain technology stuff to just because I’m pretty sure he’d understand it better than I did within a few minutes and start asking questions that would put me totally out of my depth

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            This is quite valid point.

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      Does the person need to have died in the 50s or do we just take the 50s version of them?

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        I’m fine with either.

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          Alright who wants to take a stab at explaining to Joseph Stalin, Russia’s struggle with taking Ukraine?

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            I don’t think it’d be very hard.

            He was very well accustomed to stupidity, incompetence and corruption - after all it’s him who shaped Russian leadership according to these principles.

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      His name is Steve.

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      Elvis Presley.

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        Brainfuck syntax and its application.

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          I’d prefer Whitespace

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          Nice. [I see what you did there…](https://esolangs.org/wiki/All_Turing-complete_languages_are_brainfuck_equivalents

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