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If a person from 1700 asked you your job, would they understand your answer, and if not, how would you explain it to them? (lemm.ee)

submitted 8 months ago by JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.ca 36 points 8 months ago (2 children)

If someone working in semiconductor manufacturing were to answer this question they would probably have to say "I make sand think" and just walk away.

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

"You know how we dug out that trench to let some of the river through for irrigation, and then we fill it in for winter? Yeah I do that, but much smaller, and much faster, on sand. Got a shovel?"

[–] Jimmyeatsausage@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

Not much different than weirder than meat thinking.

For the uninitiated: https://www.mit.edu/people/dpolicar/writing/prose/text/thinkingMeat.html