Thanks, mate!
So, both the acct and destination community were hosted by Lemm.ee. It’s one of the big-five or big-four instances (whatever) across the Lemmysphere, FWIW.

I suppose I could test this from FF (I’m on Chrome) if you think that might work, altho it did work fine in Chrome just a week ago. *shrug*

I didn’t know anyone who would trade modern life for being a caveman again, or even one if someone from a hundred years ago.

For the rekkid, there never really was a “caveman.” IMO that’s more of a bumbling, modern trope which essentially allows us to more-easily persuade ourselves that previous human states were necessarily miserable or inferior compared to our own.

Haha, I’m not saying that it’s an EITHER/OR, but moreso that it’s a nuanced collection of pros & cons, and that we modern, naked apes have a natural bias for interpreting our state of being as ‘superior.’

I mean, whole treatises on psychology have been dedicated upon that phenomenon, if I’m not mistaken.

Anyway, but no-- I’m pretty sure there are various, flourishing cultures of people who want nothing whatsoever to do with our so-called ‘modern life.’ These range from Amish / Mennonite-types, to the last few, surviving tribal peoples here and there, to monks of different religions in their monasteries to… various communes (more or less), to some folks intentionally living that lifestyle, to whoever else that might be…

Now, I think part of our faulty thinking upon all this tends to run along the lines of: ‘we’ve accomplished so much’ and ‘we have and can enjoy all these various amenities & privileges,’ sort of looking past the fact that living in this fast-changing, hyper-competitive situation, absolutely overloaded with other humans is in fact stressful and worrying, as per what humans ACTUALLY SAY when polled, and when responding to studies.

So there’s the rub, so to speak.

we aren’t ever going to get the toothpaste back in the tube with the environment. Mankind could get better at what we do, but we’re not realistically going back to natural living.

For sure. Which is why… welp.

Thanks for the interesting comments, matey. Let’s see… (and pardon, kinda in a rush here)

In reading comments from some other articles, other people refer to us humans as well.

Hmm, not sure I got that part?

If you’d look at humanity in the pre-industrial age,

So to be clear, across ~99.8% of our history.

…you’d say we needed much more space to live so we could run our marginally productive farms and to hunt game,

Given our population density across the 2Myrs of Homo, I’d argue that we barely needed any space at all, being in our traditional clan/tribal state, which naturally shifted with the seasons and such. As for agriculture? I believe modern science estimates it’s only about 10Kyrs old. Again, just a blip in human history.

but now we can live in multi-story buildings in huge cities and technically thrive better than ever in history.

I think it could potentially work, but under the capitalism model, is proving to be an absolute disaster, directly leading to the current, ongoing mass-extinction event. (r/collapse for more info than you might want to know)

Is that different than reducing the animals’ habitats while providing them with superior nutrition and medicine?

As a former zoo-worker, I believe in zoos at the BEST of times. Unfortunately, that’s not necessarily the case when you look at situations around the world. In any case, above all-- other animals don’t need special care from us in the slightest, generally-speaking. They simply need their habitats *not* to be messed with, critically.

Hi, Elevator,
I started using the scheduler last week, and it worked splendidly at the time.

Trying it again the last few hours, I’m getting “500” errors when trying to put something through. Can you confirm on your end?

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Wow. Cool post & article that brings up a lot of great points.

I found the bit about interpreting animals’ emotions particularly interesting. I.e., there’s no question to me that we naked apes can easily misinterpret or ascribe false emotions to (other) animals, yet there’s also the seeming fact that given exposure-time, we can also learn to gauge them with some accuracy.

Given that Homo is 2Myrs old, and that the overwhelming majority of that time was spent in the wild, there’s no question to me that our ancestors were likely vastly better at such interpretation. Along those lines, I wonder if some of the “feral children” in history who eventually learned to speak a language had something to say about such things…

Sort of a ‘West Netherlands?’

I liked my original Mac too, but certainly missed the deluxe keyboard and two-button mouse. :S

Thanks for the reply, and oolala, that scheduler sounds groovy! Main concerns-- 1) as it needs my ID & PW to login, I’m naturally a bit wary. Do we know how safe this tool is?

2. I almost always upload images when I post, and that’s led to major problems at this point. For example, Imgur has proved worse than useless in the long run, and some days my own instance (lemm.ee) simply won’t accept image uploads.

So I think I’d need to pre-upload my images somewhere else, but I haven’t found the right place just yet. I suppose I might test out Google Drive at some point, but the file-name system is ridiculous. Look at the link at the bottom of my post here: https://lemm.ee/post/53557900

Heck yeah!

I’ve seen a lot of these ‘hybrid animal’ pieces, and his is easily some of the best. Not just due to his obvious technical skills, but I find he has a gift for picking some pretty awesome mashup subjects. Each one also doubles as a sort of a hilarious zinger to me, especially the “Corcenga” piece. XD

Anyway yeah, I probably have a few dozen hours in to GIMP, and there’s no way I could produce stuff as smooth as this excellent artist did.