At the risk of sounding stupid, I just found out how long the stone age lasted. In my head it's about as long as other historical time periods, a couple thousand years before ancient egypt, and conceptually looks like a bad car insurance commercial. Nope! Dead wrong! The stone age lasted for 3.4 MILLION YEARS.
Okay wow i would not have guessed millions. Maybe in like the tens of thousands? But definitely would have way undershot.
I told my wife and they said "Yeah, modernity is a recent and strange invention"
Oh yes! Hello I am wife. And these are the oldowan tools:
The first image is my favorite, the iconic oldowan hand axe, but you'll note there's a wide range of other tools crafted for everything from crushing nuts and stones, to awls and engraving devices. There is some evidence, albeit hotly debated, that these tools MIGHT have been used in ancient burials. Maybe. This is up for debate because these tools are THREE MILLION YEARS OLD. They pre date homo sapiens and homo erectus. They pre date the ice age. Hell, they pre date the fucking ice caps. We don't think humans were burying their dead as we understand it today, but maybe?? These were made by homo habilis, or the "handyman", so named for their invention of tools.
It makes me feel very small to look at these, like looking up at a starry sky.
Been stressed out since this afternoon because I have a [redacted] appointment tomorrow.
Every minute in the pitt my man robinavitch is trying to take a piss and someone is standing in his way. won't somebody please think of his prostate? I NEVER stop thinking about his prostate and how i could contribute to the health thereof
so
this picture
had me absoLUTELY fucked the fuck up for a full entire minute until i scrolled to the next one and realized it's supposed to be put on like this
and had a full ohhhhhhhhhh okay moment
but for a full sixty seconds of my life i didn't even question it i was like yeah some straps are just that freaky deaky i love that for them whoever they are
Thinking again about how dogs are a recurring motif in Pluribus. The dog food, Bear Jordan, the fact that Xiu Mei says: “I tell you this! I do not give away my dog!”
The love dogs have for us is 10000% more meaningful than the love from the thing wearing people’s skins.
Dogs evolved alongside humans as a fellow species on this planet. The bond humans have with dogs is very old.
Also I need Carol and Manousos to have joint custody of Bear Jordan please Vince I’ll never ask for anything again.
In ten to fifteen years ppl are gonna be like "lol remember in '25 when everyone let a text generator tell them what to do" and I'm gonna be like.
not everyone #cassandra
funniest thing about seeing tumblr mentioned on other websites is the people who are utterly confident that tumblr is exactly as it was in 2012. like we're a bug trapped in amber.
