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  • I think I get it.

    Not sure about “cell” but “Nature” and “Science” are both names of famous and prestigious scientific magazines. Getting published in either of them would be the highlight of many scientists’ careers.

    However, “Nature cell and science” appears to be a far less prestigious scientific magazine and publishing in it is probably easier and far less impressive.

    The joke is that publishing in the one, lower end, magazine sounds like publishing in one of the higher end ones











  • This is a wild flattening of history and an insane level of whataboutism. Absolutely not. This is neither accurate nor ethical to normalize one of the most brutal chattel slavery systems in history and imply that it is the same as what any other civilization did. To draw direct comparison to their neighbors, where the Spartans would routinely murder their slaves in cold blood and had the practice enshrined in law, the Achaemenid Persians practiced something much more akin to modern prison labor; Still a morally dubious practice as best but not even close to the deeply evil things the Spartans were doing.