• AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world
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    17 days ago

    My uncle fell for this scam and bought some “prime agricultural land” in the middle of a flood plain—he had to come up with this whole technique he calls “geometry” just to find it again each spring.

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      17 days ago

      Why would the gods give us a gift we had to plant and process ourselves when there’s plenty of mammoths and there always will be?

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          17 days ago

          Why would I do that? Fire comes from when the forest burns down and that’s when the gods send a bolt from the sky. Everyone knows that.

          You can make bread. You can’t just make fire. 🙄