• IggyTheSmidge@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    4 days ago

    The problem with knowing any amount of history is that any time anything happens you’re just like:

    ‘Oh. This again’.

    It’s somehow both tedious and horrifying.

    • teddy2021@sh.itjust.works
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      3 days ago

      Is there an analog for an extinction level event of our own creation and which persisted because of a variety of absolutely crawl reasons even after denial became the domain of idiots?

      • Jayjader@jlai.lu
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        3 days ago

        Have you ever heard of the great oxidation event? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Oxidation_Event

        Though I doubt the anaerobic bacteria was aware enough to be able to deny what was happening in the first place.

        Every time I read about how we’re finding micro plastics in places we thought they couldn’t reach (blood-brain barrier recently) I think of the GOE.