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Why You Keep Saving Your Life for Later, According to Psychology (www.vice.com)
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[–] 29 points 2 months ago (6 children)

I was just (shower) thinking to myself that humans must be all the chimps that couldn’t help but chase some random thing out of the jungle and into the plains/Savannah/desert and were lucky or smart enough to survive. All while the other chimps were happy to chill.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    I think all other animals are also anxious, in their case to find food, shelter and not get eaten

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    so are most humans, certainly many billion. 9 million of us a year die of starvation.

    As to anxious, Myanmar, Ethiopia, Iran, Ukrainian etc. having bombs dropped on you. Fuck, you can be fishing in the Caribbean and some asshole sends a missile to make your day shitty

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