Re:Unix Time and a Modest Proposal
by paxys on Friday December 27, 2024 @02:09PM
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Internet "influencers" really have us convinced that humans were barbaric apes until a century or two ago and then suddenly invented the modern world. What about all the achievements before then? Could we not have used math and science a few thousand years ago? Nope, it was all aliens of course.
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Re:Unix Time and a Modest Proposal
by quantified on Friday December 27, 2024 @03:34PM
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It's only internet influencers if you grew up in the last few years and get most of your world information from them. I'm sure that's more than a roomful of people. Anthropologists have been doing it for well over a hundred years.
> were barbaric apes
(Looks at the news) Sadly, still pretty much are.
There’s a huge contrast between how much human intelligence had achieved scientifically and culturally, and how humanity (at large, on a global scale) behaves itself.