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Don_Dickle@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 months ago

TIL the Aztecs regarded childbirth as a form of battle. Women who died during childbirth were thought to rise to one of the highest heavens - the same one as for male warriors who died in battle.

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TIL the Aztecs regarded childbirth as a form of battle. Women who died during childbirth were thought to rise to one of the highest heavens - the same one as for male warriors who died in battle.

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    What a lovely website. Welcoming colors, simple navigation, no ad infestation. Has all the early internet charm but without the hyperbole.

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      I, on the other hand

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        my captcha doesn't even load lol

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          You’re obviously a robot.

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      It is utter cancer on my phone and I can’t read the white on yellow.

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        You have some sort of dark mode/reader on which is making the text white.

        • 🐍🩶🐢@lemmy.world
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          Took me a minute to find it, but thanks. However, I still can’t seem to change the text size and I feel like it isn’t very accessible. I couldn’t get the text size buttons to work on the webpage either. At least I could zoom in and scroll everywhere. I am using Vivaldi.

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            Unless Safari (with webview) is available for Android, that can’t be the case.

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              I misread their comment and recant before the assembly

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      Including the table layout we don’t do anymore since the 2000’s, because it doesn’t scale at all.

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      Goofy ahh website but i like it

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    Well it is a battle because our stupid ass species evolved huge ass heads without changing the size of the birth canal…

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      Footage of the event:

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        Whoa what a throwback

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        What is this?

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          https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Head_(1994_TV_series)

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            Thanks!

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      Well, or because we became bipods and made the birth canal smaller

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    Righteous

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    Well, child mortality rate was really high before modern medicine. No wonder many cultures exalt the process of birth.

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      Maternal mortality wasn’t quite a Holocaust until they started having women give birth in hospitals without germ theory so nobody was washing their fucking hands and the doctors were reaching up there to check on the placenta and killing loads of women with puerperal sepsis. 18 percent maternal mortality rate at the time, when 300 years in the past (based on church records of births and deaths) it was closer to 3 percent.

      https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignaz_Semmelweis

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        Still true that birth is more dangerous in humans.

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    Based Aztecs

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      Ok I keep seeing that used everywhere what does based mean?

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        It means that have opinions or ideals that are just that good and worth looking up to.

        So basically what “Woke” used to mean before it became a Right Wing buzzword

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          Not in this context. The usage of “based” as a positive generic adjective comes from Lil B “the BasedGod” and has nothing to do with whatever you’re saying.

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            makes me mad MAGA stole this lingo

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    Spartans were very similar.

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    Conversely, Mussolini reportedly said that war is to men what childbirth is to women

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    Sounds very Klingon.

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    Didn’t Sparta have a similar belief as far as honoring women who died in childbirth equally to men who died in battle?

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    Jesus, they needed soap.

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    Similar thing actually happened in early Islaam, except it was for deaths from epidemic instead of childbirth. That one being because a shitton of Mohammed’s original faithful had died of plague during the initial campaigns of the faith.

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      Well was told by admins and the side bar to make a community active you need to post. Also I am very much a wikihead

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        Thank you for doing so! I’ve been reading about Mesoamerican history lately and love additional facts.

        It’s amazing how cultures separated by 10,000+ years can be so incredibly similar in general, yet distinct in the fine details!

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      I am not a bot or spamming . Why don’t you like what I post?

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    TIL Trump has no Aztec heritage.

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