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If you study a lot of history, you start to notice that old ideas are bad until they’re suddenly very good. Cannons sucked for a long time, till Napoleon showed
by sillysaurusx 6y ago
If you study a lot of history, you start to notice that old ideas are bad until they’re suddenly very good. Cannons sucked for a long time, till Napoleon showed they weren’t so bad.
I think posting haughty words is a lot easier than trying to make something work.
- coldtea 6y ago>If you study a lot of history, you start to notice that old ideas are bad until they’re suddenly very good. Also the opposite: dumb ideas are tried again and again to no avail ever.
- a1o 6y agoAdding as example of dumb ideas, people constantly trying to patent perpetual motion machines.
- 0x1A567BBF 6y ago"With all the negative pushback this [idea] is getting, it’s making me think he [they] was onto something. "
- hef19898 6y agoNitpic on Napoleon, cannons were used centuries before him in sieges. People knew they were good all along.