[deleted]
And we’d all be much better off for it.
[deleted]
Submitted 1 year ago by vqroto@sh.itjust.works to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
Comments
AlexLost@lemm.ee 1 year ago
xoggy@programming.dev 1 year ago
Then we’d be extinct you mean.
kemsat@lemmy.world 1 year ago
At least I’d have my own hut or cave!
DarkSpectrum@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Looks at grass “It is what it is” Sleeps outside
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
Would we be happier?
jago@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
…*had* said to themselves…
DrSleepless@lemmy.world 1 year ago
“It is what it is” is what my boss says when he wants me to shut up
Dagwood222@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Eurema’s Dam by R. Lafferty
ebookslib.org/sf/12898-eurema-s-dam.html
In this comic science fiction story, the author proposes that the only people who are truly inventive are those who are too inept to do anything else. The hero, unable to do simple math, invents a calculator at age six. He goes on to create any number of useful inventions, including intelligent robots who mock him as a buffoon.
marzhall@lemmy.world 1 year ago
…on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man—for precisely the same reasons.
- Douglas Adams
ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
The interesting thing is that anatomically modern Homo sapiens appeared about 300,000 years ago and lived exclusively as hunter-gatherers for about 280,000 of those years.
CmdrShepard42@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Which highlights the importance of education and learning about the things people learned before us.
Flax_vert@feddit.uk 1 year ago
Then they all got bored and invented the Wii U
Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Being invented by cavemen actually explains a lot. 🤔
dohpaz42@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Given the state of current events, that might not necessarily be a bad thing. Well, medicines/vaccines notwithstanding.
some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year ago
The world would be a better place.
PrimarilyPrimate@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Did my grandma write this because it sounds just like something my grandma would write.
IHawkMike@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Hard disagree. It only applies for things you cannot change but should try to accept rather than stressing over it.
If you say “it is what it is,” in reference to things you could change but choose not to, well that’s on you.
softcat@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Grass huts seem a bit too involved, let’s just stand under a tree.
jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 1 year ago
On the other hand, we wouldn’t have climate collapse and microplastics.
HikingVet@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
We as a a species did not inhabit caves regularly or as a standard.
toy_boat_toy_boat@lemmy.world 1 year ago
but yet there we were, watching the shadows. sorry, off topic, but i love that story.
NONE_dc@lemmy.world 1 year ago
☝️🤓
gedaliyah@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Don’t search for “thought terminating clichés”
Oka@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
There you go.
It happens.
Why not.
So it seems.
ekky@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
It would’ve been what it would’ve been…
toy_boat_toy_boat@lemmy.world 1 year ago
There MUST be more to this provincial life!
LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Yes, but only if literally all the people said that. Progress happens because the vast masses adopt the new ideas of a very small number of innovators.