My favorite thing I learned while researching for writing was that hunter-gatherers worked less hours than the modern human 🙃
iirc the article stated ‘work’ as when they hunted, not for stuff like cooking and crafting
To be fair, there were a lot fewer people then, so they didn’t have to compete for resources as much, and you could get a nice cave for dirt cheap
There’s so much fucking land owned by the govt. They’re squeezing us together to keep their machine going.
Which government are you talking about? Most land owned by the government in the U.S. is either worthless desert, contracted out to the private sector, or the small bit leftover that’s actually used by the federal government.
There’s so much property owned by companies that are fucking empty because of the insane rent while four generations of a family are huddled together in a single apartment the size of a bathroom
I read and write, so I imagine I look like the tip picture, but really I look like the bottom.
I don’t think being on Lemmy counts as reading and writing. hehe
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Parents: you need to read lots of book in your free time to get smart and go to collage.
~~~ Many years later ~~~
Me: I would like to attend university next year. I will pursue an education in literature to achieve my goal of becoming a published author.
Parents: you will not! There is no success as an author, I will not support you going to to school for such a waste.
and go to collage.
This is who I want telling me reading is bad
It’s an extremely large collage, they have to charge admission to afford the maintenance on it.
English degrees are great if you plan to go into law.
To earn money while hoping you make it as an author because otherwise you’ll either starve or become an office clerk.
I agree with the comedy image.
The only thing worse than the squalor of addiction is the unearned confidence of people with glasses.
Dammit.
Back to contacts I guess.
My to-read list proves that people who read are addicts too
Yeah but you still afford clothes while whittling down that list 😜
if I can’t read I won’t have to learn about the horrors of the world
out of sight, out of mind 😊🙈
Ewan McGregor?
So fucking true! Meaning we are poor and always a little crazy.
I am a German born American who worked for the post office. Still fighting my alcoholic demons but I’ll have something to write about when I’m done.
Harry Haller’s Records: For Madmen Only
I LOL’ed at the writer Pic, not sure why, but LOL
Probably because that’s the punchline of the joke. That was the designer’s intent, so, good job!
