Would we still have lips? Maybe we'd gain a prenhensile tongue if we didn't. Im sure every adult can imagine ways that would be fun.

Let me introduce you to an old(giant) species of armored fish that was armed with shears for teeth: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunkleosteus

The entire family of armored fish is the first known vertebrates to have true teeth as well as among the first fish to have jaws. (Previously being more like algae suckers and lamprey-esque).

It is thought that they went extinct from being slower and not much better armored than unarmored fish like sharks and ancestors of predatory bony fish.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 days ago (4 children)

    The Bible has a major problem when it comes to claims that fall into the late bronze age.

    It's that the elites of the time wrote everything in a script called Linear B(by us) on clay tablets and archived them. We can understand linear B and have found several archives of the tablets. Though those hundreds of thousands of tablets we have a pretty good idea of the goings on, life and relations between the various empires and city states of the region.

    Through those tablets we know that the Canaanites(not Israeli) were occasional adversaries but typically peacefully traded with the Egyptians. There is no record, even by groups generally opposed to the Egyptians like the Hittites, of them being liberated slaves of the Egyptians, nor a massive group of wandering people for 40 years.

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  • [–] 20 points 3 days ago (11 children)

    Yup!

    Another fun one is that the standard (biblical) images of it being all slaves and poor is wrong.

    They were well paid and compensated for their time working on government projects. We've found villages including discarded letters and even "newspapers" (clay tablets) of the worker villages.

    The method was fairly simple: the Nile floods every year, they knew this. So, while the farms were all flooded/useless, those people all worked on various government projects.

    While there were slaves used, the Egyptians were, for slavery, pretty good on it not being a perpetual death sentence for you. That would be the greeks, where once enslaved, your linage would almost always be perpetual slaves.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 child)

    As an example this weekend: Farmers market organic apples(Braeburn and Honeycrisp), single farm, guy who sold me the apples oversaw their picking this week. $3.50 / pound.

    Superstore, US grown Galas, been in a box for 6 months, $3 / pound.

    We're around 60-70 / week for me and my partner four usual food, but that also includes some steak and pork once and a while.

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  • [–] 61 points 5 days ago (1 child)

    Not surprising.

    Their solution to everything LLM has been to add intermediary LLMs to manage the one we interact with to add "guardrails" or point them to a calculator.

    It shouldn't be surprising that they utterly fail at basic tasks on their own.

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