• drolex@sopuli.xyz
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          1 month ago

          You wouldn’t expect a barbarian slave to be the same price as a delicious loaf of bread, I hope? One should be respected for being the very foundation of society, while the other one is a barbarian.

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              Well, considering that a slave could run upwards of 2,000HS, that difference is negligible. I wouldn’t have known it by memory at all.

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            1 month ago

            ACOUP is so fantastic.

            EDIT: But I might add that it’s likely that the grain prices are for unthreshed grain, which would have a significantly lower calorie count for the weight.

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              The amount of times I’ve gone “Oh wait, wasn’t there an ACOUP post touching on that?” and found it is insane. It’s a great exemplar of public science and I wish it – and projects like it for other disciplines – were more popular.