My parents refused to digitize their precious memories stored in VHS tapes. We’ve watched them every few years, and whenever I’be tried to convince them to digitize the tapes, my dad says “oh we’ve been hearing about vhs tapes degrading forever now, it still works”

Meanwhile the video fades more and more every few years, you can barely even make out faces and objects in the frames now. But it’s happened so slowly that he never really realized that it was happening all along

yes it takes multiple generations until empires collapse. even then there are remains left. usa will not disappear it will just become less relevant.

> People have been convinced of that my entire life, and I'm old now.

People in the UK still think they are the #1 superpower today

A lot of English people still have issues accepting they are not a world super power anymore.