Flame Wars: 1840

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• Jay@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Facebook was way more fun back then.

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• HerrVorragend@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Not enough people called Bethuel today

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  • VikingHippie@lemmy.wtf ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Or Christenia, for that matter

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    • uis@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      In Russia Christina is common name

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  • amio@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yeah, well, imagine going to school and being called Bethuel. Sounds like free swirlies for life.

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    • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      In 1840, going to school and not being named something like Bethuel was what got you bullied.

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• CatZoomies@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This was 183 years ago. Fascinating to read a blurb of their struggle, and vicariously experience these two persons’ lives.

  Preservation is important. 200 years from now (if we haven’t killed ourselves by our petty wars or boiled ourselves off the planet) imagine our descendants watching our Tik Toks. Watching YouTube prank videos of our time. Reading about #MeToo. Epstein. Harambe. Militarized police tear-gassing a crowd of peaceful protestors all so that Trump can take a picture in front of a church while holding a Bible upside down. Stories of our human rights abuse. Messi and Ronaldo. Steve Jobs’ presentation to reveal the iPhone. A crowd of players running to get a Charizard in 2016. Listening to our podcasts. Reading our blogs and article snapshots of our time. It’s absolutely fascinating to think where we will be in 200 years, and wonder about what kind of legacy we will leave behind. While we’re doing some good things, there’s a lot of really negative things we are also doing. Will we be able to save ourselves and delay the impending climate crisis? Find out next time on Dragon Ball Z!

  Whoops! Having a sobering and reflective existential moment, carry on!

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  • afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I keep thinking with AI and social media we could easily prank the future hard via religion.

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    • Filbo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Fam just invented the Missionaria Protectiva

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• TTH4P@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Kind of amazing, forgetting the obvious stress and turmoil. Such a slice of life.

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• DarthBueller@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Sounds more than anything like a couple trying to establish grounds for divorce back in the day when no fault divorce didn’t exist. You had to claim abandonment or infidelity or some other fault to give yourself standing for divorce.

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• photonic_sorcerer@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Damn, girl! Get it!

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• KISSmyOS@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I want to know more about the steer!

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  • pthaloblue@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Speak for yourself, I’m interested in the sugar & molasses. Stocks are low and my family needs to hunker down for the long winter.

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    • TIN@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Can I interest you in news of the great molasses flood of 1919?

      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Molasses_Flood

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    • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Have you thought about the sorghum supply?

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  • dopeshark@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It is no longer missing apparently

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  • Windshear@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Where did it come from? Where did it go?

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    • LucyLastic@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Where did it come from Cotton Eye Joe?

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  • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    His name was Leonard.

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• amio@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Poor Bethuel, fucked around, found out.

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• some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I like this lady.

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• mechoman444@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Thank God that steer was found. I don’t even want to think what would happen if they didn’t.

  I am a time traveler.

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• GCostanzaStepOnMe@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Drag his ass

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