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Deceptichum@quokk.au to A Comm for Historymemes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 days ago

TIL the pyramids are closer in time to stegosaurus than we are

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TIL the pyramids are closer in time to stegosaurus than we are

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Deceptichum@quokk.au to A Comm for Historymemes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 days ago
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    The time it took for man to shift from bronze swords to iron swords is longer than the time it took to shift from iron swords to the nuclear bomb.

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      So hang on… It’s traditionally poisonous to faeries in folk tales, it heralds the death of stars because it’s non-fissionable, and it also rapidly created a society that could end the world in a single day?

      Iron has some explaining to do.

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        Oh the irony

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          One for the ages

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        iron is just chill like that tbh…

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      Jumping Jesus Phenomenon

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        I fukn knew I’d find reference to Malthus in this before I even finished reading the second paragraph lol

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          Is Malthus problematic or? I’m not familiar actually

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            I don’t know about the actual dude, but he is often cited next to reactionary takes–like how there isn’t enough food for all of us [so we should let the poor die], general pearl clutching over high birthrates [in the wrong ethnic groups], and just generally very selectively utilitarian ways of viewing [certain kinds of] people.

            That said, after clicking around some more on OP’s link, I’m not really sure what the author is about at all.

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