Anselm ΘΔ 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️: I love the whole Ea-Nasir copper thing. thousands of years ago go there was a small-time fraudster who went “oh I’ll get away with this” And thousands of years later people in lands beyond any horizon Ea-Nasir ever saw using tech that would seem like magic to him are mercilessly dunking on him

I love the whole Ea-Nasir copper thing. thousands of years ago go there was a small-time fraudster who went “oh I’ll get away with this” And thousands of years later people in lands beyond any horizon Ea-Nasir ever saw using tech that would seem like magic to him are mercilessly dunking on him

I've been laughing at this for 3+ weeks

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also sorry to @anselmhare.bsky.social whose v funny original post i did not mean to hijack with a meme, i didn't realise it would blow up like that!!!

beautiful. I’m gonna get this framed

Ea-nāṣir jokes are like high-quality copper ingots. Not everybody gets them.

I want to return this joke.

(Not mine)

Oh my god lmao

Great one. 👏👏👏 ...but in fairnes for the record the illicit transaction happened in 2021. So the gag, although not 'current', can be said to be 'evergreen'. It is real though, yes. (mining dot com link because bloomberg has a paywall) www.mining.com/web/trader-b...

thanks for keeping it fair for the record. we were all writing down that this happened in 2024, because that was a big part of the message, before you corrected it.

OH MY GOD HE'S BACK

I think I made a GIF about that guy youtu.be/qEntenBtwT8

Ea-Nasir's Predator Handshakeyoutu.be Ea's nowhere near the worst of the two

Omg 😆

Oldest scam in the book and those rubes fell for it

ooh that's a good idea

The internet's greatest main character.

I think he’d be pleased at his fame…

Yeah, the sort of person who carefully preserves complaints *about* them would think this is great.

“There is only one thing worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.” (Ea Nasir, later quoted by Oscar Wilde)

I love the Ea-Nasir sitch so much Imagine doing a shitty job at something, and being remembered for it 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘩𝘶𝘮𝘢𝘯 𝘩𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺

4067, off of the Pleiades: a Bunny Posthuman frowns at the data from the dropsonde fired at a Planetoid and says “not worth it. Worst copper deposit I’ve ever seen. Ea-Nasir would be all over this”

this is the unfortunate counterpoint to when people try to be helpful by saying "in a hundred years who's gonna care" about a mistake you've made

200 years from now, people using Comcast’s™️ BluexTwit™️ Powered By ExxonPotle™️ are gonna know my name because I mixed up characters in an angry YouTube comment.

Was the grink there?

I don’t understand the reference but don’t want to leave you hanging

wasn't there a whole thing where the complaint letter was found *inside ea-nasir's house* so in fact not only did he scam people with poor quality goods, he kept their complaints at home to gloat over

Yes read this somewhere too! And we’re talking stone tablets here, it’s not like he kept them in a file on his computer.😅

In a catacomb in Rome we were shown a tombstone. The guide said the owner was a rich commoner who wanted to sound smart so had the inscription in Greek, but he didn’t know Greek, so it’s the Roman version of a bad Google translation. All we know of this guy now is his pretentious error.

In 2019 I wrote about a painter in ancient Egypt who left a smudge on the wall of a tomb. "There, barely distinguishable against the white limestone brick is a small black smudge: a fingerprint."

Black Smudgesmichaelscotthand.com Earlier this year, a tomb was discovered in the Egyptian necropolis of Saqqara, a “stone’s throw” from the Pyramid of Pharaoh Djedkare Isesi. Down a robust wooden ladder into a darkness where the ligh...

The year is 2905 Hhbomberguy releases a new video exposing the source of the copper coloured rock

We only have the tablets complaining about his copper because he literally saved them himself (multiple complaint tablets found in what is presumed be be his home.) (I imagine him going into his hate mail room periodically to reread old mail and just be like : "yes. Let the hate flow through you")

Hate mail and his receipts for his clothing purchases. But yeah, hardly small-time. Guy was working a LOT of scams...

Also, saved clay tablets likely wouldn't have survived unless they'd been fired in a kiln. So why are all these tablets he saved still around? Two possibilities I can think of: - he wanted to keep them, so fired them himself, OR - he pissed people off enough that they burned his office down

if I recall correctly his house burned, but actually there are plenty of unfired clay tablets. Clay mostly keeps its shape even when wet as long as it doesn't get disturbed. I've found mammoth footprints in blue clay that were ~12 thousand years old next to a river, so they were plenty wet

The mammoth prints were at a site where mammoths and other megafauna would ford the river, same site had baby mastodon molars, bison let teeth, and sloth prints and claws. The prints were a lighter blue in darker blue clay

Wasn’t it so you could sort of chisel the original message off and use it for another message?

No. Clay tablets were written on while wet. While you could potentially rehydrate dried clay for reuse, fired clay - not so much. Chiseling a clay tablet would likely result in breaking it - which would be super frustrating if you were writing a complaint to a certain copper merchant.

Ahh ok, thanks! Then I understand even less his obsession of collecting them😂. “Why, yes, this is the chamber of complaints in my home”

Is it possible it was legally required for record-keeping purposes? There's a joke that "lawyer" is the world's second-oldest profession. :)

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I just love how with the first record we all thought he was the victim of the first Karen. But then when more records were uncovered it was obvious he was a huckster. Plot twists abound in history.

Ancient equivalent of a used car salesman accidentally being responsible for the invention of warp drives

"The Highwayman" but it's ea-nasir coming back as various fraudsters through history

To be fair, we only remember him because he kept all the complaint tablets in his house so maybe it's what he would've wanted. I can imagine him in his old age reading a tablet from someone he screwed long ago and having a nice chuckle from fond memories.

It's brilliant. No matter how unimportant we might feel, there is _always_ a chance that someday, someway, the echoes of our existence will resound.