this post was submitted on 30 Oct 2023
182 points (97.9% liked)

Asklemmy

43853 readers
655 users here now

A loosely moderated place to ask open-ended questions

Search asklemmy ๐Ÿ”

If your post meets the following criteria, it's welcome here!

  1. Open-ended question
  2. Not offensive: at this point, we do not have the bandwidth to moderate overtly political discussions. Assume best intent and be excellent to each other.
  3. Not regarding using or support for Lemmy: context, see the list of support communities and tools for finding communities below
  4. Not ad nauseam inducing: please make sure it is a question that would be new to most members
  5. An actual topic of discussion

Looking for support?

Looking for a community?

~Icon~ ~by~ ~@Double_[email protected]~

founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
 

Some news that would be completely mundane today but scary or shocking in the past.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lol the average American lifespan in 1923 was 58 and in my county in 2022 it was 64 and dropping

"doubled"

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ok? It's still not true, this is just classic ignorant neoliberal propaganda. Even your own source doesn't support this, unless you go well into the 1800s.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Again this is very simply not true. You are imagineering, not objectively looking at data. Which countries specifically do you see doubling life span? I'm not seeing it.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Yeah, sorry. It would be more correct to say 110 years ago for Asia.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I know. Not only Africa, europeans should kept themselves at their land.