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No one can claim having more superior jeans. Even the feared Mongols fell out of fashion. (infosec.pub)
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[โ€“] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You're jumping ahead a bit there, because before they stumble on the Americas, they've still got to have the ability and willingness to sail thousands of miles into unknown territory. Which basically no one else did.

[โ€“] PugJesus@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

But plenty of people did? There are no end of expeditions to nowhere in world history, some success, most not. Hell, the only reason Columbus succeeded was because he was wrong about the size of the world - otherwise, he would've ran out of supplies long before landfall.