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I’m just inside doing my economic activity in a very normal world and climate!
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Jul 6, 2023 17:52
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imo the thing to stockpile isn't perishable foods but things that would be incredibly hard to get in your local area - equipment and tools, chemicals, poo poo like that. also you'll never use it, it'll just be bethesda-tier environmental storytelling for when someone finds your skeleton among the rusted-to-dust remains and sells your waterlogged textbooks for a handful of caps
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Jul 6, 2023 18:13
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SixteenShells posted:imo the thing to stockpile isn't perishable foods but things that would be incredibly hard to get in your local area - equipment and tools, chemicals, poo poo like that. also you'll never use it, it'll just be bethesda-tier environmental storytelling for when someone finds your skeleton among the rusted-to-dust remains and sells your waterlogged textbooks for a handful of caps indeed. don't forget to leave an ipad hooked up to a solar panel beside your skeleton, open to your posting history
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Jul 6, 2023 18:14
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SixteenShells posted:imo the thing to stockpile isn't perishable foods but things that would be incredibly hard to get in your local area - equipment and tools, chemicals, poo poo like that. also you'll never use it, it'll just be bethesda-tier environmental storytelling for when someone finds your skeleton among the rusted-to-dust remains and sells your waterlogged textbooks for a handful of caps you'll wanna stockpile these, their usefulness cannot be overstated 
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Jul 6, 2023 18:15
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are those weights for a gilllnet
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Jul 6, 2023 18:16
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JAY ZERO SUM GAME posted:are those weights for a gilllnet look at this idiot who doesn't know what the dodecahedra are for
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Jul 6, 2023 18:19
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i think you put dog treats in there so your dog can entertain itself chasing it around if you die not required if you have a cat though, as all cat owners know deep down how it's gonna play out if Mittens outlives them (e: the ones with really big holes are for really dumb lazy dogs)
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Jul 6, 2023 18:20
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JAY ZERO SUM GAME posted:are those weights for a gilllnet as good a guess as any! the romans left them everywhere
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Jul 6, 2023 18:25
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The Oldest Man posted:look at this idiot who doesn't know what the dodecahedra are for 
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Jul 6, 2023 18:26
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celadon posted:you'll wanna stockpile these, their usefulness cannot be overstated I'm not falling for that Cenobite bullshit again. No thank you. It was 26ºC in my office today. A/C be hosed, especially since it was only 21ºC outside...
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Jul 6, 2023 18:30
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Jul 6, 2023 18:30
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Jul 6, 2023 18:31
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Are they for standardizing stuff? Maybe the holes are for like the sizes of dowels or whatever we're using around here
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Jul 6, 2023 18:35
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Real Mean Queen posted:Are they for standardizing stuff? Maybe the holes are for like the sizes of dowels or whatever we're using around here They're dick sizers
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Jul 6, 2023 18:37
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celadon posted:you'll wanna stockpile these, their usefulness cannot be overstated ah yes the three seashells 
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Jul 6, 2023 18:41
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Real Mean Queen posted:Are they for standardizing stuff? Maybe the holes are for like the sizes of dowels or whatever we're using around here They are mysterious roman origin artifacts of which there is no surviving description or explanation so people just make up poo poo about them. This was gone over in a half dozen different GBS threads because of that weirdo who founded an entire company on his idea that they were used for 3D fluid modeling of sling projectiles by sealing them with wax so he designed his own $5,000 box of water to connect to computers that was supposed to be able to perfectly model things with ancient roman techniques he claimed to have rediscovered. I can't find it now but he came to the forums for one of them to have a breakdown.
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Jul 6, 2023 18:42
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Rectal Death Adept posted:They are mysterious roman origin artifacts of which there is no surviving description or explanation so people just make up poo poo about them. 
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Jul 6, 2023 18:45
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celadon posted:you'll wanna stockpile these, their usefulness cannot be overstated They’re for making socks. Seriously. every time some scientist gets all excited a bunch of grandmas go THEY ARE FOR MAKING SOCKS but no one listens because socks are way less cool than Atlantean hydrodynamic calculators or whatever. https://youtu.be/76AvV601yJ0
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Jul 6, 2023 18:53
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Hubbert posted:ah yes the three seashells Lmao
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Jul 6, 2023 18:53
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Rectal Death Adept posted:They are mysterious roman origin artifacts of which there is no surviving description or explanation so people just make up poo poo about them. Fuckin incredible
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Jul 6, 2023 18:54
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occluded posted:They’re for making socks. Seriously. every time some scientist gets all excited a bunch of grandmas go THEY ARE FOR MAKING SOCKS but no one listens because socks are way less cool than Atlantean hydrodynamic calculators or whatever. except there’s no reference to spool knitting until the 1500s and bronze was hella expensive to make tools for knitting with
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Jul 6, 2023 19:01
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im pretty sure they were doohickeys. having one made you the coolest guy in your regiment. theyre like impossible to counterfeit unless youre a skilled bronzesmith, portable, ladies love them, men want to be the man who has one, etc. can use as a store of value. can tie a string to them and do beyblades. lots of options
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Jul 6, 2023 19:04
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occluded posted:They’re for making socks. Seriously. every time some scientist gets all excited a bunch of grandmas go THEY ARE FOR MAKING SOCKS but no one listens because socks are way less cool than Atlantean hydrodynamic calculators or whatever. “When I was a student at Cambridge I remember an anthropology professor holding up a picture of a bone with 28 incisions carved in it. 'This is often considered to be man’s first attempt at a calendar' she explained. She paused as we dutifully wrote this down. ‘My question to you is this – what man needs to mark 28 days? I would suggest to you that this is woman’s first attempt at a calendar.’”
