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Rough Roman Memes

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The Romans were awfully clumsy (lemmy.world)
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[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Compare that to the amount of plastic fragments thrown away by the American empire

[–] PugJesus 19 points 5 months ago (1 children)

And they sent down some astronauts

To study our bones

Through the miles of garbage

Beneath all the junk that we owned

Carbon dating beer cans

Condoms and Twinkie wrappers

We were something beautiful, baby

What the hell happened?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Well, two of those things can potentially be carbon dated...

Actinides or something would probably work for the cans, assuming they know when we did all the nuclear testing.

[–] Persen 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Or all the empires for that matter (if I haven't missed a joke)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

I'm not sure if you got the intended joke which wouldn't make your joke any less valuable. Most empires were before plastic was a thing. The Inca empire or the Tsar empire didn't have plastic yet so they didn't leave all this waste behind