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[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago (1 children)

"When he reached the New World, Cortezh burned hish ships. Ash a reshult hish men were well motivated." —Capt. Ramius, played by Sean Connery in The Hunt for Red October

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Great article. Also pretty sad to see what we've ended up with in the name of business. Maybe if humanity survived another few hundred years we will look back on this time of corporations with disgust.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

This only applies if you're not extremely wealthy, though.

So there's that.

Sigh

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

Mint is a good recommendation. I've used it for most of a decade because I just want my system to work.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 7 months ago (7 children)

wntd t rspnd prprly bt my vwl sbscrptn xprd. Ds nyn hv $5?

[–] [email protected] 63 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

Right? Like someone is going to put a chair or bench in a public space like a park. Ha! Call it a "park bench" or something... and let people sit on it for free?? Ludicrous! It'll never happen! /s

That'll be £1.00 for reading this response. Please advise where to send the invoice.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Nobody is both that bored and that motivated. Unless paid.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

Apparently not.

I got nothin

[–] [email protected] 21 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I found this on skeptics stack exchange. Supposedly, it's a hoax/urban legend that goes back way before the internet. (The entire stack exchange page on this topic is fun to read, btw)

The quote originally came from Prof. George T.W. Patrick of University of Iowa, who translated an ancient stone tablet into modern English and published in "Popular Science Monthly", May 1913. The full text of the original can be found online at archive.org: https://archive.org/details/popularsciencemo82newy, page 493.

One writer found this same quote in a slightly earlier source dating to 1908.

Yet another writer noted that there was no Chaldea but ...

... there was a stele of a King Naram-Sin of Akkad which has been exhibited in the Istanbul Archaeological Museum since 1892. The inscription on this stele is fragmentary and has nothing to do with degeneration.

https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/4923/was-this-quote-on-a-clay-tablet-about-unruly-kids-written-by-an-assyrian

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (3 children)

No one will dig up our Lemmy posts in 1000s of years. :(

[–] [email protected] 31 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Don't even get me started on finding decent copper.

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