rebelsimile

The technology exists, but you can’t share content like that because of “DRM”

they enslaved people to move unknown bodies from “Negro Hill Cemetery?”? The fuck..?

hang on everybody, call off the engineers, someone on the internet has thought about this for 2 minutes. good boy.

It would be a shame to launch all those expensive satellites just to bring them back down immediately.

I had to read this twice to confirm, but it sounds like you’re intending to bring them back from space with this plan?

There was no point at which the south would have gone “Golly you know, we seem to be farming a whole lot less and industrializing a whole lore more, I guess we should abolish slavery because of that economic change.”

We are talking about different things. Whether the south would have contorted the normal business model to continue to house people in perpetual slavery is a matter of historical speculation. What I’m saying is that the legal framework that allowed people to be free (as opposed to the plantation farming system) required war, or there would have just been the same level of oppression but tied to a machine.

You wrote a long comment and I don’t mean to be flippant but I disagree with the premise that industrialization would have somehow starved out slavery. The industrial revolution saw children working in factories, they would have found a way to exploit “free” labor in factories. Every generation thought that technological change would end work as they knew it.

not you, the person you were commenting about.

“I do my own research” is a short walk away from “I trust only my own sources”

oh boy, get ready people. it starts with a movie, then it’s a debut single, then you’re buying the fanzines, the hats, the shirts. this ends in commemorative plates.

the real hero is in the comments, 25 years later…