• @samus12345
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    792 months ago

    Fortunately he was cured of the crazy obsession of being happy and giving a fuck about things.

    • @Shou
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      132 months ago

      Maybe we should pathologize neurotypicals’ tendencies to pathologize anything they can’t relate to.

  • @[email protected]
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    672 months ago

    Imagine being the ruler of that city and letting him get “cured” instead of having him infodump / give daily reports about this.

    • @shalafi
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      292 months ago

      Lord Vetinari would have him on the city payroll.

      • @[email protected]
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        42 months ago

        “You love the boats. I do not, but I love what they mean.” sweeping gesture toward the window

        • @shalafi
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          “Really Havelock, why do you suffer such a fool on the city payroll?”

          “My dear Margolotta, for the pittance I pay the man, he does the work of 10 others. Fool he may be, but he is an accurate fool.”

    • Angry_Autist (he/him)
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      172 months ago

      Can you imagine a better person to appoint for your harbormaster? Or even a harbormaster assistant, this guy would do it for free and do it better than anyone.

    • @PugJesus
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      122 months ago

      An underappreciated part of civilizational development is social technology, as opposed to material technology.

      Sometimes people just don’t think of seemingly obvious ways to do things for hundreds or thousands of fucking years. Human society is a funny thing.

  • @[email protected]
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    422 months ago

    One wonders how it manifested itself before ships were invented, or in the ancestral hunter-gatherer environment. Surely there must have been autistic nomads.

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      Shamans.

      “Look, he said he knows where all the fruit bearing trees in this forest are. Not a lot of them, all of them. He pointed out a squirrel the other day and told it he was glad to see that it made it through the winter. I don’t know how he does it, but if he says we have to move because the squirrels are starting to move to new trees, who am I to argue? We move.”

      • @[email protected]
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        442 months ago

        This feels spot on.

        Add star constellations and telling immersive stories while guarding the fire at night to the list.

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          Don’t forget putting entirely too much effort into building contraptions with sticks, clay, wood, rope, etc. Somebody had to invent the forge bellows.

      • @[email protected]
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        32 months ago

        This feels so true. Modern day version maybe. Always been drawn towards spiritual things and the amount of dark stuff I trigger in others is crazy. It’s been a journey to understand and accept. But it’s good doing some healing, for others and myself.

    • skye
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      112 months ago

      probably witnessing mammoths or other animals return to their nest.

      However I don’t think the happiness would last long

    • @[email protected]
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      82 months ago

      Small procedure involving a ball peen hammer and metal spike applied to the back of the eye socket we would recognize today as a lobotomy.

      Maybe. I don’t know shit about it.

      • @[email protected]
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        92 months ago

        I don’t think they had lobotomies yet at the time. But might have been something in that vein.

        • @ZeffSyde
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          52 months ago

          I think trepanning would be the closest thing, drilling a hole in the skull to relieve pressure/let evil spirits escape.

  • @KellysNokia
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    82 months ago

    mfw normies existed in ancient Greece reeeeeeeeeeeeeee

  • @greencactus
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    72 months ago

    I have to fight the urge to start a debate if trains or ships are cooler

    • Iron Lynx
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      42 months ago

      Ships, trains and planes are all cool.

      Trucks though…

        • Iron Lynx
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          42 months ago

          Trucks for the transportation of goods are okay, I guess…

          Trucks for the transportation of overinflated egos, on the other hand, are complete wastes of workmanship and resources.