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Really Shitty Copper

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A community dedicated to making fun of Ea-Nasir, a Sumerian merchant circa 1750 BC, who sold exceptionally poor quality copper.

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[–] nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org 14 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

slaps the keyboard

This one here can record all the grain.

[–] teft@piefed.social 6 points 4 days ago

And beer. Don’t forget the beer.

[–] LeFrog@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 4 days ago

starts to write down double the amount of corn with each field of this cool new game that Sissa ibn Dahir mentioned

[–] Whostosay@sh.itjust.works 8 points 4 days ago

Can't wait to leave a bad review for some copper online

[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 4 days ago

When you need to write some snowcrash code

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 3 days ago

Wasn't it an ideographic text? Is this like a Cangjie-type system?

I'm actually kind sus that it might be cuneiform-shaped gibberish.