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I don't know if anyone has ever suggested this before, but I've been thinking about the various events that happened in the 1910s and I figured I'd try to wank the decade as a whole. In other words, make the decade as nice as possible for as much of the world as possible. For our purposes, lets just say 1910-1919.

So, to kick things off:

- Titanic does not sink. Lets say that it still hits the iceberg, but manages to limp into harbor, with 4 compartments flooded (the max). Close enough of a scare to encourage some examination of safety procedures.
- The Xinhai Revolution goes more smoothly. Perhaps Song Jiaoren is not assassinated, and Yuan Shikai is marginalized.
- Wilson is not elected President. Almost anyone would be better than Wilson on every front.
- World War I is avoided. Millions don't die in the conflict and the ensuing wars that it spawned, Communism and Fascism never really get off the ground.
- Spanish Flu epidemic never happens.

What else could go better about the decade? I just picked a few things that went badly, of course, and changed them. There's probably some specific technologies here and there that could have come earlier, too.
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