Maybe it’s even already happened and I’m simply not aware of it.

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In the time of Plato, only the most educated could read and write. So if you could do both, I think your odds of being remembered had almost as much to do with writing good quality as it did with being lucky enough for your writing to survive centuries.

As for us…it will happen but only very rarely.

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That’s such a good point I’ve never really thought about. 🤔 Actually kind of a trip to try and imagine a world where simply knowing how to read written text was akin to sorcery.

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Hey, that makes you a sorcerer, just in the wrong century.

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what’s it that you disagree with?

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There was oral history too though.

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Not if we don’t deal with climate change pronto, no.

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Climate change is a threat to humanity but it’s not an existential threat. I don’t get why this kind of extremist thinking is so common here…

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Could you explain more?

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No credible scientist is claiming it’s going go wipe out entire humanity. The estimates for excess yearly deaths in 2050 - 2100 vary from some hundreds of thousands to few million.

It’s bad but it’s not “we’re all going go die” -bad

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Prepare to be downvoted to hell for stating a fact.

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I wish I could be alive when two archeologists attempt to decipher what “Two Girls One Cup” means.

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“In the light of extreme climate change at the turn of the millennium, some humans have resorted to extreme forms of recycling…”

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Meh, scatters gonna scat. I’m more interested in when space faring future people with vacuum toilets contemplate the origins of the poop knife.

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The DarkGPT ages. All knowledge from this time must be questioned.

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Look upon the wisdom of their memes and shitposts!

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