As always, the ancient Romans had that.
A nomenclator referred to a slave whose duty was to recall the names of persons his master met during a political campaign. Later, the scope was expanded to include names of people in any social context and also other socially important information about them.
It’s not even that much work, to be honest.
I wouldn’t run 6 fireplaces at once, maybe two or three at most, and aside from chopping and carrying the wood inside, there’s not that much work in it. Just set a few pieces nicely with a piece of paper (think jenga style more than a cartoon bonfire), se it alight. Let it breathe for a while, get a good flame, then fill 'er up once it’s going nicely. I mean, depending on how hot you want the room. I’d never actually shove them full, about halfway at most maybe. Then let it burn. Then fill it up a second and maybe third time in the winter, then just let it cool while stoking the coals.
It really doesn’t feel like work.
And now I’m nostalgic.
But yeah temperature would be the least of your worries as king imo. Perhaps not the least, but a small one anyway.
People don’t even need AC on the latitude I live in.
It’s basically two winters and August.
Literally for most of the year I wear the same amount of outdoor clothing, which is a lot.
Fireplaces create a wonderful soft warmth. Unless you live in some huge castle or it’s completely blowing through your house, warming the house with fireplaces is great. Even when there are some small drafts here and there in the house. Just wear warm socks as the floors are usually quite cool despite the room being toasty from the heat.
Then you tend the fire for some time, long enough for the fire to properly warm all the stone around it. (Even in wooden houses, the central chimney would be rather thick at the bottom where the fireplaces are, so the stones store heat during the night.)
You stoke the coals and then when it’s just red coals and no more burning, you can shut down the chimney, so the rest of the heat stays in.
It slowly dissipates through the night. (But you won’t get carbon monoxide poisoning, which is why it’s important to have the chimney open while there’s actual fire.) It might get a bit cool around the morning hours, but sleeping in the cool is actually pretty decent.
Waking up in the cold is a bitch though.
We had uhm… two chimneys and six fireplaces in the house I (mostly) grew up in. Was built in the 30’s.
You could’ve probably purchased bottom surgery, sort of.
But the quality would’ve been, eh, less satisfactory, I would presume, and you’d have died of infection in like two weeks.
My point here being you’d surely have been able to persuade some quack to take sharp implements to you with enough gold. Royalty did crazy shit back then.
But yah I’m on your side on this. Being in power in an age we romanticise might seem. Until you remember that if you fall down and scratch your knee, you could die of that with bad luck.
Healthcare systems and governments might be shit nowadays but the level of medical technology is so vastly superior that it’s the obvious choice.
Congrats on what I gather was probably a lot of work, of all sorts. Enjoy.
I’ve been fantasising about an AA grade movie, depicting early homo sapiens, but with culture. Just with very different culture than we’re used to.
Two very short sentences that I’m sure anyone can feed to AI, but they won’t have my ideas on what it’s like.
thank you, honestly. Most support I’ve gotten. Lol. My family sucks.
More than a decade, easily.
I could write a book about it, I just don’t want to spoil it all on Lemmy so some AI chatbot makes the book and then I’ll get no money.
I fear I’ve given away too much of my theory.
Although I do think it’s very counterproductive to try to hoard ideas. (as in “patents”, “copyrights”)
A psychiatrist once asked if I have Eastern European Jewish ancestry. He said it explains the lack chemicals. 🤷♂️
That just feels like lazy racism, but if we’re going lazy racism, then I’d point out there’s groups of humans in Africa who don’t have any Neanderthal DNA. Sooo… IF my supposition was correct and we’d like humiliate arrogant white racists, we could point out that it’s only some sub-saharan populations which are “purely human” or something as idiotic.
But we shouldn’t, because with humans it’s obviously not just a genetic thing. (And the idea of “purity” is super dumb and dangerous anyway.) It’s a cultural thing. Because we’re not animals.
So that also explains neanderthals mixing with humans. Some humans may have been like “fuck all that jazz” and settled with a neanderthal tribe, but some neanderthals were like “twice a year a rave and get high? Fuck yes” and then also taught us dummy humans some neanderthal stone tech. Or smth
I’m more thinking socialism evolution over hundreds of thousands of years, than a personal preference.
I mean, I believe that where my personal preference came from, to be accurate.
I contend that Neanderthals were smarter, but didn’t get high, and due to hominids at that time (and still) being rather easily aggravated into (even mortal) fights, I dare say getting high while meeting up with new people would definitely be an advantage to a species. Which the Neanderthals didn’t have, and thus dies out while the h sapienses were out getting high and fucking
I’m pretty sure that only applies due to a majority of people being morons. There’s a vast gap between the 2% most intelligent, 1/50, and the average intelligence.
Also please put digital text on white on black instead of the other way around
I would help this guy describe the sensation as a “squelch”.
I also used to hear my heartbeat in my ears pretty much all the time and at 18 had “the blood pressure or an 80-year old woman” but since I went wheat and dairy free I’ve none of that.
“Gluten-free” isn’t just a Karen fad. I used to very much believe so, until I read about NCGS and tried an GFCF diet. (Gluten free casein free.) I also avoid all wheat derived products, some of which are labeled as gluten-free. It’s a bitch to hunt down basic ham because most of it here in Europe is processed with dextrose made from wheat, whereas in the US, they also use dextrose but it’s derived from corn.
no such instinct exists for weed.
I’d argue an instinct for getting high does exist.
You’re gonna get tired of repeating this in about, oh, 20 years.
I’m speaking from experience.
You’re entirely correct, just to be clear. You’re just gonna get tired of repeating it.
Sod’s law, innit?
That’s pretty much what the name means as well. Well not directly, but ambulatory means to be able to walk. It’s called an ambulance, because the patients usually can not walk themselves to the hospital.
That’s not what the word means nowadays obviously but like, originally. Bet you never thought about it until I brought it up.
Why do you even jokingly use a framework in which you’re assuming the current US government does anything “for the nation” instead of themselves?
And also, they’re just gonna ward off attacks with, uhm… gilded smoothie machines and massaging chairs.