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[–] 1 point 2 days ago

I'm aware - the unfinished obelisk is a prime example.

However, large copper chisels and blades don't account for fine detail carvings or many of the thin bowls and vases made from granite. There are pooling marks and dripping marks on the top of the Serapeum which clearly indicate that some chemical process was involved. Why carve pooling marks into one slab on purpose? Why spend time carving intricate shapes when you can carve the obelisk, then cast the carvings in wax and geopolymer.

I'm saying that a combination of both methods were used. When you know how easy it is to cast something, then quarrying a solid slab stone would have been a huge flex.

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    [–] 1 point 2 days ago

    Right? Leave it to the French to think "We're doing this 100% authentic!" and mean how they dress for it.

    For what it's worth, I've made some natron bricks from dirt in the yard (natron you can make by cooking baking soda) just to see what I would get. Seemed like regular dirt at first, then after a week, they were shockingly solid. I expect with limestone gravel, it would work even better.

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    • Clowning around in c/microblogmemes@lemmy.world
    [–] 9 points 3 days ago (4 children)

    I love these videos. I watch them every couple years just to re-amaze myself at how very possible it was for like 2 people that simply understand how levers work to get 50 other people to do an amazing amount of stuff.

    Now, if you want to accidentally turn yourself into a "conspiracy theorist," you can also learn about geopolymers, and make the extremely reasonable jump to ancient people in places with the right combination of salts could make water glass and both dissolve and form granite. Granite is an aggregate, so if you just take sand from places where people mined monolithic granite objects, you can use water glass to chemically melt the quartz, turn the sand into a soft polymer that takes a week to fully cure back into what looks like granite from the same quarry.

    Works for limestone as well. So when you consider the likelihood that pyramid blocks were likely simply cast in place with readily available materials, it sort of makes you angry at the traditionalists that say everything was carved, and the ancient aliens people.

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    • You've been wacked with a wet trout! in c/antiquememesroadshow@lemmy.world
    Music But No Pants is the name of my Barenaked Ladies cover band in c/microblogmemes@lemmy.world
    [–] 33 points 5 days ago (4 children)

    Very likely, it would have been a leather or hide used as a textile. So they might have survived in burials to some degree.

    Though, what's sort of funny is that humans got close, and just never connected leggins to whatever covered the hips.

    Otzi from 3200 BC wore a loincloth, a belt, and leggings. Sort of like if you were wearing a kilt and socks that went to your crotch, and had a garter so they connected to your belt. So "pants" is all about when did people start attaching leggings to their loincloths. Or loincloths to your leggings. Apparently not super popular for most of human history.

    Oh! Anthropologically NSFW images showing the clothing. It's like assless chaps!

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    • Is anyone on Tildes? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
    [–] [S] 1 point 5 days ago

    That's fair. I'm usually hesitant to block individuals because I don't think one or two negative comments should invalidate someone's opinions forever. Sometimes I even try and engage to try and provide some human connection. But, maybe it's worth a try on the obvious negative for the sake of it folks.

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    • Democrat James Talarico turns Texas Senate seat blue, defeating Ken Paxton in c/news@lemmy.world
    [–] 28 points 1 week ago

    The bigger flip is a Democratic governor. Ken Paxton is a human-shaped sack of shit, but Unseating Greg Abbott at the same time is genuinely shocking to me.

    Y'all gotta get ready for Talarico to run in '28 - "It worked for Obama!" parallels are what the DNC's been looking for since 2009.

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    Democrats win Senate majority in c/news@lemmy.world
    [–] 5 points 1 week ago

    Still, it's going to fall pretty far short of supermajority in either House or Senate, which means any chance of impeachment and conviction is off the table. Getting 10 R senators willing to vote to convict, regardless of the evidence, is going to be difficult to the point of near impossibility. Even after seeing more than a few R senators get their comeuppance right now and expecting to be on the ballot in 2028 with Vance or Rubio as the candidate, they'll still stand for the loyalty test to try and latch on to the money teat.

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    [–] [S] 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    Thanks for the head's up.

    To be perfectly fair, a lack of negativity as compared to Lemmy is what I need in life. I like Lemmy, but holy shit, it's like 4 people posting memes, Violet08 once in a while, and then 5,000 Eores complaining about anything and everything. The number of times people ask funny questions about something like time travel, and multiple users say "go back in time and keep my parents from meeting" responses... WTF? I feel like over the last 6 months Lemmy has just descended into a mental health crisis, and it's making it harder and harder to even have normal conversations.

