A simpler time

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• theywilleatthestars@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Actually most of your friends would be gatherers

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  • pip@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Just a fancy name for ‘hunters of fruits and berries!’

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    • Apeman42@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I got a cousin, lost a finger to a jackfruit but he still managed to take the sumbitch down. Dude wears its skin as a helmet now.

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  • MissJinx@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Idk about you but nothing makes sense to me nowdays too.

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• Avicenna@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  you get a scratch, you die in pain from infection a week later

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  • thedeadwalking4242@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That’s part of “no growing old 😃”

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  • DagwoodIII@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Calvin Coolidge Jr. died from sepsis in 1924. He was playing tennis and got a blister on his foot, it was infected and there were no meds to stop the infection.

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    • hansolo@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Bob Marley died from gangrene following a football injury on his toe.

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    • massive_bereavement@fedia.io ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Tennis: Not even once.

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    • LovableSidekick@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Coolidge Jr got the blister playing tennis barefoot, and probably ignored it until the ensuing staph infection was well underway. People of that time (1924) who paid attention to their little injuries - wash with soap and water, hit it with some alcohol, cover it (i.e. don’t keep going barefoot on it) didn’t tend to die from them.

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  • LovableSidekick@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Mortality rate was higher than today but life wasn’t anywhere near that extreme. Most people don’t die from minor untreated infections - that’s what our immune system is for.

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  • ICastFist@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    If you’re lucky, the scratch didn’t come with the predator’s fangs on your throat

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• g0d0fm15ch13f@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I mean you ~can~ shit standing up today…

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  • Dagnet@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Waffle stomping?

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    • grranibal@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Blue waffle.

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• lemmygarden@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I imagined they would be squatting for shits

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  • Beehaw_Girl@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It still counts as standing cuz you’re on your feet.

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• Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  What’s stopping you from shitting standing up now?

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  • massive_bereavement@fedia.io ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Low-fiber diet I guess.

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• trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Failure at hunting for a couple of days means you die of starvation

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  • 100_kg_90_de_belin@feddit.it ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    IIRC hunter-gatherers had such varied sources of food and strong food-sharing networks that starvation wasn’t so common as one would expect

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    • gibson@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yeah I mean it worked well enough to bootstrap to agriculture multiple times around the world

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  • Trampampoline@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Looking at Trump once tells me our ancestors got lucky quite often.

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    • Rooster326@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      If you have enough kids. You don’t need to be lucky

      The vast majority of strategies thus far

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  • ICastFist@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Move to a large river, lake or the sea and fish up, ezpz

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• samus12345@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Early humans if they were introduced to modern conveniences:

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• SethTaylor@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  To be fair, you can still shit standing up

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  • spizzat2@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    And (almost) nothing makes sense again!

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  • rumba@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    And it’s probably still just as ineffective

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• Snapz@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  You could start a “men’s retreat” and charge conservatives $18,000/week to do this to themselves.

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• UnrepententProcrastinator@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  You can murder the neighbor and steal his wife… (Reminder for anyone disliking civilization)

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• Nouvellalia@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The number of people in here who think that pre-historical bodies were as frail as city bodies, is very high. The only thing city bodies do well is resist the fettid creep surrounding their lifestyle.

  Outside people didn’t get sepsis and starve all the time. In that habitat that city people find terrifying, they thrive. They are very very susceptible to the top tier viruses, bacteria, alcohol, sugar, entertainment, and control structures bred by thousands of generations of natural selection in the people pile though.

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• Beehaw_Girl@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Come to Los angeles. Plenty of people here are still living this simple life.

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