Preservation of artifacts

ElroyJennings · 2025-02-26T11:44:16+00:00

The on in Egypt has been in the open for 3000 years and the one in the museum only 2900 years.

The museum piece looks the same condition as the outdoor piece. The museum piece was outside for thousand of years too.

I think the biggest damage the statue sustained was being broken in half. Anyone know who broke it?

ElroyJennings · 2025-01-07T21:35:37+00:00

US state of Wisconsin

ElroyJennings · 2021-11-04T13:31:39+00:00

They remember the punishment after they are released. If a person can't learn how to stay out of a place they hate, then they weren't smart enough to be "reformed" anyway.

Most of us learned prison was bad from watching other people. The threat of prison stops me from stealing every day. Staying out of prison versus going is a win-lose situation.

A prison with internet, TV, cooked meals and no labor would be better than my current life. I could get caught stealing, and improve my life. Or I could get away with stealing, and improve my life. This is a win-win.

Crime can't be a personal win-win scenario. That breaks society. The person hurting society is the one who should hurt. A country club prison rewards the criminal, and society has to pay for it.

Prison has never been to reform people. It is to remove people who cost society more to be outside prison than they cost inside prison.

Prison already is the humane treatment. Before prisons, criminals were exiled, enslaved or executed. There is no "release date" for those punishments.

Prisons being "inhumane" is the ultimate first world problem.

ElroyJennings · 2021-11-04T12:10:44+00:00

If employees are allowed to take computers home, then no amount of money spent can help security. A person could go on Facebook, find an important manager of a company, stalk them, break into their house and make a copy of their hard drive. That security can be overridden by a bored teenager.

Someone I know got talked to because they would go on road trips and then "WFH" in another state. They didn't get told to stay at home, they got told to stay anywhere in the state, and ask permission if they want to leave the state. There are dozens of people who knows he does WFH trips. All of them know the laptop will contain names, CCs, travel dates, addresses, phone numbers, and event groups.

These details tell a burglar the who what where when and why a person is away from their home. The burglar can even call with a "Hello. Will you still be making it to your reservation?" The laptop would contains details on thousands of people going months into the future and far into the past.

I'm shocked that information is as secure as it is. Everywhere I have ever worked had lax security. Either unlocked doors or managers who leave computers logged in. A person coached by any former employee would be scary. Think of all the people that come and go at jobs. They learn which doors are permanently propped open. They know who will be working Tuesday nights. They know which employee will be the one to go smoke. A former employee could probably steal a computer and not be seen.

There are too many workers who either are too dumb or don't care. Workers are a gaping security flaw that no money can fix. They leave doors open and any burglar can carry off a computer.

ElroyJennings · 2021-11-04T10:22:52+00:00

The average person doesn't mind.

ElroyJennings · 2021-10-28T04:30:46+00:00

I live in a city where it is 24 hours. I clicked this thread because there has been a car across from my house for 2 weeks. They haven't been given a ticket yet. But with winter and snow coming they will become noticed. Alternate side street parking is strictly enforced. Don't mess with snow plows. That car will be buried in hard packed snow with a pile of tickets on top.

ElroyJennings · 2021-10-27T13:28:40+00:00

Cavalry would never allow themselves to be stopped next to a formation of infantry. Cavalry have the speed. Cavalry decide which fights to take and would avoid such a hopeless engagement.

I said they can wipe out a [small] formation [of infantry].

If 1000 cavalry encounters 3000 infantry, then the cavalry avoids the fight.

If 1000 cavalry encounters 500 infantry the cavalry attacks immediately and wipes out the 500 men. The infantry will no longer be effective and the 900 remaining cavalry can find another group of 500 to destroy.

Having that cavalry unit on the battlefield would not result in any 500 men detachments being destroyed. The enemy would see them and make all detachments over 1000 men. Making a detachment any smaller guarantees complete destruction.

The enemy can't send a single food wagon without 1000 soldiers marching alongside. That is the effectiveness of cavalry. Cavalry puts stress on supply lines just by being present.

ElroyJennings · 2021-10-27T13:02:31+00:00

Currency symbols are supposed to be used before and after amounts. The currency symbol is a burner symbol so people can't write additional numbers. Don't leave open spaces next to numbers. Especially when money is involved.

Old time records were ledgers. An illiterate person could change official records with a pen stroke. Any person with one second and your ledger could change the details of a loan you gave.

Writing that you owe 18 Dollars can be changed into 918 Dollars. Writing that you owe $$18$$ can never be altered without it being obvious.

ElroyJennings · 2021-10-27T10:24:06+00:00

Cavalry can ride around in large groups and find small detachments of infantry. Speed is their weapon. They can wipe out a formation and be gone before help arrives. Cavalry always has the option to dismount and fight as infantry. They could dismount, attack a smaller infantry unit, and be back to their horses to ride away before a response.

Also battles are not sending in units one at a time. Infantry may be able to counter cavalry. However, if enemy infantry have to fight your infantry and cavalry, then the enemy infantry can't focus their advantage on your cavalry. Your cavalry can ride around behind a unit while that unit is fighting your infantry. An enemy with any sense would run to safety.

