What kind of broad gives directions to her place using nocturnal star navigation?
The kind who doesn't want you to find them, that's who.
this post was submitted on 23 Dec 2024
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The Internet in Ancient Times
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Welcome to the stone age... or the bronze age... or the iron age... heck, anything with an 'age' is welcome, except our modern age or any ages to come.
This is about what the internet was like thousands of years ago back when it all started. Like when Darius the Great hired mercenaries via Craigslist or when Egypt invented emojis.
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1 - Be civil. No name calling, no fighting, keep your flint hand axes inside your leather pouches at all times.
2 - Keep the AI stuff to a minimum. It gets annoying and old fashioned memes are more fun for everyone.
3 - None of this newfangled modern 21st century nonsense. We don't even know what "21st century" means.
4 - No porn/explicit content. The king is sensitive about these things.
5 - No lemmy.world TOS violations will be tolerated. So there.
6 - There is no ~~rule~~ law 6.
Laws of justice which Hammurabi, the wise king, established. A righteous law, and pious statute did he teach the land. Hammurabi, the protecting king am I. I have not withdrawn myself from the men, whom Bel gave to me, the rule over whom Marduk gave to me, I was not negligent, but I made them a peaceful abiding-place. I expounded all great difficulties, I made the light shine upon them. With the mighty weapons which Zamama and Ishtar entrusted to me, with the keen vision with which Ea endowed me, with the wisdom that Marduk gave me, I have uprooted the enemy above and below (in north and south), subdued the earth, brought prosperity to the land, guaranteed security to the inhabitants in their homes; a disturber was not permitted. The great gods have called me, I am the salvation-bearing shepherd, whose staff is straight, the good shadow that is spread over my city; on my breast I cherish the inhabitants of the land of Sumer and Akkad; in my shelter I have let them repose in peace; in my deep wisdom have I enclosed them. That the strong might not injure the weak, in order to protect the widows and orphans, I have in Babylon the city where Anu and Bel raise high their head, in E-Sagil, the Temple, whose foundations stand firm as heaven and earth, in order to bespeak justice in the land, to settle all disputes, and heal all injuries, set up these my precious words, written upon my memorial stone, before the image of me, as king of righteousness.
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Just keep going west until you meet a bunch of dudes wearing SPQR branded swag, they'll be able to point you further
We keep telling you, and this is the fourth time in three years that you’ve fallen for this, but this is a classic messiah scam.
People like getting expensive shit for free when they have a baby, right? And they fawned all over the “wisdom” of you and your two buddies? Asked you to go visit the “virgin” mother and her new little “king”?
Come on, FS. You have to see it! You’ve been played!
Come back inside and have a warm cup of spiced mead and some mutton by the fire. I’ll read you the Epic of Gilgamesh before bed.
Oh sure, I've heard it all before. He's not the messiah, he's a very naughty boy. Fool me once, shame on you, fool me four times... you can't get fooled again.
smh, you magi ain't what you used to be
Yeah well you try hauling all this frankincense and myrrh around everywhere and see if you still have a good sense of direction when you're constantly inhaling those fumes.
Okay - when the sun comes up in the morning, stand up with your shadow in front of you on the ground. Pick out as distant a landscape feature as you can see directly in front of you. If you have to, choose one that is a bit to your left, but not one that is a bit to your right. Walk towards that feature. Repeat as necessary.
As the morning gets older, your shadow will begin to turn to your left. Continue to use the most distant landscape feature as your guide as long as you can. When your shadow is directly to your left, stop for lunch. (If you have reached your landscape feature before that happens, stop and wait for that to happen. You can put a stick in the ground and draw a line in the dirt of your direction so you don't forget.)
Now pick out your next landscape feature, while your shadow is directly to your left. Walk towards that feature, repeating picking out a new feature as necessary. (You can also make sure you're going in a straight line if you're able to keep the previous feature directly behind you.) At sundown, your direction should be roughly into the sunset, a little to its left is fine, a little to its right is not. Put another stick in the ground, draw your destination line on the ground, and put up camp for the night.
Congratulations, you have just traveled west for one day.
(The above applies if you are north of the equator. If you are south of the equator, reverse the left and right advisories.)
If it was DUE west, we wouldn't be following a STAR, now would we.
It's like you've never even suffered the wrath of god by getting something wrong. Do you want boils? This is how you get boils.
I mean, how the fuck does your stupid god expect you to travel halfway across the world where there are no roads following a star, at night??? Everyone knows you have to travel during the day; it's too dark at night. You'd run afoul of dangerous obstacles and highwaymen.
At least this way, you can get started going generally west until the weather clears up.
I have nothing else to say, nobody should be here doing your homework for you, install Linux, n00b.
You are just begging for a smiting. You're gonna be smote so hard.
Don't smite me, bro!
just pray and sacrifice an animal lil vro just like the rest of us
Duh, the star won't guide you if you don't have your gold, frankensense, and myrrh 🙄. Go back, get it, and try again.
Nothing interesting that way. Just a stupid baby. You can see those anywhere.