Spot On - Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal

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This will be written one day when a traveler comes upon the ruins of Ohio.

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Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works · 54 pts · 2y (4 replies)

They do, but the scientific phrasing is "ritual purposes".

Strayce@lemmy.sdf.org · 51 pts · 2y

That’s academic for “we have no idea what this was for”. Except in the case of “fertility ritual” – that means it’s a sex toy.

TheEntity@kbin.social · 12 pts · 2y

Now that you mention it, it's commonly used for the contemporary idiocy too.

Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2y

I have so many ritual purposes

Strayce@lemmy.sdf.org · 3 pts · 2y
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elbarto777@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2y (3 replies)
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Knusper@feddit.de · 17 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Humans have this tendency of assuming everyone else is dumb. Whether that's their neighbor, a different generation, a foreign nation, different skin colors, different religions, different species or indeed extinct civilizations, pretty much everyone is assumed to be barbaric, until proven otherwise.

And so, yeah, it's usually a revelation like wow, they had calendars, they must have actually been smarter than we thought.

elbarto777@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 2y
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piratehat@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 8 pts · 2y

The opposite