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Greta Thunberg could have, by now, carved out a very comfortable life for herself as a liberal grifter-celebrity offering platitudes about personal responsibility at Davos. Instead she connected the dots between ecocide, capital, and empire, aiming squarely at the heart of the beast. And now fresh out of captivity she downplays her own suffering to recenter the urgency of aid to the Palestinian people. No wonder she's hated by the fascist+lib coalition that rules this world.
Author: JP (@jpbreton@mastodon.social)
Well there is a sociological theory that autism evolved and was kept around in the population because the tribe always needed someone laser focused on the tiny differences between berries or something. They were probably responsible for a lot of the leaps forward because everyone else would be just getting on with life and didn't have the mental space for anything else.
After they invented flint napping it probably gave them very high status within the tribe, so they would have had a lot of kids and so the trait was retained. But equally it would be detrimental if everyone was like that because you still need people to be good at hunting so although the trait would have survived, it would have always been a minority of the population. Which of course is exactly what we see, it just looks a bit different now there are 7 billion of us.
Processes for Cheese? Sour dough? Beer? As if these were invented by normies, amirite?
Those are so easy to make they're likely accidents. Literally just leave some random fruit in water and you'll probably get alcohol or vinegar.
Easy in retrospect, yes. So easy, that now even neurotypical people can follow recipes and make good beer or wine.
But it takes a special sort of nerd to notice the differences in when that random spoiled fruit turns to alcohol and when it goes straight to vinegar. It takes a deeply different mindset to get obsessed with that question and do the work to figure out how to control the process by experimenting.
Yeah whoever invented beer was probably given leader of the tribe lifetime status.
Although jokes aside it probably wasn't very strong, it was more about finding way to purify water