Many were increasingly of the opinion that they’d all made a big mistake in coming down from the trees in the first place. And some said that even the trees had been a bad move, and that no one should ever have left the oceans.

[–] H1jAcK@lemm.ee 20 points 3 months ago

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 16 points 3 months ago

Inventing farming was definitely a mistake. But so was leaving the ocean.

[–] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

If you're looking for the point when the wrongness began, look no further than baryon asymmetry. Every known model of physics fails to explain why matter and antimatter were created in unequal proportions, and that's why we're in this mess.

Sheesh. An arbitrarily infinite multiverse and I end up stuck in the one where stuff exists.

[–] FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 3 months ago

James C Scott’s Against the Grain is an excellent academic read on this if anyone is curious.

As a sidenote! Loving Mesopotamia Monday!

[–] Prunebutt@slrpnk.net 3 points 3 months ago

We never should have left the trees.

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

Damn, gotta say it looks pretty great, though.

[–] m4xie@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 months ago

Central nervous systems were a mistake.