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  • I don't agree with how you seem to be defining "advanced." You seem to be tying that to intelligence and resourcefulness, as opposed to culturally. I think most use it to talk about the sum of knowledge and technology that a civilization has.

    While ancient cultures were able to learn a lot about the world around them, today we know what they knew and a shit ton more. They figured out how planets and stars move. We've figured out what they're made of, how they bend space and time, their distances. We've landed machines on some and put them in orbit around others.

    They had some cool medical tricks. We have many complex but routine surgeries with high survival rates due to development of drugs, equipment, and sterile environments.

    They could write down their learnings to share with others of their culture. We have a global network of scientists sharing massive data sets and inferences.

    Their innate capabilities were probably no different than our own, but we have massively advanced the scale and scope of learning shared with each generation. We have a much greater degree of specialized knowledge advancing and branching out at a very high rate.

  • "Thanks" is a short form of "Thank you." Maybe it has developed a negative connotation for some because of "K, thanks, bye." But for others it is like saying "morning" instead of "good morning."

  • Have you ever done something that was difficult but you wanted to help someone out?

    "No problem" implies to me that it was easy or simple. Regardless of difficulty, "you're welcome" means you would do it again.

  • Is the earth flat?

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  • Flat Earth is silly. Some people take the stance to be funny or play devil's advocate. Many seem to believe it along with other conspiracies.

    From the beach or even several feet higher than the beach in Playa del Carmen, Mexico, you can see the high rises on the island of Cozumel. You don't see their bases or the land they are standing on. You just see parts of the buildings. It's super obvious the earth is curved here. It's one simple example of many that is accessible to anyone but conveniently ignored.

    There are a shitton of simple or complex indicators that the world is roughly spherical. The "evidences" for the reverse are fringe or depend on deep conspiracies. You have to want to believe in the conspiracy or have very limited critical reasoning to think the earth is flat.