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[โ€“] Commiunism@beehaw.org 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Coal mining, I fucking love mining coal

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[โ€“] Farvana@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 3 months ago

Knapping.

Wait, I mean napping.

[โ€“] Zombiepirate@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

I feel like I could get flintknapping down pretty well.

[โ€“] neidu3@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Engineering and chemistry. You know, sharpening knives/arrows and distilling seawater into salt for food preservation.

[โ€“] Alloi@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

tool making most likely. also fire keeping, and cooking.

[โ€“] WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Ironically, brute force. I would be great at hunting too!

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[โ€“] blindbunny@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I'd be the hairless monkey that stays up all night and talks to plants

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[โ€“] ChaosInstructor@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago (4 children)

looking like that...most likely not a Don Juan. so hunting and fishing, i could scare anything to death...

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[โ€“] Grass@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 months ago
[โ€“] rainrain@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Digging holes with a shovel. I'm good at that.

Whittling. Drawing.

Meditation.

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[โ€“] CaptainBlagbird@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I guess I could build a cart/waggon for easier transporting the dead animals the other guys hunted. Not sure if that would be much appreciated or if I just would be the weird guy again.

Maybe a plough would be more useful.

And building/improving shelter.

I could also make a fire after failing some time I suppose.

[โ€“] tetris11@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I can imagine you making a rock hammer, and having to sit there and justify to people why the end has that weird flange. "It's for pulling things out!"

[โ€“] CaptainBlagbird@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Right, come to think of it, I definitely would be the weird guy that doesn't understand how the community works. I couldn't speak their language, wouldn't know their common practices and hierarchy.

I'd likely go (be exiled) on my own lonely journey (aaand thus quickly die).

[โ€“] CitizenKong@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

You'd be a lot taller and probably also faster (maybe not stronger). You'd become a god-king in no time. Or be killed as a monster.

[โ€“] biofaust@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Counting and therefore distributing spoils fairly. I would become a well-loved chief and would probably get laid more than I currently do, although the hairy partners may not be of my liking.

[โ€“] tetris11@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 months ago

eh beauty is relative and you'd get used to it. It sounds like you'd be the village sandwich maker, and yes I can imagine that being a very prestigious position

[โ€“] KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz 3 points 3 months ago

Not being on the internet

[โ€“] RedSnt@feddit.dk 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[โ€“] frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 months ago

stoneagers would trounce any of us at crossfit

[โ€“] RBWells@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

I'm reasonably good at surviving pregnancy and childbirth, and nursing. Think all my other skills are only useful after the agricultural revolution.

[โ€“] Mothra@mander.xyz 3 points 3 months ago

I'd be a good forager, gatherer and tracker. I have a knack for identifying plants and animals and spotting signs of their presence. I'm sure with a bit of training I could become decent at trapping too but I've never done that.

I'd also be good at art, be that cave wall painting or figurine sculpting/carving.

[โ€“] Flemmy@lemm.ee 2 points 3 months ago

Knapping flint while fishing. And shitting under a tree. I feel like my ancestors have more in common than I thought.

[โ€“] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 3 months ago

Mandatory I'd have died more than once, but I suspect I would have been good at mental things like tracking and storytelling. I'd probably suck at everything else, too.

[โ€“] WhatsHerBucket@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

Dispensing elderly wisdom

[โ€“] Corno@lemm.ee 2 points 3 months ago

Cave paintings, since I'm an artist! ๐Ÿ˜ƒ Also probably building tools and things since I enjoy building stuff in general

[โ€“] eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 3 months ago
[โ€“] thefartographer@lemm.ee 2 points 3 months ago

Feeding the living with my body

[โ€“] dirtycrow@programming.dev 2 points 3 months ago

min-maxxing my sticks

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