These Have Been Found All Across Ancient Rome (Nobody Knows Why)

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• _stranger_@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I can’t possibly fathom why a bunch of people all over would all have the same weird, seemingly useless object on them at roughly the same time period. It’s an impossible mystery.

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  • Cruxifux@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    lol I immediately thought of fidget spinners too

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  • TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Humans are curious and scavengers.

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• Fuckfuckmyfuckingass@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The “Everybody had one” caption in the thumbnail is patiently false. I think they’ve only found a few hundred of them, which means not everybody had one.

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  • CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Patently

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    • Fuckfuckmyfuckingass@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Thanks, I’m dyslexic and that’s where the spell check got me.

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  • sheridan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Are you interpreting it literally? It’s a figure of speech—a kind of hyperbole; it’s just a way of implying something was common, not that literally every person had one.

    Whether it actually was common though, I don’t know. Joe here might be taking some liberties for the sake of a catchy thumbnail.

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    • Fuckfuckmyfuckingass@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It’s a race to the bottom. Everything is blown the hell outta proportion until meaning is well meaningless.

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    • breecher@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      “Everybody had one” is not a figure of speech or even hyperbole. It is just a flat out lie.

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  • andros_rex@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yeah, this video is poorly researched clickbait.

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  • FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yeah that really bothered me. A lot of people are going to interpret that literally. I hate that sort of clickbait.

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• TheFANUM@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  They’re for knitting gloves. It’s been solved for a while

  …medium.com/ancient-mystery-roman-dodecahedron-my…

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  • Doom@ttrpg.network ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    No not at all.

    If they were for making gloves there’d be more clues for it. There aren’t.

    I could use a car to cook an egg, doesn’t mean that’s why it was made.

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    • Noodle07@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Everybody knows you use GPUs to cook eggs, dont be silly

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  • steal_your_face@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    According to some random guy on medium. I think it’s a solid hypothesis but far from proven or “solved”.

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  • MisterCurtis@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Watching the video of him struggling with it doesn’t really sell the point.

    It not being an efficient tool could explain why they’re not around, if that’s the case.

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  • andros_rex@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Knitting is medieval, and not attested to until the 11th century Egypt.

    As spool knitters go, the dodecahedron are terrible for that purpose. The extra faces are useless. This idea has been explored and rejected, because it does not match Roman textile practices.

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• MeatPilot@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Well I think we established you can’t stick your dick in it. So I’m out of ideas.

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  • CaptSatelliteJack@lemy.lol ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    What an incredible case of the username checking out

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• Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Because of how many they have found and at least one cache I remember reading about was found in some kind of marketplace, I like to think they were just common household tchotchkes. Like a Newton’s Cradle or other random as fuck desk or shelf decor. They are pretty aesthetic. I could see these things still being sold as a thing to just have your desk.

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• Noodle07@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  One hypothesis that made practical sense to me was candle holder

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• gofsckyourself@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Another video on this subject:

  youtu.be/UbGtkbqbjtY

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  • andros_rex@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Everyone should watch this video instead. Actual archeologist.

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  • FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Ah Stefan Milo. I love him.

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• andros_rex@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  So delightful that we have more people propping of the pseudo archeology “it was used for knitting! Despite knitting being not around until the Middle Ages, and spool knitting not being around until later!”

  It’s a terrible French/spool knitter. The fact that someone made something on it does not mean that it was made for knitting, because you can do that with basically any set of pegs you want.

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• desmosthenes@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  they’re clearly for slamming affixes from a select pool based on the paired fossil ^*

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