• muhyb@programming.dev
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    9 days ago

    -Why there are pyramids in Egypt?

    -Because Brits couldn’t moved them to British Museum.

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    9 days ago

    Countries and borders are an arbitrary concept created during the peace treaty of Westphalia.

    Those relics belong to dead people.

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        9 days ago

        Hot take: all artifacts should be located in the most geopolitically stable area possible

        Hotter take: un peacekeepers should protect world heritage sites with weapons-free orders

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      Countries and borders are an arbitrary concept created during the peace treaty of Westphalia.

      Stealing this foolproof argument for when I next apply for a UK visa to go to British Museum. Thanks!

  • TempermentalAnomaly@lemmy.world
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    Gonna play a game of comment roulette. How far do I have to scroll before I see someone say something like, “That can’t be in their museum because they can’t be trusted with it”.

    Spinning the chamber now.

    Edit: turns out I wasn’t prepared for what I saw. Now I sad.

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    9 days ago

    Marion, this is a movie made in the 1980s and set in the 1930s, what the hell are you even talking about?

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    8 days ago

    if you want to compare Indiana Jones to real life, the movies say flat out that he is an unscrupulous grave robber and he is completely aware of the hypocrisy. its part of his character arc, where he’s all about fortune and glory and doesnt believe in any of the mystical crap, until he is confronted with powers he didn’t understand and fights to stop others from exploiting them. and at the end of the day it was a movie