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Never stop

Reminds me of the Siege of Malta, in which a bunch of aristocrat youth refused to fight on any longer because it was hopeless, and were shamed into staying by allowing them to leave. Under shameful verbiage of course. They didn’t.

Shame is a powerful force, but I guess this is a recurring theme with young nobility throughout history. They want the glory without the blood.

“Punic” bc they thought Carthaginians were Phoenicians! (which is not bad dinkum)

See, I know things! That’s right, I listen to podcasts, mama don’t raise no dumskis!

I fukn love these + explanations

Thank god we have laws prohibiting and enforcing it then.

And that is illegal and you’ll rightly spend a lot of time in jail for doing that, shit you can go to prison for suggesting it.

Are the laws sound and moral? That’s the only important metric, it doesn’t matter how many laws you have. It’s not like you go, oh shit, we have to keep it under a hundred thousand so now we can’t make new laws around AI data centers because that’s just too many!

And that is illegal, as it should be. The efficacy of a law has nothing to do with whether it’s moral.

It’s like saying “we don’t have the manpower to police murder effectively, so we are gonna legalize murder”. It’s a fundamental misunderstanding of what the law is fucking for.

Oh nothing to worry about then? Fuck you, we need to fight back against every infringement of our rights, it has nothing to do with how effective the law will be but that the law is WRONG.

Jesus christ when will we stop doing this?

Who wrote that disgusting piece of shit prose?!? Who did that!?

Jesus Christ it’s like eating your own vomit.

Edit: it’s Eusebius of Caesarea, IT’S EUSEBIUS EVERYBODY

Isn’t he the fucker who built his own tomb with thirteen casks, 12 of them representing Jesus’ disciples, and the head one being his own?

These tales were told through oral repetition and song for thousands of years before they were written down.

Even the Sumerians say so, in the texts, that what is being told happened a very long time ago even for them.

Bet lots got lost in translation there, between speech and cuneiform.

It’s a pretty good story tho ngl.

I like the Enuma Elish better. It feels like it’s talking about… Kind of the genesis of society, of different… Tribes or kingdoms, their geneaology and how it all came to the conflict that birthed civilization.

I have my own theories that it is actually based in historical fact (though embellished, still true like the Iliad and the Trojan war), there are things in there that sound much too practical and pedestrian to be made up- because it’s not interesting enough for fiction.

Is that from the particular tablet in the picture or is it unrelated?

Our phoenician method is wayyyy more legible than cuneiform. They have super complex rules that like later stuff and lines can change the meaning of previous scribbles.

I love cuneiform though. It’s just so pretty.

They start getting good pretty much immediately which means that no, you haven’t read them.

“Today, the Apocalypse happened. All that we love and hold dear came to an end. Blood in the streets worldwide, panic, hunger, devastation reigns supreme.”

“What about my database server? Is it still up?”

Debating bronze age superstitions doesn’t really lend itself well to rational discourse.

Then how did I know to respond hmmm?

Oh thank god, all good then!

What if they’re being mean to me?

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UNDERestimate? Is this The Onion? No matter how darkly pessimistic I get, society outpaces me every time, I have no chance to keep up!