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Cake day: July 9th, 2023

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  • Egypt didn’t use slaves to build the pyramids. They used paid skilled workers. We have their living areas and pay receipts. You are working with outdated information. Cathedrals cover a 1700 year period and multiple labor strategies. I’m sure some were built with slaves but the majority weren’t and slavery was all but absent for the majority of the period unless you count serfdom, but serfs didn’t have the skills to build them so they don’t count.


  • Literally true.

    Socrates -> Plato -> Aristotle -> Alexander

    Sagan -> NDT -> ?

    Fortunately we are alive to see the original and the successor. Unfortunately NDT has become a greatest hits jukebox and hasn’t produced anything new and noteworthy in a long time. I’m looking forward to the next generation. I’m definitely cautious of what the generation after that does.











  • Partly. Except the time different Mastodon instances were not federated much or at all. If you wanted to go follow someone on Mastodon you had to know the exact server they were on. In an environment like Reddit and Lemmy where you’re there for the communities instead of the people that isn’t an issue. But if you want to go follow some specific podcaster you need to know the instance because there’s no guarantee that whatever instance you happen upon is going to be joined up with the one there on.

    Everyone was busy running their own servers and not trying to tie everything together. It was a thing that could be done but a thing not enough were doing.