yeah sorry for the wording i was running into character limits
As soon as people could read, ages ago when they had fuck all to do they sat down and wrote (books, letters) for fun. Now, when people have fuck all to do they write internets for fun. NO CHANGE!
Submitted 5 weeks ago by HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
freeman@feddit.org 5 weeks ago
there is a textbox as well, besides the title
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Rule 2. The entire showerthought must be in the title
moonshadow@slrpnk.net 4 weeks ago
As soon as people were people they started expressing themselves. If they ever stop, they’ll be something else imo
JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social 5 weeks ago
Just for the record, before the invention of radio, TV and the mass production of goods, they also had a variety of real-world crafts they could do and things they could make for fun & profit.
phonics@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Before the mechanical loom. The whole world was basically creating thread and weaving full time. It would take just as long to hand make a sail for a viking ship as it would to make the whole rest of the ship.
JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social 5 weeks ago
That’s an underrated point, and (seems to me) severally under-emphasized in various historical fiction and such. Also could be kind of minimized / hand-waved away by many because it was (I’m guessing) seen as ‘poor persons and womens’ work,’ with the rights of both of such groups commonly dismissed across history, going back ages…
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
that also has disappeared?
JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social 5 weeks ago
I’d say that’s on a case-by-case basis. Hobbyists still weave on looms, even though there’s not strict need. People still build radio sets from scratch, and yadda-yadda…
One of the things that always interested me about living in a commune is that there’d be a need to do stuff like this to some extent, on an ongoing basis.