As with all things, its complicated.

The romans knew that those who worked in lead mines or were lead smiths suffered tons of problems and died early because of their occupation.

The dangers of lead were never a mystery.

But they also knew that it takes more than simply touching lead to get sick. So they knew their lead pipes were fine since it was a low pressure gravity system unlike our modern system that is pressurized. Lead pipes in a pressurized environment actually mixes with the lead and causes problems.

And water logistics are NECESSARY to keep a city like Rome alive. So lead smiths were needed because lead is CRAZY USEFUL for all things precise and plumbing related.

But, lead also famously has a sweet smell when formed into lead acetate. And romans love sweet wines. So they'd boil down grapes and berries in lead pots to make a lead acetate sweetener. This theyd mix with wines to enhance them. Something they generally knew was bad but who knows. I like to think of it as the ancient roman equivalent of smoking. Yes objectively bad, but sometimes you need an extra sweet wine to take the edge off.

I'll give you better sources later. I think I got this from Mary Beards "SPQR" which is a must read. Not chronological, but fuck chronology. Where my thematics gang at!

I always wondered how these guys make it through life.

I understand its a position of authority and an air of confidence is necessary at all times, but gods damned dude

"You had a phone in your right hand"

shows a complete lack of a right hand

"...You sure you don't have a hand?"

You don't understand. Phone screens are a lot smaller so you need less code to run them.

Have you even considered how greedy you are wanting to use up so many tokens?

/s

Its funny to me when a joke is literally translated so we miss the pun.

And when the pun is explained and then the joke is retold in the native language, I often still don't thinknits funny.

Terrible that comedy is often hard to translate.

Its crazy to me that the ONLY serious reason anyone gives for why they get babies circumcised is

"I don't wanna tell my child how to clean their penis"

What a fucking shame. The child rearing fans really wanna make a whole child and then pay a doctor to mutilate them instead of acknowledge they have genitals!

Am I loosing it?

It looks the same. Not mirrored at all

Turns out I am

1. quite allergic to Bad Dragon Cum Lube

2. disgusting and I get it all over me and not just my hands since hand and dick washing didn't save me

Explanation:

After the death of Jesus and the destruction of Jerusalem, Christianity as we know it was beginning to take off amongst Greek and Roman Gentiles thanks to the efforts of people like Paul.

However, this created a problem amongst early Christians because a lot of them had simply never read the Torah or Old Testament. They were just convinced purely by the teachings of Jesus and had been heavily influenced by Platonism as a base philosophy. And when Jewish Christians from Jerusalem and Palestine met these converts, they tried to teach them about the "Old Testament".

Unfortunately, the Gentile Christians often refused to believe the god of Jesus and the god of the Jews was the same god because they thought the Old Testament god was wraithful and evil (my favorite example is when god let bears kill some kids for making fun of a bald guy 2 Kings:23-25).

One such group of Christians were the Marcionites founded by Marcion of Sinope. It claimed the god of the old testament was the Creator deity, the Demiurge. They aren't a gnostic sect because Marcion was using what would become canon such as the writings of Paul and a source of Jesus sayings. This is opposed to the Valentinians who used revealed or gnostic information to form their theology.

Unfortunately, we mostly know about these early so called "gnostic" sects of Christians through condemnations from early church fathers. We have a good portion of Marcions cannon texts, but not a complete picture of their church. But they were significant at the time. Early Catholics had official instructions for their congregation to ask for a "Catholic Christian Church" when they travelled because a Gnostic church was just as likely to be in the town as a Catholic one.

Yeah, the main account has had all their coins burned but not the 7 largest whale accounts that are totally not Cyberleek.

Favorite example of OT God being a wrathful bitch go!

Mines the bears that kill the kids.

Just ban the sale of gun parts in California.

Obviously they didn't ask how ghost guns were made, but absolutely no one on the streets of Cali is using something like an FGC-9, they're printing Glocks and AR-15 bodies and then filling it with completely legal parts (I think they're legal. Not sure. Not in Cali)

Anyways, glad they are required to release guidelines for a detection algorithm at least, but its bullshit they can make these requirements WITHOUT a proof of concept at least!

Every introvert wants their government assigned Dom, but without my Dom I would struggle to do my taxes let alone fill out the paperwork to get a government assigned Dom.

A lot of his posts have been pulled from his blog so he at least doesn't want people to know his thoughts anymore, but he's never apologized.

He is a devout Catholic so assuming he has church aligned takes isn't a bad call.

Opinions on Homosexuality

Opinions on Rape/Abortion

Kicked his wife out so her crying wouldn't interrupted his death bed philosophy session with his homies.

USSR: "We would never invade Poland and have camps where we work polticial enemies and minorities to death! How inhumane! For shame Germany!"

Not interested in made with AI content

I use Forgejo which is either forked from or built on Gitea

Super easy to set up it was a docker container and a cloudflared tunnel.

I mean... Usually the Forestry and Animal control folks have yo put down deer who will approach people anyways.

So...

Professor PugJesus, are YOU telling ME the people who wear DICK necklaces and vote on the divine nature of their emperors are superstitious?

There are rabbinic writings claiming that Abraham actually did kill Isaac, just not the full sacrifice. Apparently the type of sacrifice that would have been done includes plunging a knife into the heart of the sacrificial animal while its burning. Abraham was already at the last step which means Isaacs body was on fire.

Also only Abraham returns from the mountain. Isaac isn't mentioned.

The Rabbinic writings claim Isaac was revived though. I think they brought his ashes to the Temple, and God reconstituted him. I need to find the reference.