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I have found twitter to be the most excellent platform for complaints in the year 2017. Many orgs have responsive social media staff that monitor twitter and ar

I have found twitter to be the most excellent platform for complaints in the year 2017. Many orgs have responsive social media staff that monitor twitter and are able to make stuff right. Twitter is better than clay tablets for complaints, though I do admire the gravitas of a clay tablet. Nothing says "I am fucking serious" as well as pounding out a message on clay, firing it in an oven for 12 hours, and then sending a servant to deliver it by donkey or camel through hostile territory.

chrisper 9y ago
Sometimes I use Facebook messenger. I guess it has the same effect.
krapp 9y ago
To be fair, "pounding out a message on clay, firing it in an oven for 12 hours, and then sending a servant to deliver it by donkey or camel through hostile territory" was probably just the way long-distance correspondence was done back then. Maybe Nanni was also instructed to throw it at Ea-nasir's head or something.
- kwhitefoot 9y ago
  > Maybe Nanni was also instructed to throw it at Ea-nasir's head Well it does say that it is slightly damaged.
imglorp 9y ago
The master may have had a scribe on staff for these things.
dbcurtis 9y ago
You'll be really excited about my pitch deck: Clay Tablets as a Service. Want to sign up for the API Beta?
- microtherion 9y ago
  You'll have competition: https://dumbcuneiform.com https://dumbcuneiform.com
  - dbcurtis 9y ago
    Doh!
  - crispyambulance 9y ago
    touché !
  - schoen 9y ago
    > Good catch, smarties! Cuneiform is a writing system, not a language (like roman letters). We're transliterating - converting the syllables of your message to the cuneiform script - rather than translating. Maybe the next evolution of this is a service that translates to one of the ancient languages that was traditionally written in cuneiform! (But I guess the transliteration approach is somewhat legitimate considering the range of totally unrelated languages that have been written in this system -- so why not English too?)
  - bandrami 9y ago
    Aww man. I even studied Akkadian way back in the day. I should send them my resume.
- yellowapple 9y ago
  This will only work if your pitch deck is, in turn, distributed in the form of clay tablets.
anigbrowl 9y ago
Unless your complaint is to Twitter, of course.

chrisper 9y ago

Sometimes I use Facebook messenger. I guess it has the same effect.

krapp 9y ago

To be fair, "pounding out a message on clay, firing it in an oven for 12 hours, and then sending a servant to deliver it by donkey or camel through hostile territory" was probably just the way long-distance correspondence was done back then. Maybe Nanni was also instructed to throw it at Ea-nasir's head or something.

kwhitefoot 9y ago
> Maybe Nanni was also instructed to throw it at Ea-nasir's head Well it does say that it is slightly damaged.

imglorp 9y ago

The master may have had a scribe on staff for these things.

dbcurtis 9y ago

You'll be really excited about my pitch deck: Clay Tablets as a Service. Want to sign up for the API Beta?

microtherion 9y ago
You'll have competition: https://dumbcuneiform.com https://dumbcuneiform.com
- dbcurtis 9y ago
  Doh!
- crispyambulance 9y ago
  touché !
- schoen 9y ago
  > Good catch, smarties! Cuneiform is a writing system, not a language (like roman letters). We're transliterating - converting the syllables of your message to the cuneiform script - rather than translating. Maybe the next evolution of this is a service that translates to one of the ancient languages that was traditionally written in cuneiform! (But I guess the transliteration approach is somewhat legitimate considering the range of totally unrelated languages that have been written in this system -- so why not English too?)
- bandrami 9y ago
  Aww man. I even studied Akkadian way back in the day. I should send them my resume.
yellowapple 9y ago
This will only work if your pitch deck is, in turn, distributed in the form of clay tablets.

anigbrowl 9y ago

Unless your complaint is to Twitter, of course.