@Background Pony #7122 @Background Pony #7122
I think that IS the natural evolution and state of humanity, is to become reliant on tools, medicine, science, and technology. Every civilization ever has done it, and even the most primitive of mythologies and beliefs are, at their core, attempts to understand the world around us and control our environments. I think we naturally do such things the way honeybees naturally make beehives; if we weren’t meant to do it it wouldn’t be in our nature. At the same time, while we can be hardy in the absence of such things, I think THAT is our unnatural state :D
@Bionomaly
The shots do, but that doesn’t amount to much since you get them so infrequently. And mostly I was referring to all of the diseases we’ve driven to extinction with it. An undeniably good thing to be sure, but it does have this unfortunate side-effect.
And I didn’t mean to imply that we’re overdoing anything with our sanitation practices, just that they are at the root of why allergies (and worse) are so common these days. Good sanitation saves far more lives than leukemia kills, so it is absolutely worth it.
@ROMfullofpony @BigBuggyBastage
Technically it’s the fault of modern sanitation and immunization practices, leaving the immune system with long stretches of time where it has nothing to do. It evolved in an environment where it had to be constantly active to protect us for long enough that we could reproduce, and there was never any accounting for what it should do when there wasn’t anything to guard against so it starts doing things it shouldn’t do which leads to things like allergies and leukemia. This is a good example of technology outpacing evolution.
@BigBuggyBastage
Not sure why it’s my tree’s fault that your body can’t be alive properly. Might work better to take off your nose, haha. In all seriousness, an air purifier is what you all need
We get that cottony shit this time of year that floats everywhere. It just destroys me D:
C O T T O N W O O D ! ! !
Ugh, yes, me too! Deathly allergic to ‘em. Wish there was a way to eradicate them all. Maybe…maybe we could find an unscrupulous genetic engineering laboratory, to cross an Asian Carp with Emerald Ash Borer, and tune their senses to find & eat all cottonwood trees?
Don’t ask details, I just want a big hungry bug that flies, invades, eats & destroys its target, and moves on. LoL
@Ping_chan
Maybe their diets consists of wood-based items such as toothpicks and or splinters. Refined wood such as paper and cardboard are considered candies for them. Tissue from other sources may as well be like handing them their own hair.
She seems pretty happy about it :D
I’m not entirely sure I do XD
XD
Yeah, I’d bury my nose in her.
I’m both surprised and disappointed that no one has made that joke yet :c
sniffsyas pleaseeee@Background Pony #7122
I think that IS the natural evolution and state of humanity, is to become reliant on tools, medicine, science, and technology. Every civilization ever has done it, and even the most primitive of mythologies and beliefs are, at their core, attempts to understand the world around us and control our environments. I think we naturally do such things the way honeybees naturally make beehives; if we weren’t meant to do it it wouldn’t be in our nature. At the same time, while we can be hardy in the absence of such things, I think THAT is our unnatural state :D
The shots do, but that doesn’t amount to much since you get them so infrequently. And mostly I was referring to all of the diseases we’ve driven to extinction with it. An undeniably good thing to be sure, but it does have this unfortunate side-effect.
And I didn’t mean to imply that we’re overdoing anything with our sanitation practices, just that they are at the root of why allergies (and worse) are so common these days. Good sanitation saves far more lives than leukemia kills, so it is absolutely worth it.
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You’re half right we’re oversanitized but immunising still ‘exercises’ the immune system.
@BigBuggyBastage
Technically it’s the fault of modern sanitation and immunization practices, leaving the immune system with long stretches of time where it has nothing to do. It evolved in an environment where it had to be constantly active to protect us for long enough that we could reproduce, and there was never any accounting for what it should do when there wasn’t anything to guard against so it starts doing things it shouldn’t do which leads to things like allergies and leukemia. This is a good example of technology outpacing evolution.
Not sure why it’s my tree’s fault that your body can’t be alive properly. Might work better to take off your nose, haha. In all seriousness, an air purifier is what you all need
Bald horsies are still adorable. Besides, it grows back.
C O T T O N W O O D ! ! !
Ugh, yes, me too! Deathly allergic to ‘em. Wish there was a way to eradicate them all. Maybe…maybe we could find an unscrupulous genetic engineering laboratory, to cross an Asian Carp with Emerald Ash Borer, and tune their senses to find & eat all cottonwood trees?
Don’t ask details, I just want a big hungry bug that flies, invades, eats & destroys its target, and moves on. LoL
Sounds like she’d make an excellent paper shredder.
You don’t want to make her bald though, do you? D:
@Nightweaver20xx
It is a mystery :D
@Chuck-daddy
@íaqwsy
:D
@Background Pony #B513
@Chicago Ted
@Free Current
It’s an occupational hazard XD
@Background Pony #BEDD
Thanks :D
@Digital Seapony
We get that cottony shit this time of year that floats everywhere. It just destroys me D:
@Napsack
@Data Expunged
@Nightweaver20xx
@Data Expunged
@Background Pony #B513
@Ping_chan
@DR35
You feed her anything paper. She’d be real handy for me because I could feed her all my old drawings XD
@FredMSloniker
Don’t forget her :D
@PegaSUS
I would clear my sinuses with a flame thrower if I had access to one D:
@Background Pony #9846
@Ping_chan
XD
Now imagine that it was actually derpidot who was actually stuck to his face. :p
>Sits in your lap and rubs her head against your face several times.
>”There! All gone!”
This definitely requires further analysis.
Maybe their diets consists of wood-based items such as toothpicks and or splinters. Refined wood such as paper and cardboard are considered candies for them. Tissue from other sources may as well be like handing them their own hair.