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[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Irrigation. But Iron Working and Celestial Navigation are good shouts too.

[–] Anticorp 2 points 6 months ago

The computer combined with the internet is one of the best, and one of the worst things to happen to humanity.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Surely it has to the FRIDGE?

[–] hperrin 1 points 6 months ago

Writing or agriculture. Both were incredibly important in developing society.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago
[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

For people that really really need air conditioning, it's an amazing thing

The vast majority of people who have it don't need it. Especially in, ahem, that one country

It's horrendously wasteful

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