Anti-Extinct Creature Language

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• ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  66 million

  Am I so old? It was 65 million back when I was a kid.

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• humiddragonslayer@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  For the last one, another alternative would be “You’re so resilient, it would take a moon sized meteorite to take you down for good.”

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• isolatedscotch@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  as someone who has tried to make a furnace to melt metals, I envy iron age people who could do it successfully (unlike me) with no fancy tools or materials

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  • skulblaka@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You should try having nothing else better to distract you for 12-15 years. With no books, no TV, and no internet, if you need to figure out how to build a forge, you’d figure it out eventually. Through sheer boredom if nothing else.

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    • rooroo@feddit.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      But how do you know how to do anything without a YouTube tutorial?

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• GooberEar@lemmy.wtf ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Instead of: “They’re a disgusting troglodyte” Say: They are clearly ingenious enough to recognize the utility of having a stable living environment to retreat to for protection that’s superior to any structure they could possibly build using the technology and techniques available to them at the time.

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