Absolutely no idea if you know any of this or not but this is a rabbit hole I've been digging down lately:
Been reading a lot about Mesopotamia lately circa 2000bc specifically. It's funny because it highlights just how arbitrary some systems are and just how many things naturally arise out of specialized labor.
Like that Ea Nassir guy from the meme complaint? He wasn't just selling copper ore from a stand he was actually asking people for money, then traveling all the way down the Arabian coast to use that money to procure copper ore, then he'd come back and give his financers their cut of the haul. He was a broker. And the contracts he made to do this work were complicated and had multiple clauses and stipulations.
That was 3300 years ago and it's still how people do things even today. You can't like- fundamentally change the kind of things that would make that operation any better or worse. You need material? Sometimes you go to a guy who has a source and you sign some stuff and give them money to get it for you.
Also the Mesopotamians (and probably a lot of other people) viewed their gods as legal garuntiers. They'd cosign an oath to Marduk or whoever they considered to be relevant to the contract along with the government. Their whole outlook on the super natural was very mundane. "Yes, of course we cosigned the god of justice on our contract. That's his office. We keep our records in his temple too." (Temples apparently did a lot of services we'd have dedicated spaces for today. Some were like healing and childbirth and served the roles of medical facilities. Others, yeah, helped you do legal work or stored money etc. It's all very cosmopolitan).
So I'm looking through more translated tablets for stuff like that. Just seeing how humans have interacted with built systems of relations with each other etc. But, in a lot more ways than you'd think, if an ancient Akkadian person and a modern person had to switch places they'd find a lot of eerly similar things in their new day-to-day lives.
Crazy how precise a missile can be so that it hits a very specific like, what, 10x10m area with some slight variation? Like that big dish is toast instantly and the nearby road caught some shrapnel maybe?
Underscores how absolutely on purpose Zionist/US war crimes are.
Lathe: Trump offramps by blaming the Zionists for the escalation. Abandons the entity to its fate.
Likely reality: he's going to brag about tricking Iran when the Navy takes some island and then immediately cover up a much much much worse failure the same day.
This is cooked on a few levels but the AI lego americans with the coffin got a laugh out of me. Weirdly accurate summary of the current situation in general.
Same energy as going axe throwing before drinks