jarfil @ jarfil @lemmy.world

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If you want trash, you can find it on Lemmy, just check the list of most defederated instances. You don't see it because... well, they're defederated, which itself is one of the moderation tools available in the Fediverse.

I didn't sign up for an account there because I wasn't willing to write a 7 page essay

Yeah, you're not welcome. Everyone calling a couple questions an "essay", can shitpost somewhere else. I'm not exaggerating a bit, if someone can't be bothered to think through a couple answers ONCE, I don't trust them to think through the rest of their comments either.

It's the internet dude, toughen up a little.

What, can't take getting kicked out of the care bear club, tough guy? Their tiny wussie banhammers too much for you? Go ahead, downvote me, show everyone ALL your power!

(Hi, this is my non-beehaw alt.)

👆 Comments like this, is why.

Is that why they had slaves, because they considered everyone equal? Or did Ra's worshippers stage bloodshed after bloodshed because they thought their ancestors were not wrong for worshipping other gods like Horus, Amon, Aten, and some more, and vice versa?

Akhenaten had such disdain for everyone, gods included, that he proclaimed himself to be God Supreme, curiously one his ancestors used to consider just an aspect of Ra.

Right, not innate at all. Good to know you don't consider yourself better than a bunch of egomaniacal power hungry religious zealots 🙄

Skin color is still a difficulty selector.

If you play your cards well, you'll convince them to pay invest $1 billion in your crappy awesome crypto NFT startup.

Yeah. But, could a single person break that loop? It seems to me like it would still require centuries.

They had no incentive to use it any better.

Without a printing press, which would increase the levels of literacy, and allow sharing knowledge orders of magnitude faster, there was no indication that a kettle could ever outperform a hundred men or a few dozen horses.

People in ancient Egypt also thought people before them were so moronic for not knowing which gods to leave offers to, so their priests could predict when the Nile was going to overflow, or having an actual living God as their ruler, capable of turning off the Sun on a whim.

But what you should be proud of, is being able to read this, unlike most people in ancient Egypt, who had to pay a scribe to write or read for them.

Depends on where and when you'd go.

They had "citrons" since 4000 BC or more, which came in many different shapes, some with no pulp and no acidity, which wouldn't work for making electricity. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citron

Lemons were introduced in Europe around 200 AD, and were pretty rare and expensive.

If you went to biblical times and asked for a lemon, they'd likely not know what you meant, then maybe gave you a citron, which could be of the low acidity kind, then beat you up for being a liar.

Steel, like the strong metal for weapons? You want how much of it, and throw it where? And what's a "lemon"?

We're the descendants of bubonic plague survivors. They haven't even gone through last year's flu.

Go to steam power first. It can move things

They had steam power over 2000 years ago, they used it in temples and as toys to amuse the rich.

Slaves could move things, and were much cheaper.

Big Brother isn't watching you... now he's watching your porn.

No idea in USD, but it must be at least half a goat, maybe even a whole one.

Beware of adding a double slit to the paper and aiming the laser between the slits, weird things might happen.

You could try to argue some suicide/euthanasia case, but "murder" by definition is intentional death without the consent of the victim.

According to Western societies, 18 is when the "fully developed" switch flips from OFF to ON, not a minute earlier or a minute later.