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Illustrations of history

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Castle defenders pouring hot sand through a murder-hole to injure the attackers below (infosec.pub)
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[โ€“] TwoBeeSan@lemmy.world 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

How could we make sand worse?

[โ€“] PugJesus@lemmy.world 9 points 4 months ago

All it needs now are sand fleas that can survive the high temperatures, and we have ourselves sand at Maximum Weaponization(tm)