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The link requires reading through the specifics of a violent event from U.S. history so as to pivot off the material used to make the device used as a weapon: g
by WillAdams 1y ago
The link requires reading through the specifics of a violent event from U.S. history so as to pivot off the material used to make the device used as a weapon: gutta percha.
Perhaps the Wikipedia article would serve the discussion?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gutta-percha https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gutta-percha
- yugioh3 1y agoI think that's what makes this HN submission actually interesting. It underscores how this still relatively new material had become so quickly commodified, ubiquitous, and unremarkable that it played an unknown role in one of the most universally taught moments in US history.
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