Comment on If I snapped you back in time 650 years right this very second, how would you use your current knowledge to succeed?

yessikg@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Europeans would show up and my Native American homies would be armed with cartridge rifles, six shooters and a crank rotary machine gun.

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• MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Congratulations, you just brought diseases to the new world.

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  • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    afaik one person is far from enough to set of an entire pandemic, especially with a much lower population density and no rapid transport.

    it’s feasible that they doom a village and get hunted down, though.

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  • ikilledlaurapalmer@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    LAB LEAK

    /s

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• xylogx@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  If you could somehow inoculate them against smallpox you might have a fighting chance.

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• macaw_dean_settle@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Not native, just 1st to migrate. 1st Americans or Amerindians.

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  • Soggy@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    If your argument is that humans can only be “native” to southeast Africa… that’s dumb. It might be defensible in an ecological sense but sociologically the word is used differently.

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