A future to work toward

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slowmorella@discuss.tchncs.de · 38 pts · 267d (1 reply)

eats another mushroom while pointing at roadmap presentation cave drawing

tetris11@feddit.uk · 17 pts · 267d

"The back-end, Ugg! You need to re-write the whole damn stack! Think tiny, Ugg! Tiny!"

"And go get me more of those mushrooms and those weird black beans that the goats seem to like so much. I'm gonna go stand between two toilets and eat fruit."

lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 16 pts · 267d (4 replies)

There is a theory that intelligent developed thro mushrooms. But it isn't widely accepted because that's not how evolution works.

Fern@piefed.world · 15 pts · 267d (2 replies)

Sad to say, I know about this as "the stoned ape theory" because Joe Rogan always used to yap about it.

Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.net · 5 pts · 267d

I only know about it through a documentary on mushrooms. "Amazing Fungi" or something

twice_hatch@midwest.social · 4 pts · 267d

Yeah it's probably not true sadly https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoned_ape_theory

sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz · 8 pts · 267d

Fun story though. Pretty harmless narrative but it's better not to headcanon prehistory or else we get cults

ameancow@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 267d (1 reply)
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Kolanaki@pawb.social · 6 pts · 267d

I highly recommend the book Food of the Gods by Terrence McKenna, which is about this very subject.

logicbomb@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 267d

He just thought it would be easier to collect mushrooms if you could punch them out of question mark blocks.

limelight79@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 267d

The Wii? We've come up with much more bizarre things than that!

thatradomguy@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 267d

Actually, their midi-chlorian count was super high and they actually had a vision through the force.

Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club · 3 pts · 267d

So shrooms fucked us up that bad?

One more proof these aliens run the place.