I feel like Ea-nasir was probably a fictional character? like it was some 17th century BCE scribal school exercise to write a letter to a merchant about his copper being bad, and that’s why there were so many texts all complaining about the same guy’s shitty copper. I mostly think this because many of the other ancient mesopotamian texts we have appear to be part of a scribal curriculum called the Decad, and they are apparently also found in large volumes together. but admittedly i don’t have any more defensible reasons to believe this, it’s just a hunch
Americans making up the weird-ass fake name “Waldo” instead of using the real normal name “Wally” that the rest of the world uses is so strange
It’s German. The early population of America was heavily German – with no overseas colonies of their own, the German diaspora (starting before German unification, of course) spread through the Americas – the thing about Nazis expatriating to Argentina postwar was that was the most advanced Germanophone community outside the WWII combatants – but a serious ethnosuppressionist campaign around entry to WWI has obscured this ever since.
“Oh in the ‘10s the culture’s courtship practices totally collapse, but decent autistic queer ones actually develop, and then in the '20s you turn queer and out to have been autistic all along” actually a pretty good synecdoche of my cultural whiplash lately
I still can’t believe that Thomas Andrews the man who designed the Titanic ship sank with it and 111 years later, Stockton Rush the person who designed the Titanic submarine also sank with it at the same spot
i could see myself getting really into sanitation i just lovee when things are cleaned and collected and organized and transferred and so on what is it about waste management that just makes sense
It’s also an often-overlooked necessary function such that by establishing hegemony over it you can exert substantial influence on the broader society. The Italian and American Mafias both leveraged this!
