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   frankenposter (checkervest@laserdisc.party)'s status on Thursday, 16-Jan-2025 09:56:16 JST frankenposter

   Did several big tasks so it's frog weights time as a reward! The Bronze Age Mesopotamians created a standard weight system for trade going from really small weights to larger ones. This weight standard lasted for at least 3000 years across huge chunks of the globe. Standard ones looked like this:

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     frankenposter (checkervest@laserdisc.party)'s status on Thursday, 16-Jan-2025 09:56:11 JST frankenposter

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     Kind of cool writeup here, apparently the weights increase in a modified Fibonacci sequence which is pretty cool

     https://www.penn.museum/sites/expedition/hanging-in-the-balance-2/#:~:text=The%20most%20common%20weights%20used,more%20than%20roughly%20shaped%20stones.

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     frankenposter (checkervest@laserdisc.party)'s status on Thursday, 16-Jan-2025 09:56:12 JST frankenposter

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     This kind of weight is absolutely how Nanni busted Ea-Nasir's shipment of bad copper for the Ea-Nasir fans out there, fun to think that whoever weighed them was using cute little frogs or duckies

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     frankenposter (checkervest@laserdisc.party)'s status on Thursday, 16-Jan-2025 09:56:13 JST frankenposter

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     There are a lot of ducks, too! They're super cute and you can see a lot more of the gradation of sizes here

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     frankenposter (checkervest@laserdisc.party)'s status on Thursday, 16-Jan-2025 09:56:14 JST frankenposter

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     Here are some Egyptian ones

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     frankenposter (checkervest@laserdisc.party)'s status on Thursday, 16-Jan-2025 09:56:15 JST frankenposter

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     However people made really cute ones too! Frogs seem to be a pretty popular shape

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     Valerie Aurora (vaurora@wandering.shop)'s status on Thursday, 16-Jan-2025 18:13:28 JST Valerie Aurora

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     @checkervest the chunky hematite frog is 🤩

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     frankenposter (checkervest@laserdisc.party)'s status on Thursday, 16-Jan-2025 19:28:10 JST frankenposter

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     @MmeLibertine I just love that there was absolutely no reason to make them cute and people did it anyway. Big serious merchants who did this for a living bought little ducks and frogs and other animals

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     Caffeine Devil (mmelibertine@laserdisc.party)'s status on Thursday, 16-Jan-2025 19:28:11 JST Caffeine Devil

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     @checkervest oh hell yes. I love and accept this idea. they're so cute!!