Towers to divert wind flow into buildings with advanced evaporative cooling go back to at least the Egyptian Middle Kingdom, and there's no reason to think they weren't widespread elsewhere with less abundant archeological documentation except, as you suggest, racism.
![[Cueball is holding a laptop up in two hands, showing it to his Cueball-like friend who is examining it while holding a hand up to his head. Above the top of the panels frame, there is a box with a caption:]
A Crypto nerd's imagination:
Cueball: His laptop's encrypted. Let's build a million-dollar cluster to crack it.
Friend: No good! It's 4096-bit RSA!
Cueball: Blast! Our evil plan is foiled!
[Cueball is holding a closed laptop down in one hand while giving his Cueball-like friend a wrench with the other. The friend reaches out for it. Above the top of the panels frame, there is a box with a caption:]
What would actually happen:
Cueball: His laptop's encrypted. Drug him and hit him with this $5 wrench until he tells us the password.
Friend : Got it.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4khbkzwcd2n5ezls3khbk543/bafkreifkfrzkqznmrnhsquc7hxceebncglvlqldkinbdg3hl7sfxdywn24)
