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• Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  1873? Maybe 1873 BC but there’s history from 6000 BC and documentation from 2800BC.

  There’s not even anything that happened in 1873 to use that date.

  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plough

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  • DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Source: OOP’s ass.

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  • agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Reminds me of this sign in the bathroom at a local bar:

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    Some of our earliest records are beer recipes. Not only is 1862 thousands of years too late, there wasn’t even anything of note that year. Totally arbitrary ass-pull.

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    • Buddahriffic@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      My not very generous guess is someone wanted to give the impression of something being really old without a clue of what really old is.

      Like it wouldn’t surprise me if it turned out bread was accidentally invented when someone screwed up an attempt to make beer.

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    • Apytele@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      There have been holes found in Neolithic caves with what appears to be beer yeast. The only organism we’ve been that symbiotic with longer is dogs.

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  • turdas@suppo.fi ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    1873 would be around when tractors were invented, so it’s possible there was some specific kind of plough that was invented in 1873 that Google’s AI search result showed to whatever dimwit made this meme.

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    • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Wiki says the tractor was invented in 1812 with first real one in 1839.

      So 1873 doesn’t match anything.

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  • danekrae@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    My first thought was the story of Odysseus pretending to be insane, ploughing his field but sowing salt instead of seed.

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    • rockSlayer@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yes, to avoid going to war in Troy. He was coerced into ending the charade when a different Greek hero placed his infant son Telemechus in front of Odysseus’ path

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  • Thunderbird4@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s literally one the fundamental inventions of human civilization. In the series Connections with James Burke, he describes how, if there were a collapse of modern technology (and this was 1978), those who survived would find themselves returning to the plough as the technological foundation from which to rebuild society.

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  • general_kitten@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    closest thing would be the invention ofstump-jump plough in 1876.

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  • teslekova@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Stump jump plough?

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• BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  “Margaret Thatcher, naked, on a cold day!”

  “Margaret Thatcher, naked, on a cold day!”

  “Margaret Thatcher, naked, on a cold day!”

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  • smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Stop, I can only get so hard!

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• 4am@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Some like it rough

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