• teft@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Automatic food chewers? And who is going to add the spit? You? no thank you to your cephalopod goo, good sir.

    And if you suggest replicated spit I will form a corporation to do a hostile takeover of your commerce sector.

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      3 months ago

      That’s an explanation I’ve seen for why the Romans didn’t find labor-saving devices like Heron’s steam engine to be important. Why should you use a steam engine when you have plenty of slaves?