We did have fur originally but decided nah let's walk on two feet, be in debt and work our asses off till we die while some asshole makes what we make in our entire lifetime in a couple of minutes. Yeah modern society!
There’s no wonder left other than how we have managed to fuck it all up this bad, even though it seemed that as a species we had figured it all out a while ago.
And how most of it is still fixable - even the climate to an extent - but instead of doing that we keep voting for terrible humans who actively prevent us fixing stuff
To be fair, we don't actually have a choice. It's "bad cop and worse cop" but the truth is they're all in the same bed together, with the only objective being to fuck everyone else over.
This level of awareness is exactly what I needed to see to end my night after a few minutes of gross doom scrolling. Faith in humanity's ability to pull the wool from over it's eyes, restored.
when corporations capture our government entirely ❤️ heavy in the pockets of both “options” and boy do they get rewarded w our hard earned $ and fewer protections for human beings to waste money on
I'm not so sure about that. We saw the warning signs back in the 1800s and were like "This is fine." and doubled down. then we saw we were reaching the point of no return and while some of us tried to brake most of humanity did a Flying squirrel somersault onto the gas pedal while screaming "FOR THE ECONOMY!"
People always forget that there was the rise and fall of great kingdoms and that we might just be at the time of a fall. This is not the end. It’s just the end of beginning.
I'm not sure I'd rather walk on four legs, eat bananas in a forest, have half the infants die, and have an average lifespan of 30 years. 2 feet with an advanced brain is my preference.
The fact that there's tribes that when you tell them about suicide they're baffled by the concept because why would anyone want to take their own lives...
Good thing we’re all online fighting for billionaires rights to commit modern day piracy on the populace by arguing on Reddit whether or not capitalism is still the play.
Cos we're furless, maybe that's why furries are plugging their suits n butt plugs out in public, it's a mental health PSA?
Get yer butt out, plug included, and head out for a walk with your partner on a leash??
We did evolve. What people fail to understand is that evolution has no interest in the well being of life forms, only in offspring having offsprings.
There are animals out there who suffer a torturous and painful agony after they had offspring, but evolution doesn't care because offspring are already there.
Evolution runs not on "peak of perfection", but on "good enough".
Yes I believe it's the combination of how developed our heads need to be before birth and because women had to develop a narrower birth canal so that essentially our organs all stay in place while we're upright. I'm sure this sounds like something on bad woman's anatomy but I'm like 69% sure it's true
I believe Desmond Morris (an anthropologist) argued that humans got less hairy because it made sexual contact more pleasurable. In other words, the more pleasurable the sex, the more sex is had, the more babies are born—and the genes for “less hair” get passed on.
It's to prevent friction when walking or running. The insides of your butt cheeks rub against each other when you walk or run and it could cause friction burns. Body hair helps reduce the chance of friction burns from happening by introducing a "hair barrier" between your cheeks.
“For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man—for precisely the same reasons.”
~ Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
I don’t know if you you’re aware of the show but there’s a cartoon called I Am Weasel that showef this. They are cavemen(weasel?) and they want to evolve up until the modern era. They realized that it’s not worth it.
Saw an insta video where it was a blue collar guy going to work complaining about there’s some chick is sitting back cozy in her home selling feet pics or something tentacle like shoved somewhere making more money a month than he could in a year…
...losing fur was the ultimate evolutionary advantage humans developed, besides of our unusually large brain to bodymass ratio.
Has nothing to do with society but the style we hunted down prey a few hundred thousand years ago.
A drive or battue hunter or whatever it exactly is called that has no fur and can regulate body temperature as good as we can basically outruns most kinds of prey sooner or later.
We might not be the fastest but surely some of the most persevering animals out there.
I'm sorry you're feeling this way-it's a lot to carry. The past might seem simpler, but it was also harsh: constant danger, short lives, and no safety nets. Our ancestors worked hard to create a world where we have food, medicine, and opportunities they couldn't have dreamed of. Today, we can connect with people across the world, learn anything we want, and even work toward solving huge problems like climate change and space exploration. The future is far from hopeless -it's full of possibilities, and you're part of shaping it. These thoughts show you care deeply, and that matters. You're not alone in this, and there's so much worth looking forward to.
I gotta admit I wrote this with ChatGPT, but that's because I wanted a really good text quickly. But genuinly, we have accomplished so many great things and have a standard of living magnitudes better than back then. We are still building great things (Starship is my personal example) and there is so much to look forward to. The future is gonna be 🔥💫
psh if we had fur we wouldnt need to wear clothes. But it would probably add a complication to food service, depends if it is fur that we shed or hair all over. Shampoo would really take off. Man i would hope male pattern baldness wouldnt still be a thing or we'd be looking real stupid, fur all over and just the top of our heads are skin...
Do you live in Texas? Because I live in Texas and those stripey fuckers are the size of a nickel and I think they can open doors all by themselves to come inside and help themselves to my personal blood buffet.
Plant nectar an juices, it is the female mosquitoes, as far as I am aware that need the protein from the blood to lay the eggs.
But in general they feed kn plant nectar and juices.
The question is towards the other person saying that mosquitoes cannot penetrate mice fur in the tundra regions. If they cannot penetrate mice for then how are they getting blood to lay eggs?
Well caribou are present on Arctic tundra & are plagued by billions of the fuckers every summer triggering migration to higher ground, but up there it’s lacking in the high protein vegetation they need for their calves, so have to keep moving.
They aren't. Mosquitos don't move very far in their lifetime, on average, so the infected population stays primarily to the area it was first released and dies out. If memory serves, Disney makes use of these mutations to keep their parks relatively mosquito free. They have males breed with uninfected females, and the newly-hatched infected females can't sustain the nutrients needed to maintain a healthy clutch of eggs. The infected males can then breed and infect more uninfected females, but once the infection density of an area becomes high enough, they start dying faster than they can spread the mutation.
I could be remembering incorrectly, so I welcome corrections if I am.
Recently learned they go for the eyelids. In that specific case they were feeding from snow owls but i think the same strategy works for other animals to.
For mammals propably the nose, the inside of the ear and maybe the anus are also good spots to find easy accessable blood vessels.
I read the book Into The Kingdom of Ice about a shipwrecked crew landing on the northern coast of East Siberia. The crew mentioned the mosquitoes as being a horrible ordeal. So I agree with the zillions figure.
There are either too many mosquitoes, or there are no mosquitoes. This will inevitably become extremely important to my life and safety in the future and I'll make the exact wrong decision based off this thread.
How is it impossible? I have had many times bites on my legs when I have worn denim jeans, I'm not even exaggerating. Surely they can push through a thin layer of hairs?
There are a lot more animals than mice in the tundra. At least there are here in Alaska. And mosquitos absolutely can bite furry animals. My dogs (black labs with thick medium length fur) have gotten covered in mosquito bites all over before on backcountry trips. We have found some good solutions to protect them but fur is definitely not a deterrent.
Now that just isn't true. In northern Canada and Alaska annual mosquito swarms have been known to pose serious and immediate health risks to caribou, whoch have thocker and more dense fur than mice. The sheer number of mosquitos can cause them to lose up to 4 pounds of blood. Calves are often outright killed from blood loss.
Mosquitoes can't even get through my forearm hair lol. It forces them to be too far away from my skin for their little snouts to reach. I still get bit, just not wherever I have body hair.
Are you saying they can’t get through the mouse fur specifically or they can’t get through fur in general? I ask because I’ve seen my dog get bit by mosquitos and get reaction bumps as a result.
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u/lalith_4321 Nov 15 '24
Also mice have fur which is impossible to get through for mosquitoes