@futurebird A video with that title is debunking that claim, which is apparently an archeology conspiracy theory. This is an example of Betteridge’s Law.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CBN6HfzCRcU

@michaelgemar

I'm almost as mad that it needs to be debunked.

@futurebird Yeah, there’s that…

@michaelgemar

One could probably start up some wild conspiracy theories by aggressively and earnestly debunking them as if they were a problem.

"Ten Reasons Why The Earth Is NOT Filled With Chewy Nougat OR Giant Peanuts."

@futurebird @michaelgemar
"Seriously. That's why it's called 'the crust!' It's filled with cooked apples and cinnamon!"

@wcbdata @michaelgemar

The government doesn't want me to have a chair carved from solid mantel peanut. You can't fool me.

@futurebird My Youtube algorithm makes me afraid because ancient aliens are always preying on the next corner. If I relax even for a second, here they come

@futurebird now if the title had said the "*African* Great Lakes", I could totally believe trade goods would have travelled from the African Great Lakes to Ancient Egypt, but I'd expect the ancient egyptians had much closer sources of copper. After all, the White Nile connects to Lakes Kyoga, Victoria, and Albert. Sadly, that's probably not what the video is about.

@berniethewordsmith @futurebird

@marshray @berniethewordsmith

No that is a Birkin bag.

@futurebird @gleick

Indeed, what nonsense. Egyptians? Maybe they meant the Scota because everyone around Georgian Bay knows it was the Irish

@teledyn @gleick

I think this one upset me because I hate it when people mess with Ancient Egyptian history. I love that stuff. It's so interesting and needs no embellishment. It's fun the way it is. But what I also hate is people ignoring the pre-history of the Americas.

And this clown theory is somehow doing both at once. It's too much.

@futurebird @michaelgemar the pressure would turn the peanuts into peanut butter

but, it's probably pretty dry and crumbly since we've been siphoning out all of the oil

@futurebird @michaelgemar
I wanna see the theory that aliens built Notre Dame or some other really well built old European building because "they didn't have machines or computers or anything... how could they have done such a good job?"

@futurebird @wcbdata @michaelgemar but capitalism will collapse if it can't turn all the mantel peanuts into packing peanuts. Your chair carved from solid mantel peanaut could provoke the downfall of capitalism.

OK I just watched Milo's video about the "power plant under the pyramid" conspiracy theory (Some people did some ground penetrating radar and then some other people made up a bunch of fan fiction)

And this explains why my recommendations, which are pure as the driven snow surfaced the nonsense about "Ancient Egyptians Were Mining Copper from the Great Lakes?"

I didn't know about the whole pylons thing otherwise.

@michaelgemar

OK after seeing the "power plant under the pyramids" (now with AI!) nonsense, I'm looking back on my "earth is full of chewy nougat and massive peanuts" joke and not finding it so funny anymore.

This is why satire is dangerous friends.

Ground penetrating radar! Nougatgate confirmed!