• humiddragonslayer@lemm.ee
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    17 days ago

    For the last one, another alternative would be “You’re so resilient, it would take a moon sized meteorite to take you down for good.”

  • isolatedscotch@discuss.tchncs.de
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    16 days ago

    as someone who has tried to make a furnace to melt metals, I envy iron age people who could do it successfully (unlike me) with no fancy tools or materials

    • skulblaka@sh.itjust.works
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      16 days ago

      You should try having nothing else better to distract you for 12-15 years. With no books, no TV, and no internet, if you need to figure out how to build a forge, you’d figure it out eventually. Through sheer boredom if nothing else.

  • GooberEar@lemmy.wtf
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    15 days ago

    Instead of: “They’re a disgusting troglodyte” Say: They are clearly ingenious enough to recognize the utility of having a stable living environment to retreat to for protection that’s superior to any structure they could possibly build using the technology and techniques available to them at the time.