just 20-30 years ago typing on a computer like this would have been extremely rare, now it's everywhere

So many things were decided by basically pure chance

The timeline of going from apes to this is just... it's surreal to me sometimes

we have language and things

Yeah

And then after being the bacteriums, it all leads to this current society and all it's norms and views. To be born in America. Good god, instead of like a bacterium or another person somewhere liek

Weirdist thing is we are still an untested evolutionary strain

How did we get here

Could turn out this sapience thing is a dead end

I know right, humans haven't even been around that long

And all of it could end over some stupid politics and a few nukes flying

Such a weird thing

It's existed 200k years, 500 if you really want to push it

We can only hope

That's nothing

I know right, like, an asteroid could hit or just whatever

like it's so weird to think about everything that lead up to now

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHcmnowjfrQ

the whole universe created to lead up to this one moment, right now

my theme song

it;s kind of surreal

Turns out thinking is a bad call evolution wise

And we are just too stubborn to die

Life is precious. Enjoy it while you can, the only universal constant across all cultures is death

or it could be the good one

No joke we have been almost wiped out 3 times already

I know right

Sentience is a double edged sword

The power to give you everything you want often has the power to take it all away

We are very not robust

How do you guys feel about the whole “humans are space orcs” type thing?

Our brains require so much damn fuel

Such a bizzarre thing, we have nuclear power to give us power for millions of years, but it could also be the end of us

Eh I think humans will end up being like humans and not orcs

I think if there are other sapient life forms

They were on a simmilar path to us

Every advanced species that rose to the top would have to have been warlike on their own planets to get to their current point, with the U.S. for example inventing much of the world's technology in the last 100 years, in part due to wars, be it nuclear power, computers, the internet, radio, penicillin or whatever

Pursuit predators need Dem big brains

Any alien species that rose to the top was problably just as if not more warlike than us, so they'd problably see us as about even

A plant doesn't need to think

Nor does a rushdown hunter