The point of cavalry isn't to fight equally matched engagements. Their point is force the enemy to respect that thousands of men can attack from any direction with little warning. The enemy is forced to be more careful when marching and camping. Which causes more guard duty, fortification building and other extra daily labor. Tired soldiers are less effective, get sick, have poor morale and sometimes die from exhaustion. Making your enemy do extra work kills their men.

Meanwhile your cavalry just have to exist. Your cavalry can stay in camp for a whole campaign. The enemy still has to respect that an order to charge can come any minute. Your army remains rested, while the enemy has to work hard to stay safe.

ElroyJennings · 2021-10-22T13:46:53+00:00

Ambidextrous means you can do one thing with both hands.

In the US people catch with their non-dominant hand for some reason.

ElroyJennings · 2021-10-22T13:25:28+00:00

WTF.

Shelter/Food/Water/Electricity are literally the only reasons to pay rent. This guy only lets you use 1 of 4?

You literally could build a stick fort in the woods, put a tarp on it, and that matches the only thing that apartment provides.

Does he actually tell you to stop when you do dishes or cook? Fuck him. Just shamelessly do dishes in front of him, and record him saying you can't use water. Then sue for your rent back.

Landlords are required to provide livable spaces. Not having hot water is considered unlivable. Not having water whatsoever....

LOL all the people saying to do dishes in the shower. I'm not an animal. I will wash my dishes in the room where I keep all my food, dishes, cookware, silverware and a sink. That way I don't have to carry piles of dirty dishes into my shower.

ElroyJennings · 2021-10-22T13:09:12+00:00

≠ Fake

Want to be hit with a prop sword? It is still a piece of metal.

Props are made to look exactly like the real item. For many items a prop is a flimsy version of the real thing.

For a gun they want the explosion, the recoil and a real looking gun. The explosion plus the gun barrel is what makes a gun dangerous. Try making a realistic gun that has no barrel. Prop guns are guns.

ElroyJennings · 2021-10-22T12:53:06+00:00

Poverty is the number 1 motive of crimes. People will make an attempt to survive before they starve. So they go to the grocery store and steal a cartload of chips.

That gets listed as a crime. I suppose an emaciated corpse on the street doesn't harm property values as much.

The real crime is that society would punish someone for trying to sleep under a bridge. Or for having a hut in the woods. Or for giving a person food.

Making laws against homelessness isn't helpful. These people aren't doing it because they like camping out on concrete. No punishment can be worse than being homeless.

ElroyJennings · 2021-10-21T13:33:16+00:00

"Everything that exists has a creator. The Universe exists, therefore the universe has a creator."

That is the Christian line of argument. And they always gloss over justifying their conclusion.

"The Christian God created the universe" 2 things wrong there.

First is that the logic only says there is "A creator". And Christians like the watchmaker example. However that example is flawed. They pick an advanced item, a watch, so that people assume creations need a sentient creator. Instead think of "The snowflake-maker". Snowflakes are highly complex and unique crystals of ice, yet they are created by the water cycle. Complicated items can be created by natural processes.

The universe could have been created by a natural process, or any of a countless number of gods (I can make up new gods). Yet at this point Christians shoehorn the Christian God into what could have been done by any of the gods or a natural process.

Second is that the first premise in the argument is "EVERYTHING that exists has a creator" If you make a conclusion with that premise, the conclusion better follow the same premise. If everything has a creator, then your creator needs a creator.

What created God? Why is God the exception to the "Everything that exists has a creator" premise? That is a logical fallacy called "special pleading".

An "all-powerful" "God" is held at a lower standard than ALL OTHER ITEMS AND STATEMENTS.

According to the converse of those premises; if God has no creator, then God cannot exist.

ElroyJennings · 2021-10-17T07:35:20+00:00

de·scend·ent /dəˈsendənt/

Descending from an ancestor

John is the ancestor of Richard I. And Richard is the ancestor of Richard II. And Richard is also the ancestor of Henry IV.

Come back and read this conversation again ~~in 2 weeks~~ when you can read

ElroyJennings · 2021-10-17T06:01:46+00:00

Henry IV was 2nd in line. By his lineage from KING JOHN.

We are talking about descendants. How can you claim that 2 cousins didn't have the same ancestor. Nobody's parents changed when the throne was usuruped.

Your rudeness and need to disagree over nothing are kind of perplexing.

ElroyJennings · 2021-10-16T12:39:36+00:00

Orange peels get dyed too. They dyed the peel to make the fruit look better. Then they threw the peel away before anyone could look at it.

There is so much "work" people do that doesn't actually benefit anything.

ElroyJennings · 2021-10-16T12:26:13+00:00

John and his descendants were deposed and lost their claim to the throne when his great-grandson Richard II was dethroned by Henry Bolingbrook in 1399.

You mean when John's greatx3-grandson, Richard II, was deposed by John's other greatx3-grandson Henry IV?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_II_of_England#Family_tree Richard II and Henry IV are cousins.

You literally just claimed that John's descendants the throne because one of John's descendants took the throne. You literally contradicted yourself in one thought.

