When people vote, they will hopefully apply a bit of common sense. So “fire” will refer to mankind’s application of it, not just fire itself.
Although, given you’re all idiots, I won’t hold my breath.
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Who are you, and what have you done with COG?
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Yep, and I’ve only just noticed your personal dig at me 
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The Internet
Vaccines
knife and fork (as eating utensils)
electric light
Mathematics
The electric telegraph
But you’re Japanese!
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Sad to say, but the greatest human invention is war.
Everything that we hold as morals and standards came about through war.
Pretty much every invention we hold as important was either built for war or was funded by alphabet agencies (internet is a prime example)
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Heart surgery for sure amongst thousands of other things.
Human rights
Freedom of speach
Are they inventions?
They were invented by humans.
Spelling is a great invention too.
Please explain this extraordinary statement.
What’s so extraordinary about it ? Perhaps you can explain your extraordinary need for it to be answered?
Haber-Bosch process (massively under appreciated)
But just to explain every nation that has gone to war over the thousands of years we have engaged in thousands of wars , the defeated never control the narrative of what’s right or wrong as they no longer have any say being conquered.
Morality and standards are then defined by the victors and time.
Society has never been shaped going forward by a defeated nation/empire that fades into oblivion.
Could say the nation state was the greatest invention then? Can we really say conflict is an invention? In any case war is often inconclusive - I’d argue it is economic prosperity that’s leads to the dominance of ideas/ narrative rather than military victory. Losing a war certainly never stopped the ancient Egyptians from controlling the narrative!
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One from me. The humble transistor.
I did try and think if something associated with cooking meat but fire is natural and then weaving but that can also be done by hand.
Are discoveries included or is that one for another day?
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Sorry to Labour the point, but now I think about… hasn’t most of the shaping been done by nations/ empire that were eventually defeated/ faded away? Phoenician alphabet, Greek politics, philosophy and art, Arabic mathematics and science.
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Ok
Apologies for that.
My two then:
Lucozade Zero
Cock rings
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