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    My Mom's favorite internet people are idiots (lemmy.world)
     

    I know this isn't a unique problem, but my Mom is fairly smart about some stuff, but she's also a Boomer Prepper. Something about the Cuban Missile Crisis broke her brain, and she, along with tons of other Boomer-era preppers stockpile bullets and buckets of dried eggs, desperate for something to happen so they can have an excuse to sit on their porch and pop some shots off at anyone they don't like.

    I recently learned that my Mom's favorite internet forum is one called TB2K - DDG search for it and you'll find it. She claims to like it for the homesteading tips on things like canning.

    Everyone on there is a genuine idiot. Their predictions are always as wrong as could be - as it evidenced by the forum being based on end of the world stuff around the Y2K bug. Their motto should be "Consistently wrong in public for 26 years!"

    Their analysis of geopolitics and US politics is worse than nothing at all. They're into the categorically dumbest conspiracy theories, and love them. They are proud racists, many seem to be die-hard maga fools, and would sell their own kids if it would mean Hillary Clinton stubbed her toe. Every one a "good christian" that glorifies violence and death. It's not even the worst cesspool of humanity online. It's a self-selected collection of idiots propping each other up. And then 2 or 3 threads about seed storage that are OK.

    I can't find the user, but, I swear to you that, according to my Mom, the most accurate person on the whole site is an Irish lady that gets a hankerin' for corn before a big earthquake. So, maybe she's on Lemmy, too - has anyone correlated corn memes and earthquakes?

    Anyway, it's stupid and dumb and I needed to vent. Thanks for reading.

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    Question: What are some alternatives to a Raspberry Pi good for a small home server? (lemmy.world)
     

    Hi all,

    I want to spin up a small home server. Nothing crazy, maybe 4 or 8GB ram at most. 1 Docker instance running a few privacy frontends (Invidious, Redlib, Xcancel, SearxNG, etc.) and split tunneling VPN connections for each one.

    Obviously, a Raspberry Pi 4 or higher is the internet's favorite choice, but I don't need wireless connectivity, I just need a single HDMI and 2 USB ports to get everything set up, one ethernet port, and a dream in my heart.

    Has anyone use alternatives like Le Potato or Orange Pi? I'm curious what their community support is like, and if there's a FOSS-friendly standard.

    Thanks!

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    What are some weird corners of the internet you've stumbled across? (lemmy.world)
     

    I don't mean gross stuff like SomethingAweful.

    I'm talking someone's fever dream neocities page that details how to make a UFO engine using element 115.

    A blog that is wild conspiracy stuff that has aged like fine wine.

    Or some serial forum post that makes no sense but seems too complex to be performative.

    17776 is a good example, if you're not familiar.

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    What are your favorite divination methods? (lemmy.world)
     

    Hi everyone - posting here mostly interested in connecting with fellow esoteric-friendly lemmy users.

    I've done blind-to-target remote viewing, but a problem with that is that you can't just pick your targets. I've tried map dowsing and did....meh. I haven't used tarot in a while, but thinking about letting a deck come back into my life if it happens to happen. I'm out of practice and coming back to it.

    Curious what others around here are favor or have had work well for them.

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    After this weekend, you'll never hear another thing about Greenland ever again. (lemmy.world)
     

    Pundits love to say they see Trump's pattern, but they also love to talk about their areas of expertise.

    Remember that trade war with China? That help we were going to give to protesters in Iran? Champaign tariffs? Billions in investments from the Saudis and Qatar?

    Trump's pattern is that when he fucks up and affects the money, that issue is no longer in play. That's why the TACO term came from Wall Street. They see the pattern as well because it's their daily life. He did the same thing in the first term.

    Trump's pattern on anything that sticks around for more than 14 days:

    • Float the balloon to get your meager base on your side and ramped up. See if meme traction materializes. Three stupid memes to share from some groyper? Nod from Peter Thiel? Now you're hooked.

    • Move the Overton Window so far that slight capitulation might get you something.

    • Throw everyone else's resources at the problem to exhaust opposition. Make everyone else waste time and money just to stand in your way. The costs are theirs alone.

    • Lose and say you won. Explain the win as something just around the corner, long term, etc.

    Greenland as a topic is 100% dead. It ran the course and he lost badly. The EU told him "maybe we'll get you a puppy next year for your birthday, OK Donnie?"

    Oh....hey, how are those troop movements near Iran going?

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    How many of you actually do sports betting with FanDuel and DraftKings? (lemmy.world)
     

    I put down a few bucks on the horses on the first Saturday in May, but it seems like online sports betting is just specifically designed to screw people out of all their money as fast as possible.

    I guess....change my mind? Or don't.

    Edit: I wasn't asking anyone to convince me to gamble, I was curious who the hell actually throws money in a black hole and wanted to hear their perspective. Thanks for the downvotes.

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