I’m just this guy, you know? Except on Lemmy.
Thanks to /u/crank0271 for the name
RIP Kbin.social
Counterpoint: create a field of brambles for your goats to wander through when they get itchy so you don’t have to brush them.
Bonus: those brambles are blackberry bushes so you can wander through them and eat breakfast.
And gather goat fur to spin into cordage or make brushes from.
I wonder if humans raising an eyebrow is a vestige of this behavior
3.8
I can’t remember the German words for 8 and 9
Alternatively: “Who’s barfing up road gravel and possum bones on my bedroom floor?”
I’m jealous because I love my kitty and my hammock but my kitty doesn’t love my hammock. You’re so lucky!
You’re doing it wrong.
You write the macros, tell no one, and give three people an easy income.
If necessary, add random errors so they think you’re still doing it manually.
MFers got no class solidarity…
That America is the best and most free country in the world.
I got told to do something, nobody bothered me all day, and I got it finished before I stopped working for the day.
There was a solid 18 months where I woke up to a kitty cuddled in my arms and no alarm, no kids, no SO. Just work at some time in a few hours and a purring kitty.
I miss it. Even though I could see my breath in my own bedroom.
You claimed that modern humans are more successful at killing. Which is true from a sheer numbers perspective. But when two tribes of 50 people lose 10 people total that’s a lot more per capita than the numbers we kill now.
As for the organized violence observed in fossil records, YouTube actually recommended me a video not long after you posted this comment about just that. Turns out it happened after the Neolithic Agricultural revolution, just like the link I posted from UNESCO said. Apparently about 95% of males were killed in a short period of time throughout Africa, Europe, and Asia once they transitioned to sedentary, agricultural lifestyles. Prior to that there was no real violence in the fossil record.
Which also reinforces my position that less organized, less ‘advanced’ societies aren’t as violent.
As for the chimps, they’re starting a war with gorillas now, and scientists think it’s over competition for previously abundant resources. Both species are confined to small parks, and they’re competing for food, and now things are getting tense.
So the conclusion we can gather is that when there are concentrated or restricted resources, apes will become violent. But prior to the invention of agriculture, humans lived in a world of abundance and were less violent. And as we consumed more resources, the other ape species started fighting each other. And since we don’t see mass graves of neanderthals I highly doubt we killed them all.
Also, we are more closely related to bonobos so chimpanzee behavior, especially that of chimpanzees who are forced into small areas due to human encroachment, doesn’t seem a good point of reference.
(Sorry I didn’t reply earlier, I was on mobile and Voyager’s interface is terrible for long replies. I really wish they’d re-work their link formatting.)
(Also based on the language of your responses you’re not going to ever agree with me so I’m not going to bother reading your reply, and I’m just replying for anyone else who reads it so they have a full picture.)
Being alone.
Everyone’s talking about a loneliness epidemic and I’m here wishing I had fewer people around me.
Most of them I love, for sure, but the freedom and relaxation of not having anyone around is addicting and I haven’t had a good hit since 2020
I’ve done a bit of googling and the evidence I’m seeing doesn’t agree with you on several points.
For example, a war in NZ between Māori tribes killed roughly 10% of the population, while the US civil war only killed 0.5%
And this report from UNESCO agrees with my assertion that organized violence appeared not long after agriculture as a way to reinforce the status quo.
Then why are most “uncivilized” societies have more egalitarian and non-violent than “civilized” ones?
And why has every civilization since the dawn of them been about using violence to uphold the status quo?
The institutions aren’t broken. They’re working as designed.
Arm the pizza delivery drivers!
Yeah, to uphold the status quo of the few owning everything and controlling everyone
Elect three presidents, and two of them have to agree.
I’ve never thought of this, even though I make the turkey every year.
Thank you for the inspiration
Free trimming.