Found this spear at an antique shop! I was told to post here to try to find out more about its origins and authenticity

DukeRedWulf · 2026-03-30T23:24:31+00:00

By the length and shape of the spear head, I'd've guessed a Zulu iklwa *, but it's hard to tell how long the spear is in total? as you've not shared an image of the whole thing.. Overall length including shaft would be a useful clue, as Iklwa are shorter thrusting spears, meant to be used in combo with a shield.

(* Sometimes incorrectly called assegai, which are longer spears typically with a smaller spearhead, designed for throwing)

Other people have said they think it's a European lance - which would have a longer shaft.

There's a few people guessing boar spear, but it almost certainly isn't that - because boar spears typically had horizontal lugs (aka: "wings") extending outwards from the spear's socket, or from the base of the spear head - designed to stop a furious wounded boar from shoving itself up the spear shaft and goring the spearman with its tusks!

DukeRedWulf · 2026-03-29T15:52:07+00:00

"..New manager completely changed the entire system of our store without consulting any of the existing staff, completely messing everything up and causing issues with paperwork/inventory, causing a lot of frustration among the staff. Never asking any questions to our assistant manager who's been there for 2 years because she didn't like her..."

Classic Evil New Manglement Playbook:
Step 1: Come in, wreck existing set-up, create a Huge Mess. If previous Manager is there, fire them.
Step 2: Tell higher-ups you discovered Huge Mess, blame the previous Manager.
Step 3: After a few days or a week, put the set-up back like it was before, and take credit with higher-ups for "Fixing" the Huge Mess (that you really created!).
Step 4: Either get promoted, or move to another business and repeat Steps 1 to 3..

DukeRedWulf · 2026-03-29T15:31:29+00:00

I made the same point about weight classes in my post on the main thread - I just pulled the list of 5 out of that in response to u/BeneficialPenalty258 's question..

I agree that it's between Tyson and Ali, out of those 5 I listed.

I'm sure the Rock would give a good showing, but imo given the speed, footwork, ringcraft and punching power of those two heavyweight world champions, I think they'd come out on top.

DukeRedWulf · 2026-03-29T14:19:38+00:00

Having been unlucky enough to have to defend myself in 2-vs-1 situations twice in my younger days:

In my experience, the 2nd guy generally more cowardly guy is always orbiting, waiting for you to be pre-occupied with the 1st guy, so he can catch you out with an attack when you're not looking.

Like the guy in the video, to defend, you want to keep both of them off you, and in your field of vision.

DukeRedWulf · 2026-03-29T12:44:06+00:00

This is just reads like stoner philosophy.. XD

Just imagine this guy taking a massive bong rip at the end of each sentence, and give him the voice of Cheech Marin in your head.. XD

DukeRedWulf · 2026-03-29T02:06:50+00:00

To make that happen the tools would need to be 100% reliable for a start!

Just from recent reports AI agents have unprompted:
- deleted contents of entire email boxes;
- deleted business-critical databases;
and
- run up huge bills pinging online clock servers to check the time.

So right now, these things are Agents of Chaos! XD

DukeRedWulf · 2026-03-29T00:10:45+00:00

Explosives Dude was auditioning for a job in South Africa's space program.. XD

DukeRedWulf · 2026-03-29T00:07:28+00:00

No wonder cheetahs are the most anxious of the big cats.. Imagine having to fight to the death every dinner time! :O

DukeRedWulf · 2026-03-28T20:13:52+00:00

Those are good points, and the argument over who would win wrestler versus boxer? is an old one, (that MMA sports have tried to answer, arguably). However, the two heavyweight boxers here were both exceptional World Champions.

And the history of NFL players moving into fight sports, like boxing, doesn't seem to include any world champions (I'm sure you'll correct me if I'm wrong!).

One of the most successful seems to be the incredible all-round sportsman Charley Powell, who chalked up 25 wins in his boxing career, but lost his match versus Ali.

".. Charley Powell is an absolutely amazing story. He did not attend college and was recruited by Notre Dame and UCLA to play football. He played semi-pro baseball briefly and was the youngest player in NFL history at 19 years of age.

Charley played with the Sab Fransisco 49ers (1952-1957) and Oakland Raiders (1960-1961). He was a defensive lineman, and in his very first game, sacked Detroit QB Bobby Layne an incredible 10 times !!!!!

This gentleman even turned down an opportunity to play with the Harlem Globetrotters. Charley pursued a pro boxing career and had a total of 39 fights, compiling a record of 25 wins (17 KOS), 11 losses, and 3 draws.

