Also, she might say she’s all that, but she ain’t.

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    Is this real?

    Edit: apparently it’s real, folks

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      So for any one else wondering, I went looking for receipts and it seems to check out. Source material claims to be affiliated with the University of Oxford. The database is difficult to navigate, but i was able to find this link to the 4.08.16 english text.

      https://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/cgi-bin/etcsl.cgi?text=t.4.08.16&display=Crit&charenc=&lineid=t40816.p1#t40816.p1

      Even as someone who is way out of depth, the database is interesting to explore.

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        It’s honestly astounding how many cuneiform tablets (and fragments of tablets) we have. Multiple ancient libraries full of tablets have been excavated. Now cuneiform was just a system of writing like our Latin alphabet, so they are in all sorts of languages, but we know so much more about those cultures than others of the time because they were writing on clay, then they baked the clay. That makes it last.

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_libraries_in_the_ancient_world#Ancient_Near_East

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            If this interests you, sci-fi author and astrophysicist Gregory Benford did a deep dive into the subject some years back after being put on a committee to try to decide how to mark a nuclear waste storage site as unsafe even if humanity collapses and written language is forgotten.

            https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2014020.Deep_Time

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              I think there’s a huge difference between a knowledge repository and a nuclear waste storage facility immediacy is a major factor here as well as the sample size of writing

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          It makes me wonder if in a thousand years anything written on any hard drive will be rescuable?

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            They won’t. There is some research into long term data storage, though. DNA can be recoverable for almost geological time periods without any special facility providing an optimal environment. There is some work on encoding information directly to DNA.

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            No. I plugged in a Quantum Fireball drive (~1997, about 9 GB), (IDE to SATA3) bridge and tried to extract the data from it.

            The drive platter promptly crashed into the head, the platter shattered, and then a full short began drawing maximum amperage and melting the IDE slot.

            So the platter blew up and the drive caught (indirect) fire.

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    Lord Dumuzi: look at this tablet this total babe sent me

    ???: dumuzi you don’t have a gf

    Lord Dumuzi: no i totally do, she wants me to fill her churn with honey cheese

    ???: no girl would ever chisel that. You made your scribe do that

    Lord Dumuzi: maybe they wouldn’t chisel that to you, but i’ve had lots of babes tell me to fill their churn with honey cheese.

    ???: ok who is she then?

    Lord Dumuzi: uhh you don’t know her… she goes to another ziggurat

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      Spit on dat thang.

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    Fill my holy churn with honey cheese was my user bio back on Reddit.

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      Are you single? Do you have any money? Answer the second question first.

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      Your ideas intrigue me and I wish to subscribe to your onlyfans.

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    Well, obviously, this is not meant to be taken literally. It refers to any manufacturers of dairy products.

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        If the king doesn’t want to know the answer he shouldn’t ask the question…