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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/16670924

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

ignoring the elephant in the room that the study of anyone other than white males is rare, people don't talk about the obvious. We don't write it down.

Gravity took FOREVER before someone went "wait why?" and there's tons of stuff we don't even think about, like the 'new shape' that people just didn't think to talk about because it's just so simple

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

the study of anyone other than non white males is rare,

There's plenty of studies on white males.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

sorry typo 🙃

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

What is that? Does it have a name?

It looks like you could stack them in a strong way.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

That's not a simple shape. Why would people want to talk about it?