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Re:A monk in 14th-century Italy wrote about the Americas by Andrex on Friday September 24, 2021 @11:15PM (#28650160)
I believe in current parlance that is called "hustle."

(Or in less generous terms, "fraud.")

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Re:A monk in 14th-century Italy wrote about the Americas by bserge on Saturday September 25, 2021 @12:09AM (#28650449)
"Startup."
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Re:A monk in 14th-century Italy wrote about the Americas by sammorrowdrums on Saturday September 25, 2021 @01:19AM (#28650721)
“Disrupting navigation”
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Re:A monk in 14th-century Italy wrote about the Americas by yissp on Saturday September 25, 2021 @08:30AM (#28652613)
European contact with the new world was pretty disruptive indeed.
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Re:A monk in 14th-century Italy wrote about the Americas by ncmncm on Saturday September 25, 2021 @12:11AM (#28650456)
"Conspiracy" would mean somebody else was in on it. By definition.
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Re:A monk in 14th-century Italy wrote about the Americas by hirako2000 on Saturday September 25, 2021 @02:49AM (#28651056)
Magellan must have been.
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