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Look, I just think we need to stop coddling those hedonistic roundabout hogs who get into the inner lane and circle for hours, wasting valuable capacity.

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[–] IonAddis@lemmy.world 40 points 10 months ago (2 children)

For some reason I'm just looking at this, and thinking of far-future people digging up ANY roads with lines or on/off ramps or cloverleafs, scratching their heads, and going:

"It must've been used for religious purposes."

[–] droans@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] urist@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 10 months ago

Carmel

This explains the entire image

[–] NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

"It must've been used for religious purposes."

Hehehe...

Regarding the question whether future humans are going to be wiser than we are, I see 4 possiblities:

  1. They are wiser
  2. They are less wise
  3. They are exactly the same (most likely)
  4. They don't care
[–] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 10 months ago

Human nature does not change very much over time. When I was younger I thought the future was going to be awesome because then, people like me would be in power. Now there are many politicians, celebrities, activists, journalists, other people more powerful than me who are the same age as me or even younger; they are pretty much the same as the ones who are older than me.

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 10 months ago

i mean wisdom is something you gain from experience so presumably later generations are always going to be wiser provided they study the past, that's kinda how we got to where we are