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 Hammurabi, the protecting king am I. I have not withdrawn myself from the men, whom Bel gave to me, the rule over whom Marduk gave to me, I was not negligent, but I made them a peaceful abiding-place.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.
Here's an interesting article about inflation, currency devaluation, and how market effects that no one back then understood probably caused the downfall of the Roman Empire.
https://www.dailyhistory.org/What_Role_Did_Inflation_Play_in_the_Collapse_of_the_Roman_Empire
Coinage is just a fad. Look at how easy the system is to game! We'll be back to silver ingots in no time, mark my words.
Pff, modern nonsense.
Who has time for metallurgy at scale?
Tally Sticks. That's where its at.
Anyone can counterfeit a tally stick. Now a cowrie shell…
Fuck you, fuck this, I am just going back to directly bartering my many goats and cows.
(And wives).
I just talked to a Mayan buddy of mine and he suggested cacao beans.
I mean sure.
Not my cup of tea, but you do you.
Just try not to lose your head if they try to recruit you into their local sports league.
Clearly we should be using something more widely accepted, like Ningi
I’m stocking up on all the leaves I can rake
No, these have actual intrinsic value.
Intrinsic, ehh... Silver is shiny when polished, and doesn't rust (as much as other metals), therefore it looks nice, ans therfore has value.
The material also has value from its material properties, not just its looks.
One of the best conductors for both electricity and heat.
What is this "electricity" you speak of?
I think it's an alloy of gold and silver?
No, no, an alloy of gold and silver is electrum, electricity is a city dedicated to the greek fury representing implacable anger.
Oh yes, I'm always getting those two things confused.
It's antimicrobial.
Anti-what now?
Microbe is another word for germ.
Next time try an internet search.
Germ? The stuff those farmer guys get from their wheat because they're too lazy to hunt?
They mean it banishes bad humors, supposedly.
I still think bloodletting is more effective.