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It used to be a quick trick to find good forum responses but since google doesn’t care about any forums but reddit anymore it doesn’t really work like it used to.

Yeah, this time was pure frustration, especially due to all the top and AI responses being from before microsoft dropped their display.cpl.

Literally zero answers across google, bing, yahoo, and ddg, just google was the only search engine shitty enough to block be for it.

It doesn’t though, and trust me when I say that between my career and interests, I probably use google more than 98% of the population and this is the first time it has ever happened.

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for now Reddit is still a font of information and advice from knowledgeable people.

That too is changing. For the last few months, most technical posts I search on reddit are starting to get filled with [Deleted] for all the actual answers as reddit’s current push to ban left leaning users has removed all the people who actually were interested in giving answers in the past.

I mean yeah, there was always a few [Deleted]s in every old thread but in the last half year it has become the majority of them.

One other thing to point out is that agriculture allowed for large mobile armies.

For hunter gatherers it wasn’t easy to stockpile enough long term storage portable food to take to war, nor could you predict periods of bounty (which is why so many ancient cultures had prohibitions to making war during winter that almost no one broke) to plan long term campaigns. This style of sustenance also kept nomadic band population low as following the herds and the reduction of ease of hunting and complications in moving gave significant advantage to smaller social units.

We see a radical increase in social group size with the advent of agriculture, eventually leading to more permanent town and eventually city living instead of nomadic bands as you generally needed to be in one place to keep others from taking your crops and tending them year round.

I fully understand that there are a lot of luxuries and even just basic life improvements that wouldn’t be available to us if we had kept as small hunter gatherer bands, and maybe a lot of people alive now couldn’t survive or thrive in that kind of environment, it would be a very, very different world than what we know today but one thing I do know is that of we had never discovered agriculture we would never have eventually become a species that could kill off 95% of the life on the planet with the press of a button.

No I’m serious, and I understand you mean well but I can’t have this discussion meaningfully with you without writing 8 paragraphs of context.

There’s a lot of what Pratchett called ‘lies to children’ when it comes to non-university anthropology, things we learned in school that were kind of outdated already and gross oversimplifications.

We were told that agriculture allowed the free time to specialize and was the beginning of culture but the truth is that all that hunter-gatherer man needed to hunt to feed himself and 3 other people was about 6 hours of actual work a week. And specialization already existed with stone knapping and pottery.

There’s a lot more to it but I don’t really have the patience to keep writing this.

It goes back to when good agricultural land discovered to be so ridiculously effective at feeding people.

Not the beginning of wealth, but certainly one of the oldest still used store of wealth.

So much has been fucked up by discovering agriculture, it was also the beginning of institutional slavery.

Write complex sci fi and fantasy stories that I refuse to let anyone else read.

I miss that world so much…

Mainly because of the lack of ATF oversight and their FUCKING MASSIVE operations budget.

If people really understood what they have done in the past, that agency would be dissolved overnight.

If you’ve ever had to deal with the ATF you know why this is a magnificently terrible idea.

FDA all the way.

Yeah American TV is definitely lowest common denominator. It’s popular because it caters to the same kind of people that would like ‘ow my nuts’ from idiocracy, and those kinds are endless in number.

Again, he’s not a good host for comedy, delivery, or pacing, but his stupid face and bumbling nature is beloved by many.

Like a children’s birthday clown without makeup.

He’s really bad as a host

You say that but his stupid shocked face literally kept the show alive long LONG after it should have passed away peacefully.

I mean its almost like his semi incompetence is a cultivated branding trait now.

It seems to be a trend that any service that claims not to be evil is just waiting for the right moment to drop that pretense.