• mindbleach@sh.itjust.works
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    3 months ago

    I think it was A Collection Of Unmitigated Pedantry that pointed out, some of the oldest cities with any surviving architecture had stone walls ten feet thick. You don’t start with ten-foot-thick walls. You work your way up to that.

    A lot of what should be civilized history is just fuckin’ gone.