• hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    2 days ago

    Same reason as why wheels aren’t very impressive today, but they probably were the shit for quite a while in Sumer back then. Things don’t seem as impressive, or as [any other adjective], when they have been around for a long time and people have gotten used to them.

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      22 hours ago

      What did the inventor of the wheel say, after they turned it for the first time?

      “Friends, that’s a revolution!”