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Farm life is hard (thelemmy.club)
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[–] 80 points 2 months ago (13 children)

1873? Maybe 1873 BC but there's history from 6000 BC and documentation from 2800BC.

There's not even anything that happened in 1873 to use that date.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plough

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  • [–] 24 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    Reminds me of this sign in the bathroom at a local bar:

    Some of our earliest records are beer recipes. Not only is 1862 thousands of years too late, there wasn't even anything of note that year. Totally arbitrary ass-pull.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    My not very generous guess is someone wanted to give the impression of something being really old without a clue of what really old is.

    Like it wouldn't surprise me if it turned out bread was accidentally invented when someone screwed up an attempt to make beer.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago

    Like it wouldn't surprise me if it turned out bread was accidentally invented when someone screwed up an attempt to make beer.

    Hell, some people have theorized that civilization started because you need to settle down for a while to brew beer.

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  • [–] 16 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    1873 would be around when tractors were invented, so it's possible there was some specific kind of plough that was invented in 1873 that Google's AI search result showed to whatever dimwit made this meme.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 months ago* (1 child)

    Wiki says the tractor was invented in 1812 with first real one in 1839.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tractor

    So 1873 doesn't match anything.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago

    The "first real" tractor wasn't invented in 1839 (that one wasn't self-propelled, it was just a movable steam engine). The first actual self-propelled traction engine was produced in 1859, and obviously many traction engine-related inventions followed in the next couple of decades.

    The plough page you linked earlier mentions several different kinds of ploughs being invented around 1873 -- for example the stump-jump plough which was invented in 1876. It's entirely possible that there was some kind of plough invented in 1873.

    However, the most likely explanation is probably this: John Deere created the first steel plough in 1837. The author of this meme found this fact and mistakenly swapped the 3 and 7 around, arriving at 1873.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    My first thought was the story of Odysseus pretending to be insane, ploughing his field but sowing salt instead of seed.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago

    It’s literally one the fundamental inventions of human civilization. In the series Connections with James Burke, he describes how, if there were a collapse of modern technology (and this was 1978), those who survived would find themselves returning to the plough as the technological foundation from which to rebuild society.

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