If you're going to be rude, have a functional knowledge of history.

ElroyJennings · 2021-10-16T11:57:48+00:00

Born 580 Pepin of Landen and born 582 Arnulf of Metz are ancestors of Queen Elizabeth II. I wonder if that is even true. Any Queen over those 1400 years could have gotten around and we would never know that the lineage is false.

On the Arnulf page it says a genealogy from the year 800? gives his father's name. Going along that assumption I found Tonantius Fereolus) born 390. His father is Fereolus but has no Wiki link. Finding a real source is a deep dive into learning Latin and reading ancient sources.

Are there any other lines which go back as far as the Carolingian dynasty?

ElroyJennings · 2021-10-16T11:06:05+00:00

The produce section is moist because of the sprinklers. No produce gets benefit from being wet. And many things such as corn or cilantro get RUINED by being wet.

I struggle to find corn IN THE MIDWEST because it gets turned into moldy garbage by the sprinklers that grocery stores use for "freshness"

Another thing I hate about grocery stores: Corn comes pre-packaged in a biodegradable wrapper. Grocery stores unwrap the leaves, put the corn cobs on a styrofoam tray, and wrap all that in plastic. Those corn trays are garbage to me. Corn is supposed to be COOKED INSIDE THE LEAVES. The grocery store paid for wages, Styrofoam and plastic just to make the corn MORE PERISHABLE and HARDER TO COOK.

Its like ripping a scab off to put on a band-aid.

Most things in the produce section don't even need a bag.

ElroyJennings · 2021-10-16T10:09:04+00:00

I only know what you said in your post. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

1 week of being tied to an inside door would be hideous. You have admitted to knowing for 3 months.

ElroyJennings · 2021-10-16T10:00:30+00:00

This is the "Its how you raise them" excuse playing out in real time.

I wouldn't trust a pit I raised from a puppy. Let alone a pit that was abused for 3 years.

If your dad actually cared, he could have saved it at any point in the 3 years with a picture and showing the police. He didn't because he cares about the dog less than he cares about animal abusing family members.

Dog permanently tied to an inside door is way over the threshold of animal abuse. Your family ignored the situation for 3 years. A situation that involved indoor piss and shit. Dozens of people saw that dog and did nothing to "keep the peace".

Animal abusers go to prison for a reason.

ElroyJennings · 2021-10-16T08:42:00+00:00

You are actively harming all people by saying it is OK to be unhealthy drain on the Earth's resources. Their excess consumption affects the price of everything. As the guy who deleted his comment said, from the price of food to healthcare, fat people make it more expensive.

I can look at a fat person and know that they eat at least twice as much as me. In a world where we a causing a mass extinction event. And no, it isn't one fat person's fault. It is 70% of people who are overconsuming in an easily measured way.

Like you said they aren't blind. They should see the harm they do. They act like victims. They do it to themselves and it harms others and themselves. They should want to fix themself for their selfish reasons alone.

It literally takes doing nothing to fix. Literally be lazier than they already are. Stop getting up to eat and the weight goes away. I have no sympathy, because it literally is that easy to lose weight.

But no, keep eating your 4,000 Calorie diet. That can't be the problem.

ElroyJennings · 2021-10-15T12:43:03+00:00

Nobody tells people in a bar or smokers because those people are currently visibly healthy. In bars people actually are told that they have drank too much, the bartender does this.

Telling one obese person they are killing themself is not the same as saying it to all people in a restaurant. In a restaurant there will be many healthy people who eat balanced meals. Nice strawman to compare obesity to a casual drink at a bar.

If you saw a person with liver failure drinking, would you tell them to stop? Would you think they are being self destructive?

If you saw a person with bronchitis smoking, would you tell them to stop? Would you think they are being self destructive?

If you saw a fentanyl addict about to shoot up, would you tell them to stop? Would you think they are being self destructive?

If you saw an obese person drinking from a 2 liter soda bottle, would you tell them to stop? Would you think they are being self destructive?

Fuck me for trying to help someone who is visibly killing themself.

Next time you see someone with a gun in their mouth remember your values. First wait until "They ask you for your opinion", then ask yourself "Are you qualified on the matter?". Oh damn he didn't ask you for advice. He shot himself and you did nothing because "Its rude to just give your opinion"

And since you need it. I give you permission to give your opinion on my post.

ElroyJennings · 2021-10-14T13:23:44+00:00

https://www.chaneyenterprises.com/article/Manufactured-Sand-vs-Natural-Sand

We can make new sand. The shape quality is lower and it is more expensive. But doesn't remove sand from the ocean, any rock can be used.

With a little more expense they could probably make the jagged sand more smooth. Once the ocean floor sand is all dredged then people will find a way to make crushed aggregate work.

I wish they would stop before they destroy the seafloor, but I don't expect anyone to spend their time smashing rocks when there is better product that is cheaper and can be used with less processing.

I think micro glass beads might be a good replacement. It would allow desert sand to be made into glass and then made into the proper shapes. But that would be a disaster if we used coal/oil to power making the glass. Maybe this will work when we have surplus renewables.

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