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> “The drinking and cooking water for the Tikal rulers and their elite entourage almost certainly came from the Palace and Temple Reservoirs,” wrote Lentz and h
by yard2010 2y ago
> “The drinking and cooking water for the Tikal rulers and their elite entourage almost certainly came from the Palace and Temple Reservoirs,” wrote Lentz and his colleagues. “As a result, the leading families of Tikal likely were fed foods laced with mercury at every meal.”
This makes me think: what if today's rulers are being poisoned by something making them act like idiots?
- lukehollis 2y agoHa! that's the best theory yet
- deepfriedchokes 2y agoIt could be that there is something making our leaders mentally ill, or it could be that only the mentally ill think that they should be leaders.
- throwup238 2y ago> This makes me think: what if today's rulers are being poisoned by something making them act like idiots? Leaded gasoline! With how old politicians are in the US, they are almost certainly affected.
- bboygravity 2y agoThey're also old enough to have drank tap-water from lead pipes daily for decades (I learned on HN that it was mandatory for building companies in Chicago to install lead pipes until the 70s).
- kruxigt 2y ago[dead]
- thih9 2y agoClaiming that today’s rulers are acting like idiots seems off topic. And subjective too; even if only because yesterday’s rulers weren’t different.
- mandmandam 2y agoGreed is a poison. Has been recognized as such for at least 2,500 years. https://tricycle.org/beginners/buddhism/three-poisons/ https://tricycle.org/beginners/buddhism/three-poisons/
- jpm_sd 2y agoIt's called "social media"
- rmbyrro 2y agoOr maybe the populace is being poisoned and their leaders need to behave like idiots to control a herd of dumb'ed down and stupid beings.
- fatbird 2y agoImagine people 100 years from now asking themselves "how did they not understand the effect that microplastics were having?"