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

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[โ€“] DharmaCurious@startrek.website 32 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Climate change, same sex marriage (though, perhaps not as shocking as some might expect, ditto anything trans related), potential mars colonization, coming off the heels of the Spanish flu, COVID news would probably freak em out. Ooh, the USSR being gone, and China being a world super power. The USSR would have been new to them, and it collapsing less than a century later would probably feel quite odd, especially if you could make them understand just how incredibly advanced the USSR got in such a short amount of time. Tons of stuff.

[โ€“] EmoDuck@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 year ago

I don't think Mars colonies would surprise them. If anything they'd expect us to have family resorts or Jupiter

ditto anything trans related

In fact, German medical science was on the forefront of chemical and surgical gender therapies, riiight up until Hitler. Quite a lot of seminal research was burned by the doctors responsible - to protect the identities of anyone involved.