• andros_rex@lemmy.world
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    16 hours ago

    Aristotle also believed that women were defective men, that some people are naturally destined to be slaves, and rejected atomic theory.

    I feel like you can change this absolutely imbecilic image to “the hole left by everyone just accepted Aristotle’s idea that you can just think everything from first principles and don’t have to do any experimentation” and it’d actually be somewhat accurate.

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      14 hours ago

      okay. the renaissance seems to begin right around the time a dude in turkey invented a steam engine to rotate kebab.

      coincidence? who cares. kebab.

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          3 hours ago

          we need to add a mod to Civ that lets you research steam powered kebab, it is a wonder and gives +70 billion science points but you are unable to invest in science for 450 years after researching it. i don’t know how science in Civ works but this makes sense.