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[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

3D triangle

Behold! The pyramids:

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Diogenes bursts into the lecture hall, holding up one of these

"BEHOLD, A PYRAMID!"

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

I truly believe that the 3D Doritos were the dream of the Egyptians. We have since achieved their vision.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Writing was independently invented 5 different times.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Not Brahma?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

What’s kind of sad is the Sumerian invention of writing was as much about enforcing debt, taxation, property, and thereby creating a strong heirarchical upper class that wouldn’t have been possible in stateless systems.