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Priorities or privilege? (sh.itjust.works)
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[-] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 101 points 2 years ago

Y'all gonna pretend that while COVID-19 had us all hiding at home, a bunch of y'all didn't learn to knit, play guitar, bake bread, and all sorts of other things to pass the time and not think about the apocalypse going on outside?

Shit, Bo Burnham made a god damned masterpiece during lockdown.

[-] derpo@lemmy.world 27 points 2 years ago

Okay good point but now you’re not allowed to try my sourdough

[-] TacoButtPlug@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 years ago
[-] derpo@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

I could never say no to you, TacoButtPlug 🌮 I also have been growing this rosemary that goes great with it. Let me know when you’re heading over

[-] nero@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago
[-] grabyourmotherskeys@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Now there's a fiddler for the kitchen party!

[-] Falmarri@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago

I'm not pretending anything, I had a great pandemic

[-] Ricaz@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Bo Burnham? Masterpiece? He made some funny songs 15 years ago

[-] hihello@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

“The stuff he made when he was a teenager is better than what he does now”

Now that is a hot take.

[-] Custoslibera@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Have you watched Inside?

[-] Sabre363@sh.itjust.works 21 points 2 years ago

He also invented a new math, moving things, and universal gravity.

[-] SkyeStarfall 9 points 2 years ago

He invented gravity whoah

Where would we be without him??

[-] idiomaddict@feddit.de 12 points 2 years ago
[-] gmtom@lemmy.world 17 points 2 years ago

Isaacs Newton creates the first gay agenda, 1672 (colourised)

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 3 points 2 years ago

The LGBTA agenda, ty.

Throw out some recognition of the Ace King.

[-] Vormadikter@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago

Largest Pest Epidemic in Europ; 1350 Birthday of Newton: 1642

Priorities? Privilege? Nae, Propaganda ;)

[-] Norgur@kbin.social 9 points 2 years ago

Just because the largest outbreak was bot during newton's lifetime, many smaller ones were. The biggest would be the great pest from 1708 to 1714 with more than a million deaths.

So the meme is accurate enough.

[-] FlyingPiisami@sopuli.xyz 7 points 2 years ago

Considering how casually we took covid after just a year or two, if it had been going on for the past 300 years, I don't think it would stop a guy from playing around with pieces of glass :D

[-] Norgur@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

You're absolutely right about that ;)

[-] SquareBear@lemmy.ml 12 points 2 years ago

He discovered Pink Floyd.

[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 9 points 2 years ago

Check your history. Color came into the world around 1855

[-] sirico@feddit.uk 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I have isolated ultra violet it's antimicrobial now get me some opium some brightly colored oil paintings and leave me be

[-] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 7 points 2 years ago

What should he have been doing instead?

[-] snowyday@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

For a brilliant historical fiction account of life and science during that period, read Neal Stephenson’s Baroque Cycle (Quicksilver, The Confusion, The System of the World) for a brilliant

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