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People often point to the terrible things in the world as evidence we're living in "the worst timeline". What examples are there of things that suggest our timeline is actually better than it seems? (feddit.uk)

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[–] milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It demonstrates how things could be worse, but aren't.

[–] Jolteon@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah, it's basically look at all these improvements that happen in the last n years. This is obviously better than a timeline where those changes didn't happen.

[–] milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago

It also gives context for what way things could be worse. Compared to a completely dissociated suggestion like, "the entire universe didn't spontaneously turn into farts therefore this isn't the worst timeline."