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[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Just because people complained about something in the past doesn't mean it's not a problem.

That said, alt-right types who want to get all "woe is me" "society has degenerated" are pathetic. They're just as addicted to helplessness and being a victim as the "woke" progressives they bully. Just touch grass and move to a conservative place. They also can't do that because they don't want to submit themselves to God and so they can't live with religious conservatives.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Same as it ever was

[–] [email protected] 27 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)
[–] [email protected] 42 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Everyone wants to write a book? in 2000 BCE? gonna need a citation on this one

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

2800BC!

Let's give the proper respect to the people who invented it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago
[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago

Everyone wants to write a book but they are waiting for books to be invented first.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago

Make Assyria Great Again

[–] [email protected] 22 points 7 months ago

I love ancient "kids these days". They make me feel better about kids these days.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 7 months ago (2 children)

The writing on this tablet being from a time when his civilization was collapsing. The only change to make his words 100% correct would be "as we know it."

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

As you may know, this is the entire premise of fall of civilizations podcast, which also did a great episode on the Assyrians:

https://podcastaddict.com/fall-of-civilizations-podcast/episode/124415257

[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Other than the fact the Assyrians didn't collapse until 600 BC and it wasn't for any of those reasons.

Of course, Assyria also didn't exist in 2800 BC so the meme probably meant 800-600 BC for a 2800 year old tablet, but STILL, the old man yelling at clouds was wrong.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assyria

If the image is true at all, the year mentioned is about 200 years prior to Assyria even being formed. This closely coincides with one of the pre-Assyrian collapse (or massive shift) periods where the society changed a great deal.

Hence "as we know it."

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Time is relative. If the end is coming in 5000 years it will be only a moment in a universe which is billions of years old.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

13.8 billion years old.

[–] [email protected] 108 points 7 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Stealing this for later use

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Share and enjoy. I stole it from someone else, so this is just the circle of life

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Hey... I wanna write a book!
jk, lol, I just wanna write a comment on Lemmy.

Now substitute "every man wants to write a book" with
Every man wants to post cat pictures
Every man wants to write a twitter rant
Every man wants to film a tiktok challenge

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (3 children)

No one will dig up our Lemmy posts in 1000s of years. :(

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

That's not true. Internet scrapers will be pulling ancient data from decrepit servers long after humanity has taken its last breath.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

Time to start printing all your shitposts, so they last at least 100 years

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

So much for "The internet is forever, Mark, it's written in ink."

[–] [email protected] 64 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

he was right.. their world did end..

you can't get even decent Assyrian Ale anywhere these days

[–] [email protected] 31 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Don't even get me started on finding decent copper.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

I know a man, sells real good copper. Dont listen to that bitch Nanni.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 7 months ago (1 children)

but it still lasted for another 1600 years

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

What's 1600 years in the 4+ billion years the Earth has been around? Basically a blink of an eye.