Damn, and they even pathologized it. I guess some things never change.
Angry_Autist 1 point 2 years ago
It's certainly xenophobia at the very least
shalafi 8 points 2 years ago
"Really Havelock, why do you suffer such a fool on the city payroll?"
"My dear Margolotta, for the pittance I pay the man, he does the work of 10 others. Fool he may be, but he is an accurate fool."
Angry_Autist 17 points 2 years ago
Can you imagine a better person to appoint for your harbormaster? Or even a harbormaster assistant, this guy would do it for free and do it better than anyone.
PugJesus 12 points 2 years ago
An underappreciated part of civilizational development is social technology, as opposed to material technology.
Sometimes people just don't think of seemingly obvious ways to do things for hundreds or thousands of fucking years. Human society is a funny thing.
AllNewTypeFace 43 points 2 years ago
One wonders how it manifested itself before ships were invented, or in the ancestral hunter-gatherer environment. Surely there must have been autistic nomads.
_stranger_ 89 points 2 years ago
Shamans.
"Look, he said he knows where all the fruit bearing trees in this forest are. Not a lot of them, all of them. He pointed out a squirrel the other day and told it he was glad to see that it made it through the winter. I don't know how he does it, but if he says we have to move because the squirrels are starting to move to new trees, who am I to argue? We move."
webghost0101 46 points 2 years ago
This feels spot on.
Add star constellations and telling immersive stories while guarding the fire at night to the list.
Olgratin_Magmatoe 25 points 2 years ago
Don't forget putting entirely too much effort into building contraptions with sticks, clay, wood, rope, etc. Somebody had to invent the forge bellows.
watersnipje 16 points 2 years ago
What did that doctor do to him?
watersnipje 9 points 2 years ago
I don’t think they had lobotomies yet at the time. But might have been something in that vein.
ComfortableRaspberry 32 points 2 years ago
It came after "the cure" when he never felt as happy again
greencactus 9 points 2 years ago
I have to fight the urge to start a debate if trains or ships are cooler
Iron_Lynx 4 points 2 years ago
Trucks for the transportation of goods are okay, I guess...
Trucks for the transportation of overinflated egos, on the other hand, are complete wastes of workmanship and resources.
Angry_Autist 4 points 2 years ago
The nuance could start a rhetorical war
KellysNokia 8 points 2 years ago
mfw normies existed in ancient Greece reeeeeeeeeeeeeee
GissaMittJobb 3 points 2 years ago
What's the derogatory term for boat foamers?
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Fortunately he was cured of the crazy obsession of being happy and giving a fuck about things.
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