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Priorities or privilege? (sh.itjust.works)
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[-] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 101 points 1 year 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 1 year ago

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

[-] TacoButtPlug@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago
[-] derpo@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year 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 1 year ago
[-] grabyourmotherskeys@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Now there's a fiddler for the kitchen party!

[-] Falmarri@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

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

[-] Ricaz@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

[-] hihello@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year 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 1 year ago

Have you watched Inside?

[-] Sabre363@sh.itjust.works 21 points 1 year ago

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

[-] SkyeStarfall 9 points 1 year ago

He invented gravity whoah

Where would we be without him??

[-] idiomaddict@feddit.de 12 points 1 year ago
[-] gmtom@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

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

The LGBTA agenda, ty.

Throw out some recognition of the Ace King.

[-] Vormadikter@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

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

Priorities? Privilege? Nae, Propaganda ;)

[-] Norgur@kbin.social 9 points 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year ago

You're absolutely right about that ;)

[-] SquareBear@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 year ago

He discovered Pink Floyd.

[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 9 points 1 year ago

Check your history. Color came into the world around 1855

[-] sirico@feddit.uk 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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 1 year ago

What should he have been doing instead?

[-] snowyday@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year 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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