• kevindqc@lemmy.world
    12·
    2 months ago

    This is what some people on Fox News are saying because they saw drag queens at the Olympics. The end times are coming. 🙄

    Yes, the drag queens will destroy the world, not unfettered capitalism.

    • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techEnglish
      3·
      2 months ago

      The goddamn frustrating thing is that it only happened because it’s normal and accepted in Europe. It’s only because of the bs puritanical culture war in the US that they think it’s somehow relevant to them. Haven’t even stopped to think that there are other cultures at the… Olympics

  • Allonzee@lemmy.world
    41·
    2 months ago

    I understand the point. But it misses an extremely important factor: technology.

    Yes, humans have played pretend we were this world’s owners/masters since civilization began.

    But our toolbox is filled with tech that can literally reverse terraform the climate against us, and we’re using it with abandon and without restraint. Add to that AI, CRISPR derived bioweapons, etc. We’ve gotten to the point where we cobble together yet another means of world wide destruction every decade or two, and we all know we’re too stupid and selfish not to for the prospect of short term, individual gain.

    They were monkeys with spears and swords, a threat to rival monkey tribes, but in no way the entire species. We are monkeys with nukes and beyond.

    “It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity”

    -Albert Einstein

  • I Cast Fist@programming.dev
    0·
    2 months ago

    Party pooper here - https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/4923/was-this-quote-on-a-clay-tablet-about-unruly-kids-written-by-an-assyrian

    Quoting the answer from there:

    In summary:

    • I have not shown whether or not this is a quote from an ancient work.
    • I’ve shown that the quote, and its provenance has survived largely intact since the 1920s at least.
    • In particular, it has been traced far further back than Sir Isaac Asimov’s book (as suggested by others here).
    • However, I have shown it was not both Assyrian and from 2800 BC. It may have in Akkadian, a related language, from 2800 BC, but that is earlier than any references I found so I find it unlikely. It might have been Sumerian.
    • IMHO, given the dubious provenance of the source, a more likely scenario is that it is either a true quote, oddly translated, from a much later date, or invented in the early 20th Century.