Here's an amazing detail:
Aboard the ship were many copper ingots. When trying to get these to the surface, they found them to have lost their structural integrity after spending over 3,000 years at the bottom of the sea.
So what they did was inject them with a special glue that hardens under water (!). It took about a year for the glue to settle, but after that they were able to get the copper ingots to the surface in more or less one piece.
https://maritimehistorypodcast.com/ep-016-old-money-the-uluburun-and-gelidonya-wrecks/
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I'm reading about the Uluburun shipwreck. Found in 1982 near Cyprus by a local sponge diver, it is the oldest found shipwreck in the world which still resembles the original ship and cargo.
It's dated to about 1300 BC, which puts it right in the middle of what we now call "the late bronze age".
Before this ship was discovered, scholars were sceptical about there being much international trade such a long time ago, but the find has changed that thinking.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uluburun_shipwreck
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I can't log into Trello, but before I can contact support about my issue, I first have to log into Trello lol
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Why anyone ever dropped the smiley-face-as-a-progress-bar is the real mystery of our time
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Nobody calls you "the gangster of love", Maurice
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Someone made a tool that lets you put an image on an animated flag, and I think that's great: https://krikienoid.github.io/flagwaver/
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Can't wait to be invited on a Summoning Salt video
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I have one (1) record on speedrun.com and it's this one: https://www.speedrun.com/test_drive_ii_the_duel
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B.A. Baracus: can I please have the van this weekend?
BA's mom: what, again??
BA: I promised the boys we could use it
BA's mom: I told you to get away from them, BA. These people are not a good influence on you. What do they do for a living anyway? Have I met their parents?
BA: moooom
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So if you're looking for something to do... maybe have a go at figuring this out? 😅
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"Linear A" is the name given to an undeciphered language / writing system used on the Greek island of Crete between roughly 1800 and 1450 BC.
It evolved into "Linear B", which was deciphered in the 1950s by an enthusiast.
"Linear A shares many glyphs and alloglyphs with Linear B, and the syllabic glyphs are thought to notate similar syllabic values, but none of the proposed readings lead to a language that scholars can read."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_A
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Today marks the 3 year anniversary of me releasing this absolute masterpiece: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nc-twjCSxYA
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Made a quick little sailing exploration sim using Civilization 1 assets: https://martijnfrazer.nl/sailingsim/
I'll probably expand upon it later, but given the fact there are barely any features in yet (you can sail on land) it's already surprisingly fun.
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What I've learned from the first chapter is that in 1750 BC in what is now Syria, people collected ice in special store rooms, in order to put it into their drinks in the summertime.
They know this because in one clay tablet that was found, someone complains the ice wasn't cleaned properly, so dirt and twigs made it into their drink.
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Time for some light reading
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The other day at a petrol station I let a customer go in front of me. The attendant saw it and when I paid he gave me four (4) sweets.
He didn't say anything. Just smiled at me and handed me four individually wrapped marshmallows.
As if I'm some sort of child. I'm a 40+ year old man though.
Still took the sweets of course lol
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The most exciting thing about the Nintendo Switch 2 is that it doesn't seem to have any AI features
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Max Miller of the YouTube channel Tasting History (which is excellent in general) made a great video today about the Dutch famine of 1945 and it tells the history well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yC89TJHHCWg
Although many Dutch people know about "the hunger winter", it's apparently not something people outside of NL are very familiar with.
Definitely something worth watching and/or learning about, I'd say.
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If you are a UK resident or British citizen and care about preserving video games, please consider signing this petition: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/702074
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Once in a while I do a little test to see if AI has learned how to count yet and the answer is a resounding 'no'.
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