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Jul 6, 2023 19:06
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celadon posted:im pretty sure they were doohickeys. having one made you the coolest guy in your regiment. theyre like impossible to counterfeit unless youre a skilled bronzesmith, portable, ladies love them, men want to be the man who has one, etc. can use as a store of value. can tie a string to them and do beyblades. lots of options before crypto bros there were dodecahedron bros
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Jul 6, 2023 19:09
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https://twitter.com/99blackbaloons/status/1676701417589862400?s=20 ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Jul 6, 2023 19:13
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Trabisnikof posted:except there’s no reference to spool knitting until the 1500s and bronze was hella expensive to make tools for knitting with ah yes, records missing from the extremely well-documented area of women's crafts, how damning \/\/ holy poo poo celadon, hits for days
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Jul 6, 2023 19:14
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tuyop posted:ah yes, records missing from the extremely well-documented area of women's crafts, how darning
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Jul 6, 2023 19:15
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Perry Mason Jar posted:https://twitter.com/99blackbaloons/status/1676701417589862400?s=20 gently caress trees, they've never done poo poo for me
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Jul 6, 2023 19:18
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Perry Mason Jar posted:https://twitter.com/99blackbaloons/status/1676701417589862400?s=20 this is just the earth balding, its totally natural
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Jul 6, 2023 19:20
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I saw some TV show that landed on the dodecahedrons were used for surveying. The different sized holes were references for standard sized targets at different distances. Seemed reasonable to me. I do like the idea of Roman grannies using them for socks tho 
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Jul 6, 2023 19:29
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Rectal Death Adept posted:They are mysterious roman origin artifacts of which there is no surviving description or explanation so people just make up poo poo about them. They're dick sizers, you put your dick in them to get your standardized roman dick size
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Jul 6, 2023 19:35
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can someone add these to cow tools
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Jul 6, 2023 19:35
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The Oldest Man posted:They're dick sizers, you put your dick in them to get your standardized roman dick size perfect for your gladius
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Jul 6, 2023 19:37
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Perry Mason Jar posted:https://twitter.com/99blackbaloons/status/1676701417589862400?s=20 Actually it's fine 
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Jul 6, 2023 19:37
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tuyop posted:ah yes, records missing from the extremely well-documented area of women's crafts, how damning sure but that doesn't mean we should assume "those dumb historians never considered it was for socks" when they have, and there are issues with that theory too. like knitting is estimated to have been invented in the 3rd to 5th century AD and the doohickies are from 2nd to 4th centuries AD. this is why history is fun to study, you can keep wondering forever on some things. lol
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Jul 6, 2023 19:46
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also it is insane to consider how many things took a long as time to be invented and propagate, like it took until the 12th century AD for homes to get chimneys in england. we could lose the last 500 years of tech and still have a bunch of incredibly powerful technologies that took thousands of years to propagate the first time. its going to be hard to undo the existence of an understanding of 0 or of pi.
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Jul 6, 2023 19:50
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its gonna be REALLY cool if records management becomes fully digital and we lose the ability to transfer knowledge to future generations after a potential collapse of global industrial civilization just getting big mad at fancy broken rock + metal mosiacs that we once shot electricity through for the wisdom they contained
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Jul 6, 2023 20:37
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intact smartphones will become valuable as true black mirrors
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Jul 6, 2023 20:40
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jokes on you i never understood 0 or pi in the first place
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Jul 6, 2023 20:44
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Trabisnikof posted:also it is insane to consider how many things took a long as time to be invented and propagate, like it took until the 12th century AD for homes to get chimneys in england. england forgot how to make bricks when the romans left and took their brick making knowledge ("put mud in a square") with them how we managed to come back from that and take over a quarter of the world is beyond me
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Jul 6, 2023 20:50
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