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xkcd #3256: Nostalgia Content

Title text:

Gen-Z got a chunk of the Carboniferous, and now all their memes are about how pathetic and small today's dragonflies are.

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Source: https://xkcd.com/3256/

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[–] Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club 13 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Probably, as pictured.
I miss them dearly.
(However inappropriately they were later named.)

But also TIL about the word wiki/Parataxis:

Parataxis (from Greek: παράταξις, "act of placing side by side"; from παρα, para "beside" + τάξις, táxis "arrangement") is a literary technique in writing or speaking that favors short, simple sentences without conjunctions, or sentences coordinated without the use of subordinating conjunctions.

[–] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 2 points 2 weeks ago

I bet XKCD is setting this up for a future issue where they make the correction and subsequent explanation.