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it's obviously a thingamajig
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cross-posted from: https://lemy.lol/post/72694016 (original title: YOU BASTARDS)
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Isn't this not likely since it wasn't just metalworkers that had them?
I honestly wonder if there was just some autistic metalworker who came up with this weird fucking design and made a million of them like a psychotic dwarf, and then people started to get fascinated and wanted their own. A literal thingamajig that just fascinated people because of how complex and specific it was, and it just became a cultural phenomenon.