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[–] 51 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Actually most of your friends would be gatherers

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  • [–] 28 points 3 months ago* (2 children)

    I mean you can shit standing up today...

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  • [–] 21 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    I imagined they would be squatting for shits

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  • [–] 13 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    What's stopping you from shitting standing up now?

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  • [–] 31 points 3 months ago (13 children)

    you get a scratch, you die in pain from infection a week later

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  • [–] 14 points 3 months ago (9 children)

    Calvin Coolidge Jr. died from sepsis in 1924. He was playing tennis and got a blister on his foot, it was infected and there were no meds to stop the infection.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (6 children)

    Bob Marley died from ~~gangrene following a football injury on his toe. ~~ cancer in his toe. Guess I heard it wrong.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago (5 children)

    I assume he had 'reasons' not to go to a doctor?

    I used to work in the American medical system and I can speak for hours about all the abuses and stupid mistakes Western medicine can make. But I can do even more on how people hurt themselves by not going to doctors.

    There was a fellow who had arm apin and went to a chiropractor. Heart attack.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    Marley rejected his doctors' advice to have his toe amputated, which would have hindered his performing career, citing religious beliefs.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (2 children)

    Peg Leg Bates.

    Famous one legged dancer Marley would almost certainly ahve heard of.

    https://youtu.be/NXesFCMwys0

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Rastafarianism has a taboo against body modifications.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    I've seen people who passed out at work because they were trying to do manual labor and fast for Ramadan. Or people who skipped their meds because of fast days.

    I heard an old Rabbi's line. "The Bible is like the daily newspaper. If the newspaper tells you that the President was in New York City last night you know that it's absolutely true. If the newspaper tells you that it's likely to rain tomorrow, you can accept that as very probably right. If the newspaper shows you a little boy with a talking tiger you have to accept the metaphor."

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago

    Coolidge Jr got the blister playing tennis barefoot, and probably ignored it until the ensuing staph infection was well underway. People of that time (1924) who paid attention to their little injuries - wash with soap and water, hit it with some alcohol, cover it (i.e. don't keep going barefoot on it) didn't tend to die from them.

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  • [–] 10 points 3 months ago (6 children)

    Failure at hunting for a couple of days means you die of starvation

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  • [–] 22 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    IIRC hunter-gatherers had such varied sources of food and strong food-sharing networks that starvation wasn't so common as one would expect

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  • [–] 8 points 3 months ago

    Early humans if they were introduced to modern conveniences:

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  • [–] 7 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    To be fair, you can still shit standing up

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago

    You could start a "men's retreat" and charge conservatives $18,000/week to do this to themselves.

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  • You can murder the neighbor and steal his wife... (Reminder for anyone disliking civilization)

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago

    The number of people in here who think that pre-historical bodies were as frail as city bodies, is very high. The only thing city bodies do well is resist the fettid creep surrounding their lifestyle.

    Outside people didn't get sepsis and starve all the time. In that habitat that city people find terrifying, they thrive. They are very very susceptible to the top tier viruses, bacteria, alcohol, sugar, entertainment, and control structures bred by thousands of generations of natural selection in the people pile though.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

    Are you describing Los Angeles? Toilet is everywhere. You can shit standing up. Sleep until noon. Nothing makes sense.

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