• Carvex@lemmy.world
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    24 days ago

    Not not only their second home, but with a stay at home wife, three kids named Junior, a family dog, two cars, two weeks of vacation a year, and a retirement plan, all for 40 hours a week uneducated labor repairing vacuum cleaners.

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      24 days ago

      Welllll… Neither the US nor the Soviet Union had complete lunatics running the country at the time.

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        24 days ago

        I think that the multiverse exist and we’re the 1% of timelines that the cold war didnt go hot.

        Imagine Stannislav Petrov tripping on a banana peel and ending up in the hospital instead of going to work and monitoring for nukes, or if Vasily Arkhipov suddenly develops caustrophobia right before that submarine mission to Cuba.