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Even in ancient Rome, people hated being ruled by timekeeping devices. Plautus wrote:

Confound him... Who in this place set up a sundial

To cut and hack my days so wretchedly!

Take a look at the devices that have chopped up our lives for millennia:

@histodons
https://open.substack.com/pub/worldhistory/p/to-cut-and-hack-my-days

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