
@polotek ("Marco Rogers") replied to a tweet by @polotek:
It is an objectively better technology for eating the triangle wedges out of half a grapefruit. Somebody really looked at this problem and said "with human ingenuity, we can do better". And thus our standard of living was improved.
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@jaredweakly ("Jared Weakly") replied to a tweet by @polotek:
@polotek @operaqueenie I'm not quite sure that's a qualification for civilization. Grapefruit spoon? What?
TIL that's a thing. Also TIL that it's actually considered somewhat useful