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And we’d all be much better off for it.
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Submitted 11 months ago by vqroto@sh.itjust.works to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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AlexLost@lemm.ee 11 months ago
xoggy@programming.dev 11 months ago
Then we’d be extinct you mean.
kemsat@lemmy.world 11 months ago
At least I’d have my own hut or cave!
DarkSpectrum@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Looks at grass “It is what it is” Sleeps outside
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
Would we be happier?
jago@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
…*had* said to themselves…
DrSleepless@lemmy.world 11 months ago
“It is what it is” is what my boss says when he wants me to shut up
Dagwood222@lemm.ee 11 months 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 11 months 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 11 months 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 11 months ago
Which highlights the importance of education and learning about the things people learned before us.
Flax_vert@feddit.uk 11 months ago
Then they all got bored and invented the Wii U
Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Being invented by cavemen actually explains a lot. 🤔
dohpaz42@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Given the state of current events, that might not necessarily be a bad thing. Well, medicines/vaccines notwithstanding.
some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 11 months ago
The world would be a better place.
PrimarilyPrimate@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Did my grandma write this because it sounds just like something my grandma would write.
IHawkMike@lemmy.world 11 months 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 11 months ago
Grass huts seem a bit too involved, let’s just stand under a tree.
jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 11 months ago
On the other hand, we wouldn’t have climate collapse and microplastics.
HikingVet@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
We as a a species did not inhabit caves regularly or as a standard.
toy_boat_toy_boat@lemmy.world 11 months ago
but yet there we were, watching the shadows. sorry, off topic, but i love that story.
NONE_dc@lemmy.world 11 months ago
☝️🤓
gedaliyah@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Don’t search for “thought terminating clichés”
Oka@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
There you go.
It happens.
Why not.
So it seems.
ekky@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
It would’ve been what it would’ve been…
toy_boat_toy_boat@lemmy.world 11 months ago
There MUST be more to this provincial life!
LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 11 months 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.