The video going viral was the result of a few specific things that feed a narrative, like the fact that she's saying this while putting on makeup, the mispronouncing "Pythagoras" as "Pythagoreas", her being a blonde teenage girl, etchttps://twitter.com/DanaSchwartzzz/status/1299033364565958656 …
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It's someone in a demographic that gets judged as vapid and stupid dunking on someone else, who she thinks she has objective proof actually is a dumb ditz, in order to feel better about herself It's sad
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Also it's really frustrating a lot of the people originally dunking on her completely inverted the point of her question They wanted to dunk on someone going "Lol ancient people were stupid because they had no computers" but she was saying the exact opposite of that
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And then people gave the exact wrong answer to it -- you DON'T, in fact, need the formalized study of mathematics to build big cities with aqueducts and sewer systems, cities like that were built a thousand years before Pythagoras, and Pythagoras had no interest in improving them
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It does seem like overall, most people have figured out the right side of this, and the original poster is fairly miscellaneous to the whole thing
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