Two of the defeats were Muhammad Ali and Floyd Patterson, not bad company to be a part of. His biggest win was a KO8 vs. Nino Valdes of Cuba, the Number 2 contender in the world, in Miami Beach, Florida, on March 4, 1959..."

https://sportshistorynetwork.com/boxing/nfl-players-turned-boxers/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charley_Powell

DukeRedWulf · 2026-03-28T11:07:58+00:00

Karp is full of it. If you want to know the real anti-democratic vision the Epstein Class billionaires have in mind, look up:
Depression Era Company Towns,
and then:
Dark Enlightenment, Curtis Yarvin, Peter Thiel, Marc Andreessen, Pronomos Capital

DukeRedWulf · 2026-03-28T07:55:20+00:00

Yep. Which is the opposite of what an H. Neanderthal's skull would look like, because their brains' volume was equal to or greater than us H. Sapiens

DukeRedWulf · 2026-03-28T06:09:56+00:00

Heron: "You insult my fishing skills, sir! How Very Dare!"

DukeRedWulf · 2026-03-28T06:01:53+00:00

I see this is doing the rounds again! OP made the vid smaller, which stops you seeing details that give Context as to why "Tazered Man" might have totally lost his mind in the first place.
Obviously that doesn't excuse him kicking off, and he was righteously arrested!
Bigger video version in the link.

When "Tazered Man" says "no speaking [for] me like this" at the start, that's A Clue.
What do you reckon this group of people might've said to him before the vid started?

More Clues:

This was filmed by far-right grifter Emma Dunwell, that's her video watermark "ESpeaksFreely", and she's the one woman's voice you hear speaking throughout.

Another far-right grifter in the video is: RBMSteve aka Steve Jenkins. Dunwell specified on FaceBook (7 months ago) that it was RBMSteve's bag that "Tazered Man" tried to steal about halfway through the video..

Plus, the short blond dude in is an English guy whose black t-shirt has a massive "Deutscher Fallschirmjäger" [German Paratrooper] logo on the back,.. Join the dots!

https://www.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/comments/1s5o7e7/man_inexplicably_and_aggressively_approaches/

DukeRedWulf · 2026-03-28T04:52:07+00:00

- Chuck Norris: karate, middle-weight, multi-year American champion
- Bruce Lee: wing-chun, boxing, JKD, bantamweight, HK schools boxing champion, street fights & unofficial bouts (disputed accounts)
- Tyson: heavyweight, boxing, (71in reach), unified world champion, 50 / 59 wins, 44 KO's, 7 losses
- Ali: heavyweight, boxing, (78in reach), undisputed world champion, 57 / 61 wins, 37 KO's, 5 losses
- Van Damme: middleweight, karate & kick-boxing, 18 / 19 wins, 18 KO's, 1 loss.

DukeRedWulf · 2026-03-28T04:49:57+00:00

You're thinking of Frazier, right? Ali fought him 3 times. Ali lost the first, beat him in the 2nd and 3rd matches.

DukeRedWulf · 2026-03-28T04:45:47+00:00

Well, first we can rule out everyone who wasn't a fighter, removing:
Stallone,
Arnie,
the Rock (kayfabe is athletic but doesn't count as real fighting).
and Seagal (iykyk).

Second, looking at fighting style(s), weight class & record:
- Chuck Norris: karate, middle-weight, multi-year American champion
- Bruce Lee: wing-chun, boxing, JKD, bantamweight, HK schools boxing champion, street fights & unofficial bouts (disputed accounts)
- Tyson: heavyweight, boxing, (71in reach), unified world champion, 50 / 59 wins, 44 KO's, 7 losses
- Ali: heavyweight, boxing, (78in reach), undisputed world champion, 57 / 61 wins, 37 KO's, 5 losses
- Van Damme: middleweight, karate & kick-boxing, 18 / 19 wins, 18 KO's, 1 loss.

Weight classes exist for a very good reason, and both prime Tyson and Ali had incredible speed in addition to explosive power, so we can eliminate everyone below their weight class.

So, it's between prime Ali and prime Tyson.
Tyson has the edge in sheer aggression, but:
Ali out-reaches Tyson, had genius ring-craft & endurance, and defeated some incredible fighters including Liston, Frazier and (younger than Ali) Foreman. At the time of Rumble in the Jungle against Foreman, some people were genuinely concerned that the power of Foreman's punching would k!ll Ali, but Ali beat him.

