• @stupidcasey
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    1010 hours ago

    We ran out of things we need about the time we learned how to filter water and grow wheat.

    • @CarbonatedPastaSauce
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      99 hours ago

      I’m ok with the further progress into antibiotics, vaccines, surgery, all that good stuff.

      • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppetM
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        66 hours ago

        I’d be a cripple if not for our progress with surgery. I’m very glad to live in an era of modern medicine.

    • @toynbee
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      3 hours ago

      Apparently, some politician tried to shutdown the patent office in the nineteenth century because “everything that can be invented has been invented.”

      edit: no need for “I” there.