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[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 2 points 19 minutes ago

Develop agriculture and domesticate animals and become the first species in 3.7 billion years to finally beat the constant struggle for food and basically defeat hunger as a society and nobody says shit.

Draw one picture of a stick figure fucking a giant sloth on a cave wall and you will be known as the slothfuckers for all of history.

[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 2 points 1 hour ago

Any excuse to get pissed for these madlads. Waaaay!

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 hours ago

Comb ceramic culture and rope ceramic ware culture were the big ones in my area in fact

[–] hansolo@lemmy.today 29 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

"We're a network of ethnic groups, kingdoms, confederacies, and warrior clans. We transcend even being 'a' culture. We are a legion of diverse groups. Our people arroved when this land was emoty, and have dominated it - half a continent - comfortably, for 15,000 generations."

"So, uh.... What's that big thing over there?"

"Well, we found that creating massive, highly engineered earthworks helps us with both agricultural and security tasks. And it's some high value real estate, we do get huge floods occasionally, so our libraries are uusually higher up, also."

"So, just mounds of dirt?"

"Mou- What? No, these require years of planning, and -"

"Mounds! Mounds! You're all Mound People! Mound People! Mound People!"

"Ugh..."

[–] Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone 8 points 4 hours ago

Tale of as time with exonyms. Ex: Anasazi vs Ancestral Puebloans. In the early 1900s when archaeologists started getting interested in Ancestral Puebloan sites, they misapplied the Navajo name for them, which basically means ‘ancestors of our enemies.’ Obviously not what most people want to be referred to as!

[–] antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 3 hours ago (5 children)

What culture are we going to be for the aliens who discover our remains ten thousand years from now?

[–] MutantTailThing@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

The vitriolic nuclear primates

[–] janus2@lemmy.zip 9 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

"This is Trash Planet, former home of the Trash Aliens. They seemed to really, really love making trash."

It was a ritual fetish act.

[–] whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 3 hours ago

Maybe they spot the machines and artifacts left on Mars and the moon and go with robotics or metal poly compounds. If it's just Earth maybe plastic or concrete.

[–] Zwiebel@feddit.org 4 points 3 hours ago

We're leaving a soil layer with radioactive isotopes, microplastics and concrete rubble. You'll probably also find lots of signs of all the earthmoving we're doing

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago

Hentai porn

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 4 points 4 hours ago

I used to be with it, but then they changed what it was.