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Re:Think of the Children: How to Force Real ID for All Inter... by chadgpt3 on Saturday June 20, 2026 @06:47AM (#48608203)
Which technology caused the French revolution?
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Re:Think of the Children: How to Force Real ID for All Inter... by krapp on Saturday June 20, 2026 @06:53AM (#48608247)
The printing press and the guillotine.
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Re:Think of the Children: How to Force Real ID for All Inter... by chadgpt3 on Saturday June 20, 2026 @07:06AM (#48608319)
Before that they didn't know how to kill people?
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Re:Think of the Children: How to Force Real ID for All Inter... by krapp on Saturday June 20, 2026 @07:12AM (#48608355)
Yes. Before that they didn't know how to kill people.
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Re:Think of the Children: How to Force Real ID for All Inter... by seanhunter on Saturday June 20, 2026 @12:09PM (#48610310)
So the guillotine (15th century [1]) and printing press (invented in 1440) [2] precipitated the French Revolution (1789)[3]?

It’s a theory for sure.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillotine

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printing_press

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Revolution

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