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Anon thinks about wheat (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 10 months ago by to c/science_memes@mander.xyz
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[–] 31 points 10 months ago (4 children)

The stupid level of processing is...boiling it? Same as rice, people only discover processing it a bit later.

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  • [–] 7 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    If you think about it then boiling is not that easy.

    There is almost no way to boil something until you discover pottery and ceramic, and this is quite advanced tech for many early civilizations.

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  • [–] 14 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    The Haida on the west coast of Canada put red hot rocks in their canoes to render fish. You underestimate humans ingenuity.

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago

    Humans are very clever. Sometimes I feel very clever because I have learned so many cool facts and skills with the internet, and then I think about all the knowledge I hold that people of the past managed to figure out from scratch, and it blows my mind

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