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Fully agree. Reminds me of this: https://xkcd.com/1227/ https://xkcd.com/1227/
by baxtr 9y ago
Fully agree.
Reminds me of this: https://xkcd.com/1227/ https://xkcd.com/1227/
- rm_-rf_slash 9y agoTo be fair, the snippets' chosen dates are from 1870s onward. Historians fuzzily date the start of the industrial revolution at around 1750. So that's about 100 years of industrialization and modernity. No wonder the art of conversation was considered dying by that point: it has been under assault from modernity for generations.