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[–] [email protected] 66 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wheat dommy mommy r34 please

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I figured I had worse things in my history and my personal TSA agent deserved to see this too, but nothing comes up except weird non-porn crypto stuff, a fully-clothed Shadowheart, and a magazine cover with muffins on it.

Don't let this be my legacy.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (1 children)

TSA? You googling this shit in the line at airport security?

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago

He's googling it in the full body scanner

[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 year ago (1 children)

“Let’s get this bread” man the bread got us

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

They've played us for absolute fools!

[–] MisterNeon 35 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not sure you can say the same thing about maize. That plant is a mutant freak considering what we did to it.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You mean that by controlling humans, maize evolved to a stronger plant?

[–] MisterNeon 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's not stronger but more versatile. I'm not sure you call something that can't reproduce without human intervention stronger. The stalk is definitely stronger than the original teosinte plant, that trait was selected over time for bean support.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

So it sacrificed independence for symbiosis to assure a robust position in the ecology. The strains of escherichia coli in our gut depend on us to survive, but man, what a crib!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Particularly in the US most people are literally made of corn. Most foods have corn additives, the beef we eat is primarily fed corn before being slaughtered. On a molecular level we're corn.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

The corn won. We are corn.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It was a rough early relationship. Early staples were not conducive to agriculture. Generations of selective breeding and grafting gave us better plants for crops. We both made the relationship work for mutual benefit.

[–] whereisk 7 points 1 year ago

Hallucinogenics were pretty easy to cultivate though and when you get the itch.. (I mean, probably)

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Someone read some Yuval Noah Harari it seems.

[–] BeefPiano 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I keep thinking about his “there’s no point in invading lands anymore now, we are now a mostly peaceful world” thing as I read about Ukraine and Palestine

[–] _hovi_ 7 points 1 year ago

Keyword "mostly" I guess

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Pretty sure i remember Harari mentioning his country Israel "not getting the memo" or something to that effect with the war thing. Double checked the book real quick and he does mention that conflict could arise in some of these countries despite us breaking the law of the jungle (conflict being natural and inevitable).

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I see someone has been reading Sapiens.

[–] Adori 3 points 1 year ago

Gud book, getting the same vibe rn by Life and death of great American cities by Jane jacobs

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Macropolis 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Depending on what species of overlord contacted your tribe first.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Instructions unclear, became overlord.

[–] KepBen 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No it was all for the beer. Beer domesticated us.

[–] captainlezbian 6 points 1 year ago

Either way I blame yeast

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Define domensticated... In your usage. Please.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Modified the behavioral patterns, biological features, or both, of a species in a way that creates a new symbiotic relationship.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Modified how? If it is modified by any influence at all, I think that is too broad, it would include all symbiotic relationships.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

We domesticated ourselves.