now wondering if capitalists - say, merchants or ship captains, or something, ever looked into this, bc in ye old days ships had low but > 0 chance of sinking. There might have been some sort of scheme for spreading risk to lower pain. Might have happened in London, if anywherehttps://twitter.com/sonyasupposedly/status/1239289351634182144 …
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7/ as a story about the eternal unchanging nature of humanity. There is nothing new under the sun! Within the story a bard sings a tale of the god Hephaestus who catches his wife Aphrodite cheating on him, and he rages at her, calling her a hose faced bitch.
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8/ If Neal Stephenson's Seveneve's played out, 5,000 years from now humans could watch 20th century sitcoms and dramas - in translation - and while some aspects would be weird and culturally dependent, most would make perfect sense.
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