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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.

CODE OF LAWS

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 Hammurabi, the protecting king am I. I have not withdrawn myself from the men, whom Bel gave to me, the rule over whom Marduk gave to me, I was not negligent, but I made them a peaceful abiding-place.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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[–] DancingBear@midwest.social -5 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (9 children)

Y’all are severely overestimating unarmed humans. It’s ridiculous, unless the gorilla is sleeping. 15-20 men could dogpile the gorilla and it would just stand up and swat ten other men down with one arm.

The gorilla could charge the group like silverbacks seem to always do, half the men would instantly be incapacitated.

The gorilla could take one guy, lift him by his head swinging him around to beat all the other men, or just rip the guys legs off and then use the legs as weapons.

The gorilla could climb a tree and then take a nap, and any of the guys who tried to climb the tree would fall to their deaths.

With spears or sticks or rocks the men would win, but without any weapons, it’s dumb to think the men even have a chance….

In real life… a hundred men could scare a gorilla away, as long as the gorilla didn’t realize they were unarmed.

[–] caoimhinr@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago (4 children)

Biologist Dirk Draulans commented on this topic and his conclusion was that the first 10 to 20 people would be cannon fodder who'd get their limbs ripped off, but after two minutes the gorilla would tire and be overpowered. Similar to running it's humans their endurance that wins over explosiveness.

[–] MotoAsh@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (3 children)

If we allow for skilled fighters, I bet only a handful would even suffer serious injury before the gorilla was either tired out or choked to the floor. Gorillas aren't that much bigger than a healthy male unless you're only pulling from Indonesia or something ridiculous like that. 300-500lbs vs 180-200lbs. All the doubters are clearly imagining a 2000lb killing machine... (hell someone else was comparing them to mammoths!)

[–] DancingBear@midwest.social -1 points 4 days ago (2 children)

The best of our fighters all 20-30 of them immediately die ok I’ll agree

[–] squaresinger@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

handful seriously injured equals 20-30 killed to you? Let me guess, maths isn't your biggest strength?

[–] MotoAsh@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

Obstinance doesn't make you correct. It makes you a dunce.

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