xkcd #3256: Nostalgia Content

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Gen-Z got a chunk of the Carboniferous, and now all their memes are about how pathetic and small today's dragonflies are.

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Gen-Z got a chunk of the Carboniferous, and now all their memes are about how pathetic and small today's dragonflies are.
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[–] 14 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Does he mean Prototaxites?

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  • [–] 13 points 5 months ago* (1 child)

    Probably, as pictured.
    I miss them dearly.
    (However inappropriately they were later named.)

    But also TIL about the word wiki/Parataxis:

    Parataxis (from Greek: παράταξις, "act of placing side by side"; from παρα, para "beside" + τάξις, táxis "arrangement") is a literary technique in writing or speaking that favors short, simple sentences without conjunctions, or sentences coordinated without the use of subordinating conjunctions.

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