61 sats \ 13 replies \ @Undisciplined 12h \ parent \ on: Which is your most important human right? Politics_And_Law
That's actually pretty common. The earliest iron working that we know of used meteorites, because they're pure enough to work without needing advanced metallurgy.
Did a pharaoh have a dagger made out of meteorite?
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Looks like it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meteoric_iron
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The first iron weapons were forged in the Bronze Age and clove those bronze swords asunder in battle.
One of the first steps in the arms race.
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If we think about history, people were really dumb those times, killing each others for all kind of stupid things.
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I think we are still doing it, in spades! You can look around the world and see it going on right now.
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oh yes, but now we are killing each others with class and tesla robots :)
oh wait, I forgot about jabs and plan-demics, these more subtle
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Yeah, more subtle, but they net in a whole lot more βfishβ.
Maybe sheepfish, we have those here. Lots of them.
They stand in lines for self-extermination by people who openly say what they are doing and why.
I just could not understand it or them.
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Those are the sheep that even kneel for the masters... πππ
Others are just NPC players
Sadly, this is an evergreen insight about history.
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I donβt know about history, but is is sure an evergreen insight about people, everywhere and always.
To change that would be.a monumental task, but it is done one at a time, by themself.
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