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By exist, I mean something you’d be able to study. For example, dinosaurs existed well before 1800 but that doesn’t mean there was a good way for the layman to learn about them.

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[–] proti@lemmy.world 52 points 8 months ago (2 children)
[–] hoshikarakitaridia@lemmy.world 13 points 8 months ago

I love that guy

[–] MagicShel@lemmy.zip 13 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I love computers, but the thing I love is increasing efficiency and solving puzzles. But I'm terrible at building things and I'm not great at hard kinds of math. I also have ADHD, and without my meds I'm pretty useless.

I think I'd just be an alcoholic and sometimes laborer — probably with missing digits or something. That was a depressing train of thought.

[–] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 4 points 8 months ago

Are you me? I stumbled into becoming a Business Analyst, and I love it!

[–] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 7 points 8 months ago

Cooking and gardening definitely. Mechanical keyboards, photography, and home theater…not so much.

[–] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Yes 100% but it was rife with racism unfortunately. My special interest is indigenous American history and artistic expression. Most likely I wouldn't have the resources to get into it.

[–] Snowpix@lemmy.ca 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Nope! The electric siren wasn't invented until 1905 by William Box. The steam locomotive hadn't been invented until 1802 when Richard Trevithick built the first. Steam engines in general were still in their relative infancy by 1800, and the closest we had to a warning siren before 1800 was a device invented by John Robison that was used to power some of the pipes in a musical organ rather than warn anyone.

[–] Goldholz@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 8 months ago

Yes. History, theologie, architecture and languages always existed

[–] GrayBackgroundMusic@lemmy.zip 3 points 8 months ago

Some did. I love fermentation and 3d printing.

[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 2 points 8 months ago

I guess my special interest is pop culture. Prior to 1800, I suppose I would have been more into books

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] pastermil@sh.itjust.works 3 points 8 months ago

She's a witch! Burn her!

[–] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

I’m interested in etymology and grammar, so I would have been on the bleeding edge of social science, but yes