Yeah you’re right, I probably stated it over-broadly. I’m more talking about the typical prehistoric human diet but there were exceptions.

Right, that’s what I mean. Agricultural societies were likely better organized and more populous and so better able to defend and expel rivals from their lands. Foragers were forced into increasingly marginal lands over time, and all forager societies today exist on land that is essentially unsuited for agriculture, which is the only reason they have survived to this day.

Oh interesting. I was told by someone once that you want to set your radius smaller which seemed counterintuitive but this explains why.

I paired up before online dating was really a thing but I’m always curious about this strange world I never experienced.

Since there’s no written record, it’s hard to know for sure but I believe it was because agricultural communities were able to reproduce much faster and live at much higher densities, so they tended to win conflicts and displace societies based on foraging—even though foragers had better quality of life and didn’t normally experience the food shortages people imagine.

That said, modern foraging societies have largely converted to agriculture after being subjugated and not because they were hungry. So there is some evidence to support this hypothesis.

I know it’s a joke but this is science memes and it plays into a widespread misconception about early humans that we were some kind of blood drenched carnivores. Not true. Humans have always mostly eaten plants supplemented with some meat or other animal foods.

Wait, really? But if the ranges dot overlap then there’s no chance of a match, right? Or am I misunderstanding how tinder works?

Just wear non-woven gloves (I usually use rubber), cut the fruit open, scoop out the seeds, and then scoop the flesh from the skin. The glochids are all in the skin so this method works perfectly.

First time I used gloves that were fabric and I got poked every time I put them on from that point on.

The newly sprouted pads are also quite tasty but a bit more difficult to prepare so I’d start with the fruit.

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And I don’t see an alternative, other than growing an extra long beard, converting myself in mud, and becoming a druid

I don’t understand. Are you implying that’s not the obvious solution here?

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12229-013-9121-z

Coconuts were introduced to the Caribbean region by humans. They didn’t just float there.

Very interesting! I am curious how modern populations would show up if tested by this method.

I see. You definitely would need to consider how that fits into the desired campaign narratives. If the whole campaign is about freedom fighters opposing Lord Ajax, it makes little difference if one character starts out as more of an outlaw than another. But if the campaign is meant to be knights of the round table doing quests for the one true king, it might be more of a problem if a player has to have a secret identity or sit out most social encounters. I wouldn’t want to impose that situation on a player unless they are specifically interested in playing that role.

No but I would consider requiring a reflavor if it was incompatible with the setting. Not sure that’s ever come up but it could.

Or are you asking about in-world legality?

Damn that is a wild law but it came out of the bush administration and focuses on US citizens. This current bit is even more surprising to me, particularly because it’s being supported by democrats too. Democrats usually at least like to come up with a reasonable sounding excuse for their military aggression but I don’t even see that here.

It seems absolutely insane to me that there is any level of support for this idea. What is even the allegation against the ICC? That it did something that undermined US geopolitical interests? It’s not an international court if it’s the puppet of a single country.

Nationalism is a poison in the public consciousness everywhere it takes root.

Whoever made this has some legit plant knowledge.

For those unfamiliar, the plant in the image is a crape myrtle, Lagerstroemia indica. However, most crape myrtle cultivars are actually hybrids with other species. Catawba is one of only a few common varieties that is in fact pure L. indica.

Insider from OpenAI PR department speaks out!

Actually they can evolve, though I assume the range of evolution would be much narrower than traditional life forms, even viruses.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2848070/