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[–] [email protected] 70 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Wheat dommy mommy r34 please

[–] [email protected] 32 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 11 months ago (1 children)

TSA? You googling this shit in the line at airport security?

[–] [email protected] 29 points 11 months ago

He's googling it in the full body scanner

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

Im 99% shure...

[–] [email protected] 49 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago

They've played us for absolute fools!

[–] [email protected] 36 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 26 points 11 months ago (2 children)

You mean that by controlling humans, maize evolved to a stronger plant?

[–] [email protected] 28 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago

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] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

The corn won. We are corn.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Someone read some Yuval Noah Harari it seems.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 11 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

Keyword "mostly" I guess

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 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).

[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I see someone has been reading Sapiens.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 17 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Depending on what species of overlord contacted your tribe first.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Instructions unclear, became overlord.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

Either way I blame yeast

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Define domensticated... In your usage. Please.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

We domesticated ourselves.