Grażyna Smalej (Polish, b. 1976, Chełm, Poland) - 1: Bath XXX, 2010 2:
Bath XXIX, 2010 Paintings: Oil on Canvas
This is akin all those hot takes about the 2k bug being an hoax:
"Remember when they told us every computer was going to crash on 1/1/01 and there would be chaos and then nothing happened?"
Yeah, I remember. And I'm sure every programmer and sysadmin that contributed the billion person/hour global effort to prevent it also remembers.
No one talks about acid rain anymore, either. And that's a very good thing.
see also START and START II, which significantly reduced nuclear stockpiles
International cooperation is actually so effective that most people don’t even notice it happening, and then erroneously believe it can’t solve anything.
Fixing issues before they develop into actual disasters is such an underappreciated thing it hurts at all levels.
We don't talk about acid rain because there isn't any more acid rain because when acid rain started happening and we learned that the cause was mainly sulphur oxide and carbon monooxide from car exhausts, countries all over the world made it a law that car companies had to produce cars that produced less exhaust with better effectivenes (burning the fuel all the way to CO2 instead of the halfassed CO) and oil rafineries to remove the sulphur from the gasoline in the first place.
We don't talk about computers crashing because of the turn of the century, because thousands of programmers worked very hard to write updates and patches for Every Single Program humanity as a whole used back in 1999 and then somehow managed to failtest, distribute, and update every single device and system, be it an online or offline one before the midnight of the 1st january of 2000.
On a much smaller scale, no one ever commenta or notices cleaners and housekeepers doing their job - be it at home or at whole buildings - because they always make sure that there's nothing to notice. But don't be fooled - at any point of your life you are one week of them not doing away from swimming in trash and filth with nothing to eat and nothing clean to wear. Only then you would notice.
Now it's time to do that thing again and make sure that we don't kill our whole planetary ecosystem within the next century.
THIS IS SO FUNNYVJBBVHNBF?????
It took me a while to find with all the porn that pops up, but here’s the rest of it:
I HAVE NEVER SEEN THE SECOND PART!!!
Kurzgesagt is literally just like… democrat PragerU.
The exact same template of ‘studio-produced channel, with a single narrator to make it seem personal, focused on supposedly-Apolitical technical subjects, also sneaks in obvious propaganda about, say, how despite it seeming like we live in an age of constant war, the world is actually super peaceful (and that the ‘war between Israelis and Palestinians’ is senseless factional violence)’ has been repeated so many times it’s old hat.
whenever i see “democracy” graphed on a chart like it’s a quantifiable data point, i only think of this
Damn they really did sag that kurz
