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[–] [email protected] 48 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Did someone try to censor "death"?

[–] [email protected] 40 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Yeah, the mainstream social media platforms will now have the algorithm not distribute your post, if you use double-plus ungood language. A post talking about death just isn't something advertisers fancy being displayed next to, so it doesn't need to exist.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Ok... dont use mainstream social media?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Ah, my assumption is that this post got screenshotted from Tumblr, then censored and uploaded to Instagram or whatever, and then OP found it there and posted it into this community.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 months ago

A lot of problems with the experiment. He didn't even taste it.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Brother really did not like his beans

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

"Mother it would be morally unethical to consume these legumes"

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Died because he wouldn't run through a bean field (allegedly)

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago

Bro be like "protein"

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago

life back then must've been crazy people just thought whatever

Have you seen people today?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

And a real hero

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

He really did hate beans, but the "spawned from the same source" and the "experiment" seem like bs.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, the most widely shared experiment from what I can tell is:

"Pythagoras conducted a scientific experiment demonstrating that humans and beans were spawned from the same source. He took some beans and buried them in the mud. They rested there for a few weeks before being removed and investigated by the great Greek philosopher. He concluded they looked like human fetuses."

But even that doesn't actually have any decent evidence.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

"Experiment" is a tool of the modern science. The usage of this word in this context is not appropriate.

There is no evidence. There either is a source which mentions this or there isn't one. I have not seen, nor found such a source. The story is most likely made up by some modern idiot.

This story is also beyond ridiculous. I wonder how many human fetuses an average ancient greek has seen, but surely, it can't be that many.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Ghaaa, now I feel like such a sucker for believing that a^2 = b^2 + c^2 all this fricking time. Fool me once, Pythagoras!!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Well, you are a sucker if you believe that, because the correct equation is a² + b² = c². Unless for some weird reason your part of the world labels the hypotenuse as "a".

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (2 children)

What did he do for protein though

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

I can't imagine going 🅱️eanless and I'm not even a vegetarian 💀

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

Is that true? Were beans even present at the time and location of Pythagoras?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

chickpeas and fava beans are native to the Mediterranean region I think

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

And beans exist pretty much everywhere.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Partly. I never heard about the smell part. He planted them and observed that the bean stalk sprouting out of the bean resembled the way a human grows in the womb. That's why they thought the beans contain human souls.

Hmm, that even crazier actually.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I don't trust sect leaders. I eat beans !