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Who on earth downvoted this masterpiece?

There are numerous contemporaneous writings that are either (a) in French or (b) hard to read because of flowery Enlightenment-era English, but Dave Graeber and David Wengrow do an excellent job of collecting together a lot of the relevant information in The Dawn of Everything. There are also plenty of other really good histories of the Wendat and Huron people and Pacific coast potlatch societies though I can’t think of the authors I’ve liked right at the moment.

The kind of society that “won out” over the other kinds we’ve tried is definitely a contributor. When Europeans were integrating with the plains Indians in the US and Canada many of them noted how the “less-civilized” people seemed to be a good deal more civilized than themselves in a lot of respects (like with mutual aid, division of labor and resources, etc.). But there’s no reason to think we can’t get there again.

Bring back old-school Orangina!

Isn’t that more like if you’re stuck in a time loop?

My understanding is that if you’re reincarnated you’re still in the current timeline (ie time has continued to pass), you’re just now in a different body.

And if it’s not a dharmic path-style of reincarnation and you’re just reincarnated into whatever living creature needs a soul, you’d probably come back as some kind of bacterium for the next 200 trillion times before – if you’re reeeeallly lucky – then reincarnating as a tardigrade.

Or, as a friend of mine found out the hard way, decreasing the potency of your birth control

Plot twist: since pic 3 is outside the jail cell, you are just a drunk guard.

Don’t tempt them. It’s hard enough to cross the street as it is.

I bet he just reads it for the articles.

Wow that whole website is like one big shitpost – but I don’t think intentionally.

I feel like we can do better than this.

Thank you for your service.

Ha. Look at @PugJesus@lemmy.world (or maybe @PugJesus@lemmy.dbzer0.com or @PugJesus@kbin.social, etc) acting all humble here while posting 75% of the content in the threadiverse.

Glad we weren’t talking about how chocoholics -> chocolics.

OpenAI is also funded by billionaires. It’s just billionaires all the way down.

Yep, being addicted to soupohol is the worst.

Acolytes of Sir Mix-a-Lot are often inclined to wax poetic about the improved aesthetic of a rotund derriere.

Or, as the kids say these days, gyatt damn .

Sir (or ma’am) I’ll have you know that is Bandit, not his young daughter Bluey

Actual lizards would do a better job than a number of governments I can think of.

Man these political compass charts get weirder and weirder.