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If all the people throughout history would have said to themselves: "It is what it is", then we 'd all still be living in grass huts and caves.

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Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨vqroto@sh.itjust.works⁩ to ⁨showerthoughts@lemmy.world⁩

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  • marzhall@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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
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  • ekky@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    It would’ve been what it would’ve been…

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    • toy_boat_toy_boat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      There MUST be more to this provincial life!

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  • ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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.

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    • Flax_vert@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Then they all got bored and invented the Wii U

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      • NorthWestWind@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        sunken scrolls 26 from Splatoon single player campaign

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      • Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Being invented by cavemen actually explains a lot. 🤔

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    • CmdrShepard42@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Which highlights the importance of education and learning about the things people learned before us.

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  • HikingVet@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    We as a a species did not inhabit caves regularly or as a standard.

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    • NONE_dc@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      ☝️🤓

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    • toy_boat_toy_boat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      but yet there we were, watching the shadows. sorry, off topic, but i love that story.

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  • IHawkMike@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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.

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  • gedaliyah@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Don’t search for “thought terminating clichés”

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    • Oka@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      There you go.

      It happens.

      Why not.

      So it seems.

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  • kemsat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    At least I’d have my own hut or cave!

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  • softcat@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Grass huts seem a bit too involved, let’s just stand under a tree.

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  • jjjalljs@ttrpg.network ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    On the other hand, we wouldn’t have climate collapse and microplastics.

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  • AlexLost@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    And we’d all be much better off for it.

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  • PrimarilyPrimate@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Did my grandma write this because it sounds just like something my grandma would write.

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  • xoggy@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Then we’d be extinct you mean.

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  • jago@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    …*had* said to themselves…

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  • Dagwood222@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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.

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  • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    The world would be a better place.

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  • DarkSpectrum@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Looks at grass “It is what it is” Sleeps outside

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  • LovableSidekick@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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.

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  • ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Would we be happier?

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  • DrSleepless@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    “It is what it is” is what my boss says when he wants me to shut up

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  • dohpaz42@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Given the state of current events, that might not necessarily be a bad thing. Well, medicines/vaccines notwithstanding.

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