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.

I take back some of the things I’ve said about there not being a god.

There is one, and I know because this song exists.

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.

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.

Not the first time.

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!

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.

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.

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.

Good to know, thanks. I’ll give it a spin and see how it goes, but good to temper any excitement now.

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.

Can you elaborate a bit? Restricted how?

Seems to be still limping along.

New Orleans has entered the chat

Like how I eat raw baked ziti. You can toast it, too!

No, they gave it to ME as the greatest gift ever!

Prove me wrong - what’s the agreement say? Read it to me, dipshit.

I also greatly dislike it.

The memes, I mean. I will keep some powdered milk around the house since I don’t usually drink milk.

For Americans: Adding this to a cast will cost $82,000 in insurance charges.

I love these so much. Like, kittens riding on the backs of puppies levels of adorable.

A zen sangha already ordained a chatbot, so I think that means that mantras will also work.

Medicine Buddha mantra x 900 per second = GigaChad meme level of health in about 45 minutes.

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