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Longing for the day I can buy an EV that's not a smartphone on wheels is like... (startrek.website)

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[–] vagrancyand@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

Associating the soviet union, which before china was the fastest country to ever industrialize, modernize, and innovate past its competition, with stagnation is kinda wild.

They won the space race with 1/10th the budget and more efficient rocket motors. If they saw computers for what the actual potential was like Chile did with project cybersyn, the wall wouldn't have fallen and a lot of countries would be speaking Russian right now.