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Cake day: August 9th, 2023

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  • From wikipedia:

    Lev Parnas is a former associate of Rudy Giuliani who was involved in the Trump–Ukraine scandal and the Biden–Ukraine conspiracy theory. He was convicted of illegal donations to Trump’s campaign and sentenced to 20 months in prison in 2022.

    In 2019, Parnas served as a translator for a legal case involving Dmytro Firtash, a Ukrainian oligarch with close ties to the Kremlin and self-admitted Russian mob connections, who is fighting extradition to the U.S. to face bribery charges. Firtash has been free on bail in Vienna since 2014.

    Strikes me as somebody who has a vested interest in adding more fuel to the fire. Either way this is scary and fucked.

















  • Nobody has so far given you a serious answer, so:

    Cutting - They only had IIRC bronze, which is not enough on its own to cut through the granite. However using sand to add friction makes it cut significant faster/easier.

    Moving miles - Boats are incredibly capable of carrying heavy loads with minimal energy expenditure to move said boat. Using logs and levers also goes far.

    Getting to the too of the pyramid, that’s a little more of a mystery. But there is evidence they included ramps within the structure as they built the bigger ones as they went. And IIRC the smaller ones had pulley systems going through the center.

    It doesn’t require fancy tech, just of patience and application of basic physics.

    Here is a guy using some of the basic movement techniques in his backyard with multi ton stones:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ewtm1s02Ih8