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I heard the quote in passing but can’t find it. It was translated from a cuneiform tablet something to the effect of “a skilled cuneiform scribe can write as fast as the mouth moved”

Dr. Irving Finkel has said the same. The Babylonians and others managed massive bureaucracies at the time handling thousands of letters, court transcripts, and official dictations. There was more than enough practice for a scribe to get fast at it.

I felt like adding a tangent that apparently cuneiform scribes could write as fast as a person talks. To do the same in English we have to use shorthand. I think it’s neat that cuneiform is itself both a shorthand and the entire language.

I always thought it would be from fire pits reducing ore into metal. Suddenly your firepit rocks have little beads of copper metal in them for some reason. Cause and effect again.

I’m really glad they’re showing them in full PPE too. That’s actually really cool to see from so long ago. The West only took safety seriously in like the 90s really. You used to be able to smoke anywhere at a refinery up until the 90s in Alberta for example (barring areas with red tape and no smoking signs)

Does the 25% air, 25% water, 50% dirt rule apply to pineapples?

Happy birthday lemmy.zip!

And you can thank those two portable suns for giving us anime and hentai

Also this is like mandating printers that can’t print pictures of dicks

Yeah you’re right, so instead of half a century maybe we should say they’ve been doing it wrong for the entire history of their company

Is that better?