[–] 3 points 1 year ago

I love that Eratosthenes was able to estimate the circumference of the earth with the amount of math we had in his era.

Not only that, but he was much closer to the right answer than Columbus was, yet Columbus is the one to get a day named after him, even though Columbus would have died due to starvation as most people had predicted he would if he had not gotten lucky and run into a continent that no one knew about except for the people that lived there and the Vikings and the Chinese and other people that didn't count! It just proves the principle that the key to success is not to be smart but to be lucky.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago

    Think of it as being a different way of saying "anxiety scrolling", because "doom scrolling" is primarily referring to the experience of being driven by anxiety to compulsively consume a never-ending stream of bad news.

    For example, I had to cut myself off from following what is going on in Los Angeles earlier today because I recognized the signs of going past the point of merely keeping tabs on it to stay informed and compulsively anxiously reloading the page to see if there were any new updates.

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