![]() In 1990, there were just under 250 million people living in the United States of America. The human brain tends to gloss over numbers of that size when they’re delivered without context, so here’s some. According to Wikipedia, they’ve sold roughly 250 million albums. Their record sales figures alone boggle the mind. In the same way, Pink Floyd - one of the most popular musical groups of all time - has been normalized by their ubiquity. bit deals with this phenomenon, but I digress.) Humans can fly! We cured smallpox! You can talk to anyone on the planet instantaneously! These facts are insane when you think about them, but nobody does because we’re used to them. But nobody’s taken aback by this fact because, welp, they’ve been doing that shit since your grandpa’s time. Mankind can harvest vast energy from the basic stuff of matter, using means that only people with considerable higher education can even describe accurately. Time has a marvelous ability to render the absurd familiar. ![]()
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