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Thousands of years ago, when tools were very primitive, it was probably common to have a favorite rock.

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Submitted ⁨⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨DesertDwellingWeirdo@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨showerthoughts@lemmy.world⁩

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  • untorquer@lemmy.world ⁨25⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    Doing volunteer trail maintenance. All the people swarm the tool pile trying to claim their favorite pick mattock or grub hoe. It’s adorable.

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  • Genius@lemmy.zip ⁨44⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    Look at this fella with no favourite rock

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  • shikimazu@lemmy.world ⁨32⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    this reminds me of the kam patterson skit

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  • BananaPeal@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    My favorite rock has a first name, it’s H-O-M-E-R. My favorite rock has a second name, it’s H-O-M-E-R.

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  • Mechanismatic@lemmy.ml ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Still pretty common today.

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  • Scott_of_the_Arctic@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    This is lemmy. Everyone has a favourite rock.

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    • YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I thought I was weird after seeing that black stand-up on kill Tony saying he had some of his favorites in his pocket. My step mom and I went hiking and she found two really cool rocks, one was gray and has streaks of purple, the other one was dark but with orange streaks. They live on my dashboard.

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      • FooBarrington@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Dashboard, as in car dashboard? Or is that also a name for furniture?

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    • datavoid@lemmy.ml ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      They’re fucking minerals Marie

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    • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Hematite is hella tight.

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      • spizzat2@lemmy.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I had a different one in mind.

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    • RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I can’t pick a favorite.

      They’re all neat.

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  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Wait till this guy finds out about the Kaaba

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  • MemmingenFan923@feddit.org ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Wearing Jewels is the advanced form of carrying a pet rock.

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    • ReanuKeeves@lemm.ee ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      We’re not so different than the penguins that prostitute themselves for rocks

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      • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        To be fair, the penguins don’t care about the rocks they’re just kinky like that

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  • judgyweevil@feddit.it ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Paleontologists have found Neanderthal stone tools (knapped stone) made with high quality stone taken from kilometers away. This means that they had favorite tools that they wanted to keep with them, while other low quality stones where used few times before being discarded near their collection point

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    • Jankatarch@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      “Yo dude checkout my secret rock collecting spot it’s just 13 kilometers over that way”

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      • Ceruleum@lemmy.wtf ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Even way back then, they already used the metric system!

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    • Captain_CapsLock@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      There’s an area in the cascade range (western US, specifically oregon) that is a giant field of knapped obsidian, that was used as a training ground for young knappers, as well as a trading ground to trade knapped obsidian that has been found all over the western US. Not just miles, but many many miles. I’ll see if I can go find a link.

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  • AnarchistArtificer@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I have a favourite rock

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    • FireIced@lemmy.super.ynh.fr ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Is it this one?

      ::: spoiler Image :::

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      • YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I got an STL on his face on those things that shot at you from the river in ocarina of Time. It’s called an octorock

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  • radix@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Wasn’t that long ago that people even had pet rocks.

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    • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Ehhhhh, believe it or not the 1970s was 50 years ago.

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      • Coelacanth@feddit.nu ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        The 70s will remain thirty years ago until the day I die.

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      • radix@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Can’t be. I was born in the 70s and I’m only what the fuck?

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      • Zachariah@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        ancient history

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      • ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Stfu

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  • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Was?

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  • Happyblonde@lemmy.zip ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Umm… I still have a favorite rock. His name is Doug 😂

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    • davidgro@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      My favorite rock also has a name: Mount Saint Helens

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      • Happyblonde@lemmy.zip ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        And what a great rock that is. Although temperamental at times.

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  • njm1314@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You don’t have a favorite Rock?

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  • squirrel@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    One of my favorite rocks is stoner rock.

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    • Zachariah@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      stone? or rock?

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      • YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        :: eye twitches in deserve space miner::

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      • Ghyste@sh.itjust.works ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Yes.

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  • GooberEar@lemmy.wtf ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It’s a mineral, Gurk.

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  • FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Don’t mind Geologists

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  • mercano@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Sea otters exhibit this behavior. They keep their favorite rock in their pouches and use them to crack open shellfish.

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  • renegadespork@lemmy.jelliefrontier.net ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    According to archeologists, it was probably obsidian.

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  • tehWrapper@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It’s believed that connections to objects as favorites is a more recent human evolution. Tribes would have spears and tools but people would just take one.

    …wikipedia.org/…/Sapiens:_A_Brief_History_of_Huma…

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