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  • which assesses modern science’s ability to detect evidence of a prior advanced civilization,

    We can’t, we know we can’t.

    It doesn’t even take lizard people millions of years ago.

    Past 50k years is a blank spot. Anatomically modern humans have been around for at least 300k years.

    They say it took the ice age ending so we could have agriculture, but that ignores we had 3-4 ice age cycles before the last one where humans were running around. Plenty of time for agriculture each cycle.

    Even then, during the last ice age the Sarah desert was a lush rain forest the entire time.

    The modern timeline is very Euro-centric, which is an incredibly naive view considering the glaceriers from an ice age are basically a giant bulldozer that erases everything. It plows down mountains. Obviously we won’t find any evidence there, it keeps getting erased every ice age.

    And the places around the equater that would have fostered large settlements, are under the ocean due to those glaciers melting.

    Just like with everything else, it’s incredibly ignorant to think we know everything and there’s no missing pieces of the puzzle

    As a violent psychopath once said:

    The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILLZqymJRZI








  • Ignoring the odd idea that this hypothetical person is somehow completely unemployable regardless of industry or upskilling

    You’re so stuck in a capitalist mindset that you view people being “unemployable” as a personal failure on their part, rather than a success of society as a whole…

    Were you out there screaming “think of the children” and “they can do anything they put their mind to” when people banded together to say maybe 7 year old children don’t have to work in the fucking coal mines anymore?



  • Last names weren’t really a thing until very recently in human history.

    That’s why a lot of last names are places or jobs.

    You were Chris the Farmer, or Chris from Cleveland. And when your king wanted a last name to tax you more accurately, you likely didn’t give a fuck and just said whatever.

    But the thing is people would say names/jobs in different languages.

    An immigrant from Germany who spoke mostly German would say “My name is John Deutsch”. if they were fluent in English they may say “My name is John German”.

    Same guy. Describing himself the same way, just in two different languages.

    Fo Colombus specifically, that’s not even his name in his native language. It was Columbo, which meant Dove and given mostly to orphans, but at least his dad had the same name. Whenever last names became standard, Columbus’s oldest living direct ancestor was an orphan

    So like, it’s not asking why just the places named after him are different, it’s why he had different names.

    And the answer is people just really didn’t care that much about names until very recently.


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    I left /microblogmemes and /political memes

    If there’s anymore left they’re just flying under the radar.

    But those are “memes” by the Richard Dawkins original meaning of the term. Not “memes” as in “haha, guys like how stupid I am, don’t you think I’m stupid” humor.

    Memes aren’t just shitty jokes, but thats all that’s in the shitty meme communities.


  • Or if you good mateys know of any tricks one could apply, cause every other post here is about the US

    A very simple method would just be blocking those as you see them.

    And then keep blocking them.

    It’s not exactly difficult, I do it with all the AI and most of the meme communities.

    Every once and a while someone makes a new one, but you just block it when you see it.



  • It’s one of those things where we shortened a phrase and then it stopped making logical sense.

    “The three musketeers” werent just musketeers who carried muskets.

    They were “the king’s musketeers”. They were elite special forces as well as the personal bodyguard for the King. The best of the best. The “musketeer” part was the common bit, it just sounds fancy centuries later.

    But the book might as well be called “The Kingsguard”