Woof, TV’s were already a popular concept before WW2 in the US, but their development was halted by the war. However once the war ended, television exploded in popularity with the establishment of a dedicated signal network, and it was a staple item in almost all homes by the mid/late 40’s.

The South African regime was good if you were a Boer emerald mine owner. If you were anyone else? Not so much.

You can build your own AM radio in less then an hour with a large metallic object (car, bike, large piece of scrap metal, basketball pole), some aluminum foil, a small piece of copper, and any sort of speaker.

It’s a pretty common childhood science experiment where I am to build functional jerryrigged radio.

But you are right, building functional AM radios was and is pretty common for how cheap the components are. Plus I’m pretty sure I can still go to a store and buy a small working radio for less then 20 bucks.

Stanisław Lem Is a more contemporary author, but his work with Sci-Fi and futurism has been legendary and has influenced the entire genre significantly.

He anticipated things such as of virtual reality, artificial intelligence, and created ideas such as human autoevolution, and the creation of artificial worlds.

Jan Matejko?

His painting “Stańczyk” is very famous among western art circles. He is commonly listed alongside Rembrandt as both being masters of shadows and emotional oil scenes.

By the 50’s it was extremely customary for most homes to have a TV and at the VERY LEAST a radio if they weren’t very well off. Radios were dirt cheap.

You’re making the 50’s sound like the 1920’s.

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There is a reason warlords and ISIS use Toyota trucks. I’m pretty sure you could run those over with a tank and they would still run fine for 400k miles.

The Japanese car in our family is an absolute workhorse that was driving 15k a year and it is still going strong 16 years into its life with 250k miles.

Starbucks is already available at all US military camps. There is a McDonalds and Starbucks on board all mainline US aircraft carriers.

A Subway, Pizza Hut, McDonald, and Starbucks are all very common for a US army base anywhere in the world.

8 years is considering that you drive 20,000 miles a year and that the car will break down at 150,000.

The vast majority of modern cars of decent quality can easily go ~250,000 miles, and I’ve rarely ever met anyone that’s driven more then 10,000 miles a year.

That means you can probably squeeze a good 15-20 years out of a modern car based on how well you take care of it and how much you drive.

I would barely trust true to form meticulously engineered and tested military SSBN submarines like the Ohio Class or Delphin Class to take me several thousand feet underwater. Forget a literal welded tin can with a PS2 controller.

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Either term is considered acceptable apparently, as the material is still the same. Basically a homeless vs houseless debate.

But I hadn’t heard that term before! Thanks for telling me.

Ultras miss one of the foundational aspects of Marxism in that completely derails their entire perspective and analysis.

Socialist countries and their various leaders were ALL EXPERIMENTS.

Missing this view in turn impacts why ultras are so hostile to the LGBT and hold the views that freagle outlined.

One of the major things that sets us apart from fascists and liberals is that we do not have an idealized, cultish, worship of the past and our leaders. They all made mistakes, they all had misinterpretations, they were all human, and they were falliable.

It is from this that me must not dogmatically cling to the exacts same views and Stalin, Castro, or Lenin, but instead take the successes of their experiments and build upon them while rectifying their mistakes.

We must flow like water and adapt to changing times. Never ceasing to learn, grow, change perspective, or improve. Ultras refuse to do this and that is their downfall, because the material and social conditions that created past countries and leaders will never be replicated one for one, which is why we must forge our own paths, and build on the knowledge of those that came before.

This is why the modern left movement has embraced sexual minorities, something that had not been done by previous movements, and thus, hated by Ultras.

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But imagine this scenario flipped on its head and this was an American college student wishing to display pride in his Southern heritage by hanging a Confederate flag. They don’t want to hang the US flag because it’s associated with the Union, so they choose Lee’s battle flag to hang.

Imagine how the comments would be rightfully ripping into OP, but now because of Anti-Chinese propaganda, the nuance is completely lost on Westerners.