You clearly have never played minecraft. Go touch some square grass!
Shit’s literal magic. We dug rocks out of the earth, broke them down, built them back up again in a very specific way, etched them with conductive runes, taught those runes how to use electricity to do math, and now I can shitpost by telling the runes in my phone to scream 1’s and 0’s at other runes across my house.
They started by punching the tree.
How do you get wood?
Informative murder porn?
Underrated Ultimata Online reference.
Or Minecraft
Thanks to the comments here If I ever unexpectedly travel through time I’ll be able to teach them about computers. Now I just have to learn advanced chemistry and learn how to create everything else.
In a nutshell, by bashing stuff together in different ways
You see, when a boy rock and a girl rock love eachother very much…
Lots of digging.
Rocks are smarter than us
And don’t even get me started on sand
I don’t like sand
It’s coarse and rough and irritating.
that’s just silica
We really just taught em to count. Actually, really they’re just flashing
We?
Whatever you did bruh, we did it. That’s right. It’s mine too. Suck it!
Agreed, I really don’t like language that collectiveses people who really are individuals.
Not a fan of the royal ‘we’, then, I take it?
Definitely not
It’s kinda nice we can take credit for other people’s stuff. As long as we’re doing our part.
If nobody put out fires, we’d elect new officials to fix fire departments n stuff. We don’t need to know how to drive a firetruck or use a Halligan to pry open a door, just pay our taxes. So if a new firefighting technique is developed even though you or I only clock in at our offices and never think about firefighting, we’re still part of society and we can socialize the win a bit.
And if we figure out how to improve CPU speeds, firefighters can say “WE figured out how to get computers to boot in <1 second” even though they just did their own jobs. (Or at least “we know how to …” b/c they can pay someone or buy something that accomplishes the task, even if they don’t know the inner workings.)
But we needed them to feel safe and maybe not die. They couldn’t do it all and neither could we. Collective win.
:)
There are problems with this view so lemme have it!
I would say its better to take credit for what you have done, rather than collectivize everything. If a politician happened to win an election and start a war in Iraq for example- do you say “we invaded Iraq and killed innocent civilians”? Should you be held responsible for that? If you’re a nurse and you save the life of someone who goes on to murder 10 people- did “we murder 10 people”? No. I believe you are only responsible for what you directly did.
I do say we invaded Iraq as an American, unfortunately, and we committed genocide against American Indians… maybe I should say our government did that… but kinda wanna own up to what elected officials did.
As far as murder goes, I’d rather not collectivize that. Any big problem with humanity sharing in the good humanity does?
Yes “we” because you know millions of people were collectively exploited for the labor, development, knowledge, and skills used to arrive where we are.
Okay so who’s the one person responsible for going from scratch to wifi?
That guy, Hugh Mann.
Now that’s a name I can trust!
…primitive technology in a couple more seasons, at the rate he’s going…
To be fair, first we had to slice them really thin and put lightning in them
We do light magic on the flat rock to teach it how to think, and what it’s first think is every time it alives.
Convincing all the magic smoke to stay inside those rocks is a task and a half.
This is not a natural landscape. You don’t get fields of grass like this without human intervention. This started in the bronze age, so just because your local human-made landscape is green, make no mistakes.
Bit by-the-by, though, because obviously computers are completely awesome, but real nature is not this placid homogeneous scene
By harnessing that thing which is all over this natural place - electromagnetism. It is a quantum leap in the human experience, like harnessing fire, or agriculture.
Organized rocks