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[-] brotundspiele@sh.itjust.works 7 points 23 hours ago

Not sure if you believe that the earth is only a few thousand years old, or you're trying to say that all people that lived 150 years ago are dead by now, but humankind has been roaming this planet for more than two million years without refrigerators.

And quite successfully, if you consider that they conquered all continents without refrigerators, except the one where you really don't need a fridge.

[-] Tommelot@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

We are not homo erectus though. So that's a rather silly comparison.

[-] OpenStars@piefed.social 7 points 21 hours ago

I am not the person you replied to but I believe they were referring to Homo sapiens being said to have emerged roughly 2-300k years ago, so 0.3 million, not "millions" (plural). Homo the genus might be a mil or two, but not the species, although you said "humankind" thus implying the species.

[-] brotundspiele@sh.itjust.works 5 points 20 hours ago

Maybe it's just lost in translation. In my native language we'd call homo erectus etc. (primal) humans, so for me they are part of the humankind although they're not modern humans.

[-] bpev@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

I don't know what I expected when I started scrolling through comments, but I certainly didn't expect "how long humanity has survived depends on how you define 'people' "

[-] Nelots@lemm.ee 1 points 22 hours ago

except the one where you really don’t need a fridge

Clear evidence that Big Refrigerator is actually holding back our true potential!

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