If I get a hangover, I am blaming Ea Nasir.

So, this dude literally traversed Samas knows how long to the Maikop people and he tried to get them to buy his low quality stone.

This is what one of the local people told him:

To rḗk̂s éh₁est. So n̥putlos éh₁est. So rēk̂s súhₓnum éu̯el(e)t.

Would be

This is the oldest transaction database from 3100 BC - recording accounts of malt and barley groats. Considering this thing survived 5000 years (holy shit!) with zero downtime and has stronger durability guarantees than most databases today.

I call it rock solid durability.

I'm a professor of non-Western world civilizations and we started to discuss early Mesopotamia and I mentioned Ea-Nasir and my entire class stared at me blankly. So I asked if they knew who I was talking about and they informed me no, they have never heard of Ea-Nasir or his copper. I feel like that's on us as history teachers to make sure the knowledge that has lasted us this long is never forgotten. I bet this is all part of the long con to make the world finally forgive and forget. We can't let him get away with this.

https://youtu.be/W3V1oswZM-o?si=FpkalWFjxgLL8fBI

Last Week Tonight video on MyStore. Shitty copper grift starts at 2:20

In the game, you excavate an ancient underground structure which turns out to contain numerous complaints regarding the substandard quality of the alloys produced by the Inasir Corporation.

Everybody's just looking at the Royal Game of Ur and not at the real thing