• rockerface@lemm.ee
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    2 months ago

    It’s amazing to put into perspective how long both bronze and stone ages really took, especially compared to modernity. Human brains are not good at imagining large quantities or intervals, so it was all kinda smushed up into a folder labeled “past” in my head

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      2 months ago

      To give some numbers, the last period of the stone age (Neolithic) lasted around 2000 years and the bronze age around 1600 years. No wonder they “forgot” what the stone age tools were.

      • Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world
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        2 months ago

        Someone pointed a temperature gun (for Covid testing) at me and for a brief moment, I forgot what they were.

        When they’re uncovered 100 years from now, they’ll think we shot lasers at each other.

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          When they’re uncovered 100 years from now, they’ll think we shot lasers at each other.

          Don’t we though?

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    2 months ago

    I can’t even remember why I bought the chives that are sitting in my fridge, we can probably give them a break.