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I love the whole Ea-Nasir copper thing. thousands of years ago go there was a small-time fraudster who went β€œoh 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
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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!!!
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Ea-nāṣir jokes are like high-quality copper ingots. Not everybody gets them.
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I want to return this joke.
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Great one. πŸ‘πŸ‘πŸ‘ ...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...
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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.
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Oldest scam in the book and those rubes fell for it
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The internet's greatest main character.