• Nepenthe
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      3011 months ago

      I figured I had worse things in my history and my personal TSA agent deserved to see this too, but nothing comes up except weird non-porn crypto stuff, a fully-clothed Shadowheart, and a magazine cover with muffins on it.

      Don’t let this be my legacy.

  • syrooks
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    4511 months ago

    “Let’s get this bread” man the bread got us

  • Mister Neon
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    3511 months ago

    Not sure you can say the same thing about maize. That plant is a mutant freak considering what we did to it.

      • Mister Neon
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        It’s not stronger but more versatile. I’m not sure you call something that can’t reproduce without human intervention stronger. The stalk is definitely stronger than the original teosinte plant, that trait was selected over time for bean support.

        • Uriel238 [all pronouns]
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          So it sacrificed independence for symbiosis to assure a robust position in the ecology. The strains of escherichia coli in our gut depend on us to survive, but man, what a crib!

      • @[email protected]
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        511 months ago

        Particularly in the US most people are literally made of corn. Most foods have corn additives, the beef we eat is primarily fed corn before being slaughtered. On a molecular level we’re corn.

  • Uriel238 [all pronouns]
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    It was a rough early relationship. Early staples were not conducive to agriculture. Generations of selective breeding and grafting gave us better plants for crops. We both made the relationship work for mutual benefit.

    • @whereisk
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      711 months ago

      Hallucinogenics were pretty easy to cultivate though and when you get the itch… (I mean, probably)

    • @BeefPiano
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      2211 months ago

      I keep thinking about his “there’s no point in invading lands anymore now, we are now a mostly peaceful world” thing as I read about Ukraine and Palestine

      • @_hovi_
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        711 months ago

        Keyword “mostly” I guess

      • @[email protected]
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        411 months ago

        Pretty sure i remember Harari mentioning his country Israel “not getting the memo” or something to that effect with the war thing. Double checked the book real quick and he does mention that conflict could arise in some of these countries despite us breaking the law of the jungle (conflict being natural and inevitable).

    • Adori
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      311 months ago

      Gud book, getting the same vibe rn by Life and death of great American cities by Jane jacobs

  • @KepBen
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    1211 months ago

    No it was all for the beer. Beer domesticated us.

    • ℛ𝒶𝓋ℯ𝓃
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      111 months ago

      Modified the behavioral patterns, biological features, or both, of a species in a way that creates a new symbiotic relationship.

      • Stoneykins [any]
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        111 months ago

        Modified how? If it is modified by any influence at all, I think that is too broad, it would include all symbiotic relationships.