Is your friend a Cold-War era Romanian dictator?

We should allow people who pull similar shit to die the same way as Crassus lol

Y’know, the whole Japan occupation post-war was kinda necessary given the state Japan was in and how deep their evil leadership went lol

Blazing Saddles would be called dated and “done before.”

It was originally made as a way to laugh at Westerns, which, up to that point, had dominated the market. A lot of the tropes and plot lines the movie rips on are explicitly there because they were usually in these “safe” Westerns.

God I hope so

I mean, the article says that “even if you lived 1,000 years, the amount inhaled would be less than the average single dose of a user” so I don’t get the point you’re trying to make

Yeah…I kinda started to ignore this dude’s post when it started to get a little pseudo-scientific…like a lot of mental illness is due to chemical problems in a person’s brain/genetics lol

Indeed. The only way to rectify the errors that got us here is by sharing information and spreading awareness of what was changed/lost…and I don’t think being hostile towards the people who are taking an interest in a topic over their cultural history really helps that along…

Well that’s the problem isn’t it? If the knowledge exists but it isn’t as widespread as anything else, it is much more likely to become the accepted “discovery point” of something.

While I think its rather unlikely for the idea of Belgians being the inventors of chocolate becoming widely accepted as fact by the people who matter when ruling on discoveries, it isn’t that much of a stretch to see why it’s “whites” who are listed as the discoverers of things since they’re the ones who had the power to make it a reality.

I’m not advocating for the stance that “well, the Europeans won so they should get to be listed as discoverers of things,” but on a certain level that is the unfortunate reality of the situation for many things: Europeans conquered and smashed their way (whether on purpose or accidentally) into being listed as the discoverers of many things. If the records of X thing existing didn’t exist until the Europeans cataloged (stole) it, there isn’t much to be done in changing that reality without concerted efforts by people to change that.

Overall, I think we’ve taken a lot of steps in rectifying that situation, but its a difficult process to complete, especially when it comes to oral histories.

I will also note that the hostility isn’t really productive. I don’t think anyone who is interested in this topic is terribly likely to have some hatred of the natives who were likely aware of things before Europeans, so to immediately act with hostility only really serves to hurt the cause of spreading awareness about the discoveries of indigenous people.

The Spanish torched much of the cultural heritage of the Aztecs, sure, but the obvious implication of a thing being “discovered” is “when do we start having concrete evidence of this thing being known to our existence?”

So, when someone says “electric eels being discovered” they mean “electric eels becoming concretely documented by people in a way we can verify.”

Also, stuff in our past has been discovered and lost numerous times across the ages. We generally agree that finding the oldest instance of a thing is the “discovery” time of that thing.

Between that and how poor the search function is. “IT Support” shouldn’t be bringing up car mechanic jobs…

Yup. Between all the time checking for legitimacy and evaluating the company, it’s a huge pain in the ass to look for jobs all day…and even when you find one you enter the same information over and over because autofill from resume doesn’t work…

Wha? They talked to Apollo’s dev at the end?

Or do you mean a breakdown of the numbers and such?

Never forget the way the human brain works, with the more common interpretation being: “it takes 7 instances of positive things to outweigh 1 negative.”

For my part I haven’t really noticed any difference, but I only infrequently comment!