Innovation : comicstrips

[–] [email protected] 76 points 10 months ago

Post this shit on LinkedIn and watch them lap it up

[–] [email protected] 29 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The whipping continues until moral improves

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago

moral improves

Not sure if that was intentional, but I suppose it's technically correct.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 10 months ago (1 children)

What does he think is above his head in the third panel?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago (2 children)

The Dendera Light, obviously.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

I see Milo, I upvote

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

"Please tell me this links to Miniminuteman"

Awwe yiss. Great channel

[+] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (6 children)

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 10 months ago (2 children)

It could be that comic strips are not the best place to learn about ancient history.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago

Surprised Pikachu face dot jpg

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I mean, you say that, but whenever they get posted to Lemmy, there's always someone in the comments sharing the facts. 🙃

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I like that though

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Yeah, me too.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

Wheels and sand don’t mix well together, so I guess it’s unlikely they used wheels for transportation.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

The wheel (for transportation) is really a concomitant of stable roads existing. Really wheels only work on flat, paved surfaces. The "invention" of the wheel isn't the stroke of genius that pop culture likes to portray it as. It's just something that follows from having the right environment. The Romans for instance built and maintained widespread road networks throughout Europe to quickly move troops to the front lines. It turns out that those roads also were a tremendous boon for traders and travellers using carts.

Comic's still funny though.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

The theory I learnt in school was that they placed the bricks on a row of tree trunks that served as "wheels" or rather, a type of conveyor belt.
The trunk that was freed at the back by pulling the brick forward was placed in front again. Not sure if that's still the current theory.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

They did not need it for transport. They had camels. Much more useful in a sandy desert.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago

Camels were not introduced to Egypt until the Persians invaded in 525 BCE.

They dragged things on sledges with someone wetting the sand in front of them.

We have no doubt about that.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Actually almost all of the people in ancient Egypt lived in the Nile river delta, because of the fertile soil. As such they mostly used boats to transport things up and down the river. They also used a lot of ships for trading with other lands along the Mediterranean coast. For smaller local transport carts were used, as they didn't live in a desert environment, but instead in a lush agricultural land.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

furtive soil

Well that explains the desertification I guess.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Oops autocorrect, fixed

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

*autocorrupt

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

**autocarrot

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Yea because wheels suck on sand.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Super random question. Does anyone know what it's called when you stick your tongue out like that when concentrating? It seems so prevalent n cartoons or comics

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

Worst part is, given the lack of leverage, that whip might cause less damage, and possibly even do what the driver thinks it will; speed up the enslaved people. But it won't be for the reasons the slaver expected it to.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Sigh...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

AI, that you?

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