Prehistoric shitposting

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• random_character_a@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  There was no written language, so he probably pulled out his hollow log, drummed some impressive beats and impressed his homies with song about shit-death-berry that everyone remembered and repeated.

  …or his song was shit and nobody cared till the next poor sod shit himself to death.

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  • LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.one ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The consequences of not supporting the artistic community were more severe back then

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  • Deiv@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    And that led to the release of Shit Death Berry 2: Electric Boogaloo

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• hiyidef646@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Literal shit posting

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  • shootwhatsmyname@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    i didn’t know shit could post

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    • ivanafterall@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Jesus, what did OP do to you guys?

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• ted@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Very rarely are things lethal like that. Poison edibles tend to taste awful, and if you start with a small amount you will learn whether it makes you sick.

  Now mushrooms on the other hand? No idea how they figured it out.

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  • shneancy@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    mushroom 1: tastes like chicken :) mushroom 2: oog died :( mushroom 3: arg says he saw the world melt and then spoke to god

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  • ieightpi@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    For real. Aren’t most poisonous mushrooms neurotoxins too?

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    • ExfilBravo@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Trip balls so hard you think you are dying and you actually are dying. Horrific.

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• FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  What I don’t get is how ancient humans figured out more complex stuff. Like neanderthals learned how to make a glue to hold their weapons together. It was probably a simple method, like this article talks about, but it still took a lot of planning and also a lot of basic reasoning before trying it themselves if it was even something that could be done.

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  • ExLisper@linux.community ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I would say it a combination of two things:

    1. People walked around for around ~300.000 years before inventing agriculture. That’s a lot of time to find out things by accident. We learned about antibiotics by accident. I’m sure also stumbled upon many inventions by pure luck.
    2. Caveman were smart. As smart as we are. Average person is not going to invent electronic watches but there’s always this 1% that’s more curious and intelligent that will experiment and discover things.

    Combine this and you have 300.000 years of very slow but steady progress fuelled by chance discoveries and occasional geniuses.

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    • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Oh I’m certainly aware of the second part. It still astounds me that they were able to figure out things like that without just observing the natural world. Here’s another example, although it may not apply to the early agricultural world because I don’t know when it was first cultivated. Who figured out that the leaves of rhubarb were poison and the stalks are only edible with further processing? According to Wikipedia, it’s been cultivated for at least 1800 years. How do you figure out, “well, this is making people sick, but what if we just ate the stems but cooked them a whole lot first?”

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  • Rubanski@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I imagine a lot of boredom (besides staying alive), helps finding out stuff. I can also imagie, that they had basic roles in a group, where people were designated “mess around with stuff and discover things, aka proto scientists”

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    • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’m sure that’s a big part of it, but it still amazes me the things they figured out how to achieve artificially, especially when they had no natural analogue. Like who figured out how to brew beer?

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  • Slovene@feddit.nl ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m not saying it was aliens, but …

    It was aliens.

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    • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Image

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• m_f@midwest.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I find it pretty amazing how someone figured out how to make cassava edible. It’s got enough cyanide to kill you unless it goes through some complex process of mashing and boiling. Who thought to themselves “this killed Greg, but maybe it’ll be delicious if I boil it for a little longer”?

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  • applebusch@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Necessity is the mother of invention. One day somebody was just that hungry, a cassava plant was available, experimentation ensues, bam staple crop. It’s not that huge of a leap though. Most societies have some kind of root or tuber food, and once you’ve got the idea that roots and tubers can be food it’s not a huge stretch to go looking for others. Pretty much all of them have to be cooked at least to be edible and palatable.

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• WhereGrapesMayRule@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Second Caveman: “Ted just never listened to anybody.”

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• ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  On a serious note

  Humans more than likely instinctively knew which foods were safe the same way their genetic ancestors did. Since humans evolved alongside other similar species they would share similar instincts on what to look for in safe to eat vs not safe to eat foods.

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• IWantToFuckSpez@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  A literal meme.

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