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• some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Did “history of the world” not mention Homer?

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• Z3k3@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Shared this with dome American friends to throw them a bone as they are taking it tight from us on a daily basis

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• finitebanjo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I never got into geography, tbh. It’s not actually that useful for anything.

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  • TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    In my geography class, we were taught about how weather and climate happens. Geography has as much influence on it as physics. So whenever someone points out why it is so cold if there is global warming, I teach them that warming temperatures fuels warm high pressure areas, which pushes out colder low pressure area. For example, if the American East Coast is experiencing extremely cold temperatures, the other side of the Atlantic would be experiencing warmer but rainy intense storms because the high pressure area is pushing the colder low pressure area to the US East Coast. As you can see, extreme weathers will only get worse because of climate change as the world gets warmer.

    But I think the most practical everyday geography knowledge for people is knowing why the taste of tap water sucks. Just know that areas with limestone bedrocks have water that taste better. Limestone is full of calcium and other minerals, and filters groundwater quite well unlike in areas that have igneous rocks such as basalt or granite.

    I don’t want to sound like I’m pontificating but I believe it’s important to have as much general knowledge as possible because you never know when those knowledge might have practical utility one day. But on the one hand, yeah there are more immediate practical concerns that requires more specific knowledge. Knowing about Jupiter will not fix a pipe leak in your kitchen. It’s about having the balance and knowing when to use seemingly useless knowledge, and what knowledge you need to use for more practical cases. Overall though, it’s better to have broad knowledge as it makes you less impervious to misinformation.

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    • finitebanjo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Well I learned about the atmosphere in science classes and I learned math in Physics, and Meteorology should be a completely distinct subject from just naming municipal districts on a map.

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  • DavidDoesLemmy@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    How would you know if you never got into it? Sounds ignorant to me

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    • finitebanjo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Thats fair, but it’s not even used for chartering and navigating, so what is it good for?

      To clarify, though, when I say “geography” I’m referring to borders for countries, states, and counties on a large scale. Thinks like USGS terrain data and coordinate grids aren’t included.

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  • teije9@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    yes it is. you learn how the world works. what gets exported from where. where the refugees come from and to, and why. what conflicts there are, where, and why.

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    • finitebanjo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Sounds pretty violent.

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• Pyro@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Check out the EPIC Saga!

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  • Maiq@lemy.lol ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Will it work if I buy it from GOG, these launchers are getting out of hand.

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    • Pyro@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      It’s a nine-part concept album about the Odyssey: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epic:_The_Musical

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• Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I’m a little mad that Nolan is making the Odyssey. It’s gonna be so pretentious and trendy, and I’d be surprised if Anya Taylor Joy, Timothee chalamet and Jeremy Allan White aren’t in it, to round it out into the most pretentious movie in history.

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  • VerdantSporeSeasoning@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Yeah, another heavy dramatic saga to wade through. I think I’d prefer a Simon Pegg/Nick Frost adaptation. Or maybe a Matt Stone/Trey Parker version. Something still epic, but also hilarious and full of the vibrancy of humans.

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    • Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      You bring up a point, that in these Greek Epics you do find humor. But Christopher Nolan doesn’t know what a sense of humor is

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  • Siegfried@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Anya Taylor Joy would do a great cirse imo

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    • Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      She’s in everything. She’s this year’s Jennifer Lawrence, and Jeremy Allan White is Bradley Cooper.

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• HEXN3T@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

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• Iheartcheese@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Fucking Liam

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• supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Hot Take:

  Ulysses > The Odyssey

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• buddascrayon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I may be misremembering but didn’t the derogative “Chad” start in the UK?

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  • cazssiew@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I think you’re thinking of chav

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