• @TootSweet
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    218 months ago

    My mother got really interested in these things a while ago. I think she mostly buys into the glove-knitting theory. Whatever the case, I 3D printed her a model of one and it’s sitting on the mantle over her fireplace.

    • @[email protected]
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      428 months ago

      Archaeologists in 2000 years will be puzzled again. “Plastic dodecahedra found near broken mantelpieces, what could it be used for? Anyway I made one out of technetium for my grandma”

      • @[email protected]
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        188 months ago

        “It was probably either religious in nature, or used for deciding when to put seeds in the ground”

        • @[email protected]
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          188 months ago

          “Many same-sex friends had these. We believe it was a sign to show they were just roommates”

      • @iAvicenna
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        38 months ago

        possibly used to start the primal source of heat called fire

    • Tar_Alcaran
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      88 months ago

      I 3D printed her a model of one and it’s sitting on the mantle over her fireplace.

      That kinda hints to it not being very useful then…