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• Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Only a rich crackpot could distribute pamphlets claiming colloidal silver cures cancer, and then they’d still only reach people in walking distance.

  Now, any moron can reach literally the entire world at no cost or effort.

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  • m532@lemmygrad.ml ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    As soon as the proletariat can do it, the bourgeois complain

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  • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Also, literacy itself was gatekept back then. The stupid people we’re referring to wouldn’t even have been able to read.

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• magic_lobster_party@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Carving symbols on stone tablets was a mistake

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  • protist@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Our species developing speech was a mistake

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    • MonkeMischief@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Oop oop hrk! >=[

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      • arcterus@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Relevant username

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    • wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Climbing down from the trees was the begining of the end.

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