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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Sure you can grab the one example in my argument that was actually functional and not fully symbolic, but my point still stands, humans build seemingly irrational things to grandstand, and the Pharoahs would've for sure done the same in their role as dictators.

I have my fucking doubts.

And I'm sure so has every serious academic who has studied the pyramids and all came to the conclusion that it was a tomb, and if you read their reasonings for that I'm sure you'd understand why they came to that conclusion.

Here's an electrical engineer tearing apart the electrical pyramid conspiracy theory for it's misunderstanding of basic electronics.

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

He's an electrician, not an Electrical Engineer. Very different lol

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Enough to know it's bullshit.