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Rock
Rocks and stones are natural formations of minerals that can be used to create the most primitive technology. Stone age was the first stage of our civilization; it was characterized by use of stone tools. Rock nerds are called geologists.
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Rocks are pretty suckless and LRS because they are simple, they are everywhere, free and can be used in a number of ways such as:
- As a building material.
- For fun and entertainment, you can play various games with rocks: rock skipping, petanque, long throw, even chess.
- As weapons, even though we discourage this use.
- For making tools such as knives or hammers.
- To hold heat: you can e.g. heat stones in fire and let them heat you while you sleep or use them to cook something.
- For writing, some can be used as a chalk, some may be used to carve text into, which makes the texts last very long (that's why we have records of very old history, see also RCBD). A dust from some rocks can be used to make dye to paint or write with.
- As weights.
- For help with counting (e.g. abacus) -- this makes rocks a kind of computer!
- To make art, decorations, small statues etc.
- For breaking things, grinding, sharpening etc.
- With advanced technology we can get metals out of rocks, extract geological knowledge from them etc.
- Some rocks can be used to start fire.
- Some are pretty rare and can be used as a currency, even though we hate money and discourage this as well.
- You can collect them as a cool non-capitalist hobby.
- As pets... apparently pet rocks are a thing :)
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