A human absolutely could walk 100 miles, and people often have. The weight thing needs to be scaled for body size, but you can carry quite a bit while doing it, too.

The only maybe-counterexample anthropologists talk about is actually sled dogs. Horses run out of steam faster. Presumably they know about camels too.

No, there’s tons of records of barter in ancient Egypt, and it actually lasted until the Greeks came and forced the use of silver drachmae on them.

Gift economies existed too, but they weren’t universal. Just helping family and close friends out was universal, but it sounds like you’re thinking of more than that.

I mean, I guess you could be an anarchist who just doesn’t want anarchy, or something like that.

The default, most common view is that power vacuums inevitably fill, not that they’re the natural state of things.

No specific kind would bother me, but if they have tons and tons I might suspect they’re really into that one thing and we’d have little common ground.

If I saw that, I’d be so fascinated I’d have to try to talk to them.

Why thank you Snot Flickerman, I think you’re pretty random yourself. (/s but not in a butthurt way)

Fixed, thank you!

OP also presupposes some kind of communal thing was happening before or by default. Not everyone here is an anarchist.

Yep. In a lot of ways the age of vast scientific leaps ahead is over. We have a bit of fundamental physics to go, but there’s every reason to think any new laws will have marginal practical applications.

I’ve heard there’s no known limit. Presumably you’d have to sleep or die within a couple weeks.

We can also run further than other animals if we’re in top shape, albeit more slowly.

It is kind of like a goofy party trick, right? Oooh look, my whole standard gait is gravitationally unstable, but I never fall. Woooow.

You stack different metals on a frog and accidentally discover a new thing. Don’t ask me what he was originally going for, I don’t know.

Childbirth. Just the physical volumes involved are impressive, especially with that dummy big head that has to flatten out, but there’s also calculations showing that in the later stages, the mother is actually using energy at the fastest possible rate the human body can sustain for more than a short burst.

On that note, eating. You can just take in certain random things from the environment, and your body can rearrange it partially into more body and partially into energy. No artificial machine I’m aware of can do that.

Living outside of water. Life is a water thing, it started in water and cells are mostly made of water. We can just kind of bring our own supply, and that’s crazy. In a lot of ways your house is more like outer space than the place where we started off, and indeed the human body can tolerate a total vacuum for a bit without damage.

This is really rare on Lemmy, but a direct logical rebuttal is not the right answer. That’s like trying to force your way out of a finger trap. They have no obligation to be constrained by logic themselves, and since just giving the appearance of it is easy they’ll come out looking decent on a fast, casual read.

Sending pigpoopballs is also not the best answer, since that makes them look persecuted, and blocking them just stops you from downvoting. Something in between works best.

Here’s an example I remember because it did work spectacularly well: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/23469562/14918633

OP didn’t know anything about the science or the history, and was obviously going off of their shitty Facebook feed. So I sidestep a bit, supplied new facts about issues they hadn’t heard of a bit, and set them up to have to talk about several things they definitely do but wouldn’t admit to (not reading, homophobia, and moving on when they start to lose). Boom, feigned medical emergency.

Edit: And importantly, in the actual typical Lemmy case, be nice and listen to other viewpoints. If you try this kind of approach with someone who’s making a good faith effort you’re the asshole and will look like it.

Serious answer: Lots of safety and industrial regulations. Most of the criminal code. The nitty-gritty of tax law, although they’ll massively disagree over the big picture.

If you go to the voters there’s even more flexibility, because 90% of them haven’t thought about 99.9% of issues before.

I just like Lemmy more.

Wow, OPEC might actually be falling apart, going by that.

I’d read this, but my eyes have been gouged out by Basil II Porphyrogenitus.

I went with the first non-feared modern group that I thought of causing historical trouble, but maybe some random Muslim empire would have been better. The point was just that their military achievements were nothing special. Vikings had their day and then it was over, basically. To be fair, they were really good boats, that took them all kinds of crazy places, and that’s half of the reason why we’re talking about them. (The other half being nationalistic shilling from later Germanic people)

Pretty much every steppe nomad culture was OP before the early modern period; from the Turks to the Cumans to the Huns to the proto-Indo-Europeans. And of course the Mongols. Honestly I’m still not sure why.

Even if you’re not using one, you should be instinctively looking for a semicolon the moment you get a syntax error unless you’re a complete beginner.

Just later that day? Clearly, comic man doesn’t have to cojones to fuck up as badly as I have.