Some news that would be completely mundane today but scary or shocking in the past.

  • mindbleach
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    1 year ago

    Paraphrasing Douglas Adams: “If you stick a Babel fish in your ear you can instantly understand anything said to you in any form of language. By effectively removing all barriers to communication between different races and cultures, this has caused more and bloodier wars than anything else in the history of creation.”

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      Tears of the feeble, hands of the slaves
      Skin of the mothers, mouths of the babes
      Building a Tower, belongs to the sky
      When the whole thing comes crashing down
      Down ask me why…