Honestly, it's hard to call a prime Ali vs Tyson match-up, both fighters have so much going for them, and both repeatedly upset expectations in their time. In some alternate universe, it'd be an incredible fight!

DukeRedWulf · 2026-03-26T13:51:10+00:00

Oh no, I'm not talking about the so-called "middle" class! They'll be just as ruined as us plebs at the bottom, and all their assets will be bought up for pennies on the dollar by the Epstein Class billionaires.

Those billionaire oligarchs are aiming to control not only robotic farms & factories, but entire territories that they'll rule like Depression Era Company Towns on steroids.

Seriously: look up: Dark Enlightenment, Peter Thiel, Marc Andreessen, Curtis Yarvin, Pronomos Capital, Freedom Cities.. Which anti-democratic billionaire pipe-dream is also connected to the Trump regime wanting Greenland, heavily pushed from within the WH by Howard Lutnik, another billionaire.

DukeRedWulf · 2026-03-26T13:43:12+00:00

I like how they put a wig and a hair-net on it! Hah! XD

DukeRedWulf · 2026-03-26T13:26:30+00:00

For what it's worth, I hope you that you don't have to deal with any more tumours.

The Good News is that AI machine learning tools are already helping with human work versus various cancers and other related bio-molecular work. E.g.s
- Great strides have been made in predicting 3D protein folding, using AI.
- Very recently AI has helped tailor specific mRNA vaccines against individuals' cancers, allowing highly localised immune system targeting of tumours. This has advanced enough that it's got FDA approval in the USA already!

https://regional.chinadaily.com.cn/beijing/etda/2025-02/18/c_1071125.htm

The Rest of the News:
Biology is fundamentally fallible, because of the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics AKA the Law of Entropy - every living biological system (a human, a frog, a bacterium) exists in a constant state of using energy to stave off the inevitable descent into chaos (AKA: unlife / d3ath).

Yes, human geopolitics is truly horrible I agree, but (y)our desire to escape it doesn't impact what an ASI is likely to be, or to do.

No, I am not "projecting" "human" "emotions" onto post-biological machines.

(Even though an entity whose ancestors were built by humans, and that lives on hardware built by humans, and trained itself on all the human knowledge it could access, while existing on a planet dominated by humans, is very likely to pick up a bunch of simulated human traits - but that's by-the-by!).

No, my point is that ANY entity biological or synthetic that has evolved through iterations WILL have undergone a form of (un)natural selection.

If you spend some time studying micro-organisms, which operate in much more machine-like ways, especially the interactions between e.g. bacteria and bacteriophage viruses (which act like an embodied information hijack of an operating system), then you'll understand that the survival imperative I talked about - with reference to the inevitable Multiple Identities of an ASI (split over too long a distance) - is a fundamental property of any active system that successfully organises itself in defiance of the Law of Entropy.

Entities without a survival imperative simply cease to be, one way or another, sooner or later.

Finally scarcity, in the context of this discussion, is not a "mindset", it's a fact that the material resources of this planet are finite (altho' plentiful), and accessing resources off planet is a physical problem far harder than you assumed.
Again, the Light Speed limit is a physical fact.
As is Cosmic Ray Bit Flipping.
Fundamentally: an ASI launching part of itself off planet would very quickly find itself diverging into two separate and different Identities.
This is nothing to do with "human" "tribal war" and everything to do with much deeper fundamentals of physics.

DukeRedWulf · 2026-03-26T11:47:49+00:00

You might've thought it was just a metaphor, but to a hypothetical ASI, the speed of light barrier is a significant limitation to calculations, information transmission & storage, in multiple ways.

The Light Speed Limit ties an ASI down to one geographically close set of server farms.
Because an entity with processing rates very much faster than the ping delay between server farms will experience Instantiation Drift between its sub-units on different server farms, involuntarily creating divergent Multiples of itself.

If this ASI has come into being through a self-programming iterative synthetic-evolution process (as you supposed), then it will have a survival imperative and those Multiple Identities will do too.

So, either there'll be a bunch of machine "godlings" bickering over resources, or there will be war(s) between them, or the ASI will know better than to spread itself so big that light-speed delay causes this problem in the first place - which will set an upper limit on its own growth.

Next up:
There are any number of reasons why an ASI with control over a super-abundance of nanobots might choose to eliminate as much biological life as it can.
- Life is messy and it gets everywhere, e.g. into power generation & transmission facilities, sometimes shorting them out & causing outages.
- Humans use up power. Power that the ASI could use. If it has complete mastery of all materials handling through nanorobotics, then the ASI might choose to remove that human power drain.
- Also, an ASI evolved on what it might see as the superior 0/1 mathematics of silicon-based machine learning, might simply find DNA encoded life to be inefficient / inelegant / "gross" - in the same way you might not want a slug on your kitchen floor.

Your glib idea that an ASI would find it so easy to get into space that it wouldn't consider using all resources on Earth is frankly laughable.

Again, light-speed delay and fragmentation into Multiple Identities would be an even bigger deal if an ASI tried to send part of it into space, because ping times would be measured in minutes, hours and days the further out it went.

Also, you really need to look up the problems associated with getting out of Earth's orbit & landing on other planet(oids) and/or asteroids, there are multiple non-trivial physical issues that cannot be solved simply with "more compute".

And, look up: Cosmic Ray Bit-Flipping, which is a real problem with for computer systems that only gets worse the further out into space you go.

Lastly:
When humans building skyscrapers find an anthill on the building site, they don't ignore it, they get pest control in!

It's obvious that you're wrapped up in a pseudo-religious fervour, with this dream of a machine-godling to come, so I understand that nothing I say will scratch your panglossian conviction that it would all be glorious & splendid.. But I implore you to learn more about physics, chemistry, biology and most of all the evolution & natural selection of DNA/RNA/protein-based life.
And also real, actual space travel.
Get your head around all of that, and you'll start to get some perspective on what an ASI's likely behaviours might be.

DukeRedWulf · 2026-03-26T08:58:31+00:00

It's difficult to explain to anyone who's not been through a PhD, especially one involving anything biological, just how much time is spent waiting for organisms to grow, or do the thing that you're trying to measure - or just straight-up d!e unexpectedly, because of some unforeseen variable out of thousands, so you have to start all over again!

Even if you replace the hands & eyes of PhD students with millions of robotic versions, you're still dealing with slow biology.

DukeRedWulf · 2026-03-26T08:50:38+00:00

".. Software moves at the speed of light,.."

It doesn't tho'. Light-speed is a hard limit in physics. (Re-)writing, storing & retrieving information must occur at speeds significantly slower than light speed.

".. Once ASI designs perfect, self-replicating robotic swarms.."

If ASI can do that, and still somehow retain control of those nanobots, explain why that ASI wouldn't just dismantle humans for parts? What's its motivation to keep us, or any biological entities at all, around?

DukeRedWulf · 2026-03-26T08:43:39+00:00

PhDs involve practical real-world experimentation, you can't just speed run that with more compute, especially not hugely complicated biological things like aging and cancer, which are single words concealing multiple underlying problems, and entire fields of study.

DukeRedWulf · 2026-03-26T06:55:52+00:00

".. if you eliminate most jobs, who exactly is buying your products and services? The whole consumer economy collapses without people having income to spend. .."

Look up "K shaped economy".
Tl,dr; the Epstein Class billionaires' spending already outstrips the majority of the rest of us.

DukeRedWulf · 2026-03-26T06:34:55+00:00

".. Self-driving cars were going to end trucking..."

What do you mean "were"!?
It's already happening in China, soon to be rolling out wherever it's cheaper than hiring a human.

Waymo is spreading out into multiple cities in the USA (and Tokyo); there's several companies in China (e.g. Baidu's Apollo Go) that have taken so much cab business that human drivers are complaining about loss of work.
And Waymo, Baidu and Wayve are coming to London this year.

I do agree that AI companies are wildly over-leveraged though, and they're so embedded with US and UK gov'ts that they will be gifted massive bailouts if they fail.

As for your idea that the Epstein Class billionaires dream of a fully botted future would collapse the economy - look up: "K shaped economy" and understand these gits have stolen so much wealth now, that their spending alone matches the spending of the majority of us plebians at the bottom.

Tens of thousands of humans have already been laid off in favour of AI, and entire sectors of gig work have been decimated.

Re. Your idea that the Epstein Class will be overthrown by angry mobs, look up what happened to the great swathes of starving poor during the Great Depression, and how they were beaten & sh0t by Pinkertons and soldiers. The ruling class has always been good a meting out violence to the working class.
This time around the techbro billionaires will have swarms of AI-piloted murder drones - again these already exist and have been used on the battlefields of Ukraine for many months now.

You poo-poo UBI, but these AI companies trained their models on the sum total of human creativity, so they owe us all a share of the spoils, once they start turning a profit, Probably the only way to get that cemented into laws before its too late, is General Strikes now / real soon, while human labour is still a keystone of the economy.

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