The lighter side of ADHD
I just did a deep dive on food utensils today. I didn't look up knives because that seems silly. But spoons are the longest reigning champion of cutlery. Followed by chopsticks and then forks. I believe the oldest found spoon was from ~17,000-15,000 BCE. While the earliest found chopsticks were from 1,700-1,200 BCE.
Spoon supremacy
the modern spork was invented by Samuel W. Francis and issued US patent 147,119 on February 3, 1874.
The beginning of the modern era
You're telling me two god damn sticks pinched together to grasp food is younger invention than a deliberately carved concave spoon?
I call bullshit.
I mean at least according to historical accounts and archaeology. But I'd imagine it's hard for two thin sticks of wood or bone to remain well preserved in a setting that says "food", y'know?
So, yeah, spoons it is.
Spoon supremacy
Praise Munsell
The number of times people have said to me, "how do you know that?"
All this in the meme, plus me asking people about themselves in social interactions so I don't have to talk as much.
I just like reading books with oddly long expositions. So, like, in the Mysterious Island by Jules Vernes there is a whole section on how to turn seal fat into nitroglycerin, if anyone is interested. And somehow I remember that more than the plot…
I loved that book, I should re-read it.
Especially the nitroglycerine part
I fluctuate between:
I like 'i have been kniwn to read a book. Occasionally.'.
Can confirm that this person (I still don't know, or care, their gender) knows A Great Deal of Stuff. I don't always agree with their conclusions on medical issues, but not going to argue with them given their indeed insane research skills + anecdotal evidence. I may be on Bluesky too much.
You should want to argue with people who have a lot of knowledge and great research skills, because there's more to learn. You should always go into an argument with a worthy opponent hoping to learn something
Oh yeah for sure; a very good principal. But this Bluesky poster in particular gets a lot of argument from folks who have not done any research or are outside of their fields.
So I don't want to be "that guy." I learn enough listening to their (often long) replies.
I don't use Wikipedia. Because if I did I would USE Wikipedia.
Rizz em with the tism
Me too, thanks
I would honestly like to know where you go to learn true things on the internet
Find a Wikipedia article and look for the referenced academic sources, then trace the references within those. If you're good at skim reading you can get quite a bit out of it or with meds wind up with a decent knowledge base on a certain thing.
Webseums (online museums) are great resources, but can be hard to find sometimes
Wikipedia is a start
Yeah that checks out.
Theres no way to answer that without talking shit on one party.
add to this 9 bourbons and the desire to discuss this in the parking lot and this is me literally 20 minutes ago
“You wanna take this outside?”
