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[–] [email protected] 2 points 33 minutes ago

If only our species took more from Bonobos than Chimps..

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

With the social climate of the time, there would just be another guy who would replace him. It's a fallacy to think "fixing" the individual will solve social problems.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 minutes ago

...

Yep, you are right.

Send someone sick with COVID.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 hours ago

Not how I expected the Planet of the Apes reboot to start

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago

And neanderthals sprang whole into being

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

With that humans possibly gone extinct due to diseases introduced on that timeline. On the other hand the time travellers just bought a new disease to the current timeline.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

With the time machine plot I didn't even question the massive exposed brain.

It's hair...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago

I thought it was just pink hair but, I like your perspective better.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 19 hours ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 12 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

that's exactly the comic this reminded me of, but I didn't remember the ending, it makes no sense

[–] [email protected] 1 points 23 minutes ago

It does if you're a homophobe.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 19 hours ago

That was uh something.

[–] [email protected] 60 points 23 hours ago (3 children)

These guys just fixed humanity with a hug

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

You could fix my humanity with a hug :')

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Best I can do is a friendly tap on the back

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago

(Dark souls style) Humanity Restored

[–] [email protected] 11 points 22 hours ago

Imagine that the hug changed the family, made them loving and supportive, and Hitler was just a recidivist incel who was destined to be hateful. Sometimes things can't be changed, some people don't want to be fixed, and some shitheads need to be rejected for who they are.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 23 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 22 hours ago

I can only imagine a The Boys scenario where it cuts their body in half from squeezing too hard.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Hitler's father was quite cosmopolitan. He had a nationalist history teacher and a rough time after he was rejected from art school. Take that with a huge grain of salt since this is how he depicts it in his autobiography. I think the major part of his radicalization was in prison while he wrote Mein Kampf but that's just my opinion.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

I think I read somewhere that he was supposed to infiltrate the Nazis and report on them. Instead he got radicalized.

Whoops

[–] [email protected] 6 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

think I read somewhere

Doesn't make it true.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (1 children)

True!

So here’s a source. Wikipedia

He was an intelligence agent assigned to infiltrate the German workers party, precursor to the nazi party. It’s the first bit in the “entry into politics section”.

https://imgur.com/a/zBAKJYU

[–] [email protected] 1 points 49 minutes ago

Jesus Christ. I had no idea that he was a turned Intel agent too.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

They should probably try to fix the issues that caused the population to vote for him.

It never about "fixing" or "killing" individuals, but about systems that do not work for some people.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 23 hours ago

I kind of think about things like this a lot because of my family. My mom's parents were amazing. My mom was amazing. Her brother.. total asshole. My dad's parents - especially his mom - were beyond awful. Out of 6 kids, only 2 turned out good, and 1 was my dad. He's told me so many times over the years how he swore he'd never be like his parents. I've wondered before how things might have turned out of my maternal grandparents had been awful and my paternal ones good. I wonder how things would have changed.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

The line leading to Homo sapiens went extinct that day after trying to have peace talks with the much more aggressive neanderthal ancestors.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 22 hours ago

I think they messed up and went for the ancestors of bonobos, that's why they're so chill.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (1 children)

"neanderthal ancestors", "that day", "peace talks"

you need to read about Neanderthals.

Neanderthals never met ancestors of homo sapiens those apes in the strip seem to represent.

they're probably assimilated and not killed to extinction in a war

[–] [email protected] 9 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (1 children)

Neanderthals never met ancestors of homo sapiens

That's what people USED to think. Turns out they not just met, but interbred.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 14 hours ago

yes, according to researchers, they did meet homo sapiens and interbred

The oldest potential Neanderthal bones date to 430,000 years ago

Anatomically modern humans emerged around 300,000 years ago in Africa, evolving from Homo heidelbergensis or a similar species.

The date of divergence of Neanderthals from their ancestor H. heidelbergensis is also unclear.

my thinking was that if both homo sapiens and Neanderthals evolved from "h. heidelbergensis" than Neanderthals met h. sapiens but not their "ancestors"