It says why in the article. They sat cross-legged and chewed on the end of rushes to make a brush.

A Great Filter is way, way bigger than that. Something that prevents a civilization from being able to expand into space. This includes things like “you can’t make fire on this planet and therefore are never able to learn to work metal” and “supernovas sterilize regions of space before species can leave them”.

Even the worst ecological disaster - one that kills billions - will not prevent humanity from eventually recovering, rebuilding, and expanding.

Under no circumstances (even Cold War mutually assured destruction) can human politics be a Great Filter. Thinking that it can be is small-minded and petty.

Case in point for Lemmy being a shit hole.

If by “paragraphs” you mean two sentences, sure.

If you’d bothered to read past those two sentences you’d see that I was making an offhand comment before answering the question.

I’d hardly describe it that way. It took untold trillions of predator/prey interactions over the hundreds of millions of years that single celled life existed for it to happen. That’s more or less brute forcing the problem and it took geologic timescales to happen.

If you ask me to point at a hurdle stopping civilizations from developing that looks awfully reasonable.

A - fucking - men

Boy, Lemmy sucks donkey dick. For every one legitimate answer there are two or three edgelord answers like “capitalism” and “the internet”.

Here’s an answer that hasn’t come up yet: cooperation among mono cellular organisms. I don’t mean the development of polyp analogues or colonies of single celled organisms; I mean getting down to mitochondria. Brace for wild oversimplification.

Before mitochondria, life had a hard time creating enough energy to do much more than barely stay alive. The current line of thinking is that one organism ate another and didn’t digest it. The two organisms worked symbiotically, one handled energy production and the other handled getting food and staying alive.

Just about every living thing utilizes mitochondria and if the current idea that mitochondria were actually symbiotic organisms is true, that means that what was likely a chance “sparing” of prey is the underpinning of all complex life.

The odds of that happening are ridiculously low. There could be simple life in tons of places even within our own star system, but if the mitochondria-like symbiotic capture never happens for those extraterrestrial organisms, then complex life is probably unlikely to develop.

Read like any history book.

Or just about any book, really.

No, no. I’m referring specifically to you.

Nobody likes a propagandist.

Less so when it’s low effort.

The man needs no introduction, only eyebrows.

Holy bald-faced foreign propaganda, Batman!

Yeah, the guy’s team was writing “articles and blog posts promoting a tech company”.

Letting an LLM mangle that isn’t exactly a huge loss.

America bad, you see.

Therefore when America do good, is actually bad.

As everyone else has said, it’s a blood blister.

What hasn’t been mentioned is that those sometimes rise up through the skin instead of dissolving as they heal. If that happens, throw a bandage on it and keep it clean. Your usual wound care should be fine.

Did you wave goodbye to the handle as you flew off of it?

I’m just waiting for some dipshit to wander in here and talk about how we need to “examine the relationship” with food and start calling it something like “people fuel” or some other bullshit term.

Not really.

If you have a male antagonist, your movie fails the test unless you have a specific scene where you sideline two of your female characters to talk about something other than the plot.

Similarly, if the story has an ensemble that features any male characters you need to contrive a way to get rid of them for one scene just to check an arbitrary box.

Using this as anything other than a thought experiment ensures that once per story female characters will be demoted to side characters featuring in a meaningless dialogue scene.

Out of context and from another speaker I would interpret that statement as “I’ve had longstanding connections with this guy. Watch out, he’s a perv but to a degree that’s publicly tolerable. Watch out, he’s got a thing for young girls. All of that has to be tolerated because he’s socially connected.”

Given the speaker, though that between the lines reading may be giving too much credit.

I believe the connection is aviation.