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You must pick a point in human history before the 1950s to be spend the rest of your life in. What era and place would you choose? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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You would still have the same age, gender, personality, skin color, etc. and you would be able to speak at least one local language and would know basic information of the era and place. Your family, social standing, and such would be randomly picked.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

@Deceptichum pretty sure that was because humans ate the eagles' main food source, the giant moa, to extinction.

I don't think you ~~two~~ three citizens of the fediverse are going to single-handedly defeat them.

Edit: forgot @Nepenthe is now arriving before you.

[–] spittingimage 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

@Deceptichum pretty sure that was because humans ate the eagles’ main food source, the giant moa, to extinction.

It was also because giant eagle eggs were a (relatively) easy source of protein.