YarraByte@aussie.zoneM to Melbourne@aussie.zone · 1 month agoDiscussion Thread 🍄 Saturday 7 March 2026message-squaremessage-square91fedilinkarrow-up115arrow-down10
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minus-squareStudSpud The Starchy@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·edit-21 month agoImagine being the first homo sapien to pat a wolf? There is a human, long deceased and who’s name is lost to time, who got to be the first to pay a dog.
minus-squareBottom_racer@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up4·edit-21 month agoImagine losing your arm to a wolf, then a few thousand years of selective breeding your ancestor loses a toe to an aggressive inbred pug. Edit: Okay turns out I’m not far off
minus-squareSituationCake@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up4·1 month agoAnd to all those that thought it would be fun to pat a sabre tooth, poisonous frog, giant bears etc, the gene pool thanks you for your service.
minus-squareTheWitchofThornbury2@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 month agoNowadays, fast cars, meth and firearms are doing quite a good job in weeding a lot of non-viable idiots out of the gene pool. Especially in combination.
minus-squareSaneMartigan@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 month agoThe movie Alpha covers this, sort of. It’s fiction, nice caveman dog fiction. Not a deep film but nice.
Imagine being the first homo sapien to pat a wolf?
There is a human, long deceased and who’s name is lost to time, who got to be the first to pay a dog.
Imagine losing your arm to a wolf, then a few thousand years of selective breeding your ancestor loses a toe to an aggressive inbred pug.
Edit:
Okay turns out I’m not far off
And to all those that thought it would be fun to pat a sabre tooth, poisonous frog, giant bears etc, the gene pool thanks you for your service.
Nowadays, fast cars, meth and firearms are doing quite a good job in weeding a lot of non-viable idiots out of the gene pool. Especially in combination.
The movie Alpha covers this, sort of. It’s fiction, nice caveman dog fiction. Not a deep film but nice.