L3dpen@lemmy.mltoMemes@lemmy.ml•The state of the rail system the most reliable measure of how civilized a country really isEnglish
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2 months agoThrough a postcolonialist lens this is pretty clever. Use of civilized as a term to excuse the racist and expansionist actions of one’s own country, expansion which happens to have coincided with railways being central to industrial power. Now the colonized are civilized, are we the barbarians?
Unironically thinking like that is the real ape-brained behavior.
The only thing the article adds to the headline is that it’s not possible on new Intel chips. This article seems significantly better.