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A Boring Dystopia

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[โ€“] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The one real benefit of the cold war was a focus on education.

[โ€“] TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

most of the usa infrastructure, physical, intellectual, etc was built as a product of the cold war.

and we started viciously neglecting it in the 1980s, as the end of that war was becoming obvious