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Really Shitty Copper

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A community dedicated to making fun of Ea-Nasir, a Sumerian merchant circa 1750 BC, who sold exceptionally poor quality copper.

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[โ€“] Bazell@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 months ago

You can hunt werewolfs with silver bullets.

[โ€“] ulterno@programming.dev 1 points 3 weeks ago

One of the main reasons for Copper to have seen a higher variety of use cases is because it is monetarily cheaper, so is preferable even in cases it might be inferior to Silver.