It does often seem to be correlated to reactionary conspiracy sentiments. There is the “non-white people could not have possibly stacked rocks this big!” thing

I guess also flat earth?

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    6 months ago

    It was a tech pulled out of the hat, but one could imagine different ways of, say, sharpening metal being lost and rediscovered a lot. Or something.

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      We kinda had something like that with plate armor. A lot of the techniques for making really advanced plate armor were lost by the 20th century, and the in latter half of the 20th a bunch of larpers and medieval nerds started reverse-engineering existing suits, consulting what manuals survived, digging through museums, and now we’re back at a point where there are a couple of shops in the world that can make the rally good stuff if you can put down, ikd, it’s probably 15k these days.