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[-] Annoyed_Crabby 25 points 1 year ago
[-] LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Me too. Let's find the seven others.

[-] verenor@lemmy.tf 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Another one found, six more to go.

[-] moistclump@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago
[-] Keineanung@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago
[-] DataDisrupter@feddit.nl 8 points 1 year ago
[-] PrincessTardigrade@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago
[-] Silentiea@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago

Whew, just made it. Glad I'm not that person.

[-] survivalmachine@beehaw.org 9 points 1 year ago

Decimation was a practice of group punishment in Roman times, where if a group of 100 soldiers deserted, you might punish them by forcing them to kill 1 in 10 of their rank. 1 in 10 would be beaten to death by the other 9. Nowadays, we use decimate to mean a significant loss in general, but the root Latin "decimatio" literally meant "removal of a tenth".

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