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Remove “bit” from #3

“People did different things at different times and places depending on their circumstances” is not exactly news, even in academic circles where head-in-the-sand disorder is all to real. Davids Graeber and Wengrove covered it to much popular acclaim in The Dawn of Everything, and the anthro/archaeology was going on for decades prior.

Yup got it. In that context mega-dragon makes sense. I can’t wait until we actually understand what the hell gravity even is.

Yup. But try pulling a proton out of an atom for 2 seconds.

I was more just speaking to how it’s many orders of magnitude weaker than the other 3 forces. Though it does work on an infinite scale, so maybe it ought to be a tiny but unbelievably long vaguely dragon-shaped worm thing.

Shouldn’t gravity be like a tiny, vaguely dragon-shaped worm off in another field?

I mean messing with the strong force in a fistful of atoms gets you a nuclear bomb. Meanwhile, my old, achy self can jump up and resist against a whole earth’s worth of gravitational force.

Someone’s been reading Dave Graeber again

Not to mention if you’re out on a surfboard you probably don’t want to be wearing a weight belt :)

Skill issue, as the kids like to say.