375 million years ago, this guy decided to walk out of the water…

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Radiomaster138@reddit

Everyone, boo this thing. Booooooooooo….

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Quercus408@reddit

Don't forget to "Thank" all the small, shrew-like mammals that had the audacity to survive the K-T Extinction

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rebordacao@reddit (OP)

You can find my info pinned in my profile! Or just google my username: rebordacao

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imalostkitty-ox0@reddit

I saw your store. INCREDIBLE selection. I DMd you, no pressure to reply quickly. Just a sort of thought experiment.

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HousesRoadsAvenues@reddit

I myself blame the "Mount Everest" sized asteroid that hit the planet. Damn that Jupiter didn't do its job!

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Already_dead_inside0@reddit

"In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move"

You made me remember of this quote with your post

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Fox_Kurama@reddit

Eh, those angry people are just the ones without blankets. Or who live next to the Vogon.

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Actually, it seems to have gone pretty well overall. Only a couple million years at most marred by various mass extinctions (many of which affected the sea too). The current one is going to be one of the bigger ones alongside the great dying, but that is really just a mistake of some monkeys for leaving the forest.

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MeadowShimmer@reddit

An anthropologist told me all our troubles started when we invented agriculture.

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NiceSupermarket7724@reddit

when men harnessed and standardized agriculture

Women had been growing crops for small use for thousands of years. Every society in which men developed plantation-style farming has led to patriarchy, slavery, destruction, etc.

This came after the steppes peoples domesticating horses, which kicked off the “domination” paradigm.

It’s also allowed humans to balloon to our population of Billions.

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thehourglasses@reddit

Surplus was definitely the thing that got the ball rolling

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roytay@reddit

IMHO, agriculture is OK. But nitrogen fertilizers really let our population explode. https://www.nature.com/articles/22672

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J-A-S-08@reddit

My head canon is the ability to make and use fire. But I'm also an idiot.

Fire let us cook food making it easier to digest and get more calories into that growing monkey brain. It let us live in places we couldn't naturally survive due to being too cold for a naked ape. It kept predators at bay. It laid the foundation for metal working and tool building. And it laid the foundation for mass altering of landscapes for said agriculture.

I think it was game over the second we realized how to burn stuff for our comfort and utility.

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kaelne@reddit

A gorilla told me that, too. Have you read the book Ishmael, by Daniel Quinn?

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rebordacao@reddit (OP)

Makes sense...

It might be naive or misguided on my part, since I'm no anthropologist:

But what saddens me most is realizing that it was not the societies that were happy, or free, or equal that prospered and survived, but those that were both driven and capable of enslaving and destroying their neighbors.

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HappyCamperDancer@reddit

Have you ever read the book Guns, Germs and Steel by Diamond?

Great anthropology book for understanding how that worked. The other great book along the same lines (but a slighly different take) is Sapiens by Harari.

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lizardtrench@reddit

Yeah, it has its obvious upsides but the fundamentally unavoidable downside is that it changed the way we live, a way that we had spent hundreds of thousands of years (millions if we count our species' ancestors) adapting to and being molded by. We're fish out of water in our own civilization.

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wsbautist420@reddit

Yep, when we started to grow food in the summer, it allowed us to store it for the winter, which gave us “free time” to think and invent. That allows us to create technology of all sorts. The more technology that existed, the more jobs existed. Then we just continued from there, buying shit, making shit, working, working, working, and now here we are, all stuck working forever. No one can just exist, because you have to work to support the system. Consume, consume, consume, forever.

Anytime I watch a TV show like Lost, or a movie like Castaway, I always envy the people living on an island with food, water, and shelter. Sure it’s not ideal, but at least you aren’t a wage slave trading everything for basic healthcare.

The other big issue is ownership. You are either a wage slave or an owner. Very few that are in-between.

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trivetsandcolanders@reddit

Me too, wonder if it was the same anthropologist lol

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MeadowShimmer@reddit

Weber State University

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trivetsandcolanders@reddit

Oh never mind. Maybe a fairly common take among anthropologists then

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ummmm_nahhh@reddit

Now we have nukes Ya dumb bitch!

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lowrads@reddit

There were shark analogues in the water as far back as the Devonian.

Anyone feeling enough pressure to grow lungs and an impermeable shell membrane probably had a good reason.

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jbond23@reddit

Fun fact: There were sharks on the opposite side of the Milky Way. They've been around longer than half the rotation time of the galaxy.

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lowrads@reddit

It's weird that those things even manage to be roundish.

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rebordacao@reddit (OP)

Needlework I made, inspired by Douglas Adams' book: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

"Many were increasingly of the opinion that they'd all made a big mistake in coming down from the trees in the first place. And some said that even the trees had been a bad move, and that no one should ever have left the oceans."

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Epsilon_Meletis@reddit

"Many were increasingly of the opinion that they'd all made a big mistake in coming down from the trees in the first place. And some said that even the trees had been a bad move, and that no one should ever have left the oceans."

"In the beginning, the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move."

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jbond23@reddit

Nearly as bad a mistake as Consciousness, Self-awareness and General Intelligence.

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CrystalInTheforest@reddit

I'd turn back if I were you, Dorothy.

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roytay@reddit

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/KwlvU94C0BE

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ssquirt1@reddit

Rust Cohle was right

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Livid-Rutabaga@reddit

OP, where did you get that?

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rebordacao@reddit (OP)

That's my original work fam 🙂

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Livid-Rutabaga@reddit

oh wow. I love it.

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aubreypizza@reddit

I was thinking I saw this in r/embroidery recently! Love it! 😆

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rebordacao@reddit (OP)

Hehe! Yep, I'm always sharing my works there! ❤️

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UncleBaguette@reddit

Well, I lowkey hope that we are just an intermediste step toward machines, that will be shepherds and healers to the nature after we will be gone. Foolish, i know...

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Someones_Dream_Guy@reddit

I should invent time machine and go explain to this guy how he'll have to work and pay taxes that won't even benefit him if he comes out of water.

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NyriasNeo@reddit

Don't worry. The mistake will be rectified soon. Won't take even 1M years.

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Kahnza@reddit

Tom Paris should be ashamed!

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Redsneeks3000@reddit

Pakicetus’ went back.

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HomoExtinctisus@reddit

Hey I'd probably buy on Etsy as I embrace our hyper-capitalism.

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rebordacao@reddit (OP)

Thanks, internet stranger! As an independent textile artist, that's very cool to hear :)

Just be careful with any links posted here or sent via Dm's, bots love to target art/craft posts like this one.

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Needlework I made, inspired by Douglas Adams' book: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

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Autocannibal-Horse@reddit

OMG I love this!

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rebordacao@reddit (OP)

Thanks ❤️

It's a mixed media: hand embroidery + watercolor!

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humdinger44@reddit

I've seen this a few times but quite honestly nature and the ocean are vicious places