A Boring Dystopia

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[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.world 27 points 2 years ago (2 children)

And we laugh at the ancient Romans for flavoring their wine with lead or using lead products and slowly poisoning themselves.

[–] threshold_dweller@lemmy.today 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

were they dumb?

why didnt they just stop poisoning themselves??

Yeah, its pretty weird.

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[–] seejur@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

They did not have the science to know it was poisonous.

So in a certain way, we are actually dumber, since we are doing it anyway

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