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[โ€“] buttwater@hexbear.net 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm good with plants, I'm observant, I like stargazing, I'm a good de-escalator. I'd probably an elder and end up doing some type of weather forecasting.

[โ€“] tetris11@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Tell me you work in middle management

[โ€“] buttwater@hexbear.net 2 points 1 month ago

Not quite. Former history teacher now in an office environment

[โ€“] Chapo_is_Red@hexbear.net 2 points 1 month ago
[โ€“] WhatsHerBucket@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Dispensing elderly wisdom

[โ€“] PawsAndProgress@hexbear.net 2 points 1 month ago

Dying from allergies & asthma.

While still living, the tribe could deploy me as an animal detector: place me at the front of hunting parties, and the moment I start sneezing & wheezing, they know they've got prey nearby.

[โ€“] Glitterkoe@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago
[โ€“] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 month ago

Mandatory I'd have died more than once, but I suspect I would have been good at mental things like tracking and storytelling. I'd probably suck at everything else, too.

[โ€“] Corno@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago

Cave paintings, since I'm an artist! ๐Ÿ˜ƒ Also probably building tools and things since I enjoy building stuff in general

[โ€“] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Honestly if I had my current level of knowledge, probably hygene. Teach them to make soap (animal fat and a source of base like ash), wash their hands, keep poop away from potable water sources, stuff like that.

Remember, it literally took until Victorian times to figure out that washing your hands prevents disease.

Also, math. Teach them how to do basic arithmetic, how to use a unit of measurement to figure out how big something is, stuff we'd learn in elementary school but weren't rigorously developed until the Ancient Greek age.

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vee, loop up.

[โ€“] EstraDoll@hexbear.net 1 points 1 month ago

i think i could get pretty good at knapping stones into tools if i lived back then

[โ€“] BassTurd@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Georgia senator by the looks of the picture.

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