@futurebird it's hard to believe but a single Dorito chip today has more nacho cheese flavour than a medieval peasant would get in their whole lifetime

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EZ Cheese has a low rent reputation, but I think if you could take it through a time portal it'd be considered some kind of amazing gourmet food. -
You might remember the opening line “The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.” William Gibson, Neuromancer@futurebird was the sky one of the official x11 colors?
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You really start to realize that people saw "magic" in a different way in ancient times when you read a story about early Christians and the thing everyone is upset and arguing about isn't can the Christians do magic, of course they can do magic lots o...@JonnyT @pandabutter @futurebird there was a rhino in Lisbon in 1515, so presumably Dürer heard first hand reports (it unfortunately drowned while being transported by ship). Two centuries later, Clara toured Europe and painters finally got to see the real thing.