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If anyone ever found out how much I paid for this furniture, they'd be outraged. Glad I buried the receipt.
(www.popularmechanics.com)
The Internet in Ancient Times
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Welcome to the stone age... or the bronze age... or the iron age... heck, anything with an 'age' is welcome, except our modern age or any ages to come.
This is about what the internet was like thousands of years ago back when it all started. Like when Darius the Great hired mercenaries via Craigslist or when Egypt invented emojis.
CODE OF LAWS
1 - Be civil. No name calling, no fighting, keep your flint hand axes inside your leather pouches at all times.
2 - Keep the AI stuff to a minimum. It gets annoying and old fashioned memes are more fun for everyone.
3 - None of this newfangled modern 21st century nonsense. We don't even know what "21st century" means.
4 - No porn/explicit content. The king is sensitive about these things.
5 - No lemmy.world TOS violations will be tolerated. So there.
6 - There is no ~~rule~~ law 6.
Laws of justice which Hammurabi, the wise king, established. A righteous law, and pious statute did he teach the land. Hammurabi, the protecting king am I. I have not withdrawn myself from the men, whom Bel gave to me, the rule over whom Marduk gave to me, I was not negligent, but I made them a peaceful abiding-place. I expounded all great difficulties, I made the light shine upon them. With the mighty weapons which Zamama and Ishtar entrusted to me, with the keen vision with which Ea endowed me, with the wisdom that Marduk gave me, I have uprooted the enemy above and below (in north and south), subdued the earth, brought prosperity to the land, guaranteed security to the inhabitants in their homes; a disturber was not permitted. The great gods have called me, I am the salvation-bearing shepherd, whose staff is straight, the good shadow that is spread over my city; on my breast I cherish the inhabitants of the land of Sumer and Akkad; in my shelter I have let them repose in peace; in my deep wisdom have I enclosed them. That the strong might not injure the weak, in order to protect the widows and orphans, I have in Babylon the city where Anu and Bel raise high their head, in E-Sagil, the Temple, whose foundations stand firm as heaven and earth, in order to bespeak justice in the land, to settle all disputes, and heal all injuries, set up these my precious words, written upon my memorial stone, before the image of me, as king of righteousness.
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Hey fellow rulers, Shah Muhammad II here. Anyone know why my messengers aren't coming back?
(lemmy.ml)
Hey fam, I’ve been dispatching riders to the East but three different cities have been completely ghosting me.
I just wanted to tell them about the hilarious caravan of nomads I kicked out of the palace. Some warlord named “Temu Jin” sent them so I took their stuff and shaved their beards. Probably another Kara Qhitai joker laying yet another claim to Khwarazm.
Anyway let me know what you think, is there some kind of weather on the way? I see a huge cloud of dust from the East so maybe my messengers stopped to shelter. I’ll check it out real quick, be back later!
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While cruising around Waset I saw a most peculiar chariot. I believe it belongs to the new Pharaoh, Tutahnkamun.
(lemmy.world)
I give you Tut's nuts.
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Would someone tell me how this happened? We were the fucking vanguard of Mastabahs in this country. The Sekhemkhet Mastabah was the Mastabah to own. Then the other guy came out with bigger Mastabah. Were we scared? Hell, no. Because we hit back with a little thing called the Mastabat Neferefre. That's Epic. But you know what happened next? Shut up, I'm telling you what happened—the bastards went Mastabah al-Fir'aun. Now we're standing around with our cocks in our hands, building insufficient Mastabahs. Mudbrick or no, suddenly we're the chumps. Well, fuck it. We're going six Mastabahs.
