The article on the brazen bull (link in wiki article) is simultaneously one of the most entertaining and most horrific articles I've ever come across on Wikipedia
The "five punishments" article is weird. At 200 crimes, you got punished by execution, but at 1,000 crimes, you got the number of your crimes tattooed on your face.
It's like supermarket loyalty points, except they make more sense.
Ah, that makes sense, thanks. I was kinda wondering how many people they got committing 1,000 crimes in a row. I figured maybe they criminalized "stepping on an ant" or something.
In Alabama, Florida, South Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee and Virginia they literally can fry a man to death using Victorian-era electric technology. But sure, we are making progress.
It's a podcast about medial history (mostly how horribly wrong and weird our theories were) that I enjoy quite a bit, and they had an entire episode on the invention, sale, and medical uses of petroleum jelly just a week or two ago.
I have some doubts about vaseline as well as zinc oxide (I just had a son so I'm changing diapers frequently). On the one hand you want a barrier on the other hand you want skin to breath (it is a similar problem with rain jackets made of synthetics).
There is probably a better thing then Vaseline but I guess its good enough.
"The inventor of the infinite loop died of starvation when, while testing his invention, said 'I'm coming to dinner in a minute, I'm just waiting for this loop to end'."
I'll put $1 on the "drone-AI programmer killed in autonomous airstrike" square. And another one on "Boston Dynamics employee crushed by falling pack mule robot".
