flying_sheep

@flying_sheep@lemmy.ml

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon catches his wife⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not disagreeing with your core message: monogamy isn’t “older” than polygamy. But Nether is it the other way around: We probably did both since very long ago.

  The notion that there’s a human “tech tree” of civilization is wrong. E.g. Agriculture doesn’t “follow” hunting and gathering, and neither does centralized power (like in a state) “follow” agriculture. Humans have been experimenting with social structures since basically the beginning.

  So within the last tens of millenia, there were probably societies that were monogamous, some that were polygamous, and some that rotated or did both, and of these some depending on some social stratification and some depending on personal preference.

  Source: “The dawn of everything”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon catches his wife⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Traditional relationship models are so weird.

  Making up all these different definitions of “cheating” vs “emotional cheating” and distinguishing them from other instances of hurtfully not honoring agreements.

  It’s just that: people have an agreement with each other and one of them expressed that it’s very important for them emotionally for the other to honor it. Then the other didn’t. That expectedly hurts.

  Why is there a special word when the agreement is about sex?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨my humps⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, hippos are one of the most dangerous big animals

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Someone got Gab's AI chatbot to show its instructions⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The both-sidesing was already telling. Sometimes the only “controversial or alternative viewpoints” are just idiotic conspiracy drivel and should be presented as such (or not at all)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do Americans measure everything in cups?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, a measurement cup is half a pint. They are defined volumes

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Happy eclipse day everyone.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  :(

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Germans: what genocide?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  ?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Germans: what genocide?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They are already. Antisemitic violence has been on the rise here since October 7. Antisemites see Israel do a thing and think “I know, let’s hurt some Jews”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨the fuckgraph⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You think?

  I think people feel liberated to say they’re gay these days, so there are much more people claiming to be gay than in previous decades. On the other hand, there’s still a lot of homophobes and also quite some biphobes around, so there’s probably a lot of bi people that present as hetero or even gay.

  I’d assume that most people are at least a little bi, and that they’ll try that out in high school even if they later decide they won’t pursue it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Games that force you to make hard choices⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  From what I heard, Pathologic 2 is basically a 2019 remake of the original, so it should be prettier, less janky but still basically the same game, right?