Ryan North

  • Egor Bulgakovhas quoted2 months ago
    The mosquito is one of the few animals that, if removed, would have no lasting negative impact on the world: the activities they perform in the ecosystem (feeding birds, some light pollination) are already performed by other insects. The only legacy would be fewer human deaths from malaria.
  • Egor Bulgakovhas quoted2 months ago
    It wasn’t until 1816 CE that we realized proteins were important, and then only by noticing that if we forced dogs to eat nothing but sugar they still died of starvation.
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  • Persillyhas quoted2 years ago
    Farming also formalizes the idea of an economy in your civilization, since now farmers can regularly trade their food with others.
  • Persillyhas quoted2 years ago
    Farming also formalizes the idea of an economy in your civilization, since now farmers can regularly trade their food with others. With an economy comes specialization: instead of each human having to do everything necessary to survive (or splitting it among a family group), now someone who’s particularly talented at farming can focus all their efforts on that. A hunter and gatherer
  • Persillyhas quoted2 years ago
    With an economy comes specialization: instead of each human having to do everything necessary to survive (or splitting it among a family group), now someone who’s particularly talented at farming can focus all their efforts on that. A hunter and gatherer
  • Persillyhas quoted2 years ago
    instead of each human having to do everything necessary to survive (or splitting it among a family group), now someone who’s particularly talented at farming can focus all their efforts on that.

    See, that would be true if fucking capitalism didnt exist. But it does so most of us are stuck with tasks we dont actually enjoy.

  • Persillyhas quotedlast year
    . All you need is this book and some water.
  • Persillyhas quotedlast year
    locks in 0 degrees as the temperature of a weird slurry of ice, water, and salt that Mr. Fahrenheit threw together before calling it a day, and we will discuss it no further,
  • Persillyhas quotedlast year
    if at this point you’re thinking you could easily improve this system by farming only half your fields each year while the other half recover, congratulations: you just invented crop rotation!
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