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A rather well informed write-up on the uses of Mercuric Cyanide, it's uses for syphilis and side effects. Of interest because if you read the full unedited version of Casanova's Memoirs you'll realize how indispensable it was for him. And Boswell and a host of other classical older writers...
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Then, on reddit, there was this supposedly sincere posting wondering if his "rock" was in fact an ancient artifact, and what kind of rock it was. The rock:
User was querying what type of rock it was, and could it have been a pestle?
Most definitely a pestle, but allow me to describe the mortar...
I've not heard of any North American Examples; but there are plenty of Paleolithic dildos found dating back to 30,000 years or more, all over Europe, Africa, Asia, etc, etc. So it should be no surprise that there would be a few here as well...
The funniest thing was how many comments accurately told him what it was, only to have their comments deleted by the moderator for being "juvenile" or "puerile".
Anyways, that would have been a great post for "Legit Artefacts" or "Artefact Porn" - !!! really, just on the wrong sub. But damn, that ups my game, no more hunting the arrowheads and the jade adze, I need to find a paleolithic dildo for my collection....
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Not my thing, but a couple of diverging articles on the net the past week have somewhat amused me.
The first, a small town in Japan has made trading cards out of the middle aged men that live there, highlighting their roles in the community and volunteer efforts. This, in an effort to connect the generations, apparently it's proven highly successful and made celebrities of the men profiled.
Link: https://www.tokyoweekender.com/entertainment/middle-aged-man-trading-cards-go-viral-in-japan/
The second, I'm presuming, is an American who's created a 54 card deck entitled "Enemies of Democracy", by Todd Alcott, a sanguine look at American Politics...
Link: https://www.instagram.com/p/DHy-T35ySq4/?img_index=2
Different nations, different cultural values and priorities...
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And having been barraged every time I sign in with warnings to update my version of Joomla!,I finally did.
Here it is.
Yeah, I'm liking the lines, but there's some issues and I wouldn't define this as a "seamless migration", although I did ignore plenty of warnings...
Over time it will come back. Not the same, a little bit different, who knows, better even.
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My Facebook is filled with these, "mysteries" that upon the slightest examination prove to be no mystery at all.
For example, the melted steps within the Temple of Hathor in Egypt. According to the link on Facebook, and (briefly) on Reddit - "it would take 4k degrees fahrenheit (2204 celsius)to melt stone. That's a little less than the surface temperature of the sun."
Wow! That's proof of Ancient Aliens, or a Meteorite, or Nuclear War, or Atlantis, or something.
Only a single Google search reveals the steps are carved from Limestone - specifically travertine, which as the rain washed into the temple over thousands of years ran down the steps, both removing the limestone and redepositing it, in a process very similar to what you find in Caves.
So no mystery at all, the mystery being how people are too lazy to do the most remedial of research and come to an intelligent and informed conclusion, preferring to spread disinformation.
..That said, you heard the latest regarding 5G and the activation of the Covid shots?