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moonkitty

thanks for autogenerating this facebook

great-tweets

This is the /an/ post that keeps on giving.

edwardspoonhands

This is better than anything I’ve ever made.

buns-of-men

When is it sexist? - A Handy Chart

tovakiin

My favorite moment when playing FFXIV for the first time was seeing the men in the same ridiculous subligars as the women.

perquisitemagnate

In order:

World of Warcraft

Dark Souls

Final Fantasy XIV

azothelement-deactivated2019010

Seriously, Dark Souls is so good about this, I accidentally became female and didn’t even know about it until I was changing my gear.

dracophile

Sorry, that last bit is funny to me because I’m just imagining this knight changing and looking at a pair of breasts like “…Those are new.”

snapfoo

THE LAST COMMENT KILLED ME

pcare-o-dactyl

cheesetwig

My dog after brain surgery

wtf-fun-factss

Traces of coca and nicotine found in Egyptian mummies - WTF fun facts

jillyaintfromphilly

well DUH. a lot of historians are still trying to process the fact that ancient egyptians knew how to build boats, which is ridiculous. why would they not be seafarers and explorers?

youngbadmanbrown-deactivated201

this is not new or surprising information at all. it pretty much day one of any african-american studies course.

the egyptians knew that if they put their boats in front of the summer storm winds it’d blow them right across the sea to the Americas and they shared that with the greeks.

doublehamburgerjack-deactivated

It’s really hard for people to understand that everyone had boats, exploration, and trade interactions without the same level of murder, colonization, and violence that the Europeans did. It’s really hard for people to get that.

cantyousayanythingnew

Well, no people find hard to understand that one of the earliest civilizations could build a boat sturdy enough and reliable enough to cross a 8,766 mile stretch that gave people thousands of years of technological progress later great difficulty.

prokopetz

The notion that technology is a steady upward climb of “progress” is, itself, part of a Eurocentric historical narrative revolving around the tacit teleological assertion that Western European civilisation represents the culmination and endpoint of history.

In reality, technologies are frequently discovered, lost and rediscovered, often multiple times, and frequently in parallel. A Dark Age in one region may be a time of rapid technological development in another region, and it’s not uncommon to encounter evidence of ancient civlisations using technologies a thousand years out of whack with the “proper” order of discovery… where “proper” is defined in terms of the order in which those technologies were discovered in Western Europe - there’s that Eurocentrism again.

I mean, just to give you an idea of how flexible the order in which technologies are developed can be and how ultimately wrong-headed the notion of linear technological progress is, there are Central American civilisations that had indoor plumbing, central heating and hot and cold running water before inventing the wheel. Some of the First Nations in what is now Eastern Canada had sophisticated climate models and reliable weather prediction - including functioning barometers and other simple meteorological instruments - before they figured out metallurgy.

So no, it’s not particularly incredible that the ancient Egyptians had boats far more advanced than they “should” have given their overall level of technology. That stuff happens all the time.