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egeres, in This 1,500-year-old Cave in India was Carved out of a Giant Boulder
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That’s some incredible stone work right there, how would you go about building it? Maybe one could make a wood arc to serve as a guidance for the shape of the ceiling when you’re carving it? I have no idea how to approach the carving and smoothing of a floor so flat with ancient tech 🙃

Deuces,

Easy. You just use an ancient electric angle grinder

FlyingSquid, in This 1,500-year-old Cave in India was Carved out of a Giant Boulder
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Seems like there would be an easier way to make a guest house.

positiveWHAT, in This 1,500-year-old Cave in India was Carved out of a Giant Boulder

This seems more than mildly interesting?

gosling,
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wildly interesting

burgersc12,

Supposedly they were measured by lasers and the room is as precise as the lasers. It’s insane!

krayj, in In South Korea, some stores carry "one a day" bananas which are packaged in order of ripeness

I desperately need them to swap positions of the two bananas on the left.

Nepenthe,
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I need them to flip the whole thing. Green bananas are best bananas, and you use the ones that have overripened in your chartreuse-fueled negligence to hastily make banana bread in an effort to excuse yourself. Repeat forever.

Piers,

Have you ever had the chance to try plantains? They’re a bit like bananas but for cooking and while they can be used yellow, generally they are used green.

Nepenthe,
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I think I've had them once or twice and found them ok? But that was eating them like a banana. If they're more intended for cooking, that may require another attempt..

Piers,

Yeah they’re only ever really used cooked. (I gather that they aren’t nearly as nice to eat raw and might make your stomach a bit upset if eaten raw but possibly are not actively bad for you like eating a raw potato is.) Cooked they’re pretty nice. Kinda like if a banana thought it was a potato.

SgtAStrawberry,

Then you would LOVE the grocery store were I live. You can choose between green, green and green bananas, I haven’t seen them sell a even slightly yellow one for years, even the greenest one here is to yellow.

Usernamealreadyinuse, in This 1,500-year-old Cave in India was Carved out of a Giant Boulder

Wut? This smooth? Must be aliens

tetraodon,

That, or a very unfortunate dude with a lot of sandpaper and time.

xuxebiko,

LOL!

It's the Mauryan polish. More @ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauryan_polish

Usernamealreadyinuse,

Or Mauryan polish, nice read!

smallaubergine,

Fascinating, thanks for the link

xuxebiko,
Tangent5280,

That’s actually very interesting. Thanks for the link. Apparently there might even be greek influences in the polishing materials.

jerrimu, in This 1,500-year-old Cave in India was Carved out of a Giant Boulder

It wasn’t aliens, it was brown people.

Norgur, in This plant growing on a crack in the middle of a road

To m fellow Germans: queue the Löwenzahn Intro

Pechente,

I thought I could be the first to post this but nope. Too many other Germans here.

blanketswithsmallpox, in This plant growing on a crack in the middle of a road
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Maple tree!? 🍁

awatermelonharvester,

Specifically looks like a red maple Acer rubrun

zencat, in In South Korea, some stores carry "one a day" bananas which are packaged in order of ripeness

Nice

Tavarin, in This 1,500-year-old Cave in India was Carved out of a Giant Boulder
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Older than that, the Barabar caves are over 2,200 years old.

xuxebiko, in This 1,500-year-old Cave in India was Carved out of a Giant Boulder

Where is this?

odium,
xuxebiko,

Thanks :)

Hyphlosion, in Gay Water, a vodka soda that's a response to the Bud Light transphobia

I’d try some Gay Water out of curiosity (if it’s zero sugar), but last weekend when I had a Truly, I had an imploding headache five hours later that was so bad I wanted to die. I think I’ll pass on this and all hard seltzers, because I’m a super lightweight. Heh.

Bardfinn,

Don’t be a pussy, just learn to drink liquor

Hyphlosion,

@Bardfinn

I don’t have this problem with black spice rum. :3

escaped_cruzader,

Probably it’s just bottom shelf booze using the Bud Light controversy for sales

Deuces, (edited )

I read through the article to see if any money was going to gay/trans right activism. If it is the article doesn’t mention it, and it isn’t on their (admittedly not yet filled out) website. Recognition is good in that “acceptance” in capitalism means you think you’ll make more money than non-recognition. But that’s the symptom of things going the right direction, not the cause. If it’s the best seltzer in your opinion go for it, but unless they’re giving back to the community they’re not actually doing anything.

gaywater.com for the lazy but distrustful (my people)

unwinagainstable, in This 1,500-year-old Cave in India was Carved out of a Giant Boulder
Belgdore, in This 1,500-year-old Cave in India was Carved out of a Giant Boulder

Early game Minecraft shelter.

Spacegrass, in This 1,500-year-old Cave in India was Carved out of a Giant Boulder

Could be a wonderful tornado or hurricane